Privacy PolicyPrivacy Policy

The Green Spider (TGS) is registered with the Data Protection Registrar. We respect your right to privacy and will only send you relevant information if you specifically choose to receive it.

Any information you supply to us will only be used to improve the services we can offer to you.

We will not sell (or make available) your personal information to any third parties except where you have specifically given permission for this to happen. Services provided by The Green Spider entail the acquirement of certain information about you. The statement below gives the rules and principles that we obey with regards to your personal data.

By registering to use The Green Spider web site you agree to the following:

  1. When registering to use the site, we will ask you to provide certain personal information which will include your contact details and demographic information. This data will be used to contact you and provide you with details of our services and also to update you with improvements and updates to The Green Spider. You can select not to receive any information from us if you prefer.

  2. Several options will be available to receive information and updates from us. You will be able to select what types of contact you would like to receive from us in your member pages. Through continuous development we aim to be able to personalise the information you receive to increase it’s relevance to you. With this in mind we may also use the Data you provide us with in response to surveys and to aggregate user profiles.

  3. We may gather certain information about you when you use the The Green Spider to enable us to monitor and improve the site, including details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address, the details of the web site you came from

  4. We may use cookies to shortcut your access to the site and make your login easier. break We will only store information such as your User ID and your session identifiers to enable us to identify whether you are registered on to the site. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser's interaction with the site.

  5. The Green Spider does not pass Data to any third parties unless;

    a) You specifically request information to be sent by one of our partners.

    b) We are required to outsource marketing or technical operations, in which case we will only use reputable organisations who abide by the relevant Data Protection legislation.

    c) The Green Spider merges with another company. If this entails a change in how we would want to use your data we would only do so after gaining your expressed permission.

    d) Doing so would allow you access to the restricted parts of certain Service Providers' Information.

  6. The Green Spider website will contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for, nor do we monitor in any way, their data protection policies/procedures or their conten

  7. We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information including (where appropriate) the use of encryption technology, but despite this we are unable to guarantee the security of any Data you disclose online. You accept the security implications of on-line data transfer over the internet and do not hold us responsible for any breach of security (unless we have been negligent or in wilful default).

  8. Security measures are in place within The Green Spider, as an organisation, to ensure that personal information is not subject to unauthorised/unlawful processing.

  9. Relevant information you provide us with may be augmented with information we receive from third parties. You have the right to be informed about the personal information The Green Spider maintains on you. Any concerns that you have regarding the information we hold on you is incorrect, please contact us.

  10. You agree that we may disclose to any person empowered to require such information by or under any legal enactment, any information they may request or require relating to you.

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact: membership@thegreenspider.com