PRIVACY POLICY
National Boat Shows are committed to
protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms and conditions 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 Shows 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. 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.
Use of cookies
Please refer to our policy for the use
and control of cookies used on this website.
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 / National Boat Shows 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 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.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding
this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Marine
House, Thorpe Lea Road, Egham, Surrey, TW20 8BF
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