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 1) British Airways Virtual is committed to protecting your privacy and compliance
with the Data Protection Act 1998 and its relevant subordinate
legislation when handling any personal information. Subject to the provisions of this policy we will treat any
information we obtain about you arising from your use of the
British Airways Virtual website as confidential.
2) Use by you of the British Airways Virtual website constitutes
an acceptance of this policy which forms part of the use of
the British Airways Virtual website.
3) This Privacy Policy only extends to this website and does not
extend to your use of, provision to and collection of any data
on any website to which you may link by using the hypertext
links within the British Airways Virtual website.
4) We collect information when you use the British Airways
Virtual website, when you register and log in, and when you
respond to requests to submit personal information about
yourself in order to collate data about our users which
assists is in the future development of our website and
services.
5) When you visit our website we issue a “cookie” or unique
code that allows us to identify your computer. A cookie
is used to note the different areas of the services recently
accessed through your computer - this can only be done in
relation to this website service and not in relation to any
other sites you visit. Information collected this way is
used to ensure that our website is both interesting and
relevant and to develop and manage our online services.
Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user,
just the computer used.
6) We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held
securely in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and
its relevant subordinate legislation and we will comply with
the principles set out in that Act. When you supply any
personal information to us we will meet our legal obligations
towards you in the way that we deal with that information.
In accordance with the data protection principles we have to
collect the information fairly and to let you know how we will
use it (see paragraph 4) and whether we will pass the
information on to anyone else. We
DO NOT
currently supply your personal information to third parties
and
WILL NOT do so except with your prior consent
or where required by law. We will ensure that any
information will be held only as long as is necessary to
ensure that our service runs smoothly. We use up to date
industry procedures to keep personal data safe and secure as
possible and to protect against loss, unauthorized disclosure
or access.
7) You have the right to request a copy of the personal
information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies
corrected.
We charge a fee of 10.00 UK POUNDS for
information requests. Please address requests to
ceo@bavirtual.co.uk
8) We may edit this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we
make any substantial changes we will notify you by
posting a prominent announcement on the British Airways
Virtual forum page under the heading ‘Changes to the Privacy
Policy’.
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