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  • What’s Happening
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    • 2023 – RFS 50th Anniversary
    • News
    • Activities gallery
    • The Foss Walk
  • The River
    • Fishing Rights
    • Litter Picking – video
    • Water Quality – video
    • Slow boating – a kayak trip along the Rover Foss
    • Wildlife on the Foss
      • Birds
      • Mammals
      • Bats
      • Dragonflies and Damselflies
      • Fish
      • Plants
      • Macroinvertebrates
      • Leeches
      • Otters in the Foss – video by Jeremy Pickard
    • Foss History
      • An Overview of the Foss’s history
      • The Foss Navigation -Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Castle Mills & Lock – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Yearsley Lock – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – New Earswick Lock – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Haxby Lock – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Huntington Ings and Earswick Landing – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Strensall Lock – Tony Berry
      • The Archaeology of The Foss Navigation – Common Lock Components – Tony Berry
    • The Foss – Gallery
    • The Ecology of the River Foss – An update by Martin Hammond
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    • The History of the River Foss Society – by Louie Johnson-Tod
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Cookie Policy (UK)

This Cookie Policy was last updated on 26th May 2021 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.

1. Introduction

Our website, https://www.riverfosssociety.co.uk (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of program code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies we get insights in the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

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8. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our website again.

9. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
  • Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
  • Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
  • If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
  • Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
  • Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

The River Foss Society
c/o Elaine Mepham
2 The Greenway,
Haxby
York
YO32 3FE
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.riverfosssociety.co.uk
Email: info@riverfosssociety.co.uk

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