Privacy
Any personal data or sensitive personal data provided by you to us will be held and processed in accordance with The Data Protection Principles set out in the Data Protection Act 1998.
BROADBAND FOR SCOTLAND
PRIVACY POLICY
Broadband for Scotland are committed to protecting the privacy of our website visitors. Our relationship with you is valuable and we understand the importance you place on the privacy and security of information which personally identifies you. Please read the following in order to learn more about our privacy policy and our information gathering and dissemination practices.
This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices and only applies to this website. Other websites to which this website links are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Why we require your info rmation
Broadband for Scotland will collect information personally identifiable information about for you when you register with us for the following purposes:
- to build up a database of broadband access problems
- to better understand the unfulfilled broadband demand in Scotland
- to provide you with information on broadband in Scotland
We ask you for personal data only when it is needed to provide a service or information you have enquired about or asked us to provide or to respond to your request for information. You do not need to provide us with personal data simply to browse our site.
Security
We recognise industry standards and employ security safeguards to protect information from unauthorised access and misuse. We use the most accurate and current information you provide in order to process your request. This is done to help protect you from unauthorised use of the information you are sending to our server.
What info rmation do we share?
There are times when we are required to share the information we learn from you with other parties. We do not sell or rent this information to others but will send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people in the following situations:-
Agents
Broadband for Scotland will share your information with professional advisors, strategic partners, survey and research organisations, and other individuals and organisations whom we employ to perform functions in certain situations on our behalf. Examples of these functions include sending postal mail, faxes and e-mail, providing marketing assistance in data analysis, providing services, and following up on enquiries (including by phone, e-mail, post or fax). These agents have access to the personal information required in order to perform their functions but may not use it for any other purpose.
Compliance with law
We will release personal information where we are required to by law or by the regulations and other rules (including auditing requirements) to which we are subject.
Consent
Other than in the above situations you will receive notice from us when your personal information might go to third parties and you will have the opportunity to decide not to share that information.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We may edit this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our web pages.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information held by us in our records in return for which we may charge a small fee. You also have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your information.