The British Distillers Alliance ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
 

This policy 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.

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For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is the British Distillers Alliance, Hobby Hall, Wainfleet St Mary, Lincolnshire PE24 4HT

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Confidentiality

 

We do not offer, sell, lease, rent, loan, transfer, trade, publish, or provide any customer information to any third party.

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Information we may collect from you
 

We may collect and process the following data about you:

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• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Site  www.  BDA (our site). This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to services we may offer, posting material or requesting further services.
   

• 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 your visits to our site which include including, but are not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

 

Data security

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We use all reasonable security measures to ensure that any and all personal information collected is protected. We take precautions to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

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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 this Site and 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.

 

IP addresses
 

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 and market analysis (where applicable). This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

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 the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• 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.

 

Your rights
 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at the above address.

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Information contained on this Site and disclaimer

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We try to ensure that all information provided on this Site is correct at the time of inclusion but do not represent or warrant that the material on comprised in this Site is completely accurate or up to date. Accordingly, the association shall not have any liability in respect of such material or for any use of or reliance on such information by any such person.

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Links to external websites

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Our site may, contain links to and from third party websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

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Access to information
 

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy
 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

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Contact
 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to the above address.