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Privacy Policy
Welcome to The Portman Group Limited website www.portmangroup.org.uk (the "Website"). The Portman Group Limited is committed to protecting your privacy online.
Please read the following Privacy Policy (which forms part of the Terms and Conditions of this Website) to understand how we will treat your personal information.
The Website is owned and controlled by The Portman Group Limited, 7-10 Chandos Street, Cavendish Square, London W1G 9DQ who also controls the use made of all personal information collected from users of the Website (if any).
The terms "we", "us" and "our" when used in this Privacy Policy are references to The Portman Group Limited. The terms "you", "your" and "yours", when used in this Privacy Policy, mean any user of this Website.
1 Your Consent
This Privacy Policy sets out how we use the information that we may obtain from or about you via the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this use.
By submitting your personal information to us through the "Register for Updates" page or by any other means you will be indicating your consent to receiving marketing messages from us, which will be communicated to you in the methods identified in paragraph 5.
If at any time you wish to unsubscribe from the Website please e-mail us at update@portmangroup.org.uk
and place your e-mail address in the subject of the e-mail. We will send you an email to confirm your request. On confirmation we will remove your information from our active database.
2 What personal information do we collect?
If you choose to contact us via the Website (through the "Register for Updates" page or by any other means) then we will collect your personal information in order to answer any queries you might have and to send you any Portman Group Limited marketing information and news updates that you may have requested.
We may also collect information from our Website by using cookies (see paragraph 3 below).
3 What are "cookies" and how do we use them?
We may use cookies to track and record your preferences and activity on our Website.
A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has visited which pages, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our Website. If you wish, you can usually adjust your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies. If you do this, you may not be able to access certain areas of the Website. Alternatively you can adjust your browser to tell you when a Website tries to put a cookie on your computer.
How you adjust your browser to erase cookies, stop it accepting cookies or to notify you of them will depend on the type of Internet browser programme your computer uses. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about these functions.
Please remember, cookies do not contain confidential information such as your contact details or credit card details. We do not exchange cookies with any third party websites or external data suppliers.
Some websites that have links from our Website from time to time may also use their own cookies. We have no access to, or control over these cookies, and you are advised to check the cookie policies on such other websites.
Your browser also generates other information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP address). An IP address is a set of numbers that are assigned to your computer during a browsing session whenever you log on to the Internet via your Internet service provider or your network (if you access the Internet from, for example, a computer at work). Your IP address is automatically logged by our servers and used to collect traffic data about visitors to the Website. We do not use your IP address to identify you personally.
We may also collect cookies and IP addresses for system administration and to report aggregate non-personalised information to our business contacts and partners (such as anonymous statistics related to patterns of browsing). Except for the use stated in this paragraph and paragraph in 5 below, we only keep cookies for the duration of your visit to the Website.
4 What information do parties other than The Portman Group Limited collect?
Some websites that have links from our Website from time to time may collect personal information about you when you access or utilise those links. We do not control the collection or use of such information, and this Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of those websites.
5 What do we do with the information we collect?
We may use information that you provide or that is obtained by us in the following ways:
(a) If you contact us via any email facility that we may operate we will use the personal information you provide to us in accordance with the purpose/s for which you have provided such information (for example, dealing with a specific query that you submit to us or sending marketing information and news updates about us that you request);
(b) We may use the information you provide to us to keep you informed of [the activities of and the services provided by us [and our funders]] [3] by any of the following methods:
(i) e-mail
(ii) telephone (including automated calls)
(iii) SMS text messages and other electronic messages such as picture messaging
(iv) post
(v) fax
(c) We may collect the information detailed in paragraph 3 above to allow us to understand who has visited which pages, to determine how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our Website.
Any information we collect will be used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy and current data protection legislation to the extent applicable. We may store the information we collect from you and hold it in our computer database or otherwise.
6 With whom do we share your information and for what purpose?
The information we collect is not sold or rented by us to others. We will only pass on your information to third parties in the following situations:
(a) If we choose to share aggregate non-personalised information with business contacts and partners (see paragraph 3 above);
(b) If we employ another organisation to perform tasks on our behalf - such as delivering marketing materials to you. In this case, the organisations may only use your information to fulfil this specific task;
(c) If we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary for legal proceedings. We may also disclose user information when we believe in good faith that applicable law or regulation requires it;
7 General
You have the right to see the personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) that we keep about you (if any), on receipt of a written request, verification of your identity, and payment of a fee. If you are concerned that any information we hold on you is incorrect please contact us via the details in paragraph 9 below.
8 Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may modify our Privacy Policy from time to time in our sole discretion. If we do so, we will post a revised version of this Privacy Policy on this webpage. Modifications will be effective when they are posted on the Website. When you access the Website after such a modification, you will be deemed to have accepted any such modifications.
9 Contact us
If you have queries you can write to us at:
The Portman Group Limited
4th Floor,
20 Conduit Street,
London,
W1S 2XW
Tel: +44 (0)20 7290 1260
Email: info@portmangroup.org.uk
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