Privacy Statement

This privacy statement sets out how The National Computing Centre Limited (NCC) complies with European Union data protection requirements. This applies to the entire Website.
You can also access this privacy statement via our terms of use from the bottom of every page, by clicking on the appropriate link.
NCC is committed to respecting your privacy. We have structured our Website so that, in general, you can visit that part of the Website which is accessible to non-registered users wiithout identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. Once you choose to provide us with any information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
For your protection, we are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and have given all appropriate notifications to the Information Commissioner.

What we collect
We may collect the following information:

Where you register, we will collect your name, address, company, email, telephone numbers, fax numbers and credit card information.
Where you register, we will ask you to provide us with a username and password.
Where you volunteer feedback, we will collect your name, email and comments.
Some pages use cookies, a data analysis technique.
Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site, they do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.

What we do with the information
We require this information for the following reasons:

To gather payment from registrations.
To recognise registered users and allow you unrestricted access to the site.
To validate comments and provide a response.
Internal record keeping.
To judge whether changes are needed to the information or navigation.

Your choices
When you use this site and have not advised us to the contrary, you are agreeing that we may use your personal information for the purposes described above.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at:

Mrs S. O'Toole
Data Protection Compliance Officer
The National Computing Centre
Manchester Technology Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester
M1 7ED
sandra.o'toole@ncc.co.uk

What if you think we have incorrect information about you or you would like a copy of the information that we hold on you.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. This fee will not exceed £10. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to:

Mrs S. O'Toole
Data Protection Compliance Officer
The National Computing Centre
Manchester Technology Centre
Oxford Road
Manchester
M1 7ED
sandra.o'toole@ncc.co.uk

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write or email us as soon as possible to the above address. We will correct any information which was found to be incorrect promptly.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect on line. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.

Other websites
Our Website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

How we use cookies
A cookie is a piece of text which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, your browser adds that text in a small file. A cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. For example, when you visit an electronic store, a cookie makes it easier to shop, by allowing you to place things into a shopping basket; the basket itself is not the cookie, the cookie is placed on your hard drive and keeps track of your basket versus others in use at the same time.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our Website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Denial of a traffic log cookie should not prevent you from using one of these sites.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better Website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. This practice is strictly in force. We know that people have concerns about cookies, but we believe that the benefit we both gain from their proper use is worthwhile. You may set your web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) to notify you of cookie placement requests or decline cookies completely and you can delete the files that contain cookies.

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.
01/06/2004