The Data Protection Act 1998 gives individuals the right to know what information is held about them and provides a framework of 8 data protection principles to ensure that personal information is handled properly. The Act seeks to balance the rights of individuals to privacy of their personal information with the sometimes competing interests of those with legitimate reasons for using personal information.

All potential uses to which personal data held by AVDC may be put will be declared in our annual notification to the Information Commissioner which can be found on his website linked below  (AVDC registration number Z5465986). Where explicit individual consent is legally required to process personal information it will be sought before undertaking any processing.

If you are a user with general public and anonymous access the AVDC website does not store or capture personal information, but merely logs the user's IP address which is automatically recognised by the web server.

We do not use cookies for collecting user information and we will not collect any information about you except that required for systems administration or our web server.

This privacy statement only covers the AVDC website. Links within this site to other websites are not covered by this statement.

AVDC is not responsible for the contents or reliability of linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them. Listing should not be taken as endorsement of any kind. We cannot guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.

Date Updated: 18/02/08