cda Statement of Privacy

cda are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We comply with the UK privacy and data protection requirements.

This Statement of Privacy describes how cda collects, uses and protects personal information you may provide through our website.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our services, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information

  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
  • We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access

Unfortunately the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site, any transmission is at your own risk. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computers

  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between cda and you
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so
  • To notify you about changes to our service
  • To improve our website

Cookies

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate. If you register with us or if you continue to use our site, you agree to our use of cookies. You block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

In order to properly manage our website we may anonymously log information on our operational systems, and identify categories of visitors by items such as domains and browser types. These statistics are reported in the aggregate to our webmasters. This is to ensure our website presents the best web experience for visitors, and is an effective information resource.

Third Parties

It is cda’s policy only to disclose information to third parties under the following circumstances:

  • As required by law

  • If cda’s or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party
  • When required to fulfil cda’s obligations

IP Addresses

Like most website providers, we use IP (Internet Protocol) addresses to analyse how our website is being used. This information is not linked to personally identifiable information and is only collected and used at aggregate level for statistical and trend mapping purposes. We may use IP addresses to track the source of an internet-based attack on our website or if required to by a legal proceeding.

Security

cda are committed to protecting your personal information and have technical and organisational measures in place to do this. Only authorised cda personnel are provided access to personally identifiable information and these employees have agreed to ensure confidentiality of this information.

All information is restricted to our offices and our business partners who are bound by a confidentiality agreement. We have implemented security policies and rules and all our employees and those with access to this data are required to abide by these.

Our site may contain links too and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and cda do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Protection of Children’s information

 cda website does not knowingly distribute content or collect information from individuals under the age of sixteen years.

Access to personal information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet the costs in providing the information. Requests must be made in writing to:

Data Controller, cda, Oak House, 1 Limewood Way, Limewood Business Park, LEEDS LS14 1AB

Changes to our Privacy Policy

cda reserves the right to modify or update this Statement at any time.