This privacy statement covers the information services relating to the website provided by Carnegie Weight Management as www.carnegieweightmanagement.com (the Carnegie Weight Management website).
The purpose of this statement is to inform users of the Carnegie Weight Management website about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, any disclosure to third parties and the ways in users' privacy is protected.
Confidentiality And Security
Carnegie Weight Management takes your privacy seriously. Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details are not normally disclosed to any third party. However, under exceptional circumstances, we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that:
- they can provide a service you have requested;
- we can fulfil a request for information.
Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.
You have a right to request a copy of your personal details used for such purposes to check the accuracy of the information held. If you wish to do this, please write (explaining that your interest is in the website www.carnegieweightmanagement.com) to the:
Data Protection Officer
Carnegie Weight Management
Room 219
The Grange
Headingley Campus
Leeds Metropolitan University
LS6 3QS
Information We Collect From Visitors For Our Own Use
We collect several kinds of information from visitors to leedsmet.ac,uk depending on the part of the site being visited: e-mail enquiries, e-mail addresses, site usage information and, in a few cases, personal details such as your name and postal details if you order publications/documents to be sent.
Enquiries, Comments And Questions
If you send an enquiry by e-mail to a specific contact listed on the Carnegie Weight Management website, this will be passed to the relevant department so that they can fulfil your information request.
If you sign up for a subscription e-mail service, we will hold the information you have provided for as long as you require access to the service requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel a subscription we will remove you from our mailing list and your details will be deleted from our records.
Site usage information and Cookies
Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site and are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive. They generally do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. They are used to help you when you return to a website. For example, they may enable you to return directly to a particular part of the site by ‘remembering’ where you last accessed. If you choose not to accept the cookies (by setting your browser to reject them), this should not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our website.
We use an external, independent measurement and research company to gather information about who is using which parts of our website. This information is gathered using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general information. We use this information to help us improve our service to you.
Linking To Other Sites From The Carnegie Weight Management Website
The Carnegie Weight Management website contains many links to other sites, to help you find the information you need. These may be 'official partners' of Carnegie Weight Management or other third parties with information likely to be of interest and relevance to those using our website. Carnegie Weight Management is not responsible for the privacy practices of the organisations that operate these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the carnegieweightmanagement.com site and, if concerned, read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Advertising
We may use advertising on parts of the public (Internet) or private (Intranet access only) parts of the Carnegie Weight Management website. No information will be passed to such advertisers or their agents about those using the Carnegie Weight Management website unless such users ‘click through’ to a specific advertiser’s site and offer their personal details directly to the advertiser.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page so that you can be remain aware of any information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with third parties.
March 2004