Privacy Policy Statement
- Statement
The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you. From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. your name and email address etc) to receive or use services on our website.
- Cookies
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable AfPP to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. AfPP will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice. During any visit to AfPP’s website, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer.
Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and its user) have visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking for, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example, if on a previous visit you went to, say, the Archive, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight new information covering your interests on a second visit.
When you enter a site, your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site to track traffic flows. Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.
- Personal Information
When you supply personal information to AfPP (e.g., for competitions, or AfPP’s personalised services) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information); we must let you know how we will use it; and we must tell you in advance if we decide to pass the information on to anyone else.
Where personal information is held for people who are not paying members but have taken part in other AfPP services (e.g., events), that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with The Data Protection Act 2018 (GDPR).
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information AfPP holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to the Membership Manager.
From time to time, we may send you details of other AfPP services and products that may be of interest to you and offer you the opportunity to subscribe to them. We may also offer you the opportunity to participate in surveys, conducted by AfPP or on behalf of our partners, that help our research into the types of service we offer. AfPP will keep a record of information provided by you.
Please note that any information you provide to AfPP will only be used within AfPP. It will never be supplied to third parties without first obtaining your consent unless we are obliged by law to disclose information.
Last revised October 2024.
