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Upholding data privacy and filtering out content not meeting socially acceptable guidelines.

Dear Cottonians [old, new, and yet to be]:

This website has been in place, maintained, and kept alive since May 2002. We upheld and will continue to uphold Privacy of personal data submitted by you regardless those who opted to allow “sharing” of data submitted by way of contact details or any personal info. Your personal data remains safe and unshared. All data submitted will remain anonymous, regardless if  this website continues or goes redundant. The content / stories / photos will remain intact until when the entire can be archived and digitised for posterity.

All those who contributed content to assist this project are gratefully thanked. It is almost impossible to name and thank each and everyone who did.

A quick review of all content thus far posted at this website will be undertaken asap [using AI software] and any material thats reported  “abusive”, “offensive”, “racist” or “sexist” will be removed or deleted by the software. We believe that due diligence was observed prior to any content being published, but we’ll let this program look for the ones that were missed, off chance,  or anything that previously went unnoticed or “under the radar”. We’d appreciate do point out anything such, that AI, or we, might miss. Thanks!

[The OCA web-team]

We like to hear from OCs

There are about 960 OCs registered on this mailing list, of which approximately 30% regularly open and read the emails that we send out. This dedicated readership is what keeps us going and makes it worthwhile to do what we do at the OCA Website.

Only a few, very few, OCs send in their writings or stories or school-time memories. You can access the full list that already exists on the OCA Website via this link.

We are asking all of you to send in and share anything you want with other Old Cottonians to appreciate and enjoy. 

Now more than ever before, due to the restricted lifestyle in the times of COVID19, would be a great time to enrich lives with your contribution.

Send in a piece of writing or verse, a memory from your school days, a photograph or two, a sketch/painting, a piece of your own recorded music, lyrics that you wrote, a link to a documentary or video clip that you have already shared on YouTube or elsewhere. As long as this material is free of copyright, is actually owned by you, or that you have permission to share it. We reserve the right to publish or not to publish without assigning a reason, to edit or moderate, to delete or refuse any which is inappropriate / contains nudity / is racist in nature / abusive. Thank you.

Email it to editor@oldcottonians.org or if the file is very large – use a free web-based sending utility such as https://wetransfer.com/

WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Best wishes

Editor
OCA Website

OCA Mailing List – an update

Keeping your OCA Profile / Contact Details UPDATED helps us continue to communicate with you and send you news and articles specific to BCS and the OCA. 

  • FOR OCs ALREADY on the Mailing List:
    We appreciate that you take a minute and update your own details/OCA Listing via the link sent to you earlier today by email. If you have not received such an email or would like for us to send it again, please send me a message

We have added an [optional] box for you to let us know your Anniversary Date. This is simply for us to send you a greeting message on your anniversary :-

Many thanks for your time!

Regards,
OCA Webmaster

This community website links and brings together, globally, all Old Cottonians of Bishop Cotton School Simla. It is not specific to any one country or chapter of the OCA.

Volunteers

We’d like to have a few OCs who can take on some aspects of the online website and social media options. Old Cottonians who wish to assist the Webmaster, volunteer their time gratis, unconditionally, and long-term: should write to us via the FORM below:

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A recent survey:

We sent out a Poll on 24th May 2019 to 899 registered OCs on the Mailing List:  “On average, how likely are you to click the link in our Mailings and see the full article at the OCA Website?”

183 OCs participated / responded as of 29/5/19, and the responses are:

  • NEVER OPEN OCA MAILS: 4 [2.2%]
  • OCCASIONALLY READ OCA MAILS: 45 [24.6%]
  • READ THE MAILS FAIRLY OFTEN: 59 [32.2%]
  • ALMOST ALWAYS READ THE MAILS: 75 [41%]

Thank you to those who participated and helped us understand a general trend. This might help us modify the content and delivery of updates.