Information on how we use your data and how we use cookies on our site
The ASA takes its responsibilities regarding the confidentiality of your personal information very seriously. The ASA's Privacy Policy is set out below. If you use any of the services which the ASA provides, you will be deemed to have consented to the collection and use of the personal information you submit to the ASA in the ways described below. Therefore, please read this Policy with care and if you have any questions or comments, e-mail the ASA at data.protection@asa.org.uk.
1. In order for the ASA to provide its services to you, including (but not limited to) information, updating and bulletin services (the "Services"), the ASA might ask you to provide it with certain personal information.
2. Any personal information which is collected by the ASA will be used by the ASA only in accordance with current data protection legislation.
3. Such personal information will be collected and processed by the ASA or its agents for the following purposes:
(i) to provide the Services to you;
(ii) administration; and
(iii) marketing, advertising and promotions.
4. Collecting and processing your personal information for the above purposes might entail sharing the information with employees, contractors and professional advisers of the ASA and sending you unsolicited advertising and promotional material pertaining to the ASA products and services.
5. If you object to the use of your personal information in any of the ways mentioned here then please e-mail us at data.protection@asa.org.uk.
6. From time to time the ASA may wish to collect information of a sensitive personal nature from you. In such cases before the ASA asks you for the information it will inform you of how it intends to use the information and it will ask for your explicit consent.
7. You have the right to ask the ASA for a copy of the personal information it holds about you (for which the ASA may charge a small fee), and to correct any inaccuracies in that information.
8. If the ASA decides to change its Privacy Policy, it will post such changes on this page so that you are always aware of how the ASA uses your personal information and in what circumstances it discloses it.
9. Cookie Policy
The ASA website cookie policy has been developed in conjunction with the Interactive Advertising Bureau Cookie initiative (www.allaboutcookies.org) to tell users what cookies are used on this site and how to manage them.
9.1. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a text-only string that is entered into the cookie file or "memory" of the browser on your computer by website owners and content providers. It will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website – session cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you close your browser, and persistent cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the "lifetime" of the specific cookie). For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
9.2. Cookies used on this website
Session cookies: Used to ensure you are recognised as you move from page to page on our site.
Persistent cookies:
1. Used to measure activity on our website; and
2. To ensure visitors only see our pop-up messages when new content has been added.
These cookies are used as tools to help us achieve these purposes. Personal data may be processed in conjunction with these cookies in order to achieve these purposes. For more information about how we process personal data, please see above for our privacy policy.
Because of the dynamic and interactive nature of our website, services or content may from time to time, be provided by parties with whom we do not have a direct relationship. In providing those services or content, those parties may also be setting and using cookies. Because we do not have a direct relationship with those parties, we cannot ensure that this policy covers their use of their cookies. However, you can check on any page, at any time, who is using cookies by using the most current versions of browser technology, which provides you with the ability to choose which cookies to accept or reject. For a further explanation of this, please visit the "Introduction to P3P" of www.allaboutcookies.org.
9.3. Details of the purposes for which web beacons are used on our site and categories of data that may be used in conjunction with those web beacons.
A web beacon is a line of code that is installed on some web pages in order to request a 1x1 pixel tag (also known as a clear GIF). These requests are used to log information. For more information about how this interactive technology works, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
9.4. How to manage the use of cookies at our website
All browser technologies enable you to manage the cookies in the cookie folder of your browser. This means that you can either delete cookies from your cookie folder once you have finished your visit at our site or you can set your preferences with regard to the use of cookies before you begin surfing our website. Please note that deleting or rejecting cookies may affect your user experience of our website. For more information on deleting and rejecting cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.