Privacy Policy
Privacy Statement
This policy was last updated on 29th November 2006.
Thank you for visiting www.jogscotland.org.uk, the website for the jogscotland programme. Your privacy is very important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by jogscotland.
Since the protection of your privacy is of the greatest importance to us, we have created this privacy policy to communicate our practices regarding the collection and dissemination of personal information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as a name, address, gender, phone number, email address, or any other information provided to us by jogscotland members, website users and email subscribers.
How we use the information
You do not have to share personal information to use www.jogscotland.org.uk. jogscotland does not collect personal information about people without their permission. The information we gather from subscribers to our email newsletters (including email addresses) is not shared with other organisations or third parties without your permission. www.jogscotland.org.uk is extremely protective of the information gathered through its online membership and email subscriptions. From time to time we may send out emails on behalf of like-minded organisations, but we do not provide them with access to any personal information that you have provided.
How we protect your information
Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our web server is located in a locked, secure environment. All databases containing personal information are securely stored on a separate system that is not connected to the Internet. When you contribute to www.jogscotland.org.uk online, we use a secure server and encryption to protect all your personal information during transmission.
How we collate and use information
We gather email contact information by means of the following methods: printed membership forms; the online membership form; competitions on www.jogscotland.org.uk; Stride magazine competitions and promotions; jogscotland events and exhibitions; and via the jogscotland forums.
Collection of Information by Third-Party Sites and Sponsors
We care about your privacy. We will not sell your name or email address to any third party advertisers without your permission. Our website contains links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Visitors should consult the privacy notices on other sites as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties.
How you receive emails from jogscotland
You will only receive email newsletters from jogscotland if you have given us your details in one or more of the following ways:
1. Signed up for a newsletter on www.jogscotland.org.uk.
2. You are a member of jogscotland and gave your email address when you completed your membership form.
3. You signed up to receive newsletters via one of our competitions or at an event or exhibition.
How we track HTML newsletters
We make use of both "open-tracking" and "click-tracking" in our HTML newsletters (i.e. emails that contain text and images). Open-tracking allows us to find out how many people have viewed our email newsletters and click-tracking allows us to find out which links in the newsletter were clicked on. This helps us to refine and improve the editorial content of our newsletters, and to provide you with relevant information.
How to unsubscribe from the mailing list
All www.jogscotland.org.uk communication via email newsletters provides information on how to unsubscribe quickly and easily. All emails sent out contain a link to unsubscribe or to modify your profile. You may update, subscribe or unsubscribe to any newsletter or email communication at any time.
To opt out of receiving communications from www.jogscotland.org.uk please click the link at the bottom of the email newsletter. This link enables you to either update your email subscription(s) or to unsubscribe from all email subscriptions.
Our Commitment to security
We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.
Privacy notice updates
From time to time, we may update this privacy notice. We will notify you about material changes in the way we treat personally identifiable information by placing a notice on our site. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about the jogscotland privacy policy please contact us on 0870 145 1508 or email jogscotland@scottishathletics.org.uk.
