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Privacy Statement



Data protection and privacy

  1. This website, ohtoolkit.co.uk, belongs to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), The Grange, Highfield Drive, Wigston, Leicestershire, LE18 1NN.
  2. Your right to privacy is very important to us and we recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We are committed to protecting the privacy of those using our site and the confidentiality of the personal information that our members and site users provide. We take appropriate technical and organisational security measures to safeguard your personal information as indicated in our data protection policy.
  3. We are registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and comply with the Act in all our dealings with your personal data.

Use and storage of your information

  1. Any personal information provided by you to IOSH through your use of this site will only be used for the following purposes, either by IOSH or IOSH Services Ltd:
    • defining areas of interest to you and improving the site to meet users’ needs
    • compiling information relating to users’ movements across the website
    • communicating with you about any technical problems relating to the site or your suggestions for improvements.

What happens when I link to another website?

  1. ohtoolkit.co.uk contains links to other websites. This privacy policy applies only to our site. When you move to another website, you should read the privacy statement of that website.

Use of Cookies

Visitor information

  1. This site uses cookies to identify text only and standard site users.

What is a cookie?

  1. A cookie is a small file containing an identity code. A cookie is written by the website server of the website you are visiting. They are stored on your computer and can only be read by the server that writes them.

Why are cookies used on this Site?

  1. Persistent cookies stay in the cookie file of your computer for as long as the length of time allocated to them. We use persistent cookies:
    • to identify whether your viewing preference is text only or standard.

Disabling / enabling cookies

  1. If cookies are disabled, any personalisation of the site, in this case viewing preferences, cannot be provided to the user.
  2. Users are able to set their computers to accept all cookies, notify them when a cookie is issued or to opt not to receive cookies at any time. Each Internet browser is different so, to organise your cookies, please check the ‘Help’ menu on your browser.

Complaints

  1. IOSH recognises that your privacy is important to you. Should you have a complaint, please contact support@iosh.co.uk.

General

  1. We may revise this statement at any time by updating this posting. You should visit this page from time to time to review the then-current statement.
February 2007