1. Introduction – explanation of privacy and the policy
At the Brit Writers' Awards, we respect your privacy and want to ensure your wishes are carried out in terms of the use of the information that you supply us with when using this website.
This Privacy Policy (together with our Terms of Use) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act).
We are registered with the Office of the Information Commissioners as required by the Data Protection Act 1998. Our registration number is: Z1753559.
2. What information we collect
We may collect and process the following types of information provided by you:
- name
- address
- date of birth
- email address
- telephone number
3. How we collect data
Information provided by you:
- Information that you provide by emailing us and the emails themselves.
- Details of any response to surveys that we may from time to time ask you to complete for us. You are not, of course, obliged to complete these.
- Details you have given when entering the BWA competition or promotion run by us.
- Details you have given when registering to become a BWA online forum member or signing up for e-updates
- Details of any problems you report regarding our service or site.
- Details of any transactions you carry out through our site and the fulfilment of your orders.
Automatic information and cookies:
- We may capture and store some information about your computer (such as your IP address).
- We also use cookies, which record details of your visits to our site. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that are stored on a computer.
This information is purely statistical and does not identify you as an individual. We use this data to help us understand our users' browsing patterns and to shape our marketing.
Other communications:
- We may keep records of any contact you have with us.
- We may record details of any calls that you make to us expressly for the purposes of maintaining customer service standards and assisting with staff training.
4. How we use your information
We use the information that we collect via our site or through correspondence with you to improve the service that we provide to you. We will only use the information you have provided us with to:
- Plan and manage our activities, possibly through researching and analysing your use of the site.
- Process your order for our products and fulfil any contractual obligations with you that arise from any order you place. This may include passing on your personal data to third parties so that your order may be processed.
- Provide you with further or new information about, or access to, our products and any third party products, which may be of interest to you.
- Share your information among members of our company group for marketing and research purposes.
- Carry out market research and surveys to assist us in developing our business strategy.
5. Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If the business or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, safety of Brit Writers Limited and that of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
6. Security and data retention
Unfortunately, the transfer of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try and prevent unauthorised access and protect your personal data against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
7. Accuracy of information
You are responsible for informing us when your personal details have changed. Please note that notification of any change must be in writing. It is then our responsibility to update our records accordingly.
8. Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our administrative costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
9. Acceptance of the Privacy Policy
By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, you are expressly consenting to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Privacy Policy. If for some reason you object to this use and any disclosure of your personal information then please do not register with us.
10. Contact us
For the purposes of the Act, the data controller is Brit Writers Ltd of 67 Lombard Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B12 0QU.
If you have any questions about your personal data or our Privacy Policy, or if you wish to correct any data about yourself that you feel to be inaccurate, please write to The Data Protection Officer at our above address.
If you do not want to receive offers from us or be contacted by us please email us at enquiries@britwriters.co.uk or unsubscribe by accessing your account.
If you do not want to receive offers from other companies that may interest you by mail or email, please email enquiries@britwriters.co.uk
11. Changes to our Privacy Policy
Our policy may change from time to time. This site will always contain our current policy. Where appropriate, we will notify you of any important changes by email.
The last updating of this Privacy Policy took place on 06 May 2009.
