PVEC is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using PVEC services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our visitors. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the pvec.net website.
In order to provide you with the full range of services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
As set out above, PVEC is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any PVEC website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards or register with the online registration system used across different parts of pvec.net, we may ask for personal information about you. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable PVEC and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
PVEC also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use IP addresses for security purposes so that services provided by PVEC and its suppliers cannot be misused. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
PVEC will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
Where PVEC proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
PVEC may contact you:
PVEC will not contact you for marketing purposes, on behalf of any non member, unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within PVEC, unless you have granted us permission to circulate your details in which case your name and general area will be released upon request. PVEC does not use any third party to process information on behalf of the club.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to pvec.net, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on pvec.net, then PVEC or its suppliers may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where PVEC reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), PVEC may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to PVEC's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
We will hold your personal information in our records (which may be paper base, or electronic) indefinitely. In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a PVEC member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information PVEC holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, PVEC. PO Box 999. Bristol. BS16 9WE (Email: dpa@pvec.net).
www.pvec.net is published in the UK by PVEC. International users are welcome to access the site, but should be aware that information on the site, such as advertising and show information, is aimed primarily at the UK membership.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any PVEC website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences (while visiting pvec.net) and allow us to tailor the website to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the pvec.net features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to pvec.net, the pages you see, and possibly a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our gallery pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight pictorial information on your second and subsequent visits.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact;
The Data Protection Officer(Email: dpa@pvec.net).
01/01/2009