The Contact website at www.contact-theatre.org (the "Website") is
owned by Contact ("Contact", "we", "us").
We are committed to preserving your privacy. This privacy policy explains
how we use and protect the information you send us via the Website.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU
You decide what information we collect about you. If you decide not to
provide us with your information you will still be able to access all areas of
the Website but may not be able to use all the functions available.
You may be asked to provide information about yourself when you enter
competitions or register for promotions or when you request information from
us. You may also be asked to provide information about yourself when you send a
comment, enquiry or complaint to us via the Website. From time to time, we may
also ask you to complete surveys or provide us with feedback.
We may also collect information about your use of the Website from cookies.
Cookies are small amounts of information, which we may store on your computer
and, which will make it easier for you to log on to and use the Website during
future visits. If you do not want us to use cookies to collect and store your
information, you can set up your computer to reject cookies. For more information
about how to reject cookies please see the paragraph headed "REJECTING
COOKIES" below.
HOW WE WILL USE YOUR INFORMATION
We will use your information for the purposes of: administration, meeting
your requirements, marketing analysis, customer relations and improving and
developing the goods and services we offer our customers.
In addition, we will use your information for any other particular purposes
specified on the Website at the point where you enter your information.
We will not use your information for marketing purposes unless you tell us
that you want to receive marketing communications from us. You may be asked if
you want to receive marketing communications from us if you enter a competition
or promotion on the Website or request information from us. If you have signed
up to receive marketing communications from us we may use your information to
send you details of: updates to the Website, competitions or promotions we are
running, new products we are launching or other news about Contact. We will
usually contact you by email but may also contact you by telephone or post.
If you sign up to receive marketing communications form us you can tell us
to stop sending them to you at any time. Please write to us at the address in
the paragraph headed "OUR CONTACT DETAILS" below including your full
name, address and other contact details.
WHO WE WILL DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION TO
The information we collect from you will be stored on our computers and may
be accessed by our personnel and third parties who provide services to us.
Unless you tell us that we can use your information for other purposes, our
personnel and third parties who provide services to us will only use your
information for the purposes set out in this policy.
If our business enters into a joint venture with or is sold to or merged
with another business, your information may be disclosed to our new business
partners or owners.
We will not otherwise share, sell or distribute your information unless you
tell us that we can or we are required to do so by law.
We will not send your information to countries outside of the European
Economic Area.
SECURITY
We have security measures in place to protect your information from access
by unauthorised persons and against unlawful use and disclosure
KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION
We will keep your information for as long as reasonably required to meet
your requests or requirements or as long as required by law.
ACCESSING YOUR INFORMATION AND MAKING CHANGES
You can see the information we hold about you at any time by writing to us
at the address in the paragraph headed "OUR CONTACT DETAILS" below
including your full name, address and other contact details. We are entitled by
law to charge you a small fee for this.
You can also write to us at any time at the same address to ask us to make
changes to the information we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may change how we collect or use your information in the future. If we do
make any changes, we will notify you by posting an updated policy on the
Website. We therefore recommend that you check this policy from time to time.
REJECTING COOKIES
There are a number of ways to manage cookies. You can normally stop cookies
from being installed on your computer and can easily delete cookies that have
been installed.
To stop cookies from being installed on your computer you will need to alter
the settings on your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies. What you
need to do to alter the settings will depend upon the browser you are using,
but instructions on how to alter the settings on some of the more popular
browsers are set out below:
Internet Explorer 5.0: go to the "Tools" menu, click on
"Internet Options", click on the "Security" tab, highlight
the "Internet" zone, select security level "High" for this
zone, click on "OK" You will be alerted each time a website tries to
send a cookie to you computer. At that time you can choose either to accept or
reject the cookie.
Internet Explorer 6.0: go to the "File" menu, click on
"Tools", click on "Internet Options", click on the
"Privacy" tab, moving the sliding bar up or down to set how high or
low you want your privacy preferences (move the sliding bar to the stop to
reject cookies from all websites), click on "OK".
Netscape 4.0 and 6.0: go to the "Edit" menu, click on
"Preferences", click on "Advanced", select the
"cookies" field, tick "Warn me before accepting a Cookie"
(or in Netscape 6.0 you can tick "Disable Cookies" instead), click on
"OK", shut down and restart Netscape. Depending upon what choice you
have made, you will either be alerted each time a website tries to send a
cookie to your computer (at that time you can choose either to accept or reject
the cookie) or your computer will automatically reject all cookies.
Netscape 7: go to the "Edit" menu, click on
"Preferences", double click on "Privacy and Security",
select "Cookies", set your cookie preferences. To manage cookies on a
site by site basis click on "Tools" on the toolbar, click on
"Cookie Manager" and set your cookie preference for that website
To delete cookies that have been installed on your computer select
"cookies" in the "HELP" function of your browser for
information on where to find your cookie folder and how to delete files.
OUR CONTACT DETAILS
For all communications relating to our use of your information please
contact us at: Marketing & Public Relations, Contact, Oxford Rd, Manchester,
M15 6JA.
