Privacy policy

These terms and conditions have been made in accordance with UK legislation and regulations.

In these terms, the following terminology applies. Any reference made to ‘Ripples of Compassion’, ‘RoC’, ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘our’ means Ripples of Compassion Charitable Trust. We are HMRC registered and are governed by our trust deed in line with the Charities Commissions regulations. Any reference to ‘you’, ‘your’, ‘user’ means the person visiting our website and you hereby accepts our terms and conditions. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalisation and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to the same.

These terms and conditions will take effect upon your first visit, and your use of the site means that you accept these terms and conditions. As the site’s owner, Ripples of Compassion reserves the right to change these terms and conditions at any point. All changes will be posted online so please read them carefully and check them regularly. Your continued use of this site after changes are posted constitutes your acceptance of the amended Site Terms.

Any information found on this site is intended for general guidance only. If you would like advice specific to your circumstances, please contact us. We may change this site and anything described in it without notice to you. Ripples of Compassion website has been developed taking every precaution to ensure the information and content held on this website is accurate in the UK, legally correct and ethical at the time of appearance. Although care has been taken in preparing the information and content contained on this website it is general information. Therefore, we recommend users also seek alternative professional advice where appropriate and where necessary contact us for more information.

So far as permitted by law, Ripples of Compassion accepts no liability for loss or damage, including but not limited to personal injury, resulting from the use of this website. While we make and have made all reasonable efforts to ensure no malware or viruses are transmitted via our website, this cannot be guaranteed. Ripples of Compassion will not accept liability from damage caused by viruses or malware or by any other means, save where legally unenforceable and recommends that users safeguard their IT equipment before downloading information and using this website.

We clarify that the content of this website is aimed at adults within the UK.

We accept no responsibility for the content of any site to which a link from this site exists. The links are provided as-is with no warranty, express or implied, for the information provided within them.

Any hacking into this website for the purpose of adding to or altering the content of the website or tampering, or sending unsolicited deliverables (e.g. spam, data packets), or transmitting any offensive or illegal content, and interfering with the general working of the site is illegal and unethical.

You may not use Ripples of Compassion logos without our prior consent. To apply for permission please contact us. Ripples of Compassion reserves the right to require materials and logos to be removed from use if we believe it is not in our charity’s interest.

Our leaflets and brochures and our webpages can be printed, copied and used for private use, study or teaching purposes; however, no modification may be made to the content. They may not be used for commercial, public or any other purposes without the consent of Ripples of Compassion.

There may be various information, materials or photos on our website that may be the property of another copyright owner, they are used on our website with their permission, and must not be used without their consent. Images of Ripley are used throughout the website as the charity is set up in memory of her, we would ask that you respect the parent’s and charity’s wishes and do not use any of these images without express permission from Ripples of Compassion first.

Your data will be handled in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and will only be used to keep you informed about our fundraising, activities, events and services. We will not share your information with any third party organisations except where such transfer is a necessary part of our activities, or we are required to do so by operation of law.