Privacy Policy

BALPA is committed to respecting the privacy of our website visitors. The purpose of this policy is to comply with the protection legislation laid out in the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. This policy outlines how we will treat your personal information.

What Information We Will Collect

We may use, collect and store the following types of information:

i. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, including your IP address, location, browser type, length of visit and number of page views for web traffic analysis

ii. information that you provide to the Association for the purpose of registering your membership with us

iii. information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, message boards, email notifications and/or newsletters

iv. other information that you choose to send to us

Cookies

Cookies are parcels of text sent by a web server to a web client (usually a browser) and stored on your computer by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser session.

We will use cookies on the website. We will use the cookies to keep track of your computer and to enable our website to recognise your computer when you visit.

You can set your browser to refuse to accept cookies. Most browsers situate this function under “Tools” and then either “Internet Options” or “Privacy”. This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of this website. For more information about cookies please visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

We may use Google Analytics to analyse your use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical information about website usage. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Use of your personal data

We may use your personal information to:

i. administer the website

ii. improve your browsing experience by personalising the website

iii. enable your use of the services available on the website

iv. send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you

v. send you general communications

vi. send you any email notifications which you have specifically requested

vii. send to you communications relating to our business to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require any communications)

viii. provide our contracted website agency only with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user and will NOT be used for any third party marketing

ix. deal with enquiries and complaints

All our electronic financial application transactions are handled by edirect debit, a Rapidata Services plc service. For further information on Rapidate please visit www.rapidataservices.com  

Disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

i. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

ii. in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

iii. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention

Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall- protected) servers.

Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential.

Policy Amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Contacting BALPA

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us at BALPA House, 5 Heathrow Boulevard, 278 Bath Road, West Drayton, UB7 0DQ