Privacy policy

The Tech Partnership collects information as you use the site.

This includes:

• Anything you supply for surveys or promotions.
• Details of your activity and personal preferences when visiting our site using ‘cookies’.

Collecting this information allows us to:

• Personalise website content so it works better for you.
• Carry out analysis and research to improve our sites, events and activities.
• Contact you about information you post on the site.
• Prevent and detect fraud and abuse of our site and protect other users.

Who else has access to your information?

We do not share your information with any third party organisations.

Comments and other content which you upload may be displayed publicly and to other users. Please be careful when disclosing personal information which may identify you or anyone else. We are not responsible for the protection or security of information which you disclose in public areas.

We may disclose your personal information if required by law, or to protect or defend ourselves or others against illegal or harmful activities, or as part of a reorganisation or restructuring of our organisation.

Your rights

If you need to see the information we hold about you, please get in touch. We're able to provide this information upon payment of a fee and proof of your identity. We may need to withhold such information according to UK law.

Security

We store your information on secure servers based in Europe and take steps to protect your personal information and follow procedures designed to minimise unauthorised access to or disclosure of your information. However, we can't guarantee that we will eliminate all risk of misuse.

If you have a password for your account, please keep this safe and don't share it with anyone else. You are responsible for all activity on your account and must contact us immediately if you become aware of any unauthorised use of your password or other security breach.

Cookies

Like most websites, The Tech Partnership uses cookies to:

• Measure how you use the site so we can make it better.
• Remember your settings so we don't have to keep asking you for them.

The BBC website site has a great plain English description of how cookies work.

We also use Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting which is based on data from Google Display Advertising. We use aggregate data provided by this service (such as age, gender and interests) to better understand our website audience and adjust our communications appropriately.

If you would like to opt out of Google Demographics and Interest Reporting please change your Google settings. Alternatively, you can choose to opt out of Google Analytics altogether by downloading an opt-out browser add-on.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy without notice. If this happens we'll post a clear notice on the site and show what's changed.