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In relation to the website: www.thewalpole.co.uk (‘THE SITE’). For any queries in relation to this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact details given in the Contact page on the Site.
(a) The Site is a UK-based website and we take reasonable care to comply with the requirements of the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (‘the Act’) relating to the personal information you supply to us.
(b) For the purpose of the Act, the data controller is The Walpole Committee Limited, a company limited by guarantee and incorporated in England and Wales under company number 02519655, whose registered office is at 1 Southwark Bridge, London, SE1 9HL.
(a) If you set up an account in order to book and pay for an event organized by us (‘WALPOLE EVENT’), we may ask you to provide us with the following personal information: your title, first name, surname, company, position, billing address, credit or debit card details and expiry date, daytime telephone number, address, town/city, postcode and country. You may also provide us with personal information if you contact us with a query. Except as set out below, we will not sell, distribute or disclose your personal information without your consent, unless required or permitted to do so by law.
(b) We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
(c) Except as set out below, we will only use your personal information in order to deal with any query which you raise regarding the Site or any Walpole Event, and for administrative and marketing purposes.
(d) We may share your personal information with carefully selected business partners, provided you have given us consent to do so.
If any of your personal information changes, please notify us at the above Contact email address.
We may send you email communications containing details of similar events those which you have booked with us, unless you have let us know that you do not wish to receive such communications.
We may provide links to other websites. Before supplying any personal information to any other website, we recommend that you check that website’s Privacy Policy. We do not accept responsibility for the protection of any data supplied to other sites like .
We may use cookies to monitor how you are using the Site, as these will help us make improvements for the future. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies, but if you do so parts of the Site may not work correctly. Information about your computer such as your IP address, operating system and browser type may also be used to examine usage trends, but this will not allow for any personal identification. To read our full cookies policy please click here.
The Site uses a security system that protects your personal information from unauthorized use. However, as no data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we cannot take responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time. In this case, the amended version will be published on the Site. Version 1: 26th of March 2009.
The content of this Site is owned by or licensed to The Walpole Committee Limited, 2008-2012. All rights reserved.