Privacy

If you're looking for an event

• You don't need an account, and we don't use tracking or advertising cookies.
• We count visits without cookies (Vercel Web Analytics): how many people visit, which pages they use and which website they came from. It doesn't identify you or follow you to other websites.
• We don't keep what you search for. To find where a postcode or town is, your browser asks postcodes.io, a free UK postcode service. The maps come from OpenStreetMap. Like any website, these services see your device's internet address when they reply.
• So the site still works with no signal, your phone or computer keeps a copy of the pages you open, the events list, the places you searched and the map you looked at. That copy stays on your device: it isn't sent to us or anyone else. Clearing your browser's website data removes it.
• The weather shown with an event comes from a Met Office forecast through Open-Meteo. Our own server asks for it, sending only the venue's location and the day, so nothing about you reaches the weather service.
• If you press "Let us know" when there's nothing near you, we record only the broad area (for example "BS1"), so we know where events are needed. Nothing that identifies you is kept.

If you list an event

We ask for three kinds of information:

• About the event (name, venue, date, time, cost, access, and whether you can offer lifts or would like volunteers). This is shown on the website once our team has checked it.
• Contact details for guests (phone, email, website). Only the ones you choose to give are shown, so people can ask about the event or book.
• Your own name, email and phone, and how many people can come. These are private. Only the Marmalade Trust team sees them, to check the event, contact you about it and send your private link to change it.

We keep these details in Marmalade Trust's own Google account, and emails to you are sent from it. The website is hosted by Vercel. Your private link is stored scrambled, so nobody, including us, can read it back. A half-finished form is kept only in your browser tab, and goes when you close it.

While you type the venue's town and postcode, your browser asks postcodes.io (the free postcode service the map uses) for suggestions and to check the postcode exists. It sends only what's in those two boxes.

We use your details only for Community Christmas. We never sell them or share them with anyone else to market to you.

How long we keep them

We keep your details for two years from when you agree to have your event listed, so we can get in touch about next Christmas too. Each time you list an event with us, the two years start again. After that, we delete them. You can ask us to delete them sooner at any time, and you can withdraw your event yourself using your private link: it comes off the website straight away.

Your rights

You can ask to see the information we hold about you, to correct it or to delete it. Email info@marmaladetrust.org, which we read all year. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, please tell us first. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office.

Contact us

Email info@marmaladetrust.org, call 07566 244788 or write to Marmalade Trust, 94 Grosvenor Road, St Paul's, Bristol, BS2 8XJ, United Kingdom.

See also how we check events and how to stay safe.