Privacy Policy
This site is operated by the National Exhibition Centre Limited.
The NEC, the ICC, the LG Arena, the NIA, Amadeus and The NEC Group
are all trading names of the National Exhibition Centre. Throughout
this Privacy Policy all references to we, our or us shall be
references to National Exhibition Centre Limited.
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we
collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by
us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and
practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat
it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the
data controller is The National Exhibition Centre Limited of The
National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham B40 1NT.
Information We May Collect From You
We may collect and process the following data about you:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our
websites. This includes information provided at the time of
registering to use any of our websites, subscribing to any of our
services, posting material or requesting further services. We may
also ask you for information when you enter a competition or
promotion and when you report a problem with any of our
websites.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that
correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research
purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through any of our
websites and of the fulfilment of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our websites including, but not
limited to, traffic data, location data, [weblogs] and other
communication data, whether this is required for our own billing
purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
Cookie Info
Our websites use cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters
and numbers that we put on your computer if you agree. These
cookies allow us to distinguish you from other users of our
website, which helps us to provide you with a good experience when
you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.
The cookies we use on our websites are "strictly necessary"
cookies, "analytical" cookies and "functionality" cookies.
"Strictly necessary" cookies are required for the operation of our
website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like
electronic shopping baskets, cannot be provided. "Analytical"
cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and
to see how visitors move around the site when they are using it.
This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by
ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
"Functionality" cookies are used to recognise you when you return
to our website and enables us to personalise the content of our
website for you.
Read more about the individual cookies we use and how to
recognise them in our Cookie Policy
Where We Store Your Personal Data
Certain data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and
stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area
("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the
EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe
engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the
processing of your payment details and the provision of support
services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this
transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably
necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in
accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure
servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) technology. Where we have given you (or where
you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain
parts of our websites, you are responsible for keeping this
password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with
anyone.
Uses Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
• To ensure that content from our websites is presented in the
most effective manner for you and for your computer.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you
request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have
consented to be contacted for such purposes.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered
into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our
services, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our services.
We may also use your data, or permit carefully selected third
parties to use your data if you have given us permission to do so,
to provide you with information about goods and services which may
be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about
these.
If you are an existing customer, we will contact you by
electronic means (email or SMS) with information about goods and
services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale
to you.
If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third
parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by
electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, you can opt
out at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we
send you. Alternatively, you can contact us at any time and ask us
not to contact you with marketing material.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our
group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company
and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies
Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third
parties:
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in
which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective
seller or buyer of such business or assets.
• If The National Exhibition Centre Limited or substantially all
of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal
data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred
assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data
in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to
enforce or apply our terms of use or any terms and conditions of
supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or
safety of The National Exhibition Centre Limited, our customers, or
others. This includes exchanging information with other companies
and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit
risk reduction.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to contact you with marketing
material. We will usually inform you if we intend to use your data
for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to
any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to
prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we
use to collect your data or by contacting us at info@necgroup.co.uk
Our websites may, from time to time, contain links to and from
the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.
If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that
these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not
accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about
you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the
Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our
costs in providing you with details of the information we hold
about you.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will
be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by
email.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy
are welcomed and should be addressed to info@necgroup.co.uk
Company Information
National Exhibition Centre Limited (The) is registered in England
and is a private limited company.
National Exhibition Centre Limited (The)
Registered Office: The National Exhibition Centre
Birmingham
West Midlands
B40 1NT
Company Registration Number: 00979395
VAT Number 670 3116 63
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