Privacy Statement

This statement covers the services provided by this web site: www.garethwong.com. The Data Controller for this web site is Gareth Wong.

The purpose of this statement is to inform users of this web site, which is managed by Gareth Wong, about the information that is collected from them when they visit this site, how this information is used, if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users' privacy.

Data Protection Act 1998
The Data Protection Act 1998 establishes rights for individuals who disclose their personal information - where personal information is widely defined - to any organisation for any purposes involving processing of that information. Any organisation which processes information about living individuals is a data controller for the purposes of the Act; that is a person who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are, or are to be, processed. A data controller is required by the Act to ensure that the data subject has, is provided with, or has made readily available to him certain specified information, including the data controller's identity, the identity of any other person to whom he may disclose the information, and the purpose or purposes for which the data are intended to be processed.

The data controller in relation to this web site is Gareth Wong. The purposes for which the data are intended to be processed are as follows:

1. Comments, questions and feedback

If you send an enquiry by e-mail to either a specific contact or a general enquiry address identified on the this web site, I will only use your personal details obtained from your enquiry to respond to your query or improve the site. In some instances, it may not be possible for me to provide the information requested directly. In such circumstances I may pass your enquiry to another party so that they can fulfil your information request.

2. Online forum

If you sign up to the online forum, such as the unofficial CASS forum, we will use the information you give us to provide the service(s) you have requested (or to enable other forum members to contact you for networking purpose). We may occasionally contact e-mail alert subscribers to help us evaluate and improve the service that we offer. We will hold the information you have provided for as long as you require access to the service requested. If you inform us that you wish to cancel a subscription/forum membersip, we will remove you from our mailing list and your details will be deleted from our records.

3. Site usage information

i) Cookies

Cookies are pieces of data that are often created when you visit a web site and are stored in the cookie directory of your own computer.

There are two areas within garethwong.com where cookies are created and these are only activated when a user chooses to open pages via banner adverts across the site. The first area where a cookie is activated is when a user takes part in any online questionnaire that we run from the site to survey opinions on the service we provide. This cookie prevents respondents from issuing multiple responses. The second type of cookie is part of the Cass unoffical forum.

ii) Log files

Log files allow us to record visitors' use of the site. We put together log file information from all our visitors, which we use solely to make improvements to the layout of the site and to the information on it, based on the way that visitors navigate around it. Log files are records of the visits made to the site from e-mail addresses and thus effectively contain personal information about you, areas in which you have expressed an interest, and so on. We do not make any other use of this personal information, nor do we pass it on to other organisation.

Your Rights as a Data Subject
As a data subject, you have various rights under the Act, including a right of access to any personal data being held about you by garethwong.com as data controller. I will supply you with details of personal data we are holding about you if you submit a request ("subject access request") to the datacontroller@garethwong.com e-mail account.

Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regular updating of this page ensures you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.