Privacy & cookie policy

This policy sets out how we use and protect any information that you may provide when you use our website.

Last updated: 14 June 2024

The Provincial Grand Lodge of Cambridgeshire is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected when using our website. Please refer to our Data protection notice for further details.

This site uses cookies

Our website uses cookies, as do almost all websites. The purpose of these is to help provide you with the best experience possible.

Cookies are small files that a website stores on your computer browser. Cookies send information back to the website to enable the website to recognise the user. Cookies include information such as the lifetime and expiry date of the cookie, the domain the cookie has come from and an identifier – for example, a random unique number.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of some websites.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit aboutcookies.org or allaboutcookies.org.

Our cookies enable us to:

  • Make our website work as expected
  • Improve the speed/security of the site
  • Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook and Twitter
  • Continuously improve our website for you
  • Track visits to the sites articles so we know what kind of information is popular for our visitors

We do not use cookies to:

  • Collect any personally identifiable information
  • Collect any sensitive information
  • Pass personally identifiable data to third parties

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your web browser are set to accept cookies — we understand because of that, and your continued use of our website — you are in agreement of how we use cookies. Should you wish to remove or disable cookies please follow the instructions by clicking on the cookie icon in the corner of your browser, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

  • Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate whether you want the information to be used in accordance with our Data protection notice – if applicable.
  • If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for administrative or marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 2018. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to:

Provincial Grand Lodge of Cambridgeshire
Freemasons’ Hall
Bateman Street
Cambridge CB2 1NA
United Kingdom

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible and we will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.