Privacy Policy

Website – Privacy Policy

The National Association of Link Workers is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. We take care to protect the privacy of our customers and users of our products and services.

We have therefore developed this privacy policy to inform you of the data we collect, what we do with your information, what we do to keep it secure as well as the rights and choices you have over your personal information.

1. How do we collect your personal data?

We collect your data,

1. Directly from you
2. From the organisation you work for when they subscribe to our services

2. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?

We only collect information that we need and know we will genuinely use, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The type of information that we will collect about you, and which you voluntarily provide to us through this website includes:

• Your name
• Country
• Location
• Organisation details
• Job title
• Email address
• User name
• Survey & quiz responses
• IP address
• Billing details

3. Why we collect and process your personal data

The legal basis for processing your data is to provide our services and products to you, in the performance of our contract with you, or the performance of our contract which your employer.

We also collect and process your personal data, to comply with our legal obligations, such as the proper administration of our business and for legitimate business interest reasons, which we will have discussed with you or your employer prior to having entered into your service agreement with us.

4. How we use your information

• To contact you, following your enquiry, reply to any questions, suggestions, issues or complaints which you have made, when you contacted us.
• Make available our products and services to you.
• Process your orders.
• Take payment from you or give you a refund.
• For statistical analysis and to get feedback from you about our products, websites, as well as other services and activities. For example, occasionally we may invite you to review a product or service you have bought from us or used.
• Help us understand more about you as a customer, the products and services you consume, so we can better serve you.
• To send you emails about National Association of Link Workers and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress, membership or other related information and updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to a course or event.
• Help answer your questions and solve any issues you may have.

5. How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with your personal information on our website, we will ask you for your consent so that we can provide our services and products to you.

In cases where you employer is a member of our organisation, and where they have made our products and services available under their agreement with us, they will have provided initial consent on your behalf to provide us with your name and your work email address.

Any additional information that you provide within your part of our members portal is provided by you voluntarily! You will be asked to consent to our collecting and using your personal information for the specific reason described on our website and in your members area.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason. We will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

6. How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you can change your mind at any time and may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, by contacting us at support@nalw.org.uk

7. Disclosure

We may disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

• If the law or a public authority says we must share the personal data.
• If we need to share personal data in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (this includes providing personal data to others for the purposes of preventing fraud and reducing credit risk).

8. How you can access, update or delete your data

To easily access, view, update, amend your personal data (where available), or to update your account notification preferences, please sign into your Account, through the membership Log-in on our website or through our App.

If you make a request to delete your personal data and that data is necessary for the products or services you have purchased, the request will be honoured only to the extent it is no longer necessary for any services and products purchased or required for our legitimate business purposes or legal or contractual record keeping requirements.

If you are unable for any reason to access your Account Settings, you may contact us on support@nalw.org.uk

9. For more information about your privacy rights

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) regulates data protection and privacy matters in the UK. They make a lot of information accessible to consumers on their website and they ensure that the registered details of all data controllers such as ourselves are available publicly. You can access them here https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public.

You can make a complaint to the ICO at any time about the way we use your information. However, we hope that you would consider raising any issue or complaint you have with us first by emailing support@nalw.org.uk

Your satisfaction is extremely important to us, and we will always do our very best to solve any problems you may have.

10. How long we keep your information for

We retain a record of your personal information in order to provide you with a high quality and consistent service. We will retain your personal information as long as you or your employer are active members of our organisation.

In the event that you leave your employer and your employer is a member of our organisation ALL your data including the record of and CPD Points you may have accrued by taking any of the courses we provide, will be deleted within 30-day of being notified by your employer that you have left their company.

This gives you time to download your record of the CPD Points you have accrued.

If you are an independent worker and choose to cancel your membership, you will be given 30-days to down the full record of the personal data that you provided us with along with your CPD Points Record – once this 30-days has elapsed your data in its entirety will be irretrievably deleted from our systems.

We will never retain your information for longer than is necessary in line with the General Data Protection Regulation and our retention policy after which it will be destroyed, unless otherwise required by law.

