Privacy policy
The Freshwater Biological Association is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy and will be transparent about how we may use your information. We do not share, sell, rent or lease your personally identifiable information or data with anyone else. We will always respect your preferences about how and if we contact you.
When you provide us with personal details such as your name, postal address, email address and telephone number, we will only use this information for essential purposes, such as to fulfil an order when you make a purchase in our online shop, to contact you when you have registered for a course, registered as a volunteer, or signed up for our newsletter.
Website visitors
This website is hosted by Squarespace, which collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.
Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses here: The cookies Squarespace uses – Squarespace Help Center.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner.
This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
This information is shared with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Online shop
When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to your purchase
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Our payment processor, Stripe, will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/en-gb/privacy
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
Digital newsletters
When you sign up to our newsletter, or opt in to receive news and updates when you make a purchase in the shop, you will receive our monthly newsletters via email. We will only use your email address to send you the newsletters. You will receive our newsletters from Mailchimp and you can update your preferences or unsubscribe at any time by following the links at the bottom of the newsletter. You can read their security policy here: https://mailchimp.com/about/security/.
Memberships
Our membership subscriptions are managed by the Royal Society of Biology. When you register to become a member, you will create an account with the My Society, a portal that allows access to your membership space. You can read their privacy policy here: https://my.rsb.org.uk/item.php?privacy=policy.
Donations
When you make a donation to the Freshwater Biological Association, this payment is processed by Donorbox. You can read their privacy policy here: https://donorbox.org/privacy.
Contact Details
The Hedley Wing,
YMCA North Campus,
Lakeside,
Newby Bridge,
Cumbria,
LA12 8DB
Phone: 015394 42468
Email: info@fba.org.uk