This is a privacy policy for the Young Independence website. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.youngindependence.co.uk.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

Young Independence,
PO Box 408,
Newton Abbot,
TQ12 9BG
United Kingdom

You may contact us by e-mail at webmaster@youngindependence.org.

Data Collection and Use

We are the sole owner of any information we collect. We never sell, share, or rent this information unless we first disclose the fact in this privacy statement. We collect data on the site in six ways.

User Registration

We ask for your email address if you register with the site. We use this information to contact you about youngindependence.co.uk and let you know what Young Independence and UKIP are doing. You may optionally supply additional information such as your name and address details to help us tailor your experience.

Join and Donate

To join and donate to the UK Independence party through this site you will be directed to fill in a registration form, this is then sent to the main UK Independence Party. This information is not held by Young Independence.

If you donate more than £5,000 to the Party via the main party website, we are obliged under the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 to report such a donation to the Electoral Commission, who will publish the fact that you have made a donation over £5,000. For more information, please see http://www.electoralcommission.gov.uk/

Under the Political Party Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (PPERA) you must be on the electoral register in the UK excluding the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man in order to make a donation of more than £200.

Contact/Feedback

If you send us a message using our contact forms we collect your name, email address and comments. This data will be used by ourselves and our agents for contacting you. You may opt out of any future mailing.

Polls

To participate in a poll we will store your IP (Internet Protocol) address with your response and place a cookie on your web browser. This information is used to validate the responses of the polls.

Log Files

We use IP addresses, URL's of requested resources, timestamps and HTTP user-agents to analyse trends, administer the system and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Site administration
Site customization
User targeting
Contacting users
User analysis

Links

Our website links to other sites, but we shall always try to warn you when this is the case. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites: make sure you read their privacy statements if you are concerned about the information they are collecting about you. This statement only applies to our website.

Correcting/Updating Information

We recognise that details such as your post code or email address are bound to change over time. We will do what we can to ensure that you can change the information we hold about you.

Choice/Opt Out

You will always be able to opt out of having your information used for any purpose other than that specifically related to the page where we ask for it.

If you ever want to stop us getting in touch, you can opt out by following the instructions at the foot of every email we send.

Notification of Changes

If we change our privacy policy, we shall post a link to those changes on our homepage so that you always know what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.

When we collect information from you, we tell you what we intend to do with it; if we later want to use that information for a different purpose, we shall first send you an email setting out our plans - and it will be up to you whether or not we do so.