Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

VisitBritain* is committed to protecting your privacy as a user of our website www.meetengland.com (“the Site”), and the confidentiality of any personal information that you may provide us with during your visit to the Site.

VisitBritain abides by the Data Protection Act of 1998 (see www.ico.gov.uk ) and complies with its provisions to ensure that any data you provide is treated accordingly.


Non-registered users:
Information is gathered automatically by the web server, through the use of cookies on the Site, and also from your interaction through online requests for brochures as well as the submissions of online forms.

General information that is collected by the web server and which does not require any input on your part, apart from to log on to the Site, is data such as:

• type of browser
• operating system
• IP address
• domain name


Cookies
A cookie is a text-only string that is entered into the memory of your browser by our web server. The use of cookies enables our website to store information on your machine so that it can be retrieved at a later date. This is done so that we can monitor the number of people visiting our Site and to determine the country of origin of specific users.

If you do not wish to accept new cookies or wish to disable cookies altogether, you can set your browser accordingly using its menu bar.


Online forms
Any information that you provide online, should it be a request for brochures or an email query, is captured into our database.
Primarily, the information provided is used to fulfil any queries and requests that have been sent to us, and also to keep you updated with news and promotions concerning England as a business destination, should you opt-in to receiving information from us. The gathered information also helps us to improve our website, by making it more personal for each individual user.

This information is confidential and is not passed on to our selected partners without your consent.


Data protection Statement
The British Tourist Authority ("BTA") holds and securely maintains a B2B Database, separately from this website to ensure that you have an opportunity to be involved in the successful development of tourism in Britain/England, for related market research, statistical analysis and to facilitate promotion of products and services in which you may be interested, to aid dissemination of information relating to tourism to the trade and others as well as tracking and recording contacts and participation in projects, publications and the like. If you wish to be involved and so as allow BTA to send you, for example, publications and details of relevant events, please complete the form below. This will enable us to assist you by offering opportunities and information from BTA or other relevant trade partners based within and outside the UK. Data will be processed for the purposes indicated in this section and will be held on the database of BTA for these purposes.

This privacy statement only applies to www.meetengland.com. Third party sites that are linked to from the Site, are not covered by this statement. You should check the privacy policy for the third party site in question to determine how your information will be used when visiting that site.

If you have any questions about the Site security or about this privacy policy please contact us at meetengland@visitbritain.org



* A statutory body incorporated under The Development of Tourism Act 1969 as the British Tourist Authority.