Privacy Policy and Child Safety

Note to children

Please do not supply Yfaith with your full name, email address, home address, telephone number or any other personal information that would enable someone to contact you either online or offline.

Note to Parents and guardians

During the creation of this resource The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation (CASE) has worked in liaison with the Catholic Office For The Protection Of Children And Vulnerable Adults (COPCA) and has been advised by Child Exploitation And Online Protection Centre (CEOP).

CASE recognizes the importance of protecting the privacy and safety of Yfaith visitors, and recognizes that children's use of the Internet raises particular concerns. As a result of this concern, we collect no personally identifiable information from visitors.

Your child will have the option of commenting on the site, or asking a question. These comments and questions are sent directly through our site and we have no way of obtaining an email address. It is suggested in the circumstance of sending a comment or question, that with your permission, your child may give their first name and either their age or their county. In the event that they do more, our policy is that their details will not be kept on record.

It is important for parents to provide their children with guidance regarding supplying personal information online. CASE encourages you to monitor your children's online activities, and to instruct your children never to provide personally identifiable information on Yfaith, or any other web site without your permission.

With regards to applications to be a contributor to the site, this requires a parent or guardian’s written consent, and subsequently the personal information needed can only supplied by post.

For more information regarding keeping your child safe on line, please visit‘Think you know’ (http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/parents/), a site created specifically for parents and guardians by CEOP; or Childnet International Parent Support. (http://www.childnet-int.org/safety/parents.aspx).

Information Automatically Collected and Stored

When you or your children browse through any web site, certain information can be collected. We automatically collect and temporarily store the following information about your child’s visit:

• the name of the domain used to access the Internet (for example, internet explorer)
  
  
• the date and time of the visit
  
  
• the pages visited
  
  
• the address of the web site your child came from when you came to visit

We use this information for informational purposes and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.