Who we are
We are a Community Radio Station transmitting on 107.7 MHz and streaming. Our role is to provide a voice for our community and provide entertainment for our listening audience.
We are a not for profit, volunteer organisation and rely on members’ subscriptions and sponsorship to cover running costs.
Our website address is: https://www.5-thefm.org.
To avoid foreign spammers this website does not allow website comments or posts by visitors. As nice as it may be to receive comments (because we always appreciate feedback), we need to protect our users. Using the form on the Documents page is a safe way for people to provide feedback or ask a question. When visitors complete the comment form on the site we receive an email to our team but we only see the information you provide.
Media
Only site administrators may upload images or files to this site. If they upload images to the website, they should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Although we currently do not allow web comments to avoid overseas scammers, if in future we make this possible and you leave a web comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If in future we have a login page and you login, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
For website administrators when they log in, we will also set up several cookies to save their login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If Administrators edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in their browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If an Administrator requests a password reset, their IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
For ordinary USERS this does not apply as Website Comments are not permitted. If in future you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
Registration is not required on our website. So this does not apply to normal Users. For Administrators that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments (if we allowed them) may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Anyone completing a feedback or sponsor form is just sending an email to admin@5-thefm.org or sponsorship@5-thefm.org but these are not stored.
Glossary
User: a person who reads the content, perhaps downloads a file or completes a feedback form, but cannot add to the site. The feedback forms for sponsorship and general feedback are available to all and are the best way to contact the station.
Administrators: At present this is limited to the Chairperson of the Board (David W) and Webmaster (John D). The Administrators may manage all aspects of the website including making Posts.
Website comments: disallowed for everyone to avoid spammers.
Browser: this is the program people use to access the Internet. Common browsers are Edge, Firefox, Chrome (Windows users), Safari (Apple users). Samsung Internet (Android phones) and many more. Browsers let you use the Internet and most people have them set to start with a Search Engine. Common search engines Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo. Despite its strange name DuckDuckGo is very good for privacy as it doesn’t pass all your data to advertisers. Google is bad for mining all your visits, don’t use it if you value privacy.
Cookies: these are little programs stored on your computer in the browser when you visit most sites. Mostly they are harmless and can help you with logins, remembering what you were last watching, telling the Internet Server your browser so it can provide the best experience etc. Some are used to gather information. They are mostly harmless but not always. If you are given a choice about cookies, allow just the essential ones.