About Us :

Privacy Policy

www.connx.org.uk is the website of the Connexions services provided by Bedfordshire County Council and Luton Borough Council. We hold and process personal data in accordance with all current legislation relating to data protection.

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

information about your visits to and use of this website;
information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us and/or subscribing to our website services and/or email and SMS notifications;
information that you provide to us for the purpose of arranging access to a service and/or printed publication provided by the Connexions Service
information that you provide to us for the purpose of applying for job vacancies and/or courses of study and/or training programmes advertised on this website;
information that you provide to us for the purpose of submitting to the Connexions Service a comment, compliment, or complaint about our services and/or this website.

Information about website visits

We may collect information about you computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website’s usability, for self-assessment and business planning purposes, and for marketing purposes.

Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

In addition to the uses identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may use your personal information to:

send information (other than marketing communications) to you which we think may be of interest to you, by post, by email, by SMS or similar technology;
provide other organisations with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your password confidential. We will not ask you for your password.

Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

Third party websites

This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party websites.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to the Data Protection Liasion Officer, Connexions Service, First Floor, 1-27 Bolton Road, Luton, LU1 3HY.

April 2008