This is a privacy policy for the Lancaster and Fleetwood Conservatives website. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.lancasterandfleetwoodconservatives.com.
We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by post at the following address:
Lancaster and Fleetwood Conservatives
NLCCC
59 High Street
Great Eccleston
PR3 0YB
United Kingdom
You may contact us by e-mail at webmaster@lancasterandfleetwoodconservatives.com.
You may call us at +44 (0) 1995 672 977.
Data Collection and Use
The Conservative Party strives to meet ‘P3P’ standards (the ‘Platform for Privacy Preferences Project’) on data privacy. We are the sole owner of any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this information unless we first disclose the fact in this privacy statement. We collect data in five different ways.
Stay Informed
We ask for your name, postcode and email address if you subscribe to our email newsletters. We use this information to contact you about www.lancasterandfleetwoodconservatives.com and let you know what Conservatives are doing up and down the country.
Volunteer
We collect your postal address and volunteering preference. This information will be used by Lancaster and Fleetwood Conservatives and will be shared with the national Conservative Party.
Feedback and Comments
To send us a message using our feedback forms we collect your name, email address and comments. At your option we may also collect your postal code. This data will be used by ourselves and the national Conservative Party for contacting you.
Online Polls, Surveys and Petitions
If you wish to participate in an online poll or survey, in addition to your answers, we collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address. This data will be used by ourselves and our agents to help validate the results and help prevent multiple entries from individuals. In addition to this a cookie may be placed on your system after participating in a poll or survey. No identifiable information will be stored in this cookie. We may also collect your name and contact information (including postal & email address). This data may be used by ourselves and the national Conservative Party.
Log Files and Statistics
We use IP addresses, URL’s of requested resources, timestamps and HTTP user-agents to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. In addition to this we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc (”Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies, to help analyse how visitors use our site. The information generated by the cookie about the use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on website activity for the Conservative Party and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your Web browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to make full use of our website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Cookies
Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.
Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:
- Site administration
- Site customisation
- User targeting
- Contacting users
- User analysis
- Online polls and surveys
Links
Our website links to other sites. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites: make sure you read their privacy statements if you are concerned about the information they are collecting about you. This statement only applies to our website.
Security
We take every precaution to protect your details. When you submit sensitive information via the website, it is secure both on its way to us and once we receive it.
We also do everything in our power to protect your information once we have received it. Our staff can only access your details if they have a specific job to perform, such as dealing with a membership enquiry. They also have to keep up to date on our security and privacy practices.
Correcting/Updating Information
We recognise that details such as your post code or email address are bound to change over time. We will do what we can to ensure that you can change the information we hold about you.
Choice/Opt Out
You will always be able to opt out of having your information used for any purpose other than that specifically related to the page where we ask for it. Our surveys, for instance, have an opt out mechanism so that you can fill in the survey without subscribing to our email list.
If you ever want to stop us getting in touch, you can opt out by following the instructions at the foot of every email we send.
Notification of Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we shall post a link to those changes on our homepage so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
When we collect information from you, we tell you what we intend to do with it; if we later want to use that information for a different purpose, we shall first send you an email setting out our plans – and it will be up to you whether or not we do so.
