Harmful online design encourages consumers to hand over personal information

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) are calling for businesses to stop using harmful website designs that can trick consumers into giving up more of their personal data than they would like. Practices include overly complicated privacy controls, default settings that give less control over personal information and bundling privacy choices together in ways that push consumers to share more data than they would otherwise wish to do. Where consumers lack effective control over how their data is collected and used, this can harm consumers…

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Samaritans hopes to reach a broader audience with new website

The new website was launched on 12 March, along with Samaritans’ refreshed brand. The website will be easy to use and accessible to a wide audience, including young people, with a clean, modern new look. It aims to give users a clear guide and an easy journey. For example, all the emotional support information pages have been updated and now include a detailed guide about how you can help someone you are worried about. The new website will enable us to support more people, and it has been informed by…

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Startup offers free website grants without strings attached

rule:fresh – a startup created by ex The Body Shop Foundation staffer Oli Robinson – is offering grants for small charity websites. The offer, which runs until the end of the year, provides a small charity website, professionally designed and built in WordPress, and integrated with Mailchimp, Eventbrite and Donorfy. The offer includes creation, design and integration of the site. rule:fresh sites offer: Mobile-friendly design – works on all devices Built on WordPress – the world’s most popular content management system Optimised for discovery by Google and other search engines…

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Localgiving announce major improvements to fundraising pages

Localgiving has announced a series of major improvements to its individual fundraising pages. Local charities in the UK are hugely overstretched and under resourced with just 47% confident they will survive beyond 5 years. These changes have been made to help local charities and their fundraisers better engage potential donors and ultimately to bring in more funding for these important grassroots causes. The aim of these improvements is to provide a better user experience both for fundraisers and their supporters both in terms of functionality and design. It is now…

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Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Announces Relaunch of “Search and Rescue” Opioid Prescriber Education Campaign Website

Partnership for Drug-Free Kids today announced the website relaunch of “Search and Rescue,” a prescriber education campaign that gives healthcare providers the resources they need to help prevent the misuse and abuse of medicines in their practices. The goal of the Partnership’s Search and Rescue campaign, developed with support from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), is to equip prescribers to be proactive in identifying and helping patients at risk for prescription drug abuse. Since the campaign’s national launch in September 2016, even greater attention has been brought to…

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