UK-GBC Privacy Statement

1. SCOPE

   This website is operated by UK Green Building Council Limited, known as UK Green Building Council, ('UK-GBC', 'our', 'we' or 'us') (a company limited by guarantee, no. 1029239).

   UK-GBC complies with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998. This regulates the processing of personal data relating to you and grants you various rights in respect of your personal data.

   The aim of this statement is to tell you how we will use any personal data you provide through this website. Please read it carefully before you proceed.

2. COLLECTION AND RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

   We may collect and process personal data relating to you by you providing such personal data. This information (including but not necessarily limited to your name, email address and current employment information) is provided at the time of purchasing tickets to one of our events or becoming a member of our site.

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION AND WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

   We may use your personal data for the following purposes:

   1. to provide you with information, products or services that you have requested from us;
   2. to carry out our obligations arising from any contract entered into between you and us;
   3. for market, customer, product and website assessment and analysis to enable us to review, develop and improve our services and provide you and other users with relevant information about our services; and
   4. if required to do so by law or other legally binding obligation.

   We may also share your personal data with our partners, suppliers, associates, sub-contractors or other third parties for marketing purposes.

   We may contact you by email or in any other ways you have communicated to us with offers of goods and services or information that may be of interest to you.

   You can stop receiving this information at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions on the correspondence you receive, or by emailing info@ukgbc.org, giving your email address and details of the information you no longer wish to receive.

   Except as set out in this statement, we do not share, sell or transfer your information to anyone else.

   We may employ the services of a third party to help us in certain areas, such as website hosting. In some cases the third party may receive your information. However, at all times, we will control and be responsible for the use of your information.

4. TRANSFER OF YOUR INFORMATION OUTSIDE THE EU

   We do not transfer your information outside the EU

5. COOKIES
   1. Use of Cookies on our site

      A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of your computer’s hard disk so that the website can recognise your computer.

      A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

      When you visit our website we send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following ways:

      • to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us review, develop and improve our website and services. We cannot identify you personally in this way.

      Two types of cookies may be used on this website: session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site; and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

   2. Disabling/Enabling Cookies

      You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.

6. LINKS

   Our site contains links to other web sites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of other websites to which you choose to link from this site. We encourage use to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.

7. SECURITY

   We have implemented reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

8. UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION

   You may review, correct, update or change your personal data at any time by contacting us at info@ukgbc.org.

9. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

   If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that 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.

10. CONTACTING US

    If you have any questions about this statement or your personal information, please contact us at info@ukgbc.org.