Privacy Policy

This is the privacy notice of The ATM Appreciation Society, a not-for-profit website based in Scotland, UK whose address is info@theatmappreciationsociety.com

This privacy notice sets out how we collect and process your personal data. This privacy notice also provides certain information that is legally required and lists your rights in relation to your personal data.

The privacy and security of your personal information is very important to us so we want to assure you that your information will be properly managed and protected by us at all times.  Please read this privacy notice carefully as it explains how we may collect and use your personal data.

How to contact us

For the purposes of relevant data protection legislation, we are a controller of your personal data.  As a controller we use (or process) the personal data we hold about you in accordance with this privacy notice.

If you need to contact us in connection with the use or processing of your personal data, then you can do so using our contact details as set out above or by e-mailing info@theatmappreciationsociety.com

What information we hold about you and where we obtain this from

The personal data that we collect about you may include the following information: 

• Personal data you provide to us in person, via our website or by telephone
• Personal data you provide when you enquire about products and services
• Your name, personal e-mail address and location
• Personal data you provide if you subscribe to any of our mailing or newsletter services
• Information about your use of our website such as your IP address, which is a unique number identifying your computer, including personal data gathered using cookies

We also collect information from publicly available sources and third party databases made available to the insurance industry for the purposes of reducing fraud and financial crime as well as any other third party databases where your personal data may be held, provided such third parties have lawful bases on which to share such personal data with us.

Accessing our website and cookies

When you visit our website we may collect information from you, such as your email address, IP address and other online identifiers. This helps us to track unique visits and monitor patterns of customer website traffic, such as who visits and why they visit. We use third parties to collate IP addresses to help us understand our Internet traffic data and data regarding your browser type and computer. We may also use web usage information to create statistical data regarding the use of our website.  We may then use or disclose that statistical data to others for marketing and strategic development purposes, but no individuals will be identified in such statistical data.

We may use cookies and/or pixel tags on some pages of our website.  A cookie is a small text file sent to your computer. A pixel tag is an invisible tag placed on certain pages of our website, but not on your computer. Pixel tags usually work together with cookies to help us to give you a more tailored service. We also use cookies and pixel tags in our email communication to personalise the email and track whether the email has been opened and whether the recipient has used any website links contained in the email communication. This allows us to monitor and improve our email communications and website. Useful information about cookies, including how to remove them, can be found at http://allaboutcookies.org.

Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default, although it's possible to set a browser to reject cookies. We'll ask your permission before using any cookie that's not essential to the email or the use of the website. However, refusing to accept cookies may restrict your use of our website and/or delay or affect the way in which our website operates. You can find more information on cookies when you visit our website.

The open nature of the internet is such that data may flow over networks without security measures, and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended. While this is outside of our control, we do take the protection of your information very seriously and aim to apply appropriate levels of security at all times.

Your Rights

You have a number of rights concerning the personal information we use, which you may ask us to observe. At any time, you can ask us to:

• Provide a copy of your personal information
• Correct or delete unnecessary or inaccurate personal information
• Restrict or to object to the use of your personal information at any time
• Object to any automated decision, including profiling
• Provide your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have your personal data transferred to another controller. This right only applies where our processing of your personal data is automated and the processing took place initially with your consent or for the performance of a contract with you
• Where we rely on your consent to use your personal information, you can withdraw that consent at any time.  Where your consent is withdrawn, your previous consent will remain valid in respect of our use of your information prior to the date you withdrew it, or if any marketing material has been sent prior to you advising that you don’t want us to contact you again

If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or your data protection rights please contact us using our details set out at the beginning of this privacy notice.

You also have the right to make an enquiry or to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you are unhappy with our use of your data, or if you think we have breached a legal requirement.  Further details about the ICO are available at:  www.ico.org.uk.

How we contact you about other products and services 

We may from time to time process your personal data to let you know about similar products and services that may be of interest to you. This is because we value your custom and we pride ourselves in offering professional and tailored advice which meets your specific needs.  This includes keeping you informed on the latest industry information and details of any offers or promotions relating to the services we provide to you.  Our lawful basis for processing your personal data in this way is as is necessary to pursue the legitimate interests of our business, unless we have otherwise obtained your consent to do so.  We may contact you by e-mail. You will be given the option to stop receiving any communications from us in this regard at any time however please note that this will not affect us contacting you about the servicing of products that you have specifically requested from us.