WIN plc (Wireless Information Network) acknowledges its obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act). In addition, we operate by the following principles with regard to personal information which you supply to us.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is WIN plc, 1 Cliveden Office Village, Lancaster Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3YZ. Our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Emma Marlow.
We may ask you to provide certain personal details about yourself:
• when sending a request on this site; for example, your name, email address, postal address and age.
• if you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
In order to help us improve our site, we will also collect information automatically about your visit to our web site to help us with identifying user's browsing preferences, such information may include your IP address, operating system and browser type. This information is collected for internal purposes only so that we can carry out research on our users’ demographics, behaviour and interests and does not identify any individuals. By using this site you consent to our collecting data about you and using it in the manner set out in our privacy policy.
We also use this information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts and to assist us with improving our content and services offered on the web site. As stated above, we also collect statistical data so that we can analyse site usage and customer needs. If you join our email subscription services, then we will send you promotional emails about our latest offers or new services. Except as set out here or when obliged by law, we will not pass your personal details to any third party except to our web site contractors or our professional advisers. You can rest assured that we will not sell or rent your personal details to any other organisation. If, however, we sell our business to a third party in the future, we will pass your personal details to the business purchaser but only if it has a privacy policy similar to or identical to ours.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, and their subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety and those of our customers, or others.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at WIN plc, 1 Cliveden Office Village, Lancaster Road, Cressex Business Park, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire HP12 3YZ.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.