PRIVACY POLICY
EQuoteCentral Limited are
committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use www.myibc.co.uk/Registration/TermsConds.aspx
and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on
which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be
processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views
and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is EQuoteCentral Limited of 114 High Street, Witney, Oxfordshire, OX28 6HT.
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INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
1.1
We may collect and process the following data
about you:
1.1.1
information that you provide by filling in forms
on our site , which are situated at www.myeqc.co.uk, www.myibc.co.uk, www.schoolquote.co.uk, www.nbaschoolquote.co.uk and www.NAHTSchoolquote.co.uk .
This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site,posting
material or requesting further information. We may also ask you for
information when you report a problem with our
site;
1.1.2
if you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence;
1.1.3
we may also ask you to complete surveys that we
use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them;
1.1.4
details of your visits to our site including,
but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs, forums and other
communication data and the resources that you access.
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IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
2.1
We may obtain information about your previous
use of our site by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of
your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your
computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better
and more personalised service. Cookies are common and do not harm your system
– they just store or gather site information. They help you do things online,
for example remembering logon details so you don’t have to re-enter them when revisiting a site.
We use cookies to recognise returning visitors and to deliver content specific
to you and your community. We don’t use cookies to track people’s Internet
usage after leaving our sites and we don’t store personal information in them
that others could read and understand. They enable us:
2.1.1
to recognise you when you return to our site
2.1.2
to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
2.1.3
to store information about your preferences, and
so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests; and
2.1.4
to speed up your searches
2.2
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating
the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies.
However, if you select this setting you will be unable to access much of the
site and its benefits. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it
will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
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WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
3.1
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to
ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy
policy.
3.2
All information you provide to us is stored on
our secure servers. Where we have given you 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.
3.3
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.
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USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
4.1
We use information held about you in the
following ways:
4.1.1
to ensure that content from our site is
presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
4.1.2
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;
4.1.3
to carry out our obligations arising from any
contracts entered into between you and us;
4.1.4
to allow you to participate in interactive
features of our service, when you choose to do so;
4.1.5
to notify you of any relevant activity on your
buying community, such as new quotations, communications or content;
4.1.6
to provide you with newsletters and other
communications relevant to your striving to achieve better value for your
school or college;
4.1.7
to notify you about changes to our service.
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DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
5.1.1
Your full value as a member of this buying
community requires that, as you carry out certain activities on our site, some
limited data be made available to community members from other schools and
colleges. This enables individuals to identify one-another - and their
respective establishments - in order that they can derive maximum value from
the community. If ever you feel that a community member has abused this
arrangement, please contact us at theteam@schoolquote.co.uk.
Unless specifically requested by you, your name and contact data will not be
disclosed to any of the suppliers of goods and services that use our website. If
you do not agree to these arrangements please contact us at theteam@schoolquote.co.uk and we
will remove you from the service.
5.1.2
If you do not want us to use your data in this
way, please contact us at theteam@schoolquote.co.uk.
5.1.3
We may disclose your personal information to
third parties:
5.1.4
in the event that we sell or buy any business or
assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective
seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
5.1.5
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 www.myibc.co.uk/Registration/TermsConds.aspx
and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for
the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
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YOUR RIGHTS
6.1
You have the right to ask us not to process your
personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before
collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we
intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You
can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on
the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any
time by contacting us at theteam@schoolquote.co.uk.
6.2
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.
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ACCESS TO INFORMATION
7.1
The Act gives you the right to access
information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in
accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of
£10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we
hold about you.
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CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
8.1
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in
the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you
by e-mail.
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CONTACT
9.1
Questions, comments and requests regarding this
privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to theteam@schoolquote.co.uk.