Privacy Policy
The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we
collect about you.
- Statement of intent
- Use of cookies
- Submitting personal information
- Data
Security
- Access to your personal information
1. Statement of intent
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself
(e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website.
Such services may include newsletters, alert email, live chat functions, message
boards and www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk membership. By entering your details in the
fields requested, you enable Barrhead Travel Financial Services and its service
providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such
personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy.
Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive.
Barrhead Travel Financial Serviceswill act in accordance with current legislation
and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
2. Use of cookies
We may use cookies on this Site to ensure the integrity of the registration process
and to personalise the Site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your
hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver
viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be
read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary
purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example,
if you personalise a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site
to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process
of delivering relevant content, eases site navigation, and so on. When you return
to the Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you
can easily use the site's features that you customised. Web beacons, also known
as clear gif technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering the
cookie on our site. This technology is a tool we use to compile aggregated statistics
about www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk Web site usage, such as how many visitors clicked
on key elements (such as links or graphics) on a www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk Web
page, blog or a newsletter. We may share aggregated site statistics with partner
companies but do not allow other companies to place clear gifs or cookies on our
sites unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into
www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk a site that relies on third-party cookies or clear gifs).
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically
accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies
if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience
the interactive features of this or other Web sites you visit.
3. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk we have legal
obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information
fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it, and tell you if we want to
pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide
to www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk will only be used within Barrhead Travel Financial
Servicesand by its service providers. It will never be supplied to anyone outside
Barrhead Travel Financial Serviceswithout first obtaining your consent, unless we
are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if you post or send offensive
or inappropriate content anywhere on or to www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk or otherwise
engage in any disruptive behaviour on www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk, and Barrhead Travel
Financial Servicesconsiders such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, Barrhead
Travel Financial Servicescan use whatever information that is available to it about
you to stop such behaviour. We will hold your personal information on our servers
for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event
that the purpose has been met, or, in the case that you no longer wish to continue
your registration for service from www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk. Where personal information
is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other www.barrheadtravelfs.co.uk
services (e.g. quotes), that information will be held only as long as necessary
to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information
supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
4. Data Security
As previously mentioned, data is stored securely in order to comply with the Data
Protection Act (1998). We use a variety of security technologies and procedures
to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
For example, we store the personal information you provide on computer servers with
limited access that are located in controlled facilities. Additionally, when we
transmit sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) over the
Internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket
Layer (SSL) protocol.
5. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Barrhead Travel
Financial Services holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.
Barrhead Travel Financial Services
1 Park Circus
Glasgow
G3 6AX