Privacy Policy

About Us

The website at www.foodchaincentre.com ("the Site") is operated by The Food Chain Centre, a unit of The Institute of Grocery Distribution of Grange Lane, Letchmore Heath, Watford, WD25 8GD, England ("we" or "us").

We may ask you or others to supply us with various information about yourself during your use of the Site. We use that information to allow you to be able to make full use of the Site and to give you a service that suits your preference.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the way in which we use your personal information or if any of your personal information changes, please write to us at the above address or email us at info@foodchaincentre.com.

Your privacy is very important to you and us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and we shall only use data relating to you in the manner set out in this privacy policy and under UK data protection legislation. We will only use your personal information in a way that is fair to you.

We will only keep your information for as long as we are either required to by law, or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.

We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information. In particular, we store your personal details on a secure server. We use firewalls on our servers.

Data that we collect

We may collect the following information when you (or someone on your behalf) register for access to a restricted area of the Site, submit data or comments to us, register for benefits or subsequently visit the Site: your name, title, user name, password, e-mail address, Internet Protocol address, postal address, telephone number, fax number, your views and comments that you give to us or the Site, your employer, industry sector and whether you belong to another organisation.

We need this information in order to submit your comments on the Site, enable you to take part in restricted access parts of the Site, respond to your enquiry or application, send you information about us or the Site, send you our newsletter and in case we have any queries (such as to seek your consent for using your comments in marketing material in places other than on the Site).

Other uses of your personal information

We may use any of the information which you provide to us in order to send you newsletters and other information about the Food Chain Centre, IGD and IGD Services Limited which we think would be of interest to you. If you would prefer not to receive particular information, please inform us of this by sending an email to info@foodchaincentre.com.

We shall not disclose your personal information to third parties without obtaining your prior consent (unless we are required to do so by law).

We may also use your personal information to customise the Site in line with your preferences and to help us understand the way in which users use and visit this Site.

Further, we may use your personal information for the purposes of surveys and improving this Site.

Please be aware that to protect your privacy we will wherever practicable aggregate your personal information so that it is used by us in an anonymous format.

Cookies

The Site uses cookies. Cookies are files that identify you as a unique user and they are stored by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to recognise your Internet Protocol address. We only use cookies to ensure that each user from an Internet Protocol address can take part in each vote once.

Links

The Site may contain advertising and other links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other sites.

Changes

Any material changes to the way in which we use your data will be described in future versions of this privacy policy. Each time you enter the Site, you agree that the privacy policy current at that time shall apply to all information which we hold about you.

Consent

By using the Site, you consent to our use of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the terms of this Policy.