Your privacy
This website (www.opsweb.co.uk) is administered by Rail Safety and Standards
Board Limited (“We”). We are committed to maintaining your privacy when you
visit this site. This statement sets out the basis on which any personal data we
collect from you, or that you provide to us will be processed together with the
steps we take to protect your privacy.
Your data and third parties
We do not disclose, sell or licence this information to third parties for
commercial purposes. We may disclose your information to third parties if we
are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with
any legal obligation or where it is essential to the fulfilment of your requirements
or request.
Gathering data
We collect information when you choose to submit it to us. Throughout this site,
for example, we provide opportunities to register for events, request a standard
or other document, make an enquiry, subscribe to an e-newsletter, or participate
in an online survey. When we collect this type of information, we will notify you
of the reason we are asking for information and how this information will be
used.
Using cookies
This site uses cookies.
Recording IP addresses
This site records your IP (Internet Protocol) address. Your IP address identifies
the computer that you used to register your subscription. This information is
used only to verify the computer that was used to register your subscription.
Each page visited within this site is recorded in a log file. The contents of the
log file are analysed to determine how many visitors we serve, which pages are
most frequently viewed and where visitors connect from. This is statistical data
about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any
individual.
Using your data
We store this information on our server so that we can keep a record of your
subscription preferences and to enable us to contact you regarding your
subscription. It may also be used to determine what is most effective about this
site, to help us identify ways to improve this site and to determine how we can
make it more effective.
If we use this data for other purposes, we will describe the purpose to you at the
point of collection, for example if you are invited to register for an event, or to
subscribe to a newsletter.
Unsolicited Email (SPAM)
We will not send you unsolicited email as a result of your visit to this site.
Sensitive personal data
We do not seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site.
Accessing your information
You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by writing to:
The Data Protection Officer
Rail Safety and Standards Board
Block 2
Angel Square
1 Torrens Street
London EC1V 1NY
A fee is charged for this service, and you will be required to provide verification of your identity.
Links to Other Sites
Our site contains links to and from other web sites. If you follow a link to any
other web sites, please note that these web sites have their own privacy
statements, policies and terms and conditions of use and that we do not accept
responsibility or liability for these. Please check all statements and policies
before you submit any personal data to any website. This privacy statement
applies solely to information collected by this web site.
Data Protection Register
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is “Rail
Safety and Standards Board Limited”. Our entry in the register may be viewed
by visiting the website of the Information Commissioner's Office and searching
the register of data controllers. Entering our registration number (Z8378773)
will yield all purposes, data subjects, data classes, sources, disclosures and
transfers that we are registered to process.
Data security
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated
securely and in accordance with this privacy statement. The transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your
data transmission to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we
have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security
features to prevent unauthorised access.
Changes to our privacy statement
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this
page.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this statement are welcome and
should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer at the address above under
“Accessing your information”.