Privacy

At Breakthrough Breast Cancer we are committed to protecting your privacy while providing a personalised and valuable service. Collecting personal information is necessary if we are to satisfy the expectations and requirements of the users e.g. by communicating with them and providing an interactive service. This statement is made in the light of the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998 in order to alert users to Breakthrough Breast Cancer's data processing practices which will govern the processing of your data. If you have any queries about this statement please contact Deanne Gardner (020 7025 2406) or email webmaster@breakthrough.org.uk.

We will obtain personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register with us, shop online from our Website, make a donation to us or otherwise provide us with personal information. We may also receive information about you from third parties, for example from a friend who wants to tell you about the website.

The types of information collected might include names, date of birth, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number, fax number and credit/debit card details. We may also ask you about your experience of breast cancer, but if we do, we will seek your specific consent, and give you specific additional information about our proposed use of that data at the point where we ask for it.

We will use your personal information to provide you with the services, products or information you have requested, for administration purposes, to improve the services we provide and to further our charitable aims. We may need to share your information with our service providers, associated organisations and agents for these purposes.

We may share your information with other organisations who are supportive of our aims and objectives. When you provide your details you will be asked if you do not want this to happen. You can change your mind at any time by contacting us at the postal or email address above.

A 'Cookie' is a small piece of information sent from our Website to your computer and stored on your hard drive to help us to identify you quickly when you next visit. A 'Cookie' allows us to personalise the Website to your requirements and avoid lengthy registration/personalisation. We currently use cookies in two areas of our site. Specifically, we use cookies in the discussion area to identify that a user is logged in and in the shop area to identify the contents of your shopping basket. Please follow these instructions to turn on or off cookies in your internet browser.

We use cookies to provide accurate monitoring reports to help us understand our users’ interests and preferences therefore ensuring that the website is as user friendly as possible.

Our website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by Google, Inc that uses cookies to help the website analyse how users use this site. The cookie will generate information about your use of the website, and this along with your IP address will be stored on servers in the United States by Google, Inc. This information is retained for the purposes of evaluting and compiling reports on website activity and for other services relating to internet usage. This information may be transfer to third parties by Google, Inc where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf. Your IP address will not be associated with any other data held by Google, Inc.

If you do not agree to the processing of data about you by Google, Inc in the manner and for the purposes set out above, you can select ‘disable cookies’ on your brower – see the instructions for ‘Controlling Cookies on your Machine’ set out below if you are not sure how to do this.

We use a secure server when you make a donation via our Website. We also take appropriate measures to ensure that the information disclosed to us is kept secure, accurate and up to date and kept only for so long as is necessary for the purposes for which it is used.

As indicated above, we may pass your information to our service providers, agents and associated organisations, and, if you have consented, to other organisations who may share our objectives.

If you contact us with an opinion about this Website or its contents we reserve the right to publish your opinion on the Website unless you request that we do not.

We may also need to disclose your information if required to do so by law.

By providing us with your personal data, you consent to the collection and use of any information you provide in accordance with the above purposes and this privacy statement.

If we ask you to provide us with sensitive personal data, such as your health, we will seek your specific consent, and give you specific additional information about our proposed use of that data at the point where we ask for it.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected.

If your personal details change, please help us to keep your information up to date by notifying us at the above address.

We reserve the right to amend this privacy statement. If we do so, we will post notice of the change on our website and you will be deemed to have accepted such changes.