Gateway Family Services
Changing Lives, Changing Services.
We work to improve health, develop skills and opportunities and fight inequalities. We change the way public services work.
Privacy Policy
How we use your information
Gateway Family Services is a Community Interest Company registered in England and Wales (Company Registration No. 5705815). This privacy policy explains how we collect and use information when you visit this website.
When you visit gatewayfs.org we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the different parts of the website. It helps us understand what subjects on the site you are interested in.
We collect this information in a way which does not identify you. We do not make any attempt to find out the identity of anyone visiting gatewayfs.org. We will not associate any data gathered from this website with any personally identifying information from any source.
If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Use of cookies
Cookies are small text files placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, and to provide information to the owners of the website.
The table below explains the cookies we use on gatewayfs.org and why.
| Cookie | Name | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
| Google Analytics | __unam __utmb __utmc __utmz __utma |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website. We use the information to understand what subjects on our website you are interested in and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form – the cookies do not identify you – including the number of visitors to the website, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages visited. |
| ShareThis | __stid __uset UID UIDR |
These cookies are related to the share on Twitter or Facebook buttons you can see at the top and bottom of each blog post. These buttons make it easy for visitors to share a link to a post via Twitter or Facebook. ShareThis do not share information about users in a way that can identify them individually. For more information see ShareThis’ Privacy Manifesto. ShareThis also place a cookie on your computer from ScorecardResearch, which collects anonymous information about how many visitors have seen a page or various parts of a page. For more information see ScorecardResearch’s Privacy Policy. |
| YouTube | VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE SID HSID PREF |
We embed videos from YouTube in our blog posts. When the embedded YouTube video player loads, cookies are placed on your computer. For more information see YouTube’s embedding videos information page. |
| Podnosh | wp-settings-2 wp-settings-time-2 wordpress_test_cookie __utma __utmb __utmc __utmz |
This site is hosted by Podnosh and is built on the WordPress platform. A cookie will be placed on your computer when you post a comment on this website. This cookie remembers the name and email address you entered in the comment form, which makes it faster for you to add another comment the next time you visit the website. |
This website does not store any information that would, on its own, allow us to identify individual users of this service without their permission.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Your email address
If you post a comment on the blog, you are required enter a name and valid email address. This helps prevent spam comments. When you return to this website and look at the comment form, you may see your email address is displayed. This is because a cookie on your computer remembered your previous visit. Your email address is only visible to this site’s administrators and yourself. It is not visible to the public.
How to contact us
You can contact us by phone (0121 456 7820), email (info@gatewayfs.org) or write to:
Gateway Family Services
5th Floor, Chamber of Commerce House
75 Harborne Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 3DH
Data protection and confidentiality
The information you provide us with will not be shared with third parties, unless it is a requisite for us to be able to deliver a service to you. We will ascertain that we will comply with the Data Protection Act 1998 when making use of information provided by you via online forms on this website, any type of communications that you may use to contact us or any databases we use to retain your details.