Privacy Policy

About Us

The website at www.leadingedge.igd.com ("the Site") is operated by The Institute of Grocery Distribution, a company registered by guarantee in England under registered number 105680 with registered office at Grange Lane, Letchmore Heath, Watford, Herts, WD25 8GD ("we") either in our own capacity or, where stipulated, as agent for IGD Services Limited, a company registered in England under number 3357260 with registered office at Grange Lane, Letchmore Heath, Watford, Herts, WD25 8GD.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the way in which we use your personal information or if any of your personal information changes, please write to us at the above address, email us at igd@igd.com or telephone us on 01923 857141 during normal business hours.

Your privacy is very important to you and us. We depend on the trust of our customers. We are therefore committed to protecting your privacy and we shall only use your name, the names of your staff and other information which relates to you in the manner set out in this privacy policy. We will only use your personal information in a way that is fair to you. We will only collect information where it is necessary for us to do so and we will only collect information if it is relevant to our dealings with you.

We will only keep your information for as long as we are either required to by law, or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was collected.

We have in place appropriate technical and security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information. In particular, we store your personal details on a secure server. We use encryption technology if we obtain your credit card details and we use firewalls on our servers. No credit card details are stored on our servers.

Data that we collect

We may ask you to supply us with various information about yourself or your colleagues during your use of the Site. We use that information to process your orders and to give you a service that suits your preference.

We may collect various information from you (which includes for these purposes from your colleagues) that is capable of identifying you personally when you submit an enquiry to the Site, when you submit your order for a product or service or when you subsequently visit the Site including (without limitation) the following: your name; job title; employer; employer's postal address; address for delivery of the product; work phone and fax number and e-mail address; where you study; job type; profile; photo; how you discovered the Site; comments, enquiries or suggestions that you submit to us; usernames; passwords; Internet Protocol address numbers; and names, profile and contact details, usernames and passwords of your colleagues. We need this information in order to respond to your enquiry, process and deliver the product, service or materials ordered by you; to send you information relevant to the products or services ordered and in case we have any queries.

You must only submit to us or the Site information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of changes.

Other Uses of your personal information

We may use any of the information which you provide to us in order to send you our newsletters, publications and other information about us, our websites, our products or services, our events, training, seminars or anything in which you show an interest. If you would prefer not to receive that information, please inform us of this by sending us an appropriate e-mail explaining this to igd@igd.com, write to us at the above address or fax us on 01923 852531.

We may also use your personal information to customise the Site in line with your preferences and to help us understand the way in which users use and visit the Site.

To facilitate networking and subject to permission, the following details will be made visible to other members: your name, company, job title, profile and photo.

Further, we may use your personal information for the purposes of customer services, network management, customer surveys and improving the Site.

Please be aware that to protect your privacy we will wherever practicable aggregate your personal information so that it is used by us in an anonymous format.

Third Parties and Links

We may pass your details to our agents and subcontractors to help us with any of our uses of your data set out in our Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to deliver products to you or provide services to you (for example course providers or to assist with mailings), to enable us to collect payments from you, to analyse data and to provide us with marketing or customer service assistance.

We may exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

We may transfer our databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part of it.

Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are required to do so by law.

The Site may contain advertising of third parties or links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or other sites (except if we operate those sites), nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

Cookies

The Site uses cookies. Cookies are files which identify your computer to our server as a unique user and they are stored by your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to recognise your Internet Protocol address, saving you time while you are on, or want to enter, the Site (for example without you having to re-enter your username and password each time you are on the Site). We only use cookies for your convenience in using the Site and not for obtaining or using any other information about you (for example targeted advertising). Your browser can be set to not accept cookies, but this could restrict your use of the Site. If you want to find out more information about cookies, go to www.allaboutcookies.org or to find out about removing them from your browser, go to www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.

Changes

Any material changes to the way in which we use your data will be described in future versions of this Privacy Policy. Each time you enter the Site, order products or services from us or submit data to us, you agree that the Privacy Policy current at that time shall apply to all information which we hold about you.

Consent

By using the Site, you consent to our use of your information as set out in this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy (as amended).