The Bridge 47 Network website collects information about visits and visitors, including via (one or more) third party service/s, such as Google Analytics.

When you visit this website, your IP address will be logged by the web server that hosts bridge47.org. This is a dedicated server, located in Germany, and IP logging is solely for the purpose of provision of service and detection of crime.

This page documents what we capture and why and how you can get access to that information, or ask for it to be deleted.

Local cookies

When you visit this website, we set the following cookies for the stated reasons. You can find out more about cookies generally here: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ and here: https://ssd.eff.org/en/glossary/cookies

  • to determine whether or not your browser uses Javascript and serve appropriate content;
  • to set a session ID when logged in;
  • to present the cookie control information itself;
  • to hide the cookie control information when accepted

Third party cookies

We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites’ on its behalf. This site does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

Google Analytics

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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form (the "Anonymize visitors IP address" setting is enabled) and do not capture any personally identifiable data, it does include the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Google Privacy Policy.

Antispam service

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We use the Human Presence service to protect our website from spam. In addition to setting a session cookie, when you submit a contact form or post a comment, your form submission will be passed with an anonymised IP address through Human Presence.

Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, etc

These social networks set their own cookies once you click on the share button. Please consult their respective privacy policies. We may allow third-party companies, including ad networks, to serve advertisements, providing other advertising services and/or collect certain information when you visit our website. Third-party companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visit to this website in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you.

Unless you click on a share button, no cookies are set by any of these social networks.

To learn more about Interest-Based Advertising or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit https://AboutAds.info/choices or https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/.

Newsletter subscribers

We publish and distribute a periodic newsletter using the popular Mailchimp platform. This is sent to anyone else who would like to receive a copy. You can subscribe via a form submission from this website or by actively asking us to add you. You can read more about Mailchimp's GDPR compliance here: https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-the-general-data-pro….

We operate a double opt-in system to reduce spam or malicious submissions via the web form and any subscriber can either use the “unsubscribe” link (on every newsletter), or by simply contacting us and asking us to remove their name and email address from the subscription list.

Contact form

Any contact form submission will result in the submitted data being stored within the database of this website and emailed to the Bridge 47 team. This website’s database is hosted in Germany and backed up to a secure backup box within the same data centre and is never taken off-site. See also the note under Antispam Service above.

Any questions?

Please contact us if you have any questions about how your personal data is used, to request a copy of any personal data we may hold about you or, where relevant, to remove any personally identifiable data we may hold about you.