The Word's the Thing

Website privacy policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

(1) What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views;
(b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us (including name, email address, geographical location) ;
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including name and email address);
(d) any other information that you choose to send to us

(2) Cookies

We use StatCounter to analyse the use of this website. StatCounter uses cookies to track visitors, it logs the browsers domain name and IP address. This information is collected solely to improve services offered and for statistical purposes and is not used to identify individuals.

(3) Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will only be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

(a) administer the website;
(b) enable your use of the services available on the website;
(c) send you general (non-marketing) communications;
(d) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
(e) send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications (relating to our organisation which we think may be of interest to you by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent by emailing us at unsubscribe@thewordsthething.org.uk;
(f) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website;

Your email address will not be shared with or sold to a third party.

(4) Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(5) Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure servers.

Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure to some degree, and we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of data sent over the internet but all reasonable precautions will be taken.

(6) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

(7) Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for any purposes by email (to admin@thewordsthething.org.uk) at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for specific purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of such use.

(8) Third party websites

Where the website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

(9) Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

(10) Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to admin@thewordsthething.org.uk or by post to Core Skills Development Partnership, 43 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5LS.

This privacy policy is based on a template
created and distributed by www.website-law.co.uk.