By submitting your personal data to us, you will be treated as having given your permission for disclosures referred to in this policy.

What does this privacy policy cover?
This privacy policy covers our use of your personal information which is collected through or in connection with this site. For the purposes of this policy, “this site” means the www.batbiodiversity.org web site.

Who is responsible for the personal information collected on this site?

The British American Tobacco Biodiversity Partnership

Special Notice – if you are under 13 years old please read this section
If you are under 13 years old please do not send us your personal information (for example, your name, address and email address). If you are under 13 years old and you wish to ask a question or use this site in any way which requires you to submit your personal information please get your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf.

Information collection and use
We collect and use personal information through or in connection with this web site (including your name, address, telephone number and email) in order to:

* respond to queries or requests submitted by you;
provide you with updates and general information on the site and the activities of The Mulberry Centre, this may include contacting you by post and/or telephone and/or email. If you do not wish us to provide you with such updates and general information please contact us as set out below.

Except as set out in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information without your permission unless we are legally entitled or required to do so (for example, if required to do so by legal process or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime) or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and/or defend our rights, property or personal safety and those of our users/customers etc.

Collection of non personal information
We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the web site from which you linked to our site. We may also aggregate details which you have submitted to the site (for example, your age and the town where you live). You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on this web site. We may from time to time supply third parties with this non-personal or aggregated data for uses in connection with this site.

The use of Cookies
We may store some information (commonly known as a "cookie") on your computer when you look at our site. We are able to read these cookies for information purposes when you revisit our web site. The type of information we collect as a result of cookies being accepted by you is specific to your PC and includes your IP address, the date and time you visited the web site, what parts of our web site you visited and whether the web pages you requested are delivered successfully. This information is anonymous; it represents a computer rather than a person.

We use the cookie information to improve our knowledge of the use of our web site and to enable us to be able to ascertain whether the web site is operating at an optimal level. This allows us to enhance our web offerings to you and to provide an enjoyable and an innovative on-line experience.

You can erase or block this information by changing the settings on your computer (please refer to your help screens or manuals). If you do erase or block this information you may not be able to utilise some features of the site.

Keeping our records accurate
We aim to keep our information about you as accurate as possible. If you would like to review or change the details you have supplied us with, please contact us as set out below.

Security of your personal data
We have implemented technology and policies with the objective of protecting your privacy from unauthorised access and improper use and will update these measures as new technology becomes available, as appropriate.

Your rights in relation to your personal data
You have a legal right to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. You also have a right to correct any errors in that information and to prevent us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes (as described above). You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us as set out below.

Use of your personal information submitted to other web sites
We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other web sites even if:

* you accessed the third party web site using links from our web site; or
* you linked to our web site from a third party web site.

We recommend that you check the policy of each site you visit and contact the owner or operator of such web site if you have any concerns or questions.

Will this Privacy Policy change?
From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy. If we make any substantial changes to this privacy policy and the way in which we use your personal data we will post these changes on this page and will do our best to notify you of any significant changes1. Please check our privacy policy on a regular basis.