Privacy policy

May 2012
gle.co.uk

GLE collects different types of information about our users primarily to:

improve the services which GLE’s business areas offer online.
process enquiries made by clients using online forms.

We will only contact you if you’ve asked to be contacted, or if your contact details are featured in a third-party email list, which you’ve consented to be added to.

You will receive telephoned or emailed support from us if you have contacted us using an online contact form.
If your business email is featured on a third-party email list, you may also receive emails promoting business support services. Where this is the case:
- you’ll be able to unsubscribe.
- email data has been fairly and lawfully obtained in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Your data will be stored securely

GLE will continue to invest in high-quality security and do our utmost to protect user privacy, using the latest security technology.

Our contractors will only ever process your data on our behalf

We ensure that the contractors we use in connection with the running of the website and services (for example, hosting providers), are subject to strict contractual obligations.

They are only able to process data on our behalf and in accordance with our principles and instructions, and not for any other purposes.

We only share anonymous statistics

We will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users with our advertisers.

We’ll publish any changes to this policy

Should we change our privacy policy, we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details.

We collect anonymous website statistics using cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers which websites may send to a computer to make a user’s experience of a website better.

GLE uses cookies to:

collect anonymous data about the number of visitors to pages, so we can improve the website and ensure that content is easy to find and engaging.
to remember your preferences, for text sizes, for example. Again, this information is processed anonymously.

For information on controlling cookies visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1.

We follow strict procedures to store client data securely

UK Data Protection Legislation means we follow strict security procedures when storing and disclosing information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access.

GLE will not sell, trade or rent your personal information.

GLE may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will never include personally identifying information.

Any data processors with access to your data in providing services on our behalf are subject to contractual restrictions to ensure that your data is protected, and not used independently by such third party.

We reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests

We reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.

Legal information under the Data Protection Act

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act of 1998, the Data Controller for gle.co.uk is Greater London Enterprise Limited, Saint Martins House, 210-212 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 4HZ .

Any queries regarding GLE’s use of data and data policies should be addressed to the Communication's Department. Alternatively email communications@gle.co.uk. The company registration number is 1653116.