TUEB Privacy Policy

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1. Introduction and General Terms

TUEB is committed to protecting your personal information when you are using TUEB services. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through unitedeurobridge.org website.In order to provide you with the full range of services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you. This privacy policy explains the following:

  • what information TUEB may collect about you;
  • how TUEB will use information we collect about you;
  • when TUEB may use your details to contact you;
  • whether TUEB will disclose your details to anyone else;
  • your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us;
  • the use of cookies on TUEB website and how you can reject these cookies.
As set out above, TUEB is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

2. What information will TUEB collect about me?

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any TUEB website, such as newsletters, message boards, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different webpages may ask for different personal information. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable TUEB and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application we may need to know your backgrounds). When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it. TUEB also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.We also use your IP address to determine whether you are accessing the services from the UK or not. If not, you will be re-directed to the international version of TUEB site (see paragraph 11 for details.)

3. How will TUEB use the information they collect about me?

TUEB will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:

  • for "service administration purposes", which means that TUEB may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for, as set out in paragraph 4 below (e.g. to provide you with password reminders or to notify you that a particular service has been suspended for maintenance);
  • to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide.
  • to personalise the way TUEB content is presented to you (e.g. if we notice that the first thing you look at every day is the Staff Recruitment in Europe, then we may present this information or a link to it on your homepage);
  • IP addresses are used to identify the location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also to block disruptive use; and
  • to analyse and improve the services offered on UnitedEuroBridge.org, e.g. to provide you with the most user-friendly navigation experience. Where TUEB proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.

4. When will TUEB contact me?

TUEB may contact you:

  • in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that TUEB can deliver the services to you;
  • where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
  • in relation to any contribution you have made to TUEB e.g. on TUEB message boards, newsletters;
  • to invite you to participate in surveys about TUEB services (participation is always voluntary); and
  • for marketing purposes where you have specifically agreed to this (see paragraph 5 below)

5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?

TUEB won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.

6. Will TUEB share my personal information with anyone else?

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within TUEB. However, sometimes TUEB uses third parties to process your information. TUEB will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and TUEB will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes. Please note that if you are accessing TUEB from outside the UK and you make a comment or complaint regarding any element of advertising (see paragraph 11 for more details about this) then TUEB may forward your correspondence to TUEB only for the purposes of responding to you.

7. Offensive or inappropriate content on TUEB website

If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on to TUEB, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on TUEBwebsite, TUEB may use your personal information to stop such behaviour. Where TUEB reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), TUEB may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to TUEB's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

9. How long will TUEB keep my personal information?

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with TUEB retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a TUEB member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.Where you contribute to TUEB will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, TUEB will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for the duration of the project. However other projects (e.g. Investing in the Future) are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration. TUEB, as a publicly funded organisation, also has an obligation to record snapshots of history which may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by users. Therefore, some content submitted to or shared with TUEB may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in TUEB's Archive, which is true of News contributions which are published. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives. Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.

10. Can I find out what personal information TUEB holds about me?

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information TUEB holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the Data Protection Officer, The United Euro Bridge, 17 Nevern Road, London SW5 9PQ (Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

11. What if I am accessing TUEB websites outside the UK?

www.unitedeurobridge.org  is published by TUEB. For international users accessing the site from outside the UK, the site is made available to you by TUEB's commercial subsidiary, on a commercial basis (ie some of the pages you access will have advertising on them) under licence from TUEB. However all personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to TUEB and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.You should note that TUEB does place a number of cookies on www.unitedeurobridge.org and may collect information about international users from these - please see paragraph 13 for more information about cookies.

12. Changes to TUEB's Privacy Policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any TUEB. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.

13. Cookies Policy -Information TUEB collects from you

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of TUEB features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.During the course of any visit to TUEB, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

How to reject cookies

There are two ways you can minimise the number of cookies you receive:

1. Adjust your browser settings to reject cookies (for mobile phones you will have to refer to your handset manufacturer's help manual) using one of the following procedures (depending on your website browser);

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0:

Choose Tools, then ·         Internet Options ·         Click the Privacy tab ·         Click on Custom Level ·         Click on the 'Advanced' button ·         Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Firefox 2.0:·         Choose Tools, then ·         Options ·         Click the Privacy icon

If you're using Firefox 1.0 or 1.5:·         Choose Tools, then ·         Options ·         Click the Privacy icon ·         Click the Cookies tab

If you're using Opera 8.0 or 9.0:·         Choose Tools, then ·         Preferences ·         Advanced ·         Cookies

If you're using Opera 7.0:·         Choose File, then ·         Preferences ·         Privacy

If you're using Netscape 6.0:·         Choose Edit, then ·         Preferences ·         Click on Advanced ·         Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:·         Choose Tools, then ·         Internet Options ·         Click the Security tab ·         Click on Custom Level ·         Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:·         Choose View, then ·         Internet Options ·         Click the Advanced tab ·         Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regolate your use of cookies.

If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:·         Choose View, then ·         Options ·         Click on Advanced ·         Click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:

Choose Edit, then ·         Preferences ·         Click on Advanced ·         Set your options in the box that says Cookies. To see your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.  

14. Contacting TUEB about this Privacy Policy

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact

Data Protection Officer
The United Euro Bridge
17 Nevern Road
London
SW5 9PQ

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