Privacy statement

Modern information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like the Electric Editors. We therefore wish to be clear about the information we collect and what we do with it.

Our privacy policy covers the Electric Editors and its Website:

Organisation name:	The Electric Editors
Address:
City, Postcode:
Country:	UK
Data controller:	Iain D. Brown
Website:	http://www.electriceditors.net/

Our principal activities are:

the publication of e-mail discussion lists; and
the provision of Internet-based information and resources.

You can access our homepage and browse our Website without disclosing your personal data. Our Website enables you to communicate with other visitors or to post information to be accessed by others. When you do so, other visitors may collect your data. Our Website includes links to third-party Web service providers.

As part of the functioning of the Electric Editors, we store lists of names, e-mail addresses and URLs on computer, which you provide explicitly, through subscribing to the free mailing lists and requesting a listing on our members’ homepages. This information will never be sold, given or shown to any individual (other than the seven Electric Editors co-ordinators) or organization, except as required by law or for the efficient operation of the Electric Editors.

The list of members’ homepages is compiled from information supplied by members and placed on our pages at the request of those members.

Names, e-mail addresses and the URLs supplied for the list of members’ homepages are the only information that we store. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations. We do not collect or use personal data for any purpose other than that indicated on this page.

Messages posted to our mailing lists are archived at this Website. These archives are accessible to the general public. No message will be excluded from the archives. If you post a message, your e-mail address will be on public display. However, in light of the increasing abuse of e-mail systems by spammers, we are taking steps to conceal our member’s e-mail addresses.

Messages posted to our mailing lists via Topica are subject to Topica’s terms and conditions, including Topica’s privacy statement.

Website traffic and collection of information

The user traffic patterns for, and use of, this Website are monitored. This site does not store or capture personal information about a user, but merely logs the user’s IP address which is automatically recognised by the Web server. This information will not be passed on to third parties. We do so for the following purposes:

technical administration of the Website; and
research and development, to provide improved resources to users.

The Electric Editors’ Website uses cookies (that is, small pieces of information that are stored on your computer’s hard drive by your Web browser) as part of its normal service. We do so for the following purposes:

store information about users and their preferences;
technical administration of the Website; and
research and development, to provide improved resources to users.

We do not place or use cookies on members’ computers to monitor an individual’s use of the Internet.

If you wish to remove your e-mail address from our list of addresses, or if you wish to remove your entry from the list of Members’ homepages, please e-mail us at privacy@electriceditors.net, or fill in the privacy information form. The information will be removed as quickly as possible and we will confirm its removal.

If you have any queries relating to privacy at this site, e-mail us at privacy@electriceditors.net, or fill in the privacy information form.

Data protection

We store and process your information on computers and in any other way. By “your information” we mean personal information we (a) obtain direct from you, or (b) learn from the way you use our Website and mailing lists, from the messages you post and reply to, and any direct correspondence with the seven Electric Editors co-ordinators. We will use your information to manage your mailing list subscription(s), and to develop and improve our services to you.

We will not disclose any such information outside of the Electric Editors except as required by law or regulation. Otherwise we will keep information about you confidential.

UK Data Protection Act

Membership data is held for two purposes: to facilitate the distribution of our publications, and to provide a service for members, by putting them in touch with fellow authors, editors, indexers or publishers.

All Electric Editor membership records are held on computer. To comply with the UK Data Protection Act 1998 it is incumbent on us to enquire whether there is any objection to our maintaining this information. Should any member of the Electric Editors have an objection to this, or query as to its purpose, you can contact us by:

sending an e-mail to privacy@electriceditors.net
completing our privacy information form

We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you within a fortnight, although we may before require proof of your identity. We currently provide this information without any charge.

We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:

erased; or
rectified and/or amended.

OECD privacy assessment number: 14886

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