LABC

Any personal data collected or processed is treated securely and used in accordance with LABC's Privacy Policy ("policy") as detailed below. By giving LABC ("we" or "us") the personal data you are consenting to its collection and use in line with this policy. This policy describes how District Surveyors Association Limited, trading as LABC, uses your personal data which we may collect via the Public and/or Members' areas ("Public Site" and "Members' Site") of the website (current homepage address: www.labc.uk.com). This policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions.

Cookies

We only use cookies for system administration and to give us information on the number of visitors to different parts of our website. We do not use them to identify you.

A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent from our web server to your browser, which is stored on your hard drive. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites, and will not damage your system. (You can reset your browser to refuse cookies or alert you when a cookie is being sent. If you choose not to accept cookies, some features of this site may not work as intended).

Data Collected

Your Internet Protocol (IP) address is logged in order to receive and send information from and to you over the Internet. You will be asked for certain personal data such as your sex, name, areas of interest, and business contact details, including basic information about the company you work for, such as address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address when you register for the Public and Members' Sites, make an enquiry, or order products and services from us. We will not ask you to send us any sensitive data, such as your religious conviction or ethnic origin.

We may also use these details to verify your membership and to provide you with any additional services that you request. It is therefore important that you notify us of any registration detail changes.

Use of Data

Where appropriate, we use your data:

• to provide goods and services to you and your organisation;
• for basic profiling purposes;
• for research conducted with the help of government departments, professional bodies, recognised trade organisations and academic or training institutions;
• to let you know about other goods and services in which you may be interested;
• to inform you about changes and improvements to this website;
• to exclude competitors and potential threats to LABC's security and copyright.

If you register you may receive email communications alerting you to news and offers. You may choose not to receive these by not ticking the box on the registration page regarding the receipt of updates.

Forums

You may provide us with further personal data if this is necessary for us to deal with any questions you send us. You may also choose to include personal data in a message that you post in a forum. This personal data will only be held by us for as long as is necessary to respond to your query or for the period during which your message is posted on the website.

Please note that although the forums can only be accessed by other LABC members and LABC staff, we advise that you restrict the amount of personal data you include in the messages that you post as the website is accessed via the Internet and therefore we cannot guarantee that is a totally secure environment.

Email Updates

We will not send you email updates unless you specifically request them via the 'areas of interest' sections of the website registration forms. If you do request email updates we will send them to the email address that you supplied upon registration (or as updated by you). You may unsubscribe from the updates at any time by emailing us at info@labc.uk.com and marking your email "Unsubscribe."

Links

This site contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these and you should read their own privacy policies. The policy described here, applies only to personal data collected by LABC. LABC is not responsible for the content of other websites.

Security and Transfer of Data

No data transmission over the Internet is guaranteed 100% secure. By the nature of the Internet, a global environment, the personal data you supply through this website may be processed electronically by other service suppliers to LABC and their servers. This could mean that data is processed in other countries and outside the European Economic Area where data rights vary.

Disclosure of Your Data

Your personal data might be passed to third party service providers and LABC business partners if: they need it in order to fulfil your order(s) for our goods and services; need to publicise or explain products or services that are channelled through LABC members to customers; or execute the communications we send to you; need to contact you for research. We may disclose your personal data to personnel within a particular local authority as we deem necessary to deal with your enquiry.

The LABC membership list, which includes only the job title and building control department address, may also be sold to selected third parties felt to be offering useful information for the pursuance of building control activities. They may also contact the LABC membership via emails, but under the condition that these emails are sent from the LABC Head Office at 137 Lupus Street, London SW1V 3HE and not by the third party. Sharing data with third parties is not routine and is overseen by KABC members via the Commercial Working Group.

Except as set out above, we shall not disclose your personal information unless obliged to, or allowed to do so by law, or where we need to in order to run our business (e.g. where other people process data for us). In such circumstances, we ask those people to agree to confidentiality and/or non-disclosure of the information.

Access to Your Personal Data We Hold

You have a right to access (and if necessary correct) the personal data held about you. To obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you, please contact us by email at info@labc.uk.com. Please ensure the email is marked clearly with "Access Request."

Data Protection Notification

District Surveyors Association Limited is registered in the United Kingdom with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) as a data controller. Our notification registration number is Z9418892. This Privacy Policy was last updated January 2008.

Changes to This Policy

LABC's Privacy Policy may change at any time, so you may wish to check it each time you visit our website.

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