This Privacy Policy covers Virgin Unite's information collection and usage practices for Virgin Unite Users and the manner in which Virgin Unite collects and uses this information.
Pursuant to this Privacy Policy, Virgin Unite and the companies ("Affiliates & Agents") (including our Unite Partners and identified Partners) and those we use to run our web site and process and evaluate data, will not share your personally identifiable information with any third parties except as required by law.
Virgin Unite has no control over the privacy practices of any third party, including any of our Affiliates and Agents, and the manner in which any third party uses your information is not protected by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, Virgin Unite contains links to other sites, advertisers and other third parties. By clicking on any of these links, you are leaving the Virgin Unite web site. Virgin Unite has no control over the information collected from or about you by any third party after you have left the Virgin Unite web site.
The data collection and usage practices of any third party linked to Virgin Unite are not covered by this Privacy Policy.
Virgin Unite accepts no liability and is not responsible for any practices of such third party web sites, including their privacy practices or content.
Cookies
In addition, Virgin Unite uses "cookies" to store and collect information about your usage of the Virgin Unite web site, and the web sites of other Virgin Companies or Virgin Unite affiliate web sites.
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive and that send the information stored in them back to our web server when Virgin Unite web pages are accessed.
Our cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, but they do enable us to load your personal settings and preferences information. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies by default, but contain an option for you to turn off the cookie acceptance if you prefer.
If you turn off your cookie acceptance, you may not be able to sign on to Virgin Unite or access our services.
EU Privacy Directive
Currently we operate an ‘implied consent’ policy which means that we assume you are happy with Virgin Unites cookie usage. If you are not happy, then you should either not use this site, or you should delete cookies having visited the site, or you should browse the site using your browser’s anonymous usage setting (called “Incognito” in Chrome, “InPrivate” for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc.) . You may also choose to switch off 3rd party cookies without affecting the normal functioning of Virgin Unite.com. We recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance on controlling cookies for each browser and version.
Further Information we may collect
Additional system information we may gather includes time, type of web browser being used, the operating system/platform, your IP address, the web site from which you link to Virgin Unite, and CPU speed. We also take note of whether and how you use the information and services that we provide by recording site traffic patterns, user clickstreams and by maintaining log files of users' access to site files.
In addition to Virgin Unite, Virgin.com and third parties (including Virgin Unite Affiliates , