A Question of Brains

An annual charity fund-raising dinner in aid of Steps Conductive Education Centre

Privacy Policy

A Question of Brains (AQOB) and Steps Conductive Education Centre (Steps) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

The Data Controller is Steps Conductive Education Centre, The Old School, 40 Loughborough Road, Shepshed, Loughborough, LE12 9DN

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process your name and any address you give us including your position and the company you work for if you give us a business address, your telephone number and email address.

If you attend the event the data collected may also include photographs taken of you during the evening. These images may be used for publicity purposes in the local press and on our website unless you specifically request us not to take photographs of you or not to use your image in this way.

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To provide you with information and an invitation to attend our annual fund-raising event in aid of Steps where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

To use photographic images of the event on our website and in the local newspapers and other publications to promote and publicise the event. 

IP addresses and cookies

When you visit this website we may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to improve your experience in visiting the website. These cookies are all deleted at then end of your visit. 

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you enter our site.

Disclosure of your information

We will not sell, give away or otherwise share your information, with the exception of photographs used for publicity purposes, with any other organisations unless required to do so by law.

Where we store your personal data

All written information you give us (by putting your address on the back of a ticket for instance) is stored securely in our office. Any information stored electronically is  stored on secure servers. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to us by email.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us to delete your personal data. You can exercise the right at any time by writing to The Data Controller, Steps Conductive Education Centre, The Old School, 40 Loughborough Road, Shepshed, Loughborough, LE12 9DN or by emailing enquiries@aquestionofbrains.org.

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner organisations, sponsors and supporters. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to The Data Controller, Steps Conductive Education Centre, The Old School, 40 Loughborough Road, Shepshed, Loughborough, LE12 9DN