Privacy Policy

My Home Life Charity is a UK wide initiative aimed at overall improving the lives of people, living, working, visiting and dying in care homes. Please read these terms and conditions carefully before using the website. Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of these terms and conditions, which take effect on the first day of use of this site.

Information about us

www.myhomelifechairty.org.uk is a website operated by My Home Life Charity.

This term of use tells you the terms of use on which you may use our website. Use of our site includes accessing and browsing our site.

Changes to this policy

My Home Life Charity reserves the right to remove or amend this policy from time to time. If we decide to replace or change it, we will post a new policy on this page and we encourage you to visit this page frequently to stay informed. Your continued use of the My Home Life Charity website following the posting of a new policy or changes to this policy will indicate your acceptance of the new policy or these changes, as the case may be.

Use of photographs

My Home Life Charity uses photography for documenting, celebrating and promoting our work:

  1. 1. Printed materials, promotion flyer/poster and post cards, plus any future materials such as a summary/ evaluation of My Home Life Charity projects etc.
  2. 2. Exhibitions in public venues, public spaces and galleries; displays at project celebrations, conferences, recruitment events and to funders or potential funders.
  3. 3. Press releases
  4. 4. My Home Life Charity website has links to My Home Life Charity’s emails and social media sites. This includes but is not exclusive to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

My Home Life Charity acknowledges that people today are very alert to intrusion, issues surrounding manipulation and exploitation of images and the need to be sensitive. Photos can be uploaded and submitted to My Home Life Charity through emails. These are only shared with the My Home Life Charity Team. Additional permissions will be sort from the persons directly should the image be used elsewhere on the My Home Life Charity website, news and marketing materials. Press images and enquiries of images needs to be separately handled. No image from My Home Life Charity can be used by outside parties without the express knowledge and permissions from My Home Life Charity.

My Home Life Charity will review removal of any images if a complaint is received from the individual(s) or those with appropriate representation of the persons within the image. This applies to still and moving images published on My Home Life Charity website, social media pages ran by My Home Life Charity and printed publications. Consent is sort from all persons within an image used by My Home Life Charity. The consent form details information of where the image will be used, how it will be used, and how long the image will be retained by My Home Life Charity. All conditions in regard to consent of use will be in line with the new government GDPR regulations.

How do we use cookies?

My Home Life Charity website uses Google Analytics to find out how people use our website in order to make improvements. Google Analytics uses cookies, small text files which are placed on your hard drive to store information; however the cookies do not have file accessor use any personally identifiable information. We use cookies on this site to enhance your user experience. If you continue without changing your browser settings we’ll assume you are happy to receive all cookies on our site.

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e- billing services.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
  • [Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies]

    You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

    Updates to our site

    We may update our site from time to time and may change the content at any time. However, please note that any of the content on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update it. We do not guarantee that our site, or any content on it, will be free from errors or omissions.

    Links to other websites

    My Home Life Charity website contains links to the websites of other organisations which may be if interest to you. Linked websites are responsible for their own privacy practices.

    Intellectual property rights

    We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal use and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to content posted on our site.
    You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.

    Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of content on our site must always be acknowledged.

    You must not use any part of the content on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.

    If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

    Use of our logo

    We don’t allow external organisations to use our logo. The only exceptions may be partner organisations that work closely with us on specific projects. In these cases, we may give permission for our logo to be used. Our policy on the use of the logo is designed to prevent the public from being misled. Therefore, no provider – including registered providers – are allowed to use the logo.

    The My Home Life Charity logo is a registered trademark and is protected under trademark law. If an external party uses it without permission, this constitutes infringement of our trademark.

    We have also developed specific logos for local My Home Life Charity organisations to use. Use of these logos is by local My Home Life Charity organisations only and is subject to the Local My Home Life Charity Trademark Licence Agreement.

    Copyright

    The material featured on this site is subject to My Home Life Charity UK copyright protection unless otherwise indicated.

    My Home Life Charity copyright protected material may be used in accordance with the Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information if it has been:

    • published on this website
    • published elsewhere by My Home Life Charity England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
    • made publicly available under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
    • or otherwise made publicly available with the consent of My Home Life Charity.

    Permission to reproduce My Home Life Charity protected material does not extend to any material on this site that is identified as being the copyright of a third party. Authorisation to reproduce such material must be obtained from the copyright holders concerned.

    You agree to

    You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes and in a manner which does not infringe the rights of, restrict, or inhibit the use and enjoyment of this site by any third party. Such restriction and inhibition include, without limitation, conduct which is unlawful or which may harass or cause distress or inconvenience to any person, the transmission of obscene or offensive materials or disruption of normal flow of dialogue within the site.

    My Home Life Charity has the right to remove any material or postings you make on this site at its discretion. If the terms and conditions of this site are not agreed to in full then the use of My Home Life Charity must terminate immediately. My Home Life Charity do not accept liability for any damages whatsoever, including, without limitation, indirect or consequential damages, loss of profits, or any damages whatsoever arising out of, or in connection with the use or lose of use of this site.

    Applicable law

    If you are a consumer, please note that these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree to that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.
    If you are a business, these terms of use, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.