Protecting your privacy is very important to Worldwide Marriage Encounter. We believe it is important for you to understand how we use information collected from our website. The following statements outline our privacy policy.
Accessing other members’ profile data
Worldwide Marriage Encounter prevents users from accessing other members’ profiles since information contained on their profiles may be considered sensitive. We do this to protect our entire user community. Please feel free to browse and explore this website, if you cannot access a specific area you may be directed to this policy so you can make yourselves aware of the privacy controls in place.
What information do we collect?
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name, title and contact details) in order to receive or use our services, or to receive email updates.
What do we use personal information for?
We will use your data to tailor our service to match your needs, and to send you email updates if you request them. We may also use personal information collected from our services to conduct surveys, for statistical analysis to determine website usage, to coordinate services and events and for other purposes relating to Worldwide Marriage Encounter.
How do we use your information?
We have legal obligations, under the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998, to collect any personal information that you provide to us fairly. We will hold your personal information securely and will only keep it for as long as you use the service that you have requested, unless you have provided us with your consent to use the data for any additional purposes. If you have requested email updates, but then wish to be removed from the updating service, this can be done by setting your contact preferences within your profile.
What is a cookie?
When you enter our website your computer may automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are devices which identify your computer to our server for the purposes of producing usage statistics and personalise the website for your future use. Cookies only record the areas of our website that a computer has visited. A cookie will not provide us with any personal information. Therefore, if you have not supplied us with any personal information, you can still browse the public parts of our website anonymously. If you do not want a cookie you can set your browser to deny it.
IP address
If you are connected to the internet you will have an IP address. This may take the form of a figure, such as 248.248.12.1. The address will be automatically collected and logged as part of the connection of your computer to our web server and may be used to determine the total number of visits to each part of the website. If there is a security breach the relevant IP Address will be identified by the Internet Service Provider and the user may be contacted.
Scope of this policy
This privacy policy only covers the Worldwide Marriage Encounter website at wwme.org.uk. Links within this website to other websites are not covered by this policy.