Your privacy is of great importance to Friends of the Lake District

• By using our Website you consent to the collection and use of your personal information for the purposes set out below.

• We are committed to protecting your privacy online and will treat any personal information, which could identify you - such as your name, house or email address - in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act of 1998.

• We will not sell, trade or rent your information to other third parties, and we will not collect any personal information without your knowledge. But any information or feedback you make within this website will not be regarded as confidential and we will be free to reproduce, use, disclose or distribute the response to others without limitation.

• From time to time we may contact you for research purposes and we will let you know at that time how your personal information will be used.

• You agree that Friends of the Lake District shall be free to use any ideas or information in your response for any purpose. Information communicated via the Internet could be detected by third parties and any information you send to us is at your own risk.

• We use cookies only for identifying returning users, we will not collect any information about you except that specifically identified below. We may conduct analyses of user traffic to measure the use of our Website, and to improve the content of our Website and our service, and these will be conducted by the use of IP addresses and cookies.

• If you provide us with your telephone number you consent to Friends of the Lake District contacting you, on occasion, by telephone.

• This privacy policy only covers the Website at www.fld.org.uk; links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.

• Where visitors may submit information via forms etc, in doing so they are deemed to have consented to the collection, processing and storage of that information. Information submitted will be stored by the webmaster as an e-mail message and used to process any requests and it will be retained for a reasonable period. Where a business transaction is then enacted commercial records may be retained for up to seven years.

• We use administrative, technical and physical means to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorised use. Certain areas of our Website may be password protected. If you are a user of our Website with password access, then Friends of the Lake District expects you to keep that password or passwords secure.