Our Policy
British Marine Federation is 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.onthewater.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.
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