The Data Protection Act 1998
Information Charter
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Under the Data Protection Act 1998, we have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it.
We do not pass on your details to any third party or government department unless you give us permission to do so.
What information do we collect?
We collect three kinds of information from visitors to www.unkinvest.gov.uk:
1. Feedback through visitors emailing us
2. Site usage information, from cookies and log files.
3. Information voluntarily supplied to us by visitors who choose to register with 'My UK' or complete surveys and questionnaires.
1. Feedback
We welcome your feedback.
We do not pass on any of your personal information when dealing with your enquiry, unless you have given us permission to do so. Once we have replied to you, we keep a record of your message for six months for reference and audit purposes, after which it is deleted.
To submit feedback to the website editorial team please email web.editor@uktradeinvest.gov.uk
2. Site usage information
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a website, and which are stored in the cookie directory of your computer. Three cookies are created when you visit www.ukinvest.gov.uk
1. Our first cookie stores a random number on your computer to help us count the number of times users return to our site.
2. Our second cookie remembers the country and language you selected to view the site. On your second visit you will automatically be directed to the site in that language.
3. Our third cookie is optional. Visitors who choose to register for 'My UK' are given the option to be signed automatically into their account when ever they revisit the 'My UK' page.
The cookies do not contain any personal information about you, and they cannot be used to identify an individual user.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies. If you do not know how to do this, contact us, giving details on the type of browser you are using, and we will do our best to help.
Please note that if you do set your browser not to accept cookies you may be shown the same promotional content on subsequent visits.
Log files
Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We may analyse log file information from all our visitors. We use this information to make changes to the layout of the website and to manage the information in it.
Log files do not contain any personal information and they are not used to identify any individual patterns of use of the site.
What happens when I link to another site?
We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site www.ukinvest.gov.uk contains links to other websites, both of government departments and of other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our site, so you should always be aware when you are moving to another site and read the privacy statement of any site which collects personal information.
We do not pass on any personal information you have given us to any other site.
Access to your information and contacting www.ukinvest.gov.uk
If you wish to see our records of any correspondence you have sent to us, or if you have a query or complaint about this privacy policy or about the site, you can contact us by email web.editor@uktradeinvest.gov.uk
Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.