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Cookies, Privacy and Accessibility Statement

NIFHA is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy notice outlines how we treat personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us.

Information we collect

Any information you provide will be carefully protected and stored in our secure database. We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

We may collect and process the following information about you:

• Information including your name, work address, job title, organisation, email address, telephone number, fax number, and any other details you provide.
• Information you provide voluntarily on our website (www.nifha.org)
• Information on your visits to our site including your IP address and the resources you access.
• Details of transactions you carry out with and services provided by NIFHA.
• A record of our contact with you (online, in person, by telephone, fax, etc) stored on our database to help us deliver our services to you more efficiently.
• Images, video and sound recordings. NIFHA may take photographs/video/sound recordings at events for use in printed and electronic media, including the internet, for promotional purposes. Some images or recordings may be selected for permanent preservation in NIFHA’s Archive as a record of the voluntary housing movement which may be used for research, publication, education, displays and exhibitions. 

How we use your information

• We will use your information to:
• Provide you with information, products and services that you request from us or that we feel may be of interest to you, where you have given permission to do so.
• Allow you to contribute to interactive sections of our website and online communities.
• Provide appropriate online content and improve our website.
• Contact you occasionally in relation to our training / seminars / conference / surveys / research.
• Assist with NIFHA’s organisational planning and maintenance of organisational records.

IP Addresses and Cookies

We collect information about your visit to our sites, including where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. The data cannot be used to identify any individual. To help us gather this information we use cookies; small files stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies allow us to improve our site and deliver a better service. Our sites use:

If you do not wish to accept cookies you can activate the appropriate settings on your browser, however, you may be unable to access some parts of our site. To find out more about cookies and how they can be turned off, visit www.aboutcookies.org. We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law. 

How we store your data

The data that we collect from you will be securely stored on our premises at NIFHA, 6c Citylink Business Park, Albert Street, Belfast BT6 8JZ and backed up daily on tape. All information you provide to us is stored securely.  Where we have given you, or where you have chosen, a password which enables you to access our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Changes to our privacy notice

We keep our privacy policy under review and any updates will be made available on this webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on 3 July 2012. 

Contact Us

For more information on our privacy policy or the information we hold about you please contact us by:

Email communications@nifha.org with the subject heading “Privacy policy”.

Writing to the Communications Officer, NIFHA, 6c Citylink Business Park, Albert Street, Belfast BT6 8JZ.

The Data Protection Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Accessibility

The NIFHA website strives to meet the needs of all our customers and to this end the site has been developed to meet the requirements of W3C, Web Accessibility Initiative the international standard for accessibility which reviews the needs of those individuals with disabilities.

Controlling text and colours in your web browser

If you use the Internet Explorer or Netscape browsers to view the Internet, the following guidelines will enable you to enlarge the size of the text and control the colours on your screen. However, if you require even larger text, or use a text-only browser, please refer to the RNIB website:www.rnib.org.uk , which contains useful information on how to access the web using different technologies.

Instructions for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer:

For PC

Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser

Select 'Tools' from the menu at the top of your window

From the options which appear, select 'Internet options...'

Click on the 'General' tab

Click on the button marked'Accessibility'

To change your font size, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages'

To remove background and font colours, select the checkbox marked 'Ignore colours specified on web pages'

Click 'OK' (and again if necessary)

Select 'View' from the menu at the top of your window.

From the options which appear, select 'Text size'

Select your desired text size

For Apple Mac

Open your Internet Explorer Web Browser

Select the 'edit' menu at the top of your window

From the options menu which appears, select'preference'

Click on 'web content'

Deselect the button marked 'show style sheets'

Return to the list of preferences

Click on 'web browser'

Select 'language/fonts'

Select the font size you require

Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator prior to version 6

To change the text size:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'

Open the Appearance group and click the 'Fonts' category

Next to 'For the encoding' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use. From 'Size' select 18

Next to the Variable Width Font field is a drop down box: select 'Arial'.

The Fixed Width Font box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18

To override the fonts used by the designer of the web page, select 'Use my default fonts overriding document specified fonts'

Click 'OK'

To change the page colors:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'

Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category

Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links

To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my colours, overriding document' option.

Click 'OK'

Instructions for users of Netscape Navigator version 6 and up

To change the text size:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'

Open the Appearance group and click the Fonts category

Next to 'Fonts for:' should read Western to tell the computer which types of letters and symbols to use.

Next to the 'Proportional' field is a drop down box: select 'Sans-serif'. For the size select 18.

Next to the 'Monospace' field, the box should already read 'Courier New'. From 'Size' select 18.

In the 'Minimum font size' box select size 18.

Deselect the 'Allow documents to use other fonts' checkbox so no tick shows by clicking on it.

Click 'OK'

To change the page colors:

Select 'Edit' from the menu at the top of the window and choose 'Preferences'

Open the Appearance group and click the 'Colors' category

Select a color button to change colors of text, background, unvisited links, or visited links

To override the colours used on the web page, select the 'Use my chosen colors, ignoring the colors and background image chosen' option.

Click 'OK'