Privacy Policy
Your views matter to the Scottish Conservatives. We have tried to make it as easy as possible for you to get in touch and let us know about the issues that really matter to you. We also want you to do this with confidence. We take privacy very seriously and want you to know exactly what happens to any information you send us. On this page, we set out:
- what information is collected about you when visiting our website
- how we use the information
- with whom the information may be shared
- what choices you have regarding its collection, use and distribution
- how we use cookies on our site
- the security procedures in place to protect its loss, misuse or alteration
- how you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
About Us
This is a privacy policy for the Scottish Conservative Party website. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.scottishconservatives.com
We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:
Scottish Conservative Central Office
83 Princes Street
Edinburgh, EH2 2ER
United Kingdom
You may contact us by e-mail at info@scottishconservatives.com. You may call us at +44 (0) 131 247 6890.
Data Collection and Use
The Scottish Conservative Party strives to meet 'P3P' standards (the 'Platform for Privacy Preferences Project') on data privacy. We are the sole owner of any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this information unless we first disclose the fact in this privacy statement. We collect your name and contact information on the following pages in the Be Part Of It Section of our website: Join Us, Donate To Us, Hear From Us. This data will be used by the Scottish Conservative Party and/or its local associations to let you know what Conservatives are doing up and down the country.
If you donate more than £5,000 to the Party via the website, we are obliged under the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 to report such a donation to the Electoral Commission, who will publish the fact that you have made a donation over £5,000. For more information, please see http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/
Under the Political Party Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) you must be on the electoral register in the UK excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in order to make a donation of more than £200.
Log Files
We use IP addresses, URI's of requested resources, timestamps and HTTP user-agents to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.
Links
Our website links to other sites, but we shall always try to warn you when this is the case. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites: make sure you read their privacy statements if you are concerned about the information they are collecting about you. This statement only applies to our website.
Security
We take every precaution to protect your details. When you submit sensitive information via the website, it is secure both on its way to us and once we receive it.
We also do everything in our power to protect your information once we have received it. Our staff can only access your details if they have a specific job to perform, such as dealing with a membership enquiry. They also have to keep up to date on our security and privacy practices.
Finally, the servers that store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Correcting/Updating Information
We recognise that details such as your post code or email address are bound to change over time. We will do what we can to ensure that you can change the information we hold about you.
Choice/Opt Out
You will always be able to opt out of having your information used for any purpose other than that specifically related to the page where we ask for it.
Notification of Changes
If we change our privacy policy, we shall post those changes on our website so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.