Privacy Policy

BioRegional Development Group (We) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy 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 Act), the data controller is BioRegional Development Group of The BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 7BZ. BioRegional Development Group is a registered charity with registration number 1041486.

PRIVACY STATEMENT
In order for us to deliver an effective service to you it is necessary for us to store and use personal information about you.
We will treat all information supplied by you in accordance with this policy.
This policy only applies to this website and you should refer to the privacy policy of any third party website that you access in connection with this website, whether by means of hyperlink or otherwise.
Information supplied to us will be processed and stored on a secure server and may be used in connection with future visits to this website to facilitate easy repeated use. Transaction processes will use data, encrypted using a Secured Socket Layer ("SSL") session. You should ensure that your version of your web browser supports SSL.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
1 We may collect and process the following data about you:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.bioregional.com (our site) including without limitation your name, address, telephone number, position and the organisation you work for (where applicable). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with the website.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• Details of your involvement in any volunteer work or campaigns in relation to BioRegional Development Group or our affiliates.
• Details of any contracts that you have entered into with us or any work that you have carried out in conjunction with us.
• Surveys used for research or marketing purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of your interest in BioRegional Development Group, our work or a related subject.
• Details in regard to your attendance at events, including confirmation emails.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders, including products, invoices and payment receipts.
• 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.
2 Information that we receive or gather (whether or not under this policy), may be used by us, our employees and/or agents to:
• Identify you when you re-visit the site.
• Help administer any accounts, services and products or facilitate purchases or services offered by us from time to time.
• Provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you and update you as to services offered. If you do not wish to receive this information, pleased contact our Data Protection Manager using the contact details below.
• Share relevant knowledge and experience and make improvements based on your feedback.
• Publish anonymous and statistical data as part of dissemination of our monitoring and research work.
• Allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
• For marketing and dissemination of information which we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive this information, please contact our Data Protection Manager using the contact details below.
• Ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
3 All storage, use and transmission of personal information relating to an individual or company is subject to the Act. The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. 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.
4 The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this policy.
5 While we do our best to protect your personal data, the transmission of information over the internet is never completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and in using our website you acknowledge that any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised 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.
The website makes use of cookies. Cookies are data files that are stored on your computer's hard drive and keep records of your visit to a website. They allow us to recognise you and tailor your visit to suit your individual preferences. You may be able to configure your web browser to prevent the use of cookies although some functions or services may not be available. If any third party websites you can access through the website use cookies, we cannot access or control that. If you want to know more about cookies you could try visiting www.allaboutcookies.org.

THIRD PARTIES AND YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985 and section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006 as applicable.
We may also have to disclose your personal information to relevant third parties such as our website developers. We will, except where required by law, keep your information confidential and will not disclose any such information except where a disclosure is made at your request or with your consent.
In some cases, we may wish to pass your data on to third parties when we are working with them in partnership on sustainability issues. However, in cases where we would like to pass on your data to our partners we would only do this if you have given permission when we collect your data. BioRegional does not otherwise sell, rent, or disclose any information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
You acknowledge and agree that some of the data that we process may amount to sensitive personal data under the Act. Your continued use of the website amounts to agreement that we may process such data. We, our subcontractors and agents will apply appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent the unauthorised processing of personal data and protect against accidental loss of or damage to personal data.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page.

CONTACT
If you have any questions, comments or requests regarding this privacy policy you should address them to The Data Protection Manager, BedZED Centre, 24 Helios Road, Wallington, Surrey, SM6 7BZ

You can also email your query about BioRegional's Privacy Policy to: info@bioregional.com.

Last updated 18th September 2008.