Year of Food and Farming privacy policy
The Data Protection Act
In accordance with the Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to protect any information we
collect from you. We will only use your information for the purpose as described. You have a
right to access your personal data and rectify any inaccuracies.
Site usage
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself or your
organisation in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services may include
email updates, newsletters etc. We may pass your details to third parties who are offering
a service as part of the Year (e.g. an event or new curriculum material) that we feel you
may be interested in, based on the information you have supplied.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable us to provide you with the services
you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in
accordance with this policy. When using your personal information we will act in accordance
with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
When organisations, schools or individuals submit information on the 'Our plans' form, or the
'Our offer' form, this data will then be included on the Megamap when this goes live later in
2007, and will be accessible to all users of the website. When the Megamap is live, users will
have the option of updating this information.
With the exception of the registration processes, we do not capture any personal
information whilst you are using this website. The Year of Food and Farming website uses industry standard
encryption to safeguard your data throughout the registration process and to store it.
The Year of Food and Farming website records your IP (Internet Protocol) address in its log files that allow us to record a visitor’s
use of the site to enable us to enhance the future layout of the site. The data we gather in
this way does not contain any personal information or information about which other sites you
have visited.
Statement coverage
This privacy statement only covers the Year of Food and Farming website at
https://www.yearoffoodandfarming.org.uk and subsequent subsites of this domain.
Other websites linked to and from this domain are not covered by this privacy statement.
Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss and alteration of information under
our control.
Changes to the policy
If the privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page.
Regularly reviewing the page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of this site, you can
contact us at [email protected].
Glossary of terms
Log files are files created by a proxy or web server which contains all of the access information
regarding the activity on that server.