Privacy policy
This page contains UK Export Finance's website privacy statement.
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The Data Controller for this website is UK Export Finance
The purpose of the privacy statement is to inform users of this website, which is managed by UK Export Finance, about:
• what information is collected about them when they visit this site;
• how this information is used;
• if this information is disclosed;
• the ways in which we protect users' privacy.
Any information you provide will be held securely and comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. Go to Information charter, which you can find on the right hand side of this page, to find out how to request access to any personal data that we may hold about you.
We collect several kinds of information from visitors to this website depending on the part of the site being visited: feedback, email enquiries, email addresses, and site usage information.
If you provide feedback on this web site or ask a question using our contact forms, we will only use this information to develop and improve the site.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our web site.
Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie.
Google Analytics, an independent measurement and research company, gathers non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site on our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code 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. We use this type of information, as with that obtained from any other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the service to our users. Further information is contained in Google Analytics privacy statement.
Log files
Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We put together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information about you.
