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1.
Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit
personal information about yourself (e.g. name and
email address etc) in order to receive or use
services on our website. Such services include
newsletters, brochures, targeted emailed information
and improvecpd.co.uk membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you
enable Improve International and its service
providers to provide you with the services you
select. Whenever you provide such personal
information, we will treat that information in
accordance with this policy. Our services are
designed to give you the information that you want to
receive. Improve International will act in accordance
with current legislation and aim to meet current
Internet best practice.
2.
Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to Improvecpd.co.uk,
the pages you see, along with a cookie, are
downloaded to your computer (see point 3 for more on
this). Any information that is supplied by cookies
can help us to provide you with a better service
and
Both the cookies and embedded codes provide
non-personal statistical information about visits to
pages on the site, the duration of individual page
view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data
on visitors' screen settings and other general
information. Improve International and it’s
service providers uses this type of information, as
with that obtained from other cookies used on the
site, to help it improve the services to its
users.
3.
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will
automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are
text files that identify your computer to our server.
Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual
user, just the computer used. Many sites do this
whenever a user visits their site in order to track
traffic flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the
site that have been visited by the computer in
question, and for how long. Users have the
opportunity to set their computers to accept all
cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or
not to receive cookies at any time. The last of
these, of course, means that certain personalised
services cannot then be provided to that user.
NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject
cookies you can still browse our site anonymously
until such time as you register for Improvecpd.co.uk
services.
4.
Use and storage of your personal
information
When you supply any personal information to
improvecpd.co.uk (e.g. for brochures, email
information or membership) we have legal obligations
towards you in the way we deal with that data. We
must collect the information fairly and tell you if
we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In
general, any information you provide to Improve
International will only be used within Improve
International and by its service providers. It will
never be supplied to anyone outside Improve
International without first obtaining your consent,
unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose
it.
We will hold your personal information on our systems
for as long as you use the service you have
requested, and remove it in the event that the
purpose has been met, or, in the case of
improvecpd.co.uk membership you no longer wish to
continue your registration as an improvecpd.co.uk
member.
We will ensure that all personal information supplied
is held securely, in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 1998.
If you are notified on the improvecpd.co.uk site that
your information may be used to allow Improve
International to contact you for "service
administration purposes", this means that Improve
International may contact you for a number of
purposes related to the service you have signed up
for. For example, we may wish to provide you with
password reminders or notify you that the particular
service has been suspended for maintenance. We will
not contact you for promotional purposes, such as
notifying you of improvements to the service or new
services on improvecpd.co.uk unless you specifically
agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time
you submit your information on the site, or at a
later time if you sign up specifically to receive
such promotional information.
5.
How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1.
Edit, then
2.
Preferences
3.
Click on Advanced
4.
Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
1.
Choose Tools, then
2.
Internet Options
3.
Click the Privacy Tab
4.
Click on Custom Level
5.
Click on the 'Advanced' button
6.
Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and
select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as
appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or
5.5:
1.
Choose Tools, then
2.
Internet Options
3.
Click the Security tab
4.
Click on Custom Level
5.
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:
1.
Choose View, then
2.
Internet Options
3.
Click the Advanced tab
4.
Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under
Security and choose one of the three options to
regulate your use of cookies.
In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the
button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator
4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1.
Edit, then
2.
Preferences
3.
Click on Advanced
4.
Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
6.
How do you know which of the sites you've visited use
cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1.
Edit, then
2.
Preferences
3.
Click on Advanced
4.
Click on Cookies
5.
Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or
6.0:
1.
Choose Tools, then
2.
Internet Options
3.
Click the General tab
4.
Click Settings
5.
View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1.
View, then
2.
Internet Options
3.
Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4.
Settings
5.
View Files.
Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1.
View
2.
Options
3.
Advanced
4.
View Files.
Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your
hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it
calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.
7.
How 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.
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