Your privacy is important to us:
1. Introduction
This policy covers the use of personal information collected when you use this website.
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to contact us.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable us to provide you with information you require. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information we will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice
If you provide the email address of a third party to us we understand that you have permission to use this email address.
This web site does not automatically capture or store personal information, other than logging the user’s IP address and session information such as the duration of the visit and the type of browser used. This is recognised by the web server and is only used for system administration and to provide statistics, which we may compile to evaluate site use. Please see our cookie policy below.
Links to other web sites that may be included on this website do not imply any endorsement, validation or responsibility by us as to the content or privacy policies of such sites. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.
2. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to us we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use this data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to us will only be used by us. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new services unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional services.
3. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.
4. Disclaimer
As far as is reasonably possible, we will ensure that information provided on this website is accurate. We cannot accept any liability whatsoever for omission or error. Equally, as we regularly virus check materials, we cannot accept any responsibility for any disruption of damage that may occur during use of this website.
5. Intellectual property
Users of this site may not print, download or in any manner copy images or text from the site, except for personal, non-commercial use, without our permission.
6. How we use Cookies.
Cookies cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
analysing data to help us understand how you use our services so we can improve them
Cookies are stored in the computer’s memory only during your browsing session and are automatically deleted from your computer when the browser is closed.
These cookies usually store a session ID that is not personally identifiable to users, allowing you to move from page to page without having to log-in repeatedly.
Session cookies are never written on the hard drive and they do not collect any information from your computer. Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and become no longer accessible after the session has been inactive for a specified length of time, usually 20 minutes.
7. Our use of third-party Cookies
We do use Google Analytics software to help us improve the usability of our website, the type of information gathered relates to the amount of time spent on the website and the pages visited. No personal information is held.