Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Individuals
If you represent an organisation, please view our organisational privacy policy.
This privacy policy sets out how “Winchester Action on Climate Change” uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Winchester Action on Climate Change is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
This policy is effective from 12 October 2008 and was last updated on 10 July 2010.
What we collect
If you register as a user on our website and/or become an individual member by signing the WinACC Pledge, we will collect the following information:
- Your full name
- Contact information including email and home addresses (and any phone number that you let us have).
If you also sign up as a Voting Member, we will also collect:
- Your individual/household carbon footprint
- Information on the steps you have already taken to reduce this footprint
- Your stated aims to reduce your carbon footprint over a 12 month period
- Any other information you give on your carbon footprint via our website.
What we do with the information we gather
We will include your name in our lists of members and Voting Members as applicable, unless you specifically ask us not to. You can do so by emailing us at winacc@winacc.org.uk or by writing to us at the address below.
We will use your contact information to:
- Send regular updates about WinACC’s work by email
- Contact you every two years to ask you to update your carbon footprint if you haven’t done so within the last two years.
From time to time, we may also use your contact information to contact you for other purposes, such as asking you to become a case study example. We may contact you by email, phone or mail.
We require information on Voting Members' carbon footprints to help build a picture of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the Winchester district and to encourage and persuade other individuals to reduce their carbon footprint.
None of your contact information will be made public.
If/when you become a Voting Member,you can choose to keep your carbon footprint information private by selecting the “not for publication" option on the “submit a carbon footprint report” section of our website.
If you choose to publish your carbon footprint, your carbon footprint information will be published on our website so that it can be viewed alongside the carbon footprints of other Voting Members.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Winchester Action on Climate Change, Main Building 163, University of Winchester, Winchester. SO22 4NR.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at winacc@winacc.org.uk, or write to us at the above address, as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Privacy Policy for Organisations
If you do not represent an organisation and/or wish to register as an individual, please view our individual privacy policy.
This privacy policy sets out how “Winchester Action on Climate Change” uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Winchester Action on Climate Change is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Winchester Action on Climate Change may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
This policy is effective from 12 October 2008 and was last updated on 10 July 2010.
What we collect
If you register as a user on our website and/or sign up as an organisational member, we will collect the following information:
- The name of your organisation
- Name and job title of main contact person for the organisation
- Contact information including email address and business address of your organisation as well as an optional telephone number.
If you also become an Organisational Voting Member, we will also collect:
- Your organisational carbon footprint
- Information on the steps you have already taken to reduce this footprint
- Your stated aims to reduce your carbon footprint over a 12 month period
- Any other information you give on your carbon footprint via our website.
What we do with the information we gather
We will use your contact information to:
- Send regular updates about WinACC's work by email
- Contact you every two years to ask you to update your carbon footprint if you haven't done so in the last two years, or to register your carbon footprint if you haven’t already done so.
- From time to time, we may also use your contact information to contact you for other purposes such as asking you to become a case study example. We may contact you by email, phone or mail.
We require information on Organisational Voting Members' carbon footprints to help build a picture of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the Winchester district and to encourage and persuade other organisations to reduce their carbon footprint.
None of your contact information will be made public.
If you become an Organisational Voting Member, the name of your organisation and your carbon footprint information will be published on our website. The names of Organisational Associate Members may also be published on our website.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Winchester Action on Climate Change, Main Building 163, University of Winchester, Winchester. SO22 4NR.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at winacc@winacc.org.uk, or write to us at the above address, as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.