Our Privacy Policy
This Policy is designed to comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Cookies
Our services use Cookies, a text file that is stored on your web browser. These cookies are used to identify you as you visit our website, store your preferences as well as for purposes of analysis. You may choose what cookies are accepted by your browser, but please be aware that blocking all cookies will likely have a negative effect on accessing our website and may prevent you using some features.

The Data we collect
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our website. This includes IP addresses. The data is anonymised before being used for analytics processing.

Google Analytics processes anonymised information about the pages you visit on our website, the time you spend on each page, your country of origin, city, internet browser (eg. Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge) etc.

We do not store personal information like your name or address through Google Analytics, nor will we identify you through analytic information. The information that we collect is to ensure that our websites are meeting our users’ needs and to improve if necessary. The data that you share with us is for our use alone and will not be provided to third parties, apart from our hosting provider where appropriate and when we are required to do so by law.

For more information on Google’s use of information please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
You can also review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.

When you contact us via our contact forms, we record your message, your email address and any other such information that you choose to share with us. This information is not provided to any third parties.

We will only hold your information for as long as is necessary, after which time it will be deleted.

Consent
Where we need your consent, we will always do our best to ensure that you are as fully informed as possible on what we do with your information, with whom it may be shared and for how long we will keep it. This responsibility is in line with the requirements of the current Data Protection Act and other relevant legislation.

Your rights
Under privacy legislation you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data, to ask us to rectify inaccurate data or complete incomplete data, stop or restrict the processing of your data, to ask us to erase your data, the right to data portability and object to how your data is used.

If you wish to see what information we hold on you, please write to us at enquiries@westindiacommittee.org or at our registered business address. It may take up to a month for us to provide you with the information.

You can also update or amend your personal data or preferences at any time by writing to us by either method. Such amendments and updates will take place within one month from the date of receipt of your request.

Amendments
We may update our policy from time to time and publish it in this location on our website.