Privacy statement
Under the terms of the Data Protection Act 1998 the Family & Parenting Institute has a legal duty to protect any information it collects about you. Please read on for more details about the privacy policy.
What information do we collect online?
We collect information in five ways from visitors to our websites.
1. Registration
You do not have to register to use our websites but if you would like to be kept up-to-date with our work you will need to submit your details via the Register online form.
The information we collect is:
- Your first name
- Your email address
This information is stored securely by our web-hosting company, and is retained until you choose to delete your registration. We use the information to produce aggregate statistical information about our website visitors and to email you to alert you about our work. You can visit our Register pages on the website and change your details at any time. If an email we send out to you is returned more than twice we may automatically remove your details from our database.
2. Our Family Voice panel
If you choose to join our Family Voice your details will be stored securely by our web-hosting company and used by us to contact you about the Panel. We will not share your details with any external companies. If, at any time, you wish to leave the Parents' Panel or change your details, please contact us.
Occasionally we collect information from you via our quizzes and/or online surveys. If any of this information includes personal data we will only use it for aggregated analysis and statistical purposes. If however a survey or quiz is linked to a competition or other promotional feature we will use your details to administer the contest and notify winners and losers.
3. Feedback and Requests for Information
If you complete our online Feedback Form this is sent as an email to us. Once your enquiry has been responded to a "hard copy" of your message will be stored securely by the FPI for twelve months. If we receive a technical query regarding the site we may ask our web-hosting company to contact you directly.
If you make a request for further information about our work via our websites, a "hard copy" of your message will be stored securely by the FPI for twelve months.
4. Purchasing online
Our bookstore and events programmes collect payment information from you in order to process your orders.
5. Site Usage Information
To help us to monitor and improve our websites we gather certain data about you when you visit them. This includes general information about your computer's operating system, browser and version, your IP address and/or domain name, your search engine (if you came to one of our sites via a search), and the pages of our website which you visit.
We may aggregate these statistics, traffic patterns and related site information and disclose this data to third parties for marketing, advertising or fundraising purposes but such aggregated data will not include any personal information.
A cookie is a small file which is stored on your computer's hard disk when you visit a website and will typically record a user's preferences. Cookies are used for our Registration system to enable you to use this section of our website. More information about cookies, including how to block them and/or delete them, can be found at AboutCookies.org. Please note that if you exercise your right to refuse cookies this may affect your access to this area of our website.
Links to Other Sites
http://www.familyandparenting.org contains a number of links to other sites. This privacy statement only applies to the FPI website and the FPI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites.
Your Consent
By using our websites you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal data outlined above, but if you have further questions please send us an email.
Whilst the FPI will take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information we cannot guarantee the absolute security of data you submit online as it can be observed/intercepted by a third party whilst in transit.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
We may amend these pages from time to time. By regularly reviewing them you will ensure that you are always aware of what information about you we collect and why.
The Family and Parenting Institute
430 Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL
United Kingdom
Email: info at familyandparenting.org
Tel: 020 7424 3460
Fax: 020 7485 3590
Registered Charity No: 1077444
Registered Office: 430 Highgate Studios, 53-79 Highgate Road, London, NW5 1TL