This page may change from time to time, and use of information that we gather is subject to the information stated here in effect at the time of use. You should check our web site frequently to see recent changes.

We, us and our refers to the Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park, or its officers or those authorised by the officers to undertake a particular role or task. No other person is authorised to speak, act or represent the Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park.

Legal basis

• Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park is an Unincorporated Association.

Copyright of photographs and articles

• Copyright of all material on this web site is vested in the name authors or creator or if no author or creator is given then in the Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park. None of the material may be used in whole or part without the written permission of the copyright holder.

Use of materials is without warranty

• Neither the Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park, nor any of its officers or its affiliates, associates, partners, suppliers, agents or similar will be liable for indirect, special or consequential damages (or any loss of revenue, profits or data) arising in connection with using this site or any site linked from this site or any site mentioned in this site, even if we or any of the above parties have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
• To the fullest extent permitted by law, neither we nor any of the above parties makes any express or implied warranties or representations with respect to any content or any product or service mentioned or sold through this site or through any site mentioned or linked from this site (including, without limitation, warranties of fitness, merchantability, non-infringement or any implied warranties arising out of a course of performance, dealing, or trade usage), and the same are hereby excluded. In addition, neither we nor any of the above parties makes any representation that the operation of our sites will be uninterrupted or error-free and none of us will be liable for the consequences of any interruptions or errors.
• The use of this site or any of the material on it whether directly or indirectly or from copies of the material is deemed to imply your acceptance of these conditions. Any disputes or arbitration of disputes is subject to the application of the law of the England and the jurisdiction of the English courts.

No liability whilst visiting Biss Meadows Country Park and using its amenities

• The Biss Meadows Country Park is a public open space and its use is subject to the by-laws of the owner or its successors. If you have any concerns about visiting the Biss Meadows and using its amenities then please contact the owners West Wiltshire District Council or its successors. Please refer to the Links page.
• Whilst this site may encourage you to enjoy the nature and amenities of Biss Meadows you and those who accompany you do so entirely at your own risk. Parts of Biss Meadows are extremely dangerous and should not be entered by the general public. Children and animals should be accompanied and closely supervised at all times especially near river and pond banks and bridges.

Children and persons under 18 years old

• If you are under 18, you may use our web site, send us communications and make purchases only with the involvement and permission of a parent, guardian, teacher, youth leader or a responsible adult supervisor.

Data privacy

• We take your privacy seriously and will take care of the data you provide, use it in a responsible manner and process it in accordance to the law of England and Wales. This page describes our privacy policy and by visiting our site and in communicating with us by email, fax, telephone, SMS message, letter or any other media, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.
• We will only use any personal information that you provide for the purpose of managing our membership or communications lists and for informing you of events, activities and initiatives of the association or those that we are involved with. We may communicate with you electronically, telephone, or by letter. We will not pass your information to a third party unless you have asked, agreed or implied this to us either explicitly or implicitly.
• You may ask us to remove your details from our current membership database or communications lists at any time but that does not obligate us to communicate with you by other means or to remove your details from our archive or from paper or electronic documents that we must retain for legal, professional or insurance reasons.
• As a result of new legislation in England and Wales to enact the EU Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications, we can only respond to your communications if either a) you have given your prior consent to receive a communication from us, or b) a relationship exists between yourself and us. Therefore, if you email us or complete one of the forms on this web site then we presume that you wish us to respond to your communication and/or, without obligation to either party, you wish to form a relationship with us. This will enable us to respond electronically and by telephony to your communication to us.