11. Security

Data security is of great importance to National Association of Link Workers and to protect your data we have put in place suitable physical, technical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your collected data.

12. Payment

If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.

13. Cookies

We collect cookies or similar tracking technologies. This means information that our website’s server transfers to your computer. This information can be used to track your session on our website. Cookies may also be used to customize our website content for you as an individual. If you are using one of the common Internet web browsers, you can set up your browser to either let you know when you receive a cookie or to deny cookie access to your computer.

• We use cookies to recognise your device and provide you with a personalized experience.
• We also use cookies to attribute visits to our websites to third-party sources and to serve targeted ads from Google, Facebook, Instagram and other third-party vendors.
• Our third-party advertisers use cookies to track your prior visits to our websites and elsewhere on the Internet in order to serve you targeted ads. For more information about targeted or behavioural advertising, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/
• Opting out: You can opt out of targeted ads served via specific third-party vendors by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Opt-Out page.
• We may also use automated tracking methods on our websites, in communications with you, and in our products and services, to measure performance and engagement.
• Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.

14. Web Analysis Tools

We may use web analysis tools that are built into the NALW website to measure and collect anonymous session information. We do this so that we can understand how you use our website and to improve the resources and your user experience.

15. Sharing with trusted third parties. 

We may share your personal data with affiliated companies within our corporate family, with third parties with which we have partnered to allow you to integrate their services into our own Services, and with trusted third-party service providers as necessary for them to perform services on our behalf, such as:

• Processing credit card payments
• Serving advertisements
• Performing analysis of our services and customers demographics
• Communicating with you, such as by way of email or survey delivery
• Customer relationship management

We only share your personal data as necessary for any third party to provide the services as requested or as needed on our behalf. These third parties (and any subcontractors) are subject to strict data processing terms and conditions and are prohibited from utilising, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than as they have been specifically contracted for (or without your consent).

16. Links

When you click on links on our website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

17. Age of Consent

By using this site, you represent that you are the age of consent in your country, state or province of residence.

18. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our site or course is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products and services to you.

19. How to contact us

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, have questions or simply want more information please contact us on support@nalw.org.uk

 

MyNALW APP End-User License Agreement (“Agreement”)

Last updated: (29.06.2021)

Please read this End-User License Agreement (“Agreement”) carefully before clicking the “I Agree” button, downloading or using MYNALW (“Application”).

By clicking the “I Agree” button, downloading or using the Application, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Agreement an the terms and conditions of your membership of National Association of Link Workers (NALW)

If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement, do not click on the “I Agree” button and do not download or use the Application.

License

Your membership of National Association of Link Workers (NALW) grants you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to download, install and use the Application solely for your personal, non-commercial purposes strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

Restrictions

You agree not to, and you will not permit others to:

a) license, sell, rent, lease, assign, distribute, transmit, host, outsource, disclose or otherwise commercially exploit the Application or make the Application available to any third party.
b) Modify, decrypt, reverse compile or reverse engineer our Application

Modifications to Application

National Association of Link Workers reserves the right to update the Application with new features, bug fixes etc. as needed; modify, suspend or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Application or any service to which it connects, with or without notice and without liability to you.

Term and Termination

This Agreement shall remain in effect until terminated by you or National Association of Link Workers (NALW)

National Association of Link Workers may, in its sole discretion, at any time and for any or no reason, suspend or terminate this Agreement with or without prior notice

This Agreement will terminate immediately, without prior notice from National Association of Link Workers (NALW) in the event that you fail to comply with any provision of this Agreement or ceases to be a member. You may also terminate this Agreement by deleting the Application and all copies thereof from your mobile device or from your desktop.

Upon termination of this Agreement, you shall cease all use of the Application and delete all copies of the Application from your mobile device or from your desktop.

Severability

If any provision of this Agreement is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will continue in full force and effect.

Amendments to this Agreement

National Association of Link Workers (NALW) reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace this Agreement at any time. If a revision is material we will provide at least 28 days’ notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change will be determined at our sole discretion.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about this Agreement, please contact us support@nalw.org.uk