PRIVACY POLICY

www.thewelshkennelclub.org (“I”, “We” or “Us) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy policy sets out how the Welsh kennel club uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website.

The Welsh kennel club 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. the welsh kennel club may change this policy occasionally by updating this page.

You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is the welsh kennel club.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you.

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.thewelshkennelclub.org (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

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 billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways: whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at wkcsecretary@aol.com

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by law to do so. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998.

A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to wkcsecretary@aol.com

If you believe that any information, we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address.

We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. 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

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer. To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so. To notify you about changes to our service.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will not disclose your personal information to third parties except in the following circumstances

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 and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of www.thewelshkennelclub.org, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

IP ADDRESSES

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.

SECURITY

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

COOKIE POLICY

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website.

This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies for certain areas of our website. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience.

In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

We believe that you should not be unduly concerned with the use of cookies on this site.

We will use no information obtained from the cookie for marketing purposes.

We do recognise and understand that you can, should you choose, disable cookies on your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your computer.

This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can find out how to delete and block cookies for your particular browser by clicking “help” on your browser’s menu.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. 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.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have the right to ask us to process your personal data for marketing purposes.

We will usually inform you (not before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting us at wkcsecretary@aol.com

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.

ACCESS TO INFORMATION

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you at any time. Please email us at wkcsecretary@aol.com and a copy of your data record will be sent to you within 1 month.

Additional requests for same said information may be subject to an administration fee of £25.00