Privacy notice
We will look after any personal information that you share with us.
This is central to our values as an organisation. We want everyone who we work with to feel confident about how any personal information they share will be looked after or used.
Contents
How we collect personal information about you
What information we collect
Cookies
How we use your personal information
Who sees your personal information
Your information security
Your communication with our teams at CA Plus
How to update or access your personal information
You can be confident that:
We only use personal information in the ways we need to and that is expected of us.
We will keep you up to date with our work, including changes to CA Plus services, raising awareness of relevant changes and updates within industry, promoting training and learning events and activities.
But, we only use your personal information to do this if you have previously told us that’s OK.
We will make it easy for you to tell us how you want us to communicate with you, including how to opt out from future communications - and we promise your request will be respected straight away.
We will never release your information to organisations outside CA Plus for their marketing purposes.
We take all reasonable care to safeguard your personal information through security policies and secure business processes.
We will always provide easy ways for you to contact us. We are happy to answer any queries you have, at any time.
The following statement describes how CA Plus collects and uses information about people who visit our website.
If you have any queries about this statement please contact us:
Email: support@caplus.org.uk
Phone: 0115 947 0839
Address: Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GY
1. How we collect personal information about you
We may collect personal information from you when you interact with CA Plus. There are many occasions when this could happen, for example: if you enquire about our activities, register with us online, ask a question by email, apply for a job or if you chose to provide some optional feedback or otherwise provide us with personal information. This may be when you phone us, go onto our website, from events and training, through the post, or in person.
2. What information we collect
The personal information we collect might include your contact details such as name, date of birth, email address, postal address, telephone number and bank details as well as information you provide in any correspondence between us.
We also gather general information about the use of our websites, such as which pages users visit most often and which services, events or facilities are of most interest. We may also track which pages users visit when they click on links in CA Plus emails. We may use this information to personalise the way our websites are presented when users visit them, to make improvements to our websites and to ensure we provide the best service for users. Wherever possible we use aggregated or anonymous information which does not identify individual visitors to our websites.
3. Cookies
‘Cookie' is a name for a small file, usually of letters and numbers, which is downloaded onto your device, like your computer, mobile phone or tablet when you visit a website.
They let websites recognise your device, so that the sites can work, or work better, and also gather information about how you use the site. A cookie, by itself, can't be used to identify you.
How we use cookies
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you come to our website and also allows us to improve our site. We use the categorisation set out by the International Chamber of Commerce in their UK Cookie Guide.
We use all four categories of cookies:
Strictly necessary cookies are essential for you to move around our website and to use its features, like our shopping basket and your account.
Performance cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our site, like which pages are visited most. No information that identifies you is kept.
Functionality cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience, like your text size or location. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. They are anonymous.
Targeting or advertising cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising relevant to you and your interests.
No cookies, please
You can opt out of all our cookies (except the strictly necessary ones). Find out how to control and delete cookies in your browser.
But, if you choose to refuse all cookies you may not be able to use our website properly.
If you have any questions about how we use cookies, please contact us.
4. How we use your personal information
We may use your personal information to:
Provide you with the important advice and support you’ve asked us for.
Provide or administer activities relating to all our services: updating you with important administrative messages, to help us identify you when you contact us, and help us to properly maintain our records.
Improve your experience with us. We may use your information to enhance the service that our staff provide, to improve our information and communications, or to personalise the website to better suit your needs.
Provide you with information about our plans. This may be letting you know about new or enhanced services that we hope will be useful and interesting to you, of course, we will only do this with your consent, where we need to fulfil a contract or service with you, or where we believe you will expect to be updated and contacted by us. You can ask us at any time to change how we contact you, simply email support@caplus.org.uk
We may need to disclose your information if required to do so by law (for example, to comply with applicable laws, regulations and codes of practice or in response to a valid request from a competent authority).
5. Who sees your personal information
The personal information we collect about you will be used by our staff at CA Plus so that they can support you and possibly to legal and regulatory authorities if required by law. We will never sell or share your personal information with organisations so that they can contact you for any marketing activities. Nor do we sell any information about your web browsing activity.
6. Your information security
We take the security of your personal information extremely seriously.
We've implemented appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures to protect the personal information we have under our control, both on and off-line, from improper access, use, alteration, destruction and loss.
We only keep it as long as is reasonable and necessary, which may be to fulfil statutory obligations.
Here are some of the ways we protect your personal information:
Offline, your personal information is kept securely in our databases and offices.
Our website may contain links to other sites. While we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy practices employed by other sites. Please be aware that Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. This privacy statement does not cover the information practices of those websites or advertisers.
7. Your communication with our teams at CA Plus
Your communications with our teams (including by telephone or email) may be monitored and/or recorded for training, quality control and compliance purposes to ensure that we continuously improve our customer service standards.
8. How to update or access your personal information
You may ask us at any time to update your details, correct or remove information you think is inaccurate by:
Email: support@caplus.org.uk
Phone: 0115 947 0839
Address: Units 1 & 2 North West, 41 Talbot Street, Nottingham, NG1 5GY
You also have a right to know what personal information CA Plus holds about you. To request a copy of your personal information we hold, contact us on the details as above.
9. Changes to our privacy notice
Our privacy notice is reviewed regularly to ensure that it reflects how we use your information. Any changes will be notified to you by updating this policy so please check this Policy to see if any changes have been made that are important to you. Where appropriate, changes will be notified to you by email.