Geometra is committed to the protection of your privacy. No information collected by us on this portal will be sold, rented or loaned except as expressly stated in this Privacy Policy and consented to by you.
All personal information given to us through this portal will only be held and used with care and in accordance with this policy and the Data Protection Act 1998.
Use of Information
We will not collect any personal information about you, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by you, for example when you register as a user of the portal or request information or provide us with feedback on the portal.
When personal information is collected it may be used by us to corroborate your identity and to enable us to provide you with the services we offer through this portal and to process and fulfil requests for information or advice as well as to further develop this portal to be useful to you and enable us to provide further services on this portal in the future.
We may share non-personal aggregate statistics (group) data about visitors to this portal, use and other traffic patterns with connected, or third parties. However, we do not sell or share any information outside Geometra about you as an individual user of this portal unless you agree to us doing so.
When you view this portal by linking from another web page Geometra may store the name of that web page for the purposes of internal administration and analysis.
About Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don’t have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don’t need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there’s enough capacity to ensure they are fast
How to Manage Cookies on Your Computer
You can manage these small files yourself using your web browser settings. Use the ‘help’ function in your browser to find out more about managing your cookie settings or learn more about how government websites use cookies (Directgov).
The About Cookies website has more information about cookies and instructions for managing and deleting cookies in different browsers.
Restricting cookies may impact the functionality of the Geometra portal.
Third Party Cookies on the Geometra portal
To make it easy for you to use and share our portal we may embed features from other websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. Browsing the Geometra portal may place cookies from these third party websites on your computer. Geometra have no control over these cookies so it is not always possible to list them, and they are liable to change without notifying us.
Links to other Websites
We may from time to time refer to or establish relations with companies, organisations and public bodies that will enable you to access their websites directly from our portal.
Each company, organisation or public body operates its own policy regarding the sale of personal data and the use of cookies. If you have a particular interest in, or concern regarding the way your data will be used then you are advised to read the Privacy Statement on the relevant website.
We will try to provide you with links to high quality, reputable websites which we believe will be of interest and relevant to you, but please note that such third party websites are not under our control and we do not contribute to the content of such websites.
When you click through to any of these websites you leave the area controlled by Geometra. We cannot accept responsibility for any issues arising in connection with the third party’s use of your data, the website content or the services offered to you by these websites.
Your Rights
In addition to these policies your personal data is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act 1998. Under this Act we will only process any data we hold about you in a lawful and fair manner. We will keep your data securely to prevent unauthorised access by third parties.
Your personal data may have to be disclosed if we are required to disclose it by law, or as a result of a lawful request by a governmental or law enforcement authority.