General Policy
Our policy is to obtain permission before putting details or photographs including any individual on this site. If we have failed to do this, or if anyone appearing here no longer wishes to do so, please inform us and we will remove or obscure the image or text. Articles published on this site are usually provided by the brethren, and are not necessarily the views of Grand Lodge or Provincial Grand Lodge.
Form Submissions, including Articles, Events and Enquiries
If you submit any form appearing on this website, we may store and use any personal or other data you provide in order to respond to your query, check any information you have provided, configure web services for your specific use and improve the quality of the services it offers.
Articles or events submitted via this website may be published by us through all our media channels and outlets and authors and photographers may be specifically acknowledged by us unless they request otherwise. Submitters of articles or events will be assumed (a) to have obtained all relevant permissions from individuals identified by name or photograph, assenting to publication; (b) to hold copyright of all images and text submitted or have express permission from the copyright holder for their submission to us for publication; (c) to have granted the us a perpetual royalty-free non-exclusive license to use the submission in whole or part for any purpose related to the activities of the Lodge or Province and for any period we deem suitable. The Lodge also reserves the right to refuse to publish any submission made.
Visitors to this website
We will make no attempt to identify visitors, except where there is a reasonable suspicion that unauthorised access to systems is being attempted. In all cases, we reserve the right to attempt to identify any individual who is reasonably suspected of trying to gain unauthorised access to computer systems or resources operating as part of our web services.
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 text files stored by your browser on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
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 X (Twitter), continuously improve our website for you and 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 or to collect any sensitive information.
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 reject our cookies you may do so, either by global browser settings or our own cookie control panel. However this will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect. For example, logging in to our site requires acceptance of our cookies.
MORE ABOUT OUR COOKIES
We use cookies to make certain functions on our website work as required and expected.
Third party functions
Like most websites we include functionality provided by third parties. Our site includes the following which may use cookies:
Videos (powered by YouTube and Vimeo)
Location Maps
Other embedded content
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties.
Social Website Cookies
So that you can share our content on the likes of Facebook and X (Twitter) we may include sharing buttons on our site and these may set cookies.
Cookies are set by Facebook and X (Twitter).
The privacy implications of this will vary from social network to social network and will depend on your settings with them.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We collect anonymous visitor statistics for our site. This includes how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac OS X or Windows PC) which helps to identify how our site works on particular platforms. This helps us to continuously improve our website. This so-called "analytics” program also tells us, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from Google) and what pages they view. We do not use cookies in visitor statistics collection and data is collected anonymously, that is, we cannot identify any individual visitor from it.