This privacy policy sets out how the British Woodworking Federation uses and protects any information that you give when you use this Fire Door Safety Week website.

The British Woodworking Federation is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy

The British Woodworking Federation may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

• Name and job title
• Contact information including email address
• Demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
• Other information relevant to the promotion of the Fire Door Safety Week campaign

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with the most relevant and up-to-date information about fire door safety and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• We may use the information to improve our Fire Door Safety Week resources which are available for public download.
• From time to time, we may also use your information to report on the success of the Fire Door Safety Week campaign.
• Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Links to other websites

The Fire Door Safety Week website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave the site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at firedoors@bwf.org.uk
• We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we are required by Law to do so

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to British Woodworking Federation, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London, WC1E 7BT.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Cookies On Our Site

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites. Our cookies help us:

• Make our website work as you’d expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed / security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however in doing so it may mean that the Fire Door Safety Week website will not work as you would expect.

Our own cookies

We use cookies to make our website work including:

• Determining if you are logged in or not
• Remembering your search settings
• Allowing you to add comments to our site
• There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site

Third party functions

The Fire Door Safety Week website, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our site includes the following which use cookies:

• YouTube – Privacy Policy powers the videos on our site
• Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
• Social Website Cookies

So you can easily “Like” or share our content on the likes of Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies are set by:

• Twitter – Privacy Policy
• AddThis – Privacy Policy provide us with lots of sharing buttons all in one neat package
• The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks.
• Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited The Fire Door Safety Week website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called analytics programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to validate the success of the national Fire Door Safety Week campaign.

We use:

• Google Analytics – Privacy Policy
• Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.