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The Sexwise website is owned and run by the sexual health charity FPA (the Family Planning Association).
Your privacy is important to us. We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
FPA endorses fully and adheres to the eight principles of data protection as follows:
- data is processed fairly and lawfully
- data is only be obtained for specified and lawful purposes
- data is adequate, relevant and not excessive
- data is accurate and up to date
- data is not be kept for longer than necessary
- data is processed in accordance with the “data subject’s” (the individual’s) rights
- data is securely kept
- data is not be transferred to any other country without adequate protection in place.
By using the Sexwise website you automatically accept our privacy policy.
Why we collect information
We collect information from visitors to our website to help us understand how the site is used and to send out information to you when you have requested this.
Information we collect
Anonymous information
We record and store information about all visits made to the Sexwise website. This information will not identify you; it may include:
- which pages are being visited
- how visitors arrive at the website
- which browsers and operating systems visitors use
- the internet domain and IP address visitors use to access the website.
If you have a Google account and have previously logged into it on the device you’re using to access our website, we may collect information from Google such as your age group, gender and interests. We can't and don't link this information to you or use it to identify you.
Personal information
If you register an account, request information or wish to opt in to email updates you may need to provide us with personal details such as your email address, name, address or telephone number.
When you’re logged into our website you’re no longer completely anonymous to us and we may collect information such as when you last logged in.
If we give you (or you choose) a username and password to access certain parts of this site, you’re responsible for keeping these confidential.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file stored on your computer. We use a number of different cookies on our website. We use them to give you a better experience or to help us learn what we’re doing well and where we can improve.
We hope you’ll be happy for us to use these cookies but, if not, please take one of the following actions:
- Delete our cookies after visiting the website (you can set your browser to delete all cookies when you close it).
- Make sure your web browser is set up to reject cookies and/or to let you browse anonymously.
- Don’t visit our website at all.
Analytics cookies
We use a service called Google Analytics to help us record and analyse how our visitors use our website. Google Analytics uses several different cookies to record information about your visit to our site. This information is transmitted to and stored by Google. None of the information gathered can identify you. Google has more information about how it uses this data, including their privacy policy.
You can use Google's browser add-on to reject Google Analytics cookies.
Analytics advertising cookies
We may use Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting service. This helps us understand information about our website visitors such as age group, gender and interests. This information is gathered and stored by Google. We can't identify you from this information. Google records information using cookies named ‘AID‘ and ‘TAID‘. These can be used to link your activity across different devices if you’ve previously signed in to your Google Account on another device. More information about Google advertising cookies. You can use Ads Settings to control which advertising cookies you receive.
Session cookie
If you log in to your account on our website we use a session cookie to remember that you’ve logged in. Without it, you would need to log in every time you visited a new page. The cookie only lasts until you close your browser.
Content from external websites
We sometimes use external web services such as YouTube and Vimeo to display content on our site. When you interact with content provided through these services they may use cookies to record how you use their service. The information they collect will be anonymous unless you have an account with the service and are logged into it.
Controlling and deleting cookies
If you prefer not to have cookies stored on your computer you can use your browser to reject them. You can also delete any cookies already stored on your computer. More information about cookies and how to control and delete them can be found at www.aboutcookies.org
What we do with the information we collect
Any anonymous information is used to help us improve our website.
Any personal details you provide may be stored on the FPA web server and/or other FPA database(s) and may be used by us:
- to process and reply to your request for information
- to keep in touch with you by email or post where requested. You may opt out or alter your preferences at any time.
Third parties
The information we collect from our website is for the use of FPA only, unless stated otherwise.
We’ll never pass your personal information to a third party without your consent, except to companies acting on our behalf in performing our normal business or when obliged to do so by law.
Accessing your personal information
You’re entitled to find out if we hold any personal information about you and to access this information. You have the right to ask us to amend and/or delete this information. Please write to FPA, 23–28 Penn Street, London N1 5DL for more information.
Changes to the Sexwise privacy policy
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy from time to time. You should make sure you periodically review the policy to make sure it meets your needs.
If you have any questions about our privacy policy or changes we’ve made please write to FPA, 23–28 Penn Street, London N1 5DL for more information.
Sexwise information policy
The information on this website can only give you general information about sexual health. This information is based on the evidence and medical opinion available at the time this information was produced. Different people may give you different information and advice about certain points.
More about our sexual health information
Sexwise links policy
Requesting a link to or from the Sexwise website
You don’t need permission to create a link from your website to most pages of our website. However, please do not link to our PDFs, Word documents or image files without written permission. You can request permission by emailing hello@sexwise.org.uk. We reserve the right to request the removal of any link to any part of our website.
If you would like Sexwise to link to your website please email hello@seexwise.org.uk. We get many requests so you may not hear back from us straight away. Our policy is to link only to sites which provide accurate, up-to-date and UK-applicable information around sexual health. We don’t link to directories. We’ll contact you by email to let you know of our decision. We reserve the right to choose which sites we link to and will not enter into any correspondence about our decision process.
You may not download any of our files (for example PDF versions of our leaflets) and host them on another website.
Links to external websites from this site
FPA is not responsible for the content or policies of external websites we link to from the Sexwise website.
We may link to websites which also offer commercial services. The inclusion of a link to an external website from the Sexwise website is not an endorsement of that website, the site's owners or their products/services