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Collection of your Personal Information

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications Web site.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications does not read any of your private online communications.

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites outside of the VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications and VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications family of Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications collects and uses your personal information to operate the VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications Web site and deliver the services you have requested. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications and its affiliates. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications keeps track of the Web sites and pages our customers visit within VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications, in order to determine what VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications, or the public.

Use of Cookies

The VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications Web site use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications pages, or register with VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications site or services, a cookie helps VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications Web site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications services or Web sites you visit.

Security of your Personal Information

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Changes to this Statement

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications is protecting your information.

Contact Information

VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications has not adhered to this Statement, please contact VTCT - Specialist Awarding Body Offering Vocational Qualifications at info@vtct.org.uk. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.