PRIVACY POLICY for www.bournemouthu3a.org.uk

Bournemouth U3A is a Member of The Third Age Trust

At Bournemouth U3A we are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when visiting our site or communicating electronically with us.
This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you when you are on this site. We do update this Policy from time to time so please do return and review this Policy regularly. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 our data controller is John Oram.

 

Information We Collect

In operating our website we may collect and process the following data about you:

  1. Details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.
  2. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you registered for information.
  3. Store and use your data securely for membership purposes
  4. Use your data to communicate with you as a member including sending your name and address to our printer who distributes our brochure and newsletters.
  5. Use your data to inform the group leaders of those groups that you are a member of, or have applied for.

Use of Cookies

We may on occasion gather information regarding your computer whilst you are on our website. This enables us to improve our services by, for example, remembering your preferences when searching for lessons. Such information does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
This information may be gatherd by using a cookie file. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer as cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you. All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to access particular parts of our website.

Use of Your Information

The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you.
In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services. To provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such information.
  2. To meet our contractual commitments to you.
  3. Store and use your data securely for membership purposes
  4. To communicate with you as a member including sending your name and address to our printer who distributes our brochure and newsletters.
  5. To inform the group leaders of those groups that you are a member of, or have applied for.

If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
Further, we may use your data so that you can be provided with information about unrelated goods and services which we consider may be of interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services by any of the methods that you consented at the time your information was collected.
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for.
Please be advised that we do not reveal information about you to any third party without your consent.

Storing Your Personal Data

Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. No financial details such as account numbers are stored.
The transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.

Disclosing Your Information

Where applicable and with your consent, we may disclose your personal information to any member of Bournemouth U3A.

Third Party Links

You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.

Access To Information

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access the information that we hold about you. Please note that any demand for access may be subject to payment of a fee of £10 which covers our costs in providing you with the information requested. Should you wish to receive details that we hold about you please contact us using the contact details below.

Contacting Us

We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Bournemouth U3A,
c/o St James Institute,
33a Stourfield Road,
Bournemouth,
BH5 2AR