Open Up Now - Terms & Conditions

TERMS & CONDITIONS

This statement covers the services provided by the Open Up website. The Data Controller for this website is Ad.IQ Ltd.

The purpose of this statement is to inform users of the Open Up website about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users' privacy.

Confidentiality and security

Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details will not normally be disclosed to third parties. In some circumstances however we may need to disclose your personal details to a third party so that they can provide a service you have requested, or fulfil a request for information. Any information about you that we pass to a third party will be held securely by that party, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, and used only to provide the services or information you have requested.

You have a right to access the personal information we hold about you at any time. If you wish to do this, please put your request in writing, explaining that your interest is in the OpenUp website, to Ad.IQ, Unit 4.02, The Tea Building, 56 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JJ or email openup@adiqglobal.com

Information we collect from visitors

E-petition

If you sign the e-petition on this website, you will be required to provide us with basic personal information to enable us to verify that "signatures" collected are genuine. Your name (but no other details) will be published on the petition on the website. We will only use the information you provide us for this purpose, and, unless you ask us not to, to write to you a reasonable number of times about the issues raised in the petition. Ad.IQ operates the e-petition service on our behalf. Ad.IQ is registered under the Data Protection Act and, as our supplier, adheres to the terms of this privacy policy. Ad.IQ is not permitted to use the information that you provide us for its own purposes.

Newsletters

If you sign up to receive Newsletters we will use the information you give us to provide the service(s) you have requested. We may occasionally contact subscribers to help us evaluate and improve the service that we offer. If you have used an online form on the Open Up website to sign up for an email alert service, you can correct, update or remove any personally identifiable information directly, via our Internet pages. If you sign up for a subscription email service, we will hold the information you have provided for as long as you require access to the service requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel a subscription we will remove you from our mailing list and your details will be deleted from our records.

Site usage information

Cookies

The Open Up site uses cookies for collecting non-personal user information from the site. The Open Up site does not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of the website.

Cookies are pieces of data created when you visit a site, and contain a unique, anonymous number. They are stored in the cookie directory of your hard drive, and do not expire at the end of your session. Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and cannot be used to identify an individual user. If you choose not to accept the cookie, this will not affect your access to the majority of facilities available on our website.

Although your browser may be set up to allow the creation of cookies, you can specify that you be prompted before a site puts a cookie on your hard disk, so that you can decide whether to allow or disallow the cookie. Alternatively, you can set your computer not to accept any cookie.

Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. The Open Up Web Team puts together log file information from all our visitors, which we use to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information in it, based on the way that visitors move around it. Log files do not contain any personal information about you.

If you receive the HTML-formatted version of a newsletter, your opening of the newsletter email is notified to us and saved. Your clicks on links in the newsletter are also saved. These and the open statistics are used in aggregate form to give us an indication of the popularity of the content and to help us make decisions about future content and formatting.

Linking to another site from the Open Up website

Our website contains links to other sites. The Open Up campaign is not responsible for the privacy practices within any of these other sites. You should be aware of this when you leave the Open Up website and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

Open Up Comment Policy

Open Up welcomes and encourages the opportunity for people to discuss the campaign, open primaries and other related issues.

While the website and blog are ours, the conversation and debate belongs to everybody. We want to create a space for discussion and debate about political and parliamentary reform and we expect users to help us achieve this by notifying us of any potential problems and helping keep conversations relevant, welcoming and appropriate.

If you spot something you believe shouldn't be here or find problematic please report it to simon@openupnow.org. 'Open Up believes that when everyone participating in the debate takes responsibility for maintaining an appropriate and constructive environment, the debate itself is improved benefitting everyone. To help achieve the above aims we have created a short comment policy, which is set out below:

Comments or opinions that are abusive, offensive or defamatory will be removed from the site. The same goes for comments or opinions that are likely to cause offence or incite hatred, or personally attack another user
Please ensure your comment is relevant to the discussion of and content by the Open Up campaign. Comments or opinions we believe are off-topic or are flagged as off-topic by other users will be removed.
Similarly, comments or discussion we believe to be spam - or are flagged as spam by other users and the automated tools we use to prevent spam (e.g. Akismet) - will be removed. If you think your comment has been unfairly captured as spam please contact simon@openupnow.org.
We will reply to comments or discussions, when appropriate, as promptly as possible.

Please note that comments submitted to the Have Your Say section of the website are pre-moderated and only a selection of the best comments that fit the above guidelines will be published. However, comments submitted to the Open Up Blog are pre-moderated for new Commenters and post-moderated for returning commenters.

Finally, as this is a public website you should be aware that any private information you submit will publicly available. Please see our privacy policy for more information.

Last updated October 2009