Privacy Policy

This page explains how regionalnetworks.org.uk uses any information you give to us, and the ways in which we protect your privacy.

The Data Protection Act

Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We will not pass on your details to any third party unless you give us permission to do so.

What information do we collect?

We collect four kinds of information from visitors to this site: Contact details for subscribe to updates, personal details for enquiries and site usage information from session cookies and log files.

Personal details for email updates

If you subscribe to receive updates from Regional Networks, the information we collect is your name, email address, telephone number, and preferred method of communication. Additional information we collect is the region (or regions) you are interested in hearing from.

A copy of this information is kept securely by Regional Networks and our technology suppliers, Lumison and Whitespace and will be held until such time you inform Regional Networks otherwise either by contacting us or unsubscribing. This information is also stored on back-up tapes to avoid loss of data.

Personal details for enquiries

If you send us an email enquiry, the information we collect is your name, email address and message. We also collect the region (or regions) the message relates to and the method or response. These details will be used to direct and respond to your enquiry.

A copy of this information is kept securely by Regional Networks and our technology suppliers, Lumison and Whitespace and will be held until such time you inform Regional Networks otherwise. This information is also stored on back-up tapes to avoid loss of data.

Site usage information – log files and cookies

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. Whitespace (the technology provider for the website) puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to inform changes to the layout of the site and to the information on it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information but may record the IP address and type of web browser and operating system used during a visit to the website.

Cookies are small pieces of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the web browser. We use cookies for a number of purposes, including site usage analytics, the shopping basket/purchase process and the effectiveness of any advertising that may have brought you to the website. For more information about cookies visit: www.wikipedia.org.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

May 2009