| Account |
A credit or debit card or any other electronic cash facility in your name that you use to make a payment to us via the Online Services. |
| Banner |
A general term for advertisements and messages from third parties which website providers allow onto their websites. Simple banners are picture hyperlinks that take you to another site. Banners can also carry software that tracks your movements and reports them back to the banner owner, for example so they can learn about your buying habits. |
| Cookie |
Internet protocols restrict how websites can save information on your computer, or read it from your computer. The main way websites can read and write on your computer is by cookies. A cookie is a text file, and can only be saved in a designated directory (which is commonly called ‘/cookies’). A website decides what information is saved as text in a cookie, not you. A website can also look at cookies saved by third parties, to learn about you. Most internet browsers allow you to disable cookies.
Saving information can stop you having to re-type it several times, so cookies can be convenient. They can also expose you to serious breaches of security and confidentiality, because websites sometimes use cookies to save usernames and passwords. Tearfund do not use cookies in this way. Allowing websites to read your cookies can lead to breaches of your privacy or security. |
| Information |
Information means the types of information referred to in paragraph 9 of the Terms. |
| Message |
Each item of correspondence in the Talk Services. |
| Online Services |
All of our free electronic services which comprise the Talk Services and the Web Services, the Open Services and the Subscriber Services. |
| Open Services |
Online Services we provide that can be used by anyone. |
| Personal Data |
Data which can be used to identify a living person. |
| Sensitive Personal Data |
Personal Data that relates to that person’s race, politics, religion, trade union membership, health, sex life, criminal record or prosecution. |
| Subscriber Services |
Online Services we provide that are only available to people who register with us. |
| Talk Services |
Correspondence services we provide to you, such as correspondence by electronic mail, fax and telephone, Short Message Service (SMS) messaging, online forums, discussion threads and other electronic means. |
| Terms |
The terms and conditions which apply to the Online Services. We may change the terms and conditions from time to time, and the amended terms and conditions will apply immediately when they are published on our Websites. |
| We/us/our |
Tearfund, Tearcraft and all other companies forming part of the same group of companies and our staff and other third parties who work for us. |
| Web Beacon |
A transparent image stored in a web-page or e-mail that is used to track your activities and send the information to a central database. They are used to manage multiple cookies. Web beacons are also known as web bugs and clear GIFs.
E-mail web beacons can track what you do on the host web-page or e-mail to form a picture of you and your preferences. Based on the information recovered using web beacons about your interests and preferences, the content of cookies will be managed. The end purpose is to personalize the content shown to you by the website. |
| Web Services |
The services we provide over the internet from our Websites. |
| Websites |
Our websites at the following domains:
- tearfund.org
- tearcraft.org
When we refer to our websites we mean each webpage delivered by them (in browser-readable form and in browser-processed form), all the content of our websites, all the software forming part of our websites and the databases used in our websites. |