Privacy Policy – How We Collect and Use Your Information
We respect the right to privacy of any individual entering or using this website. We ensure that any information we collect or hold about you is held securely and managed in line with data security and data protection legislation and best practice and only used in ways in that you have agreed to or would expect.
For more information on your rights under the Data Protection Act, please click here.
The Information We Collect
We collect information about you when you register for our newsletter, enter competitions, complete surveys, provide feedback or contact us through our website. The information we ask for will be used to help us understand more about the visitors to our website and our customers. We may also use the information to improve our customer service, our products, our marketing and our website for the benefit of all our customers or visitors to our website.
Email
We will only use your e-mail address to contact you with our latest news and information about our special offers if you have given us permission to do this when we collected this information. Your e-mail address will be used solely by Teachers' Building Society and its subsidiary, TBS Financial Services Ltd, and will not be sold or passed to any other third party. We sometimes employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf in maintaining and updating our website and e-mail list and providing assistance by sending e-mails on our behalf. They have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions only and may not use it for any other purposes. All our email communication offers an "opt-out" feature that allows you to remove your email address from mailing list at any time. You can always re-enter it when you want to start receiving information from us again.
Cookies
We also collect information through the use of "cookies". A "cookie" is a piece of information sent via your Internet browser and stored on your local hard drive. Some cookies are deleted when you shut down your browser but others are stored for longer and will help to identify you, or information about you, the next time you log on to a website. Cookies do no harm in themselves, but you can choose to accept or reject them by changing the settings on your browser.
If you do nothing other than read pages or download information while using this web site, we will capture and store information about your visit. This information will not identify you; it relates to:
- the Internet domain (e.g. www.company.co.uk) and IP address from which you access the web site
- the type of browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) and operating system (Windows, UNIX) you use
- the date and time of your visit
- the pages you visit
- the address of the web site from which you linked to us (if applicable).
We use this information to make each visit more rewarding, and to provide us with information to help improve our service. We do not know (and do not want to know) the identities of people who visit us in this way.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
Any information we store about you will be as up-to-date as possible, and will depend entirely on information provided to us by you. You can ask us to correct or remove information we hold about if it is inaccurate. Our contact details are shown at the bottom of this page.You are also entitled to access information we hold by writing to us at the address below. A small fee may be charged for providing this information.
Links to Other Websites
This website may contain "links" to other websites. We make every effort to only link to sites that share our high standards of privacy and service. However, Teachers Building Society cannot be responsible for the content on any website we link to and the privacy policies on those websites may be different to ours.
Changes to Our Policy
The personal information we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time and will provide notice of these changes on the home page of our web site. You should make sure you periodically review the Privacy Policy to make sure it meets your needs. This Privacy Policy was last reviewed on 2nd February 2011.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about Teachers Building Society's products, online privacy policies or procedures, please contact us at:
Head office
Teachers Building Society, Allenview House, Hanham Road, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 1AG
T: 01202 843500
F: 01202 841694
E: teachers@teachersbs.co.uk