Privacy Statement

This website is operated by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship (NCGE). On each visit to our website the server will log your Internet Protocol Address (IPA) and the domain name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP) but none of your personal details can be derived from this information.

We may process your personal data for the following purposes, some of which may overlap:

• any purposes stated to you at the time of collection of the data, and related and similar purposes;
• the pursuit of legitimate interests of the NCGE (such as administering and monitoring grants, and service provision);
• ensuring that the data is accurate;
• statutory and regulatory compliance;
• dealing with any application, enquiries and communications from you;
• transfers of data to other Governmental agencies, Universities, Colleges, the NCGE's associated agencies and other regional development agencies;
• contacting you by email about the activities of the NCGE, and those of its associated agencies and other entities;
• transfers of data to service suppliers, professional advisers and managing agents who undertake processing or other work on our behalf and at our direction;
• other purposes permitted by the DPA (for example to comply with legal obligations detailed at www.ico.gov.uk).

Any Personal Data you send to us will be treated confidentially and will only be Processed in accordance with the purposes set out above.

We use cookies to identify repeat visits to our site, and for no other purpose. This helps us to measure the success of the site and improve our service to users. We may in the future use cookies to gather non-personal data regarding visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general information.

If you decide to register for our e-mail updates service we will ask you to provide some details about yourself and your business interests; we will use this information to customise and deliver the services that we provide for you. The information that you give to us will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It will not be disclosed to any other organisations not directly concerned with the delivery of our services unless there is a legal obligation for us to do so.

Please remember that any e-mails that you send to us will pass over the public network and this cannot be assumed to be secure. However, once we receive your e-mail we will treat the information it contains as being proprietary and confidential.

Internet Protocol Address (IPA)
The address issued to your computer by your Internet Service Provider when you log onto to the Internet. It will look something like this 167.154.76.5.

Internet Service Provider (ISP)
The company that provides your access to the Internet.

Cookies
Cookies are text files that identify your computer to a server. They do not identify the individual. Cookies are used by some sites to track traffic flows and areas of a website that have been visited and for how long by the computer in question. You can accept or reject cookies by changing your browser settings.