At Caring Central, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our users. In this document we outline our policy regarding what information is collected and how it is used.
The information we collect
Our site uses cookies (a small piece of data sent from the web server to your browser and back again) to personalise your visit and enable website functionality. Our webserver also logs your computer’s IP address, browser’s user agent together with the time and pages you request from this website. If you register to post content or a comment/reply, we retain your username and e-mail address and the content of such postings or comments. If you registered via a social network, see below we retain your user ID on that network and other information which you make public or permitted the network to share, e.g. your avatar/picture). If you e-mail us, we may also retain the content of your email and any replies we may send to you.
How we use the information we collect
Cookies are used to faciliate site navigation and, if you have logged in, to recognise that login session as you interact with the website. We use the information in our webserver log to generate traffic statistics, to manage and improve our website, and to detect and investigate hacking or other cyber attacks on our server. We may also use the traffic statistics to get broad demographic information about our visitors for advertising purposes and this may be shared with our advertising partners. User-provided content (postings, pages, articles and remarks/comments) may be displayed on the website for anyone to view. E-mails sent directly to us will not be shown publicly on the website unless there is agreement from the sender to do so). In the event of fraud, cyber attack or criminal activity involving our server we may use any and all collected information to investigate same and to assist the statutory authorities with such an investigation.
Information Disclosure
We may use third party companies to perform website statistical analysis and share web log information with them. They may also place third party cookies on your browser and log your IP address, browser user agent and the pages visited for analytical purposes. Our advertising partners may also place cookies on your browser, and log your IP address, browser user agent, the pages visited and the ads you may click on in order to determine the effectiveness of their advertising spend. We may share summary visitor statistics (not containing your name or e-mail address) with advertisers or third parties. We will only share personal information such as your name and e-mail address with a third party if we receive your permission to do so, or if required to fulfil the purpose of supplying the service for which you have registered. We will share any and all information we collect with the statutory authorities in connection with a criminal investigation when legally obliged to do so, or when investigating any fraud or cyber attack on our systems.
Commenting and Social Media
We may add the ability to register with & login to our website using a social media account to authenticate you thereby enabling you to leave comments and share content without having to remember another username and password. To do so you must be logged into your chosen social network and grant permission to your network to share certain user details, such as your user ID and any information you have made public in connection with your account or agreed to share). This may include your avatar (picture) which can be then shown with your comments on this website.
External Links
This website may contain links to other websites. Caring Central is not responsible for the privacy policies, practices, or content on such websites.