PRIVACY POLICY
British Marine Federation are
committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents
referred to on it sets out the basis on which any personal data we
collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by
us. Please read the following carefully to understand our
views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will
treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act
1998, the data controller is British Marine Federation National
Boat Show Ltd, Marine House, Thorpe Lea Road, Egham, Surrey, TW20
8BF
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following
data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms
on our site www.britishmarine.co.uk
(our site) This includes information provided when
you complete our on- line accounts form and enquiry form.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we
use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to
them.
- Details of transactions you carry out through
our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
- Details of your visits to our site including,
but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other
communication data, whether this is required for our own billing
purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your
computer, including where available your IP address, operating
system and browser type, for system administration and to report
aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data
about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not
identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on
the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that
is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to
improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised
service. They enable us:
- To estimate our audience size and usage
pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and
so allow us to customise our site according to your individual
interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our
site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by
activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse
the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may
be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have
adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our
system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Storing your personal data
We will take all steps reasonably necessary
to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with
this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we
will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee
the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission
is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we
will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent
unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the
following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is
presented in the most effective manner for you and for your
computer.
- To provide you with information, products
or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest
you, where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any
contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive
features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit
selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with
information about goods and services which may be of interest to
you and we or they may contact you about these by post, telephone,
or email.
If you are an existing customer, we will
only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with
information about goods and services similar to those which were
the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer, and where we
permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will
contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to
this.
If you do not want us to use your data in
this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing
purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on
which we collect your data the enquiry form.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information
to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or
assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the
prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If British Marine Federation or substantially
all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case
personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the
transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your
personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in
order to enforce or apply our terms of
use or terms and conditions and
other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of
British Marine Federation, our customers, or others. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organisations for
the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to
process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually
inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your
data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information
to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right
to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms
we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right
at any time by contacting us at British Marine Federation.
Our site may, from time to time, contain
links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers
and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these
websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy
policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability
for these policies. Please check these policies before you
submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access
information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised
in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a
fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the
information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy
policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where
appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding
this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Marine
House, Thorpe Lea Road, Egham, Surrey, TW20 8BF