The Bay's Data Protection Promise
The Bay is committed to protecting your privacy. It is very important to us and we respect anyone's concerns about maintaining it. This statement tells you how and why we use your information.
We promise to treat your data with professionalism and care.
You may change the way in which you receive information from us at any time:
• Email: thebay-enquiries@lancswt.org.uk
• Telephone: 01772 324129
• Post: The Bay, c/o The Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Brockholes Nature Reserve, Preston New Rd, Samlesbury, Preston PR5 0AG
Third parties
The Bay will never sell your details to third parties. We may use a third party to send out items such as surveys and secure systems to store your data on. These third parties are carefully selected and adhere to our strict data protection policies in order to keep your information safe. They are only permitted to use your data for the purposes we set out, and your data is permanently deleted by them once they have completed the necessary process. With regard to our database system, we have full control over how your data is stored and used.
Access to your own information
You can contact us anytime by letter or telephone to change or update your details, or obtain a copy of your record. If you have any problems or queries about your data, please contact us by emailing us
Cookies policy
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you
We do NOT use cookies to:
• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions
• You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using this site:
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site.