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Privacy Policy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and we comply with the data protection laws applicable to the UK. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information is treated and forms part of our Terms and Conditions. (We may occasionally modify our Privacy Policy; when this happens we will notify you via our terms and conditions page).

This Site is operated and owned by Environmental Campaigns a company incorporated under the laws of England with company number 3496361.

ENCAMS registered office is at Elizabeth house, The Pier, Wigan, WN3 4EX.

ENCAMS registered UK Charity Organisation, No: 1071737

The beach information supplied on this website has not been generated by ENCAMS but is entirely supplied by third parties. ENCAMS accepts no responsibility for the text or symbols depicting the beach facilities, their accuracy or appropriateness. All information supplied is solely the responsibility of the beach owner and/or manager.

ENCAMS does not accept any responsibility for any individual bathing at the beaches listed on this website. Personal safety and risk assessed by the appropriate statutory/local governing body for the beach owners and/or managers to act on accordingly. ENCAMS has no input into that assessment, nor does it review its appropriateness.

 

What information do we collect?

When you complete a form on our website, we may ask you for your name, e-mail address, postal address and your telephone number(s). This is so we can contact you easily if required.

How do we use your information?

Any personal data relating to you will be used and recorded by us in accordance with current data protection legislation and this Privacy Policy. We use the information collected from you to help in any issues you may have relating to this website. We may use your personal information to communicate with you, for record keeping purposes, and in aggregate (and therefore anonymously) for market research purposes, to track activity on our site, to publish trends and/or to improve usefulness and content.

We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others (unless you have consented to us making your name and address available to carefully vetted companies).

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that a web site transfers to a site visitor’s hard disk or browser for added functionality, or for tracking web site usage. We do not use cookies to gather personal information such as a person’s name or e-mail address. In order to measure the effectiveness of our on-line presence, ENCAMS may use cookies to identify repeat visitors to our site and to determine the path visitors take on our site. Any information gathered by the use of cookies is compiled on an aggregate, anonymous basis.

Use of cookies is an industry standard and many web sites use them. If you do not wish to receive cookies, or want to be notified of when they are placed, you can set your web browser to do so, if your browser so permits.

Terms and Conditions of Use

Access to and use of our Web Site ("the Site") is governed by the terms and conditions of use and the terms and conditions of business (together "terms and conditions") set out below.
By using the Site you agree to accept these terms and conditions. If you do not wish to accept these terms and conditions, please do not use this Site.

Environmental Campaigns is providing this site on an "as is" basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this site or its contents and disclaims all such representations and warranties. In addition, Environmental Campaigns makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness or suitability for any purpose of the information and related graphics published on this site. The information contained in this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of Environmental Campaigns howsoever arising for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest exempt permitted by law.

Neither Environmental Campaigns nor any of its directors, employees or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out or in connection with the use of this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including without limitation compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.

Notwithstanding the foregoing none of the exclusions and limitations in the clause are intended to limit liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our employees or agents.

Material You Provide To Us

If you send ideas, remarks, questions, data, graphics or the like ("the Submissions") to the Site, these will be deemed to be non-confidential and we will be entitled to use or disclose the Submissions in any manner whatsoever, without liability or notice to you. The Submissions or any other information you send to the Site should not be, or contain, material which is offensive, pornographic, defamatory, blasphemous, unlawful or likely to infringe any applicable law, whether civil, criminal or religious. You agree that all material submitted to us is original to you, and not copied in whole or part from any third party. Please do not send anything which is required to be kept confidential.

Linked Sites

We are not responsible for the content of any off-site pages or any other sites linked to the Site nor have we reviewed any such site. If you link to any off-site pages or other sites without our prior written permission, such action will be at your own risk. We cannot be held responsible for the contents of any web site which is electronically linked to the Site and which is not maintained by us. ENCAMS do not offer a link exchange service and any links to external sites from this site, will form a part of the provided content and will only appear within that section. The inclusion of such links will be assessed for relevance at the time of new content going live and will be looked at regularly. ENCAMS reserves the right to include or reject links to external sites.

Copyright and Trademarks

Environmental Campaigns are the proprietor/exclusive licensee of the Quality Coast Award trademarks in the United Kingdom. All trademarks, brand names, product names, and titles and copyrights used on this site are trademarks, brand names, product names or copyrights belonging to Environmental Campaigns and no permission is given by Environmental Campaigns in respect of the use of any of them and such use may constitute an infringement of the rights of Environmental Campaigns.
All Site design, text, graphics, the selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software (including applets) and all other material on this Site are the copyright of ENCAMS and its affiliates, or their content and technology providers. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Permission is granted to electronically print in hard copy portions of the Site. Any other use of materials on this Site, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modification, distribution, or republication, without our prior written permission, is strictly prohibited.