IEDP Data Protection and Privacy Policy Statement
IEDP shall mean The Institute of Equality and Diversity Practitioners.
The IEDP takes privacy issues seriously and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy policy explains what information is being collected about you, how personal information is being used, to whom personal information is being disclosed and how this personal information is stored and protected. This privacy policy has been developed in accordance with our legal obligations.
The information you submit to IEDP will be kept confidential and secure once received. The information will be processed by IEDP or on its behalf under strictly regulated conditions in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Please note that the type of information we collect and hold about you will depend on whether or not you are a registered user of the IEDP website.
If you register with the site, you will be asked to submit personal information. This may include your name, surname, your IEDP membership, date of birth, post code and email address. For equality monitoring purposes and to assess reasonable adjustment requirements, we may require further personal details. We gather this information to allow us to process your registration, comply with equality law requirements, register course delegates or process any orders you may make.
Whether you are a registered user or not, our webserver collects certain information such as:
- IP addresses
- host names
- domain name
- the time and date information is requested
- the browser version and platform when information is requested
- a record of which pages have been requested
What information is being collected?
We use this information to produce aggregate visitor statistics in relation to which pages are being accessed. We may also use it to monitor usage patterns on this website in order to improve navigation and design features to help you get information more easily. In order to help us develop the website and our services we may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual.
How is personal information being used?
If you are a registered user, we may use your personal information to communicate with you generally so that you can get the most out of the services that the IEDP provides.
Any personal information you provide to IEDP will only be used in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for the following purposes:
- registering and maintaining your customer, contact and membership records
- delivering products and services to you
- handling your orders
- processing your payments
- consulting you about matters of interest to IEDP members
- communicating with you generally
To whom will personal information be disclosed?
For the purposes of fulfilling our membership obligations to you, we may disclose your personally identifiable information to external providers, who will be bound by duties of confidentiality including compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
We may also disclose your personally identifiable information to other third parties unless you have indicated that you prefer us not to do so, in which case we will not unless we are required to do so by law.
How is personal information stored and protected?
Keeping your personal details private is very important to us. Where we provide website facilities to transmit credit card or debit card details in order to purchase a product or service, we shall transmit the details in an encrypted manner via a Secure Socket Layer (SSL).
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
The use of cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information stored by a web server on your computer when you visit a website. The information stored by a web server is in the form of a small data file written to your hard drive. These small data files contain information which enables our web server to personalise your future use of our site. For example, the use of a cookie allows us to authenticate you as a registered user thereby giving you access to restricted or secure areas of the website.
Access to restricted or secure areas of the website is dependent upon the use of cookies. Most browsers allow the user to control the cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. If users disable cookies on their computer, some features of our website may be unavailable to them.
IP addresses
Each time you use the Internet, an IP address is assigned to your computer via your Internet Service Provider. This number may either be the same or different each time. Each time your computer requests information from our website, we log your IP address on our server. We may use this information in order to gather information about website traffic.
Updating your details
Should you wish to view, update or change any of the details that we hold about you, you may do so by contacting us or sending us an email at info@iedp.org.uk
Your consent
By submitting your personal information to IEDP you consent to the collection, storage and processing of information in the manner described in this policy. Please note that your continued use of the IEDP website and/or products and services constitutes your agreement to any changes to this policy and the website terms and conditions of use. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the website, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times.