This policy was developed so that you can feel confident about the privacy and security of the personal information that you may provide.
Disclosure of information
St Mary's Church, Ely complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in the United Kingdom. We take all reasonable care to prevent any unauthorised access to and use of your personal data.
We maintain a responsibility to keep your information confidential and will only use it to offer relevant information related to your enquiry.
Any personal details that we use to provide or promote ourselves to you (e.g. name, address, email address, telephone number) will not be passed to any third party organisation for marketing purposes and will not be used for any purpose other than that which you requested.
The Internet is not a secure medium. However to protect your data we put in place various security procedures including use of firewalls, backup measures, we limit access to data to relevant personnel and password protect all machinery holding personal data.
Cookies
St Mary's web site does not use “cookies”. A 'cookie' is a piece of information that is held on your PC, which enables our website to recognise you on subsequent visits and allows us to tailor your visit to your specific requirements.
St Mary's web site complies with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in the United Kingdom.
We respect the privacy of personal email accounts and we store your email address as securely as any other personal information we hold. We will not send you unwanted email messages or junk mail and your details will not be passed to any organisation outside St Mary's website without your explicit permission.
If you have given us permission, we may use email to send you messages to keep you up to date with news about us, as well as anything you express an interest in, either online or through other contact with St Mary's Church, Ely.
Third party sites
Third party internet sites that you can link through to from our website are not covered by our Privacy and Security policy, so we accept no responsibility or liability for these sites.