Privacy Policy for www.hi-vis.org
At Hampshire & Isle of Wight Visually Impaired Sport we are
dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when
visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.
Our Privacy Policy has been provided and approved by website
privacy policy provider LegalCentre.co.uk.
This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an
explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us,
or that we collect from you.
We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this
Policy regularly.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 our data controller is
Joe Pitt.
Information We Collect
In operating our website we may collect and process the following data
about you:
- Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access,
including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and
other communication data.
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website,
such as when you registered for information or make a purchase.
- Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
Use of Cookies
On occasion, we may gather information about your computer for our services
and to provide statistical information regarding the use of our website to
our advertisers.
Such information will not identify you personally it is statistical data
about our visitors and their use of our site. This statistical data does not
identify any personal details whatsoever.
Similarly to the above, we may gather information about your general
internet use by using a cookie file. Where used, these cookies are
downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the
hard drive of your computer as cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our
website and the service that we provide to you.
All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by
activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the
cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be
unable to access particular parts of our website.
Our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Such
cookies (if used) would be downloaded once you click on advertisements on
our website.
Use of Your Information
The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used
to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the
information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our
products or services. To provide information on other products which we feel
may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such
information.
- To meet our contractual commitments to you.
- To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or
service/product changes, that may affect our service.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about
goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous
sale to you.
Further, we may use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your
data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and
services which we consider may be of interest to you. We or they may contact
you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented
at the time your information was collected.
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties
to contact you only when you have provided consent and only by those means
you provided consent for.
If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties you will
have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your
details to us on the form on which we collect your data.
Please be advised that we do not reveal information about identifiable
individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion, provide them with
aggregate statistical information about our visitors.
Storing Your Personal Data
We may transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the
European Economic Area for processing and storing. Also, it may be processed
by staff operating outside the European Economic Area who work for us or for
one of our suppliers. For example, such staff maybe engaged in the
processing and concluding of your order, the processing of your payment
details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal
data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all
reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in
agreement with this Privacy Policy.
Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Details
relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to
ensure its safety.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure
and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us
electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your
own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so
that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for
keeping this password confidential.
Disclosing Your Information
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of
our group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding
company and its other subsidiaries (if any).
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
- Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
- Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
- To assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk.
Third Party Links
You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites
should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not
accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we
have no control over them.
Access To Information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access the information
that we hold about you. Please note that any demand for access may be
subject to payment of a fee of £10 which covers our costs in providing you
with the information requested. Should you wish to receive details that we
hold about you please contact us using the contact details below.
Contacting Us
We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have
regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact
us at: data@hi-vis.org