Privacy Policy

1. Introduction and General Terms of Privacy

Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the Wychwoodwildlife.com website.

In order to provide you with the full range of Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:

·    what information the Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may collect about you;

·    how the Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside will use information we collect about you;

·    when the Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may use your details to contact you;

·    whether the Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside will disclose your details to anyone else;

·    your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;

As set out above, Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").

The website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party website have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2. What information will Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any Wychwoodwildlife.com website, such as newsletters, competitions, or register with the online registration system used across different parts of the Wychwoodwildlife.com, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

 

3. How will Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside use the information they collect about me?

Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside will use your personal information for several purposes including the following:

·      for "service administration purposes", which means that Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph four below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);

·     to contact you about a submission you have made to the website, including any content you provide.

·      to personalise the way Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside content is presented to you

·       to analyse and improve the services offered on Wychwoodwildlife.com.

Where Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

4. When will Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside contact me?

Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may contact you:

·    in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside can deliver the services to you;

·      where you have opted to receive further correspondence;

·       in relation to any contribution you have made to Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside

·   to invite you to participate in surveys about Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside services   (participation is always voluntary); and

·      for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)

 

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside will not contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.

6. Will Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside.

7. Offensive or inappropriate content on Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to Wychwoodwildlife.com, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Wychwoodwildlife.com, Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.

Where Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside 's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. How long will Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service. In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a Wychwoodwildlife.com member, Upon receipt of written or email confirmation account is deleted automatically.

Where you contribute to Wychwoodwildlife.com Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. However certain contributions are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration.

10. Can I find out what personal information Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.

11. What if I am accessing Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside websites outside the UK?

Wychwoodwildlife.com is published in the UK by Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside with a service provider in the United States of America. For international users accessing the site from outside the UK, the site is made available to you by this service provider. All personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.

12. Changes to Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside's Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any Wychwoodwildlife.com website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

13. Contacting Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside about this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;

Wychwood Wildlife & Countryside
7 Popular Farm Close
Milton Under Wychwood
Oxfordshire
OX7 6LX

(Email: Policies@wychwoodwildlife.com).

 

Last Revised: April 2010