How we protect your personal data

Introduction

This page explains how we protect your privacy and how information provided to www.glasgow2014.com will be processed by Glasgow City Council, which is the ‘data controller’ for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.

What information do we collect?

We have five collection points for information from visitors to www.glasgow2014.com. If you opt to:

• Support the Bid – your name as an individual, organisation, company, sports club or educational establishment together with your email address and location data will be collected. Only your name and location will be displayed on the website. E-mail addresses will not be displayed.
• Receive email updates/E-newsletter – your name and your email address will be collected.
• Register for the Volunteer Programme – your title, name, email address, postal address, home and mobile numbers, age, gender, ethnicity and disability status will be collected.

This information is stored to allow us to send information about Scotland’s Commonwealth Games Bid that may be of interest to you. Information relating to age, gender, ethnicity and disability status is treated as strictly confidential and will be used for statistical and equal opportunities monitoring purposes only. All this information is also stored on back-up tapes to avoid loss of data.

• Email-a-friend – The recipient will receive an email from the address you entered in “your email address” and a URL linking to www.glasgow2014.com. None of the details you submit will be retained by Glasgow City Council.
• Contact us – Information is used to respond to queries and requests and is not retained by Glasgow City Council.

Server log files

These allow us to record visitors’ use of the website. The Internet Service Provider hosting this website, puts together log file information from site visitors which we use to make changes to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around and interact with it. Log files do not contain any personal information.

Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If this Privacy Policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Data Protection Statement

The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) regulates the processing of personal data, that is information about and relating to, living identifiable individuals.

We have a legal duty to protect any information we collect from you. We use leading technologies to safeguard your data and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. Glasgow City Council will not disclose the personal information that you provide to any outside person or organisation except where required to do so by law or with your own consent.

Further information may be found by visiting the Information Commissioner’s Website.

Copyright Notice

All rights in and to the contents of this website (including all website design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof and all software compilations, underlying source code, software and all other material, together with all intellectual property rights therein) are reserved to Glasgow City Council and/or its contents and technology providers except insofar as individually stated on particular material or items. You are not entitled to alter the website content in any way. You may view the site and download any part(s) of it to a personal computer (or other device which is capable of accessing the Internet) for personal viewing, for private purposes only, but you are not permitted without our consent to (a) store it or any part of it other than for the purposes set out in this paragraph; (b) print out copies except for your own viewing for private purposes or for the purposes of your business (other than re-publishing such material for any commercial purpose); or (c) reproduce, copy or transmit it (or any part of it) in any other way, or otherwise exploit the same, for any purpose or in any other medium.