Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for Individuals/ Households
If you are not an individual/ household member and/ or wish to be an organisation member, please click here to view our organisation privacy policy.
This privacy policy sets out how “Winchester Action on Climate Change” uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Winchester Action on Climate Change is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
This policy is effective from 12 October 2008.
What we collect
If you sign up as an individual/ household member, we will collect the following information:
• Your full name.
• Contact information including email and home addresses (and any phone number that you let us have)
• Your individual/ household carbon footprint. This will also include:
o Your stated aims to reduce your carbon footprint over a 12 month period.
o Any other information you give on your carbon footprint via our website.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to help build a picture of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the Winchester district and to encourage and persuade other individuals/ households and organisations to reduce their carbon footprint.
We will use your contact information to:
• Send regular updates about WinACC’s work by email.
• Contact you annually to ask you to update your carbon footprint or to register your carbon footprint if you haven’t already done so.
None of your contact information will be made public.
You can choose to keep your carbon footprint information private by selecting the “not for publication’ option on the “submit a carbon footprint report” section of our website.
If you choose to publish your individual/ carbon footprint, your carbon footprint information will be published on our website so that it can be viewed alongside the carbon footprints of other households and individuals.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Winchester Action on Climate Change, the Masters’ Lodge, West Downs Campus, University of Winchester, Winchester. SO22 5HT.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
Privacy Policy for Organisations
If you are not an organisational member and/ or wish to be an individual/ household member, please click here to view our individual/ household privacy policy.
This privacy policy sets out how “Winchester Action on Climate Change” uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.
Winchester Action on Climate Change is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Winchester Action on Climate Change may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 12 October 2008.
What we collect
If you sign up as an organisational member, we will collect the following information:
• The name of your organisation.
• Name and job title of main contact person for the organisation.
• Contact information including email address, and business address of your organisation as well as an optional telephone number.
• Your organisational carbon footprint. This includes:
o Your annual organisational carbon footprint information.
o Your stated aims to reduce your carbon footprint over a 12 month period.
o Any other information you give on your carbon footprint via our website.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to help build a picture of efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the Winchester district and to encourage and persuade other individuals/ households and organisations to reduce their carbon footprint.
We will use your contact information to:
• Send regular bi-weekly updates by email.
• Contact you on a yearly basis to ask you to update your carbon footprint or to register your carbon footprint if you haven’t already done so.
• From time to time, we may also use your contact information to contact you for other purposes such as asking you to become a case study example. We may contact you by email, phone or mail.
None of your contact information will be made public.
As an organisational member, the name of your organisation and your carbon footprint will be published on our website.
Your carbon footprint information will be:
• Published on our website so that it can be viewed as an individual carbon footprint.
• Published on our website as statistics alongside other organisational carbon footprints.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to Winchester Action on Climate Change, the Masters’ Lodge, West Downs Campus, University of Winchester, Winchester. SO22 5HT.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.