Privacy Statement

About Your Privacy
At Life Map Planners, we value your support and we are committed to protecting your privacy. Our site is a safe environment for anyone who visits or makes a donation. The purpose of this statement is to share with you our policy concerning your privacy and how we, meet the data protection requirements for the United Kingdom and European Union. We are committed to respecting your privacy.

There are many sections of the Site that can be used without providing us with any personal details. For other sections of the Site you may need to provide, personal details about yourself. Once you choose to give personal details to us, we guarantee that these will only be used as detailed in this privacy statement in compliance with the Data Protection Act for the United Kingdom.

What Information do we collect?
When you visit our site, we collect some non-identifying basic information. This includes total number of visitors, pages viewed, and other non-identifying information. We use this aggregate information to improve our site and to make your experience on our website as smooth as possible. So that you may access all sections of the Site you will need to register and provide us with personal details including your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address.

To help us promote Equal opportunity when you register you will be asked for other information about ethnic origin and disability however, you are not required to give this information. You may register without providing us with this information.

How we use the information
We will use information provided by you to understand your needs and help us to provide you with a better service. Donations made on-line to us are secure. When you make a donation on-line, we ask for your name, address, daytime phone, e-mail address, and credit card information. We use your information to process your donation(s) and to verify credit card data. We use your mailing address to send your tax-deductible receipt(s) and to keep you informed about what we are doing through our publications. Your phone number is used only to contact you if we need to verify relevant information and occasionally to thank you for your contribution and tell you more about our work.

The personal details you give us will be used, in particular, for our internal record keeping; to enable us and certain associated organisations to occassionally contact you and inform you of new services or other information which we/they feel you may find interesting.

About our "cookies." we utilise "cookies," which are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser. The "cookies" we use are temporary and are only used to process your donation.

Occasionally, we also use cookies to track the number of users who come to our site for special-occasion gift-giving campaigns. This information is used to determine how effective the campaign was and not to identify an individual user. We may also choose to employ cookies at times to evaluate the ease of our process and to make it as user friendly and easy-to-use as possible.

We do not knowingly collect any personal information from a child without the consent of the child's parent(s).

Documents you produce through use of the LMP website will be monitored by LMP (or a third party on our behalf), to make sure that these materials are appropriate to the personal and career development aims of the website.

If you input information onto the website you are agreeing to this monitoring. If you do not want your information to be monitored, please do not input any information onto the website.

Who do we share Information with?
We may share any information provided by you with associated organisations who may from time to time provide you with information relating to careers and personal development matters that they/we believe may be of interest to you. We will do this to make sure that you are provided with relevant and up to date development information. This information will be given to you using the contact information you provided to us online.

Additionally, the people/ organisations listed below will be given access to information you provided through use of the Site so that they can support your personal and career development. These people/ organisations are:

• staff employed by LMP;
• teachers, lecturers and trainers employed by your school, college, university or trainer provider (as is applicable);
• mentors appointed by your school, college, university or training provider (as is applicable).

We must also give other organisations access to information held on the Site to make sure that we comply with our legal responsibilities including our legal responsibilities to certain public bodies which are responsible for monitoring, inspecting and funding the website.

So that we comply with our statutory obligations regarding equal opportunities, any information you provide regarding your ethnic origin and any disability you may have may be provided to public bodies responsible for making sure that we and the Site comply with relevant equal opportunities laws. This information will be made anonymous so that it cannot be linked to any particular individual.

It may be necessary for us to disclose information on the Site (including personal details) to protect LMP. If any information on the website, for example, indicates that a criminal offence has or may be committed, or that harm has or may be inflicted on an individual, we will disclose this information, and any other relevant information on the website, to the appropriate authorities.

We may disclose to third parties aggregate statistics regarding donations but these statistics do not include any personally identifying information. The information given includes: total number of donors, total amount of donations for specific periods of time, and referring websites. Aggregate information of this kind is used to encourage fundraising partnerships. We use a third-party financial institution to process our credit card transactions. They receive the credit card number and other personal information of our donors only to verify credit card numbers and to process credit card transactions in a secure environment.

It is our policy not to sell, trade, or rent your personal information to anyone. We reserve the right to change our policy at any time. If we choose to change our policy, you will be given the option to remove your name from our database. You can send anonymous donations simply by sending a money order to us at the address shown below. If you do not give your name and address we will be unable to send you a receipt.

How do you contact us regarding your information?
Under the Data Protection Act 1998, you can ask us for details of any information we hold about you. If you make a request for this information we will comply with the relevant legal requirements in dealing with this request. If you have any queries as to your personal information held by LMP; how this is used by LMP, or if you would like a copy of the information that we hold on you, please write to us at the e-mail address given below, giving full details of who you are and what specific information you require.

If you believe that any information we hold on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write or e-mail us at the addresses given above, and we will promptly amend any information found to be incorrect.

Confidentiality and Security
Any information you provide will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Your personal details will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent unless required to do so by law. At LMP we are committed to making sure that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorised access to your information or disclosure of your information, we have put in place suitable procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. We use encryption when collecting or transferring sensitive data such as credit card information.

Other Websites
The LMP website may contain links to allow you to easily visit other web sites of interest. You should note that once you have left our website and accessed these other sites using the links, we do not have any control over any other website you enter. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting any other website and any other website will not be covered by this privacy statement. You should take care and look at the privacy statement for any other website you access.