PrivacyThis policy is designed to inform you of our commitment to upholding your right to privacy when using any of our web services. It describes the ways in which we capture and use information.
WTS London is a chapter of the international organisation, the Womens Transportation Seminar. WTS Londons mission is to advance the success of women in transport and address the chronic under-representation of women in the transport industry. WTS London considers its obligations under the Data Protection Act and related legislation to be of paramount importance, and ensures compliance with those provisions.
This privacy policy explains what information WTS London collects about those customers that use its website and the procedures we have in place to safeguard your privacy.
What personal information do we collect?
The only type of personal information WTS London may ask you to give will be contact details, through the submission of a query on our Contact Us page. We will only request information that is necessary to enable us to provide you with the information you have requested. We will never ask you to provide us with information that is considered sensitive personal data as defined under the Data Protection Act. We may require you to provide us with access, dietary, and/or communication requirements if you plan to attend an event hosted by WTS London.
Why do we collect and store your information?
WTS London will use personal data in one of three ways:
- To respond to queries, as submitted through our website;
- To maintain an updated list of members;
- To maintain and use an updated mailing list addresses, for the dissemination of WTS-only related information.
How do we contact you?
We may contact you to provide the services that you have purchased or registered for. Depending on your preferences and the information you have provided we may contact you by post, email, telephone or text messaging.
What do we do with your information?
Your personal information will be disclosed to WTS International for membership data purposes only. When we collect information from you we will tell you if we would like to send your information to third parties. WTS International adhere to the same privacy policy as WTS London and therefore do not have permission to disclose your information to other third parties, for marketing purposes, or otherwise.
Cookies
"Cookies" are small bits of text that are either used for the duration of a session ("session cookies"), or saved on a user's hard drive in order to identify that user, or information about that user, the next time the user logs on to a web site ("persistent cookies").
The WTS London web site does not use persistent cookies to store personal information. We may however use session cookies to provide streamlined navigation throughout our site and for statistical analysis. These session cookies are deleted from the server soon after your session ends and are not collected or saved. You can set up your Web browser to inform you when cookies are set or to prevent cookies from being set. You can still use our web site if you do not accept the cookies, but you may be unable to use certain cookie-dependent features.
Protecting your information
We use up-to-date industry procedures to protect your personal information. Information submitted is stored in a secured MS SQL database. We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you via our websites.
The internet is not a secure medium of communication. WTS London cannot guarantee the security of any information you input on this website or send to us on the internet. WT London is not, and will not be, responsible for any damages you or others may suffer as a result if the loss of confidentiality of any such information.
Changes to this policy
We may revise this policy at any time by posting the revised policy on the WTS London website. Your continued use of the site will mean that you accept those revisions.
Links to other websites
The WTS London website may contain links that make it easier for users to visit other websites. If you use the links to leave this website and to visit one operated by a third party, we will not have any control over that website, or its use of cookies.
WTS London cannot be responsible for your protection and privacy when visiting such websites. You should check the privacy policies of those websites before entering any personal information.
Contact details
WTS London
Telephone: 020 7126 4603 (office hours)
Email: wtslondon@tfl.gov.uk
Post:
WTS London
c/- Transport for London
10th Floor, Windsor House
42-50 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0TL
United Kingdom
