Privacy policy
Information Collection and Use
We collect and use your information to provide our Services and improve them over time.
Skowt is a closed and secure social networking site designed for use by members of the Scouting and Girl Guiding community.
Although we go to great lengths to make sure you information is not made publically available we cannot guarantee this 100%.
Although Skowt is closed form the general public it is an open platform for registered users. This means that once you are a validated user some of your information will be freely shared with other Skowt users.
Any information you post, send as a message or upload will become available without censorship. It is therefore you, the users, responsibility to ensure you are only sharing information you are happy for others to see.
Information Collected Upon Registration
When you create or reconfigure a Skowt account, you provide some personal information, such as your name, username, password, and email address. Some of this information, for example, your name and username, is listed on your profile page and in search results. This means other Skowt users will be able to search for you and view some of this information.
Additional Information: You may provide us with additional information, such as a short biography, your location, and your date of birth. This information is stored on our database and will not be made publically available.
Information you put in the ‘about me’ field may be made available to other Skowt users. It is you the users responsibility to ensure any information in publically available fields is both correct and suitable.
We may use your contact information to send you information about updates and additions to our services. If you email us, we may keep your message, email address and contact information to respond to your request. Providing the additional information described in this section is entirely optional.
Our Services are primarily designed to help you share information with your Scouting and Girl Guiding colleagues. Most of the information you provide to us is information you are asking us to make available to other Skowt users. This includes messages, ‘lets talk’ updates and other data provided, such as when you posted a comment or uploaded an image.
Your information is broadly and instantly disseminated throughout the Skowt website. You should be careful about all information that will be made available to other Skowt users.
Location Information
You may choose to note your location in your posts and uploads. This is not something Skowt requires or deems necessary.
Log Data
Our servers automatically record information ("Log Data") created by your use of the Services. Log Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, and search terms. Other actions, such as interactions with advertisements, may also be included in Log Data.
Cookies
Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve our Services, but we do not require cookies for many parts of our Services such as searching and looking at public user profiles or lists. A cookie is a small data file that is transferred to your computer's hard disk. Skowt may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on our Services, and to improve our Services. Most Internet browsers automatically accept cookies. You can instruct your browser, by editing its options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Third Party Services
Skowt uses Google Analytics to help understand use of our Services. Through Google, Analytics collects the information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including cookies and your IP address. Google also receives this information and their use of it is governed by their Privacy Policy.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Tip: We do not disclose your private information except in the limited circumstances described here.
Your Consent
We may share or disclose your information with your consent.
Service Providers
We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these functions and provide such services, and only pursuant to obligations mirroring the protections of this privacy policy.
Law and Harm
We may disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Skowt’s rights or property.
Business Transfers
In the event that Skowt is involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganisation or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this privacy policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity.
Modifying Your Personal Information
If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools to access or modify the personal information you provided to us and associated with your account.