The Legacy

…for the community

Who we are

We are a Scottish charity, Neilston Windfarm Legacy SCIO (NWL)

Our website address is: https://www.neilstonlegacy.org.

What personal data we collect

NWL will retain in a secure place all information in electronic or paper format the information about your organisation which is contained in your application, along with any accompanying documents.

It is the policy of NWL to fully respect the confidentiality and privacy of the information submitted. You may inspect the data held by NWL about you/your organisation on request to the Secretary by emailing info@neilstonlegacy.org or in writing to The Secretary, Neilston Windfarm Legacy, The Old Bank, 84 Main Street, Neilston G78 3EA.

NWL will never share this information with any other individual or organisation without the applicant’s specific consent, unless legally required to do so.

No information is held on publicly accessible servers or third party sites.

Our Data Protection Officer, is The Secretary, Neilston Windfarm Legacy, The Old Bank, 84 Main Street, Neilston G78 3EA.

How we protect your data

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to: Neilston Windfarm Legacy, The Old Bank, 84 Main Street, Neilston G78 3EA.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Individuals have the right to complain to the ICO if they think that there is problem with the way in which NWL is handling their personal data.

Cookies

NWL reserve the right to use Cookies in order to collect information about site visitors, and to verify visitors accessing secure sections of the site.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called ‘analytics’ programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

We use: Google Analytics

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Copyright notice

This website and its content is copyright © of Neilston Windfarm Legacy. All rights reserved

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:

  • you may print or download to a local hard disk extracts for your personal and non-commercial use only
  • you may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system.