This policy covers how the Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association ("the Association") treats personal information that the Association collects and receives. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, or phone number, and that is not otherwise publicly available.

Concerning this site
The Association does not set permanent cookies nor marketing software on your local computer for the purposes of tracking visitors to this site, but may set an ephemeral cookie to enable use of parts of this site during a session. If you elect to log in automatically to the Forum, a cookie will be placed on your computer to enable this. Your Internet Protocol address may be recorded to help redress abuse of the Forum facilities

Concerning the Data Protection Act 1998
Information that you volunteer to the Thames Ditton and Weston Green Residents' Association is handled in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, the principles of which are that personal information should be:

•  fairly and lawfully processed
•  processed for limited purposes
•  adequate, relevant and not excessive
•  accurate
•  not kept longer than necessary
•  processed in accordance with the data subjects’ rights
•  secure
•  not transferred to countries outside the EEA without adequate protection

Data that you volunteer are processed and stored solely for the purposes of:

•  Administration
•  Public relations
•  Accounts and records
•  Communications between the Association and you

Under the Data Protection Act you are entitled to a copy of any information held about you.

Confidentiality
Data will be made available only to authorised personnel within the Association who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information and will not be given to other parties except as may be required by law.