Northwest Science is sensitive to privacy issues on the Internet. We believe that it is important you know how we treat the information about you that we receive on the Internet.

About us

Northwest Development Agency ("NWDA") is a Non-Departmental Public Body (NDPB), established under the Regional Development Agencies Act 1998, and is one of nine similar organisations covering all the English regions and London. The Agency's statutory remit is to further the sustainable economic development and regeneration of the North West region through the promotion of business competitiveness, efficiency and investment, employment and skills development.

The NWDA takes the privacy of all its customers and website users very seriously and takes great care with customer and user information. This Privacy Policy outlines how your personal information will be treated.

Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced and you should check this page to see our most up to date policy.

What information do we collect?

In order to provide you with our services or process any application you make, we may collect personal information about you from our website, telephone conversations, emails, application forms and written communications. We may, for example, keep a record of your name, address, email address, telephone number and the nature of our contact.
We may supplement the information that you provide with other information that we receive from third parties.

Please let us know if any of your personal information changes or is inaccurate by email or by writing to us at the address shown below so that we may keep our records up to date.

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 may use your personal information to process any order or request for information and to process any application you make. We will also use the information we hold to communicate with you, for example in the event that any goods or services you have requested are unavailable, for record keeping purposes, in aggregate for market research and to improve the quality of our service. We would also like to keep you informed about the Northwest Development Agency and its activities and of particular goods, services, events and special offers that may be of interest to you.
Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your information to:

North West Regional Assembly
Government Office for the Northwest
each of which may use your information for marketing purposes

We may pass your information to other carefully selected organisations with whom we have a business relationship. These may include our Business Cluster organisations or management companies for events that we are supporting.

Each of these organisations would like keep you informed of goods, services, events and special offers made available by that organisation. In all cases, we will take great care to ensure that your Information is only processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the law and we only permit your information to be used for authorised purposes.

In common with many other website operators, we may use standard technology called 'cookies' on this site. Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. Our cookies enable us to increase the speed at which we can download information for you. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent cookies being stored, however if you do turn cookies off this may limit the service that we are able to provide to you.

Security

We take the security of your Information seriously. We have security procedures in place to protect our customer database from loss and misuse, and only allow access to it when absolutely necessary, and then under strict guidelines as to what use may be made of the personal information contained within it.

This website contains links to other websites. We are only responsible for the privacy practices on this site. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies and procedures of each and every other website that you visit.

What to do if you do not want to receive marketing information

You have the right to prevent marketing information being sent direct to you. If you prefer not to receive information from us or from any other organisation to which we may disclose your Information, you can opt out of further marketing by clicking the relevant boxes on the screen upon which you provide information or by writing to us by mail or email at the address shown below. Please note, however, that if you do opt out, we and/or they will be unable to keep you informed of new products, offers, services or events that may interest you.

Your rights to access your personal information

You have the right to receive information about the Information we hold about you. We may charge a small fee towards the cost of administering any request you make.

If you would like any further information or have any comments about our privacy policy or any other aspect of our website or service, please contact our e-Media Manager by either of the methods shown below:

Email: webmaster@nwda.co.uk

Mail:
e-Media Manager
Northwest Development Agency
PO Box 37
King's Court
Scotland Road
Warrington
Cheshire
WA1 2FR