Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement of Co-operative Press Ltd (www.thenews.coop)

Last updated 22nd April 2005

Information about our organisation and website

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like Co-operative Press Ltd. We are based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Our principal activities are publishers and news providers. Our privacy policy covers Co-operative Press Ltd and its website, www.thenews.coop.

Our contact details are:

Co-operative Press Ltd
Holyoake House
Hanover Street
Manchester, M60 0AS
United Kingdom

Tel: +44(0)1612140870
Fax: +44(0)1612140878
Email: online@thenews.coop

Providing Visitors with Anonymous Access

You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.

The services and links of our Web site

Our website does not enable our visitors to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. Our website includes links to third party Web service providers, for which we take no responsibility of their content.

Automatic Collection of Information

We do not automatically log personal data nor do we link information automatically logged by other means with personal data about specific individuals.

We use cookies to store personal data or we link information stored in cookies with personal data about specific individuals. We do so for the following purposes:

Technical administration of the website
Research and development
Marketing

Data Collection and Purpose Specification

We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services.

We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations.

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose: online@thenews.coop

Children's Privacy

We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page, or at those sites on our website where we collect personal data.

Disclosure and Visitor Choice

We do not disclose your personal data to other organisations.

Confidentiality / Security

We give you the option of using a secure transmission method to send us the following types of personal data:

identifiers (such as credit card details)

We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

unauthorised access
improper use or disclosure
unauthorised modification
unlawful destruction or accidental loss

All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors' personal data.

We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to state institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.

Access to the personal data we may hold about you

You can ask us or by logging into your account you can see all the data we hold on you.

Upon request, which you can indicate by:

sending an email ( online@thenews.coop )

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week, although we may before require proof of your identity. We will provide the information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

erased
rectified or amended
completed

We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.