Information gathered

• We gather information that you explicitly give us:
  • Internet Data: This is the information that you have provided on the various forms on this site.
  • Email: When you send us an email these may be printed on paper or stored on our office computers. The content includes the email narrative written by yourself and the automatic information described below.
  • Telephony Calls: When you telephone our offices and all our lines are busy you may have the option to leave a message. Such messages will be recorded on our equipment or the equipment of our telecommunications provider. We delete such messages when they have been actioned. The content includes the voice message spoken by yourself and the automatic information described below.
  • Fax Calls: When you send us a fax these may be printed on paper or stored on our office computers. The content includes the fax narrative written by yourself and the automatic information described below.
  • SMS Text Message: When you send us a SMS message these will be stored in our mobile 'phones temporarily until we have actioned them. The content includes the SMS narrative written by yourself and the automatic information described below.
• We gather information that is automatically collected by the electronic communications devices that we use or is used by yourself:
  • Forms: When you complete one of the web forms we also gather information about the type of browser and the operating system you are using, the form page you were completing, and your internet IP address. We use this information to help us technically develop the web site to support the most common browsers and system environments.
  • Email: Our email software will make a log record of the email including your name, sending email address, date and time of sending and of receipt, subject and any signature information such as company or personal name, telephone number, postal address.
  • Telephony Calls: Our telephony software and answer machine will make a log record of the voice call including your sending number (unless withheld), date, time and duration of the call.
  • Fax Calls: Our fax software and fax machine will make a log record of the fax call including your sending number (unless withheld), personal or company name, date, time and number of pages.
  • SMS Text Message: Our mobile 'phone will make a log record of the SMS message including your sending number (unless withheld), date and time.
  • Email, Telephony and Fax Calls and SMS Messages: Your telecommunications company or ISP may provide us with calling details such as the number you are calling from, the date and the time. We may use such information to quickly retrieve your personal and company details in order to better serve you. Your telecommunications company may provide you with a facility to stop such calling details being sent.
  • Log Data: In common with all web servers, our servers log data about visitors, their technical environment and the pages they view. We use this data to anonymously analyse web traffic in order to identify which pages are of most interest to visitors, how many visitors view our web site, at what times visitors in general look at the site, what sort of technical environment they are using, etc.. We use this information to help us develop the site content and the supporting infrastructure. We do not use this information to identify and report individual visitors or their specific visits.
  • Search Data: When you use the site's search facility, the search information that you enter is also sent to us. We use that information to help identify what information in general is of interest to our visitors. We cannot link a particular search to an individual unless the person making the search enters their own name or the name of another person as a search criteria. We do not recommend this unless you are making a search for information that is already in the public domain (e.g. the name of an author of a book).
• We do not use counters on this web site.
• Cookies
  • If you select any of the accessibility options, such as font size and background colour, then we use cookies to remember your choices so that you do not have to set the options again on your next visit.
  • No other cookies are used on this web site.
  • The associated discussion forum web site uses cookies to help you find unread posts.

Information storage

• We store and retain information you provide so that we can recall the nature of our conversations with you at a later date,and to provide information and services to you, and to meet any legal, professional or insurance requirements we may hold any information obtained as outlined above.
• We may summarise, record and store information about our communications with you.
• We may compose and send correspondence and reports etc. to you and maintain a copy (in paper or electronic form) for our records.
• We will retain such information as long as it is needed, and if relevant, as an historic record, and also to meet any legal, professional or insurance requirement, which ever is the longest.
• Please do not send us any information that is of a sensitive nature or is commercially confidential or sensitive.
• Our office computers are located in the UK and our email and web servers in the EU. When you send data by email or by completing a form, or when we email data to you, then that data is sent over the Internet and, depending on your location, may well travel through computers that are not located in the UK. As in common with nearly all the email traffic over the internet, we do not currently encrypt such data. You should not therefore use the internet to send highly sensitive data such as credit card or bank account details, or company trade or financial information, or sensitive personal information. For these we recommend the use of the fax or letter.

• The Search services may be provided by a US company. These do not involve the use of personal identifying data unless when Searching you enter your own name or the name of another person. We do not recommend this except as illustrated above.
• Some of our web services are provide by third parties who are therefore holding some of the above information on their computers as a service to us. We believe that such third parties hold and use such data in a responsible manner.
• When you click on a link that takes you to another site (and this includes any adverts) then that site will no doubt be recording information about you and your visit. Please refer to those sites and their privacy statements for information as to what data is recorded and how it is used.

Information Disclosure

• We never as a matter of course pass any of the above individual information to any third party without your permission. Such permission may be implied in any correspondence you send us. We will pass any individual information when compelled to by a court of law, by the police or by some other regulatory authority with the backing of the law.
• We may make aggregated information available to other parties such as PR companies, the press, advertisers, customers, suppliers or potentials of any of these. With all such aggregated information it will not be possible to identify individuals.
• You have the right to see a copy of any personal data that we hold on you. To retrieve such data you will need to provide us with information to help us locate the data and information that verifies you are the person who you say you are. We have the right in law to charge an access fee. By law we need to delete from any copy any information that may identify other persons.

Computer viruses

• Computer viruses may be received or downloaded onto your computer system via email communication or by visiting web sites that have become infected. It is the recipient's responsibility to take any action necessary to prevent computer viruses being received by these or any other means. Accordingly, the Friends of Biss Meadows Country Park and its Officers disclaims all responsibility which arises directly or indirectly from the transmission and/or receipt of computer viruses.