Privacy Statement
Data Protection Act
The information you supply us will be treated with the strictest
confidence in accordance with the Data Protection Act. Information may
be stored on a computer database and used to keep you informed of SNP
news, campaign and other opportunities to support the Party. If you
prefer not to receive any future information, please contact us.
Joining the Party on-line
We collect the required information in order to check you meet the
conditions of and help you fulfil the opportunities provided by
membership of the SNP. At your option, we ask for additional
information such as gender and date of birth to help us provide a
better membership service to you.
Donating to the SNP
The information we ask for is used to process your donation and, if you
donate more than £200, to check that you are on the UK electoral
register. If you donate more than £1,000 to an SNP unit (e.g. local
branch or Constituency organisation) or more than £5,000 to the SNP
nationally in the course of a calendar year, your name and the amount
of your donation will be reported to the Electoral Commission for
publication on their public register of donations to the SNP.
Links to other sites
Our site contains links to other sites and servers. The SNP is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.
How we protect your information
Our website has security measures in place to protect against the loss,
misuse or alteration of the information under our control. Our server
is located in a locked, secure environment, with a guard posted 24
hours a day. When you contribute online, we use a secure server to
protect your credit card number and other personal information during
transmission. Credit card details remain encrypted until they are
transferred to a computer not directly connected to the internet.
Cookie
A cookie is a tiny text file that is stored on your computer. We may
use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our
site. This can include using this "cookie" file which would be stored
on your computer. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this
happening. We may store the internet address you connect to our
computer with, the time and date you connected, browser information and
the pages you visited. This information is used only to provide us with
a broad statistical breakdown of our site usage and to monitor site
security.
Contacting us about privacy
If you have any questions about our privacy policy, the information we
have collected from you online, the practices of this site or your
interaction with this website, send an email to: snp.hq@snp.org or telephone 0131 525 8900.
You can also contact us at the address below:
Scottish National Party
107 McDonald Road
Edinburgh EH7 4NW
Scotland
We will continue to evaluate our efforts to protect your information and will update our privacy policy whenever necessary.
