General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

Here at BAND Ltd we take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your membership and/or provide the services you have requested from us.

Our Privacy Policy details what information we may be holding, how and why we hold it. Click here to view our Privacy Policy.

Website Policy

Our Website Policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy was written by BAND Ltd for this website www.bandltd.org.uk and explains the privacy of its users.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies.

Cookies are saved to the user’s computer hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within the website. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

Users can learn more about them on the AboutCookies.org website. Instructions for managing and blocking cookies using browser settings can be found at How to control cookies also on the AboutCookies.org website.  However please note that if users do this the full functionality of this website may not be accessible.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website and help us create a more useful and easy to use site.  The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy policy here for further information.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links featured throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.websitename.co.uk.)

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links featured.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls (also known as web addresses). E.g. http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Terms of use

Access to and use of this site is provided by BAND Ltd subject to the following Terms and Conditions:

1. Your use of this site constitutes acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
2. BAND Ltd reserves the right to change the Terms and Conditions at any time by posting changes on-line. Your continued use of the site after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of this agreement as modified by the posted changes.
3. All material on this site is copyright of BAND Ltd or third parties. Commercial use or publication of all or any item displayed is prohibited without prior written consent of BAND Ltd. Documents may be copied for personal use only on condition that copyright and source indications are also copied, no modifications are made and the document is copied entirely.
4. This website contains links to websites operated by parties other than BAND Ltd. Such links are provided for your convenience only. BAND Ltd does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. BAND Ltd’s inclusion of links does not imply any endorsements of the material on such websites.
5. Any organisation wishing to set up a link to this website must obtain prior written consent from BAND Ltd.
6. BAND Ltd’s website is intended to provide information on BAND Ltd’s activities and issues relevant to its objectives. Whilst BAND Ltd has taken every precaution in compiling this site neither it nor any contributors to the site can be held responsible for any action taken by any person or organisation as a result, direct or otherwise, on information contained in or accessed through this website.
7. BAND Ltd does not guarantee that the functions contained in the material included in this site will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that this site or the server that makes it available are free of viruses or bugs or represents the full functionality, accuracy or reliability of the materials.
8. BAND Ltd is not responsible for ensuring the availability of the website or the timeliness or otherwise of any content or information being made available to you.
9. BAND Ltd reserves the right to replace or amend any part of this website at any time without prior notice.