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Privacy policy |
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Oxfordshire Business Awards ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy. |
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This policy (together with our terms of use
www.oxfordshirebusinessawards.co.uk/WebsiteTermsofUse.aspx
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. |
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For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), our nominated
representative for the purpose of the Act is Darbys Solicitors LLP, 52 New Inn
Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DN. |
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Information we may collect from you |
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We may collect and process the following data about you: |
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Information that you provide by accessing our site
www.oxfordshirebusinessawards.co.uk (our site). This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our
services, posting materials or requesting further services. We may also ask you
for information when you make a nomination for a business award or when you
report a problem with our site. |
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If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. |
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We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes,
although you do not have to respond to them. |
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Details of any nominations for business awards you make through our site. |
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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 purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. |
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IP addresses and cookies. |
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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. |
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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: |
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To estimate our audience size and usage pattern. |
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To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our
site according to your individual interests. |
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To speed up your searches. |
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To recognise you when you return to our site. |
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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. |
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Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no
control. |
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Where we store your personal data |
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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 or for one of our sponsors.
Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the provision of support
services. 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 privacy policy. |
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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 |
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We use information held about you in the following ways: |
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To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner
for you and for your computer. |
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To provide you with information that you request from us or which we feel may
interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. |
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To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you
and us. |
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To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you
choose to do so. |
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To notify you about changes to our service. |
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We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to
provide you with information about services which may be of interest to you and
we or they may contact you about these by post or telephone. |
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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. |
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We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our
advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users
(for example, we may inform them that 50 users have accessed our site on any
given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach
the kind of audience they want to target (for example, businesses located in
Oxfordshire). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to
enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their
advertisement to that target audience. |
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Disclosure of your information |
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We may disclose your personal information to third parties: |
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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. |
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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
www.oxfordshirebusinessawards.co.uk/WebsiteTermsofUse.asp?OBAwpDOS=rVm8PDc55J
and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of
Oxfordshire Business Awards, our advertisers, or others. |
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Your rights |
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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 Paul Lowe of
Darbys Solicitors LLP, 52 New Inn Hall Street, Oxford OX1 2DN. |
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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. |
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Access to information |
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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. |
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Changes to our privacy policy |
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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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Contact |
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Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and
should be addressed to Paul Lowe of Darbys Solicitors LLP, 52 New Inn Hall
Street, Oxford OX1 2DN. |
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