Data Protection and Privacy

At Redbridge Community Advice Network we collect and use your personal information to help solve your problems, improve our services and tackle wider issues in society that affect people’s lives. We only ask for the information we need. We always let you decide what you’re comfortable telling us, explain why we need it and treat it as confidential. When we record and use your personal information we: 

• only access it when we have a good reason 

• only share what is necessary and relevant 

• don’t sell it to anyone 

We handle and store your personal information in line with the law – including the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. 

Cookies
By using the Redbridge Community Advice Network website you are confirming that you are happy to accept our use of cookies. Here you can find out more about how we use them.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small, harmless files placed on your computer’s hard drive or in your browser memory when you visit a website.
What do cookies do?
Cookies help to make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier. For example, they can remember your preferences for selected text resizing style, contrasts and even language selection. What cookies don’t do is store any personal or confidential information about you.
Are cookies safe?
Yes, cookies are harmless text files. They can’t look into your computer or read any personal information or other material on your hard drive. Cookies can’t carry viruses or install anything harmful on your computer.
We use track aspects of user visits, including the length of a user’s visit, their browser, geographic location and the use of the search facility on this website.  Below is a list of the cookies we use

How you can manage or delete cookies
Find more information on Google Analytics tracking here.
If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can change settings in your web browser so that your browser tells you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether. You can also delete cookies that have already been set.
If you wish to restrict or block web browser cookies, the Help function within your browser should tell you how. Alternatively, these sites can provide more information on how to do this:
• www.allaboutcookies.org
• www.aboutcookies.org