Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to the UK Polar Network. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this privacy statement sets out how we will treat your personal information.

 

Personal Data Collection

The UK Polar Network may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

  1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (which may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, referral source, entry page, exit page, length of visit, number of page views, the route taken through this website, and similar information);
  2. information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;
  3. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters; and
  4. any other information that you choose to send to us.

Using Personal Data

Personal information submitted to us via this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy statement or in relevant parts of the website.
We may use your personal data to:

  1. administer the website;
  2. improve your browsing experience;
  3. enable your use of the services available on the website;
  4. send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
  5. send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email  and you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications; and
  6. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.

Personal Data Security

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

Disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy statement.
In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
  4. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this privacy statement, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Cross-border Data Transfers


Information that the UK Polar Network collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy statement.
In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world.

Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.  Provision of such information will be subject to:

  1. the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity.

We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by email at any time.  

Privacy Statement Update

We may update this privacy statement from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy statement by email.

Other websites

The website contains links to other websites that are not under the control of and are not maintained by the UK Polar Network. We are not responsible for the content or reliability of the linked websites. The UK Polar Network provides these links for your convenience only but does not endorse the material on these sites.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to president@polarnetwork.org.

This website privacy policy template is based on a free document supplied by The Legal Stop Limited through its website.