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The National Firefly Association (“We”) are committed to protecting and
respecting your privacy. This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions of
Use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any
personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed
by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices
regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the
Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is The National Firefly
Association, which is affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association, Ensign Way,
Hamble, Southampton, Hampshire SO31 4YA. Information we may collect from you We
may collect and process the following data about you: Information that you
provide by filling in forms on our site (our site). This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service,
posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for
information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by The United
Kingdom Fireball Association, and when you report a problem with our site. If
you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also ask you
to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have
to respond to them. Details of transactions you carry out through our site.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data,
location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you
access. IP addresses and cookies We may collect information about your computer,
including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type,
for system administration and to report aggregate information to our
advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and
patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same reason, we may
obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file
which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information
that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our
site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us: To
estimate our audience size and usage pattern. To store information about your
preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual
interests. To speed up your searches. To recognise you when you return to our
site. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser
which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this
setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have
adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will
issue cookies when you log on to our site. Please note that our advertisers may
also use cookies, over which we have no control. Where we store your personal
data The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, processed, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). By
submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or
processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data
is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. Where we have
given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access
certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password
confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. 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. Uses made of the
information We use information held about you in the following ways: To ensure
that content from our site is presented in an effective manner. To provide you
with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel
may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. To
carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you
and us. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when
you choose to do so. To notify you about changes to our service. We may also use
your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you
with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we
or they may contact you about these by post or telephone. If you do not want us
to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for
marketing purposes, you can indicate this on the registration form on which we
collect your data. Disclosure of your information 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 and Conditions of Use and other agreements; or to
protect the rights, property, or safety of The United Kingdom Fireball
Association, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with
other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and
credit risk reduction. Your rights
