We comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. Any information provided to us is stored confidentially in accordance with the Act.  

We follow the eight data protection principles of good information handling. These say that personal information must be:
• fairly and lawfully processed;
• processed for specified purposes;
• adequate, relevant and not excessive;
• accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date;
• not kept for longer than is necessary;
• processed in line with the rights of the individual;
• kept secure; and
• not transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area unless the information is adequately protected.

Individuals have a right under the data protection act to obtain a copy of the information held about them on computer and in some manual filing systems. This is known as the right of subject access.

The full Data Protction Act of 1998 can be read at the following website: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/19980029.htm