Privacy & Disclaimer
Who we are
Our website address is: https://blackhillcommunityfund.co.uk.
At Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund, we recognise that privacy is an important issue. Our privacy policy is really simple and straightforward and is GDPR compliant.
We take privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your application and to provide the services you have requested from us.
We will only ever share your information in order to continue to meet our legal requirements. Rest assured we will never share your email address or other personal information with any other third party without your express permission to do so.
We do not rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. If you would like to do this please email your request to info@blackhillcommunityfund.co.uk
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
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.
Changes to this Policy
Please note this Privacy Policy will change from time to time. Most changes are likely to be minor, but there may be changes that are more significant. Please check back periodically and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy was last updated in June 2025.
Contacting Us
We welcome your comments regarding this privacy policy. If you believe that Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund has not adhered to this privacy statement, please contact us using the e-mail link provided
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please feel free to email us on info@blackhillcommunityfund.co.uk
Disclaimer
The Blackhill Windfarm Community Fund website contains links to external sites, over which we have no control. Although every effort is made to check all external sources, links to other web sites imply neither responsibility for, nor endorsement of, the information contained in those other web sites.