Privacy and photographs

What this site does with your data

Short version: nothing. No cookies, no tracking, no sign-up, no analytics. Here's the longer version, and how to ask us to take a photograph down.

We don't track you

This website sets no cookies. It has no analytics, no advertising pixels and no social media trackers. We don't know who visits, and we've not built any way to find out. There's no form on this site, so there's nothing to submit and nothing for us to store.

If you email us, we get your email. We use it to answer you and to sort out a visit, and we don't add you to anything.

Things the page loads from elsewhere

A few parts of the page come from other people's servers. Your browser has to ask them for the file, which means they see your IP address, the same as with any website:

  • The Scout Association serves the official badge artwork on our badges page.
  • Netlify hosts the site and keeps standard server logs.

Our photographs, our programme and the typeface are all served from our own domain, so Google, Instagram and Online Scout Manager aren't involved in loading a page here. If you click through to Instagram or Facebook, you're on their site and their rules from that point.

Photographs of young people

The photographs on this site are our own, taken at our own activities. We follow The Scout Association's guidance on photography at Scout events. That means:

  • Young people and their parents or carers know when photographs are being taken and what they're for.
  • We name young people by role and year group, never in full. Leaders are named because they're adults in a public role.
  • Nobody is ever left out of an activity because they don't want to be photographed.
  • We don't publish anything that would identify where someone lives or which school they go to.

Asking us to take a photograph down

You can withdraw consent at any time and you don't have to give a reason. Email hello@triffidesu.co.uk, tell us roughly which photograph it is, and we'll take it down from the website. If it's also on our Instagram or Facebook, say so and we'll remove it there too.

We'd rather you asked than felt awkward about it. It takes us a couple of minutes.

Who we are

Triffid Explorer Scout Unit, part of Shropshire Severn and Teme District and of The Scout Association. We meet at Ludlow Scout Hut, Station Drive, Ludlow, Shropshire SY8 2PQ.

We're volunteer-run. For anything about this website or your data, email hello@triffidesu.co.uk. For anything about how Scouting handles data more widely, see The Scout Association's data protection policy.

If you have a safeguarding concern, please don't leave it in an email to the website address. Follow The Scout Association's safeguarding route, or speak to a leader.