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Privacy policy

We collect information or data about you when you use this website.

This includes:

  • any enquires about items you make, including your name and email address
  • any feedback you leave, including your name and email address (if you choose to provide them)
  • part of your computers IP address
  • details about which web browser and device you are using (e.g. the version and screen size)
  • information on how you use this website, including the pages you visit, using analytics and cookies

This enables us to:

  • respond to your enquires
  • respond to any feedback you send us, if you've asked us to
  • learn where visitors to this website came from
  • ensure this website works correctly for as many devices as possible
  • learn which parts of this website are more or less popular to help focus on what's most useful for most people

We cannot personally identify you with this information.

Keeping your information secure

Transmitting information over the internet is generally not completely secure, and we can't guarantee the security of your data.

Any data you transmit is at your own risk.

We have procedures and security features in place to try and keep your data secure once we receive it.

Processing your information

We handle personal data in compliance with data protection law, and recognise the importance of the correct and lawful processing of personal data in maintaining confidence in our operations. Further information can be found in our Parent Body’s information notice.

Where your information is stored

We will store your data with adequate levels of protection for your data protection rights and freedoms. This sometimes may involve the use of assured third-party systems.

Google analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use this website. Please see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 for more information.

We opt-out of any optional programmes to link your data with other products (except those we control) including benchmarking and optimisation.

We use IP address anonymisation to prevent your full IP address being stored. Please see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/2763052 for more information.

Sentry

We use Sentry to collect information an errors that occur in this website (for example errors loading JavaScript used for showing maps).

These error reports do not include any personal information (such as your email address) but do include details about which web browser and device you are using so we can identify browser or device specific errors.

Disclosing your information

We won’t pass on your details to other websites, unless you provide your consent for us to do so, and we won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes.

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

Your rights

You can find out what information we hold about you and ask us not to use any of the information we collect.

Our contact information is: foi@bas.ac.uk.

If you are not happy with the response you receive, or do not hear back, please follow the British Antarctic Survey complaints procedure.

Links to other websites

This website has links to other websites for which we are not responsible.

This privacy policy only applies to this website.

Following a link to another website

If you go to another website from this one, read the privacy policy on that website to find out what it does with your information.

Changes to this policy

2020-05-11

  • initial policy