Privacy policy
The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you
- Statement of intent
- Information on visitors
- What is a cookie?
- Submitting personal information
- Access to your personal information
- Direct marketing and user surveys
- Users under 18
- How to find and control your cookies
- How do you know which sites use cookies?
- How to see your cookie code
1. Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself
(eg name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our
website.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable WRAP 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. WRAP
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 WRAP, the pages you see, along with something
called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer (see point 3 for more on
this). Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website
publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably
its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by
checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you
with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.
For example: if on a previous visit you went to, say, the User pages ,
then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight relevant information
on a second visit.
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 WRAP services.
4. Submitting personal information
When you supply any personal information to WRAP (eg for registering) we have
legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must
collect the information fairly , we must let you know how we will use it;
and we must tell you in advance if we decide to pass the information on to
anyone else. 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. We will ensure that all personal information
supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
5. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information WRAP holds
about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests
to the person responsible for Data Protection (email: kate.potter@wrap.org.uk).
6. Direct marketing and user surveys
As WRAP's services expand, there will be more opportunities to enhance the
services provided to you. From time to time we may send you details of other
WRAP services and products that may be of interest to you and offer you the
opportunity to subscribe to them. We may also offer you the opportunity to
participate in surveys, carried out by WRAP or its agents, that help our
research into the types of service we offer. WRAP will keep a record of information
provided by you. Please note that any information you provide to WRAP will
only be used within WRAP. It will never be supplied to third parties without
first obtaining your consent unless we are obliged by law to disclose information.
If you wish to opt-out of receiving WRAP related marketing information
via email, please send your request to the person responsible for Data
Protection listed in section 5 above.
7. Users under 18
If you are under 18, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand
whenever you provide personal information to WRAP's website. Users without
this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
8. 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 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.
9. 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:
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
10. 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.
