1. Introduction

This policy covers the National Web Design's use of personal information that National Web Design collects when you use any of it sites. The policy also gives you information about cookies; National Web Design and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards and email courses and offers.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the National Web Design and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information the National Web Design will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to any National Web Design site, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.

National Web Design gathers non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. National Web Design uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users. If you wish to reject National Web Design cookies, you can use the process set out below in point 7. 

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the the site's features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse our sites anonymously until such time as you wish to register for our services or for further information.

4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to National Web Design (e.g. for competitions or services) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to National Web Design will only be used within National Web Design and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to National Web Design or any site run by National Web Design or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our sites or our clients sites, the National Web Design can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you sign up for any service or offer from National Web Design  your information may be used to allow National Web Design to contact you for "service purposes", this means that the National Web Design may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to enquire further about your needs, provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance.

5. Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information the National Web Design holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge our standard hourly rate for information requests.)

Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, National Web Design

6. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to National Web Design's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

7. How to find and control your cookies

8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

9. How to see your cookie code

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.