Privacy Notice
RREC SA Privacy Notice
Introduction
This document details the RREC SA Privacy Policy. RREC SA is committed to protecting your privacy and personal data. This document is designed to inform you how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) or use any of our services, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
Data Protection Act 2018
This legislation replaces the Data Protection Act 1998 and gives more rights to you as an individual and more obligations to organisations holding your personal data.
One of the rights is a right to be informed, which means we have to give you even more information than we do now about the way in which we use, share and store your personal information. This privacy notice helps you understand your rights, so you can access this information, along with information about the increased rights you have in relation to the information we hold on you and the legal basis on which we are using it.
How we use your information
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when RREC SA collects personal information. It applies to information we collect about:
- visitors to our websites;
- our members;
Visitors to our websites
When someone visits our website we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way that does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Use of cookies by RREC SA
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. By using our website, you are agreeing your acceptance to allow our site to take this cookie information, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. This information we would only utilise to improve our overall web site performance and customer experience. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of this and other website.
E-newsletter
We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver occasional newsletters. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice, available at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ .
Security and performance
RREC SA uses a third-party service to help maintain the security and performance of the RREC SA website. To deliver this service it processes the IP addresses of visitors to the RREC SA website.
People who email us
We use Transport Layer Security (TLS) to encrypt and protect email traffic in line with government recommendations. If your email service does not support TLS, you should be aware that any emails we send or receive may not be protected in transit. We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.
Your rights
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, and replacement legislation, you have rights as an individual that you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. You can read more about these rights here – https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-myinformation-being-handled-correctly/
Access to personal information
RREC SA tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 1998 and replacement legislation. If we do hold information about you, we will:
- give you a description of it;
- tell you why we are holding it;
- tell you who it could be disclosed to; and
If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by emailing us.
Links to other websites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Changes to this privacy notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 17 May 2018.
How to contact us
If you want to request more information about our Privacy Policy you can email us using the online contact form.
