Privacy
Policy
This privacy statement applies specifically to the Website
and member communications facilities of Northumbria Students' Union.
The facilities contain public areas which may be viewed
from any Internet connected PC. Other areas are restricted to access by members
of Northumbria Students' Union. It's important to Northumbria Students' Union that its members and customers retain their
privacy when they take advantage of all that Northumbria Students' Union and its services have to
offer.
Your privacy is important to us. In order to safeguard it,
we operate the following policy:
Protocol 1
The information we hold in registering your membership of Northumbria Students' Union
will be stored securely. If any of the information you have given us changes at
any time, you can directly change this record yourself by clicking the 'my
profile' button in the top right box on your page, after you are logged in. You
can set your own preferences for information receipt and can change these at
any time: for example, should you choose not to ‘opt-in’ for news of ‘Bar
Promotions’, no specific communications on that subject will be sent to you.
Protocol 2.
Northumbria Students' Union will use this information to communicate with you by e-mail and/or by text
message, to improve our website and to personalise our service to you. For
example we may provide you with newsletters, activity information, pointers,
advice, recommendations or advertisements for goods or services that we think
will interest you, according to the preferences you have determined. We will
also use the information for our own internal membership administration and
analysis.
Protocol 3.
We will not disclose, sell, rent or otherwise exchange any
information personal to you to any third party without your prior express
approval. The only exceptions to this shall be in order to comply with our
legal obligations, to enforce the terms and conditions of use of our website or
to protect and defend the rights and interests or property of Northumbria Students' Union, the
University, or other member.
Protocol 4.
Northumbria Students' Union will not store in or transfer your personal data to Countries outside the
UK
.
Protocol 5.
By disclosing information about you to us on our website
or in any other way, you consent to the use of that information in the manner
set out in this policy.
Protocol 6.
As required by Data Protection legislation, Northumbria Students' Union has notified the Data
Protection Commissioner of the types of information we hold, the purposes for
which we hold it and the third parties to whom we may disclose it.