CONCERN UNIVERSAL PRIVACY POLICY

1.1 Statement of intent

The purpose of this privacy statement is to provide you with details of how Concern Universal will collect, store and use the personal data you supply to it. Personal data is information which relates to identifiable living individuals. We will act in accordance with current legislation with regard to the processing of personal data.

1.2 Collection of personal data

In using this website, you may provide certain personal data to Concern Universal which we will compile and process in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By providing such information you consent to its use and storage in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information.

1.3 Use of personal data

Concern Universal shall only use your data for the purposes for which it is provided or for purposes to which you have consented. We may contact you in the future with information about our work. We do not allow third parties to use the data we collect. We may occasionally send you information about products and services developed by our partner organizations in support of Concern Universal. If you would prefer your information not to be used in these ways please contact us, giving your name and address: (i) by post to Concern Universal, 21 King Street, Hereford HR4 9BX or (ii) by email to cu.uk@concern-universal.org or (iii) by telephone on 01432 355111.

1.4 Storage and correction or personal data

Concern Universal will retain the personal data it holds unless and until you send us notice that you no longer wish us to retain this data. We are obliged to supply you, on request, with a copy of the personal data we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right, please contact us as set out in the previous paragraph. Should you discover any inaccuracies in such personal information, please notify us as soon as possible and we will then correct our records.

1.5 Cookies

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information which is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us to:

• estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
• store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests;
• speed up your searches;
• recognize you when you return to our website.

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 may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.

1.6 We may make changes to this Privacy Policy by posting the new version on this website.

1.7 Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of other persons. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for them. Please check those policies before you submit any personal data to those websites.