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Data Collection and Use
The
Conservative Party strives to meet 'P3P' standards (the 'Platform for
Privacy Preferences Project') on data privacy. We are the sole owner of
any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this
information unless we first disclose the fact in this privacy statement.
We collect data in nine different ways.
Site Registration
We collect
your name and contact information (including postal & email address). At
your option, we may also collect your gender and date of birth. This
information is used for site customisation and contacting visitors (you
may opt out of this usage). This data will be used by ourselves and our
agents.
Keep up to date
We ask for
your name, postcode and email address if you subscribe to our email
newsletters. We use this information to contact you about
conservatives.com and let you know what Conservatives are doing up and
down the country.
Join and Donate
In addition to
the information from site registration we need additional information if
you wish to donate money or join. This includes payment information
(such as your credit card number and expiry date) and personal
information that we must collect to abide by legal and voluntary codes
of conduct (such as the constituency in which you are registered to
vote). This information may be used for user analysis, user-profiling
and contacting visitors.
If you
donate more than £5,000 to the Party via the website, we are obliged
under the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 to report
such a donation to the Electoral Commission, who will publish the fact
that you have made a donation over £5,000. For more information, please
see
http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/
Under the
Political Party Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) you must be
on the electoral register in the UK excluding the Channel Islands and
the Isle of Man in order to make a donation of more than £200.
Volunteer
We collect
your postal address and volunteering preference. This information will
be used by ourselves and your local Conservative Association.
Send to a friend
If you choose,
we can tell a friend about our site -- or even a particular page if you
prefer. To do this, we need to ask for your friend's name and email
address. We shall send your friend a single email inviting them to visit
the site or page you chose. We do not retain this information. Your
Internet Protocol (IP) address will be included in the email headers so
that the originator of the message can be identified if necessary by the
recipient.
Feedback
To send us a
message using our feedback forms we collect your name, email address and
comments. At your option we may also collect your postal code. This data
will be used by ourselves and our agents for contacting you. You may opt
out of any future mailing.
Online polls and surveys
If you wish to
participate in an online poll or survey, in addition to your answers, we
collect your Internet Protocol (IP) address. This data will be used by
ourselves and our agents to help validate the results and help prevent
multiple entries from individuals. In addition to this a cookie will be
placed on your system after participating in a poll or survey. No
identifiable information will be stored in this cookie.
Log files and statistics
We use IP
addresses, URI's of requested resources, timestamps and HTTP user-agents
to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic
information for aggregate use. In addition to this we use Google
Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc ("Google").
Google Analytics uses cookies, to help analyse how visitors use our
site. The information generated by the cookie about the use of our
website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by
Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information
for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports
on website activity for the Conservative Party and providing other
services relating to website activity and Internet usage. Google may
also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so
by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's
behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data
held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the
appropriate settings on your Web browser, however please note that if
you do this you may not be able to make full use of our website. By
using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by
Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Links
Our website
links to other sites, but we shall always try to warn you when this is
the case. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of other sites: make sure you read their privacy statements if
you are concerned about the information they are collecting about you.
This statement only applies to our website.
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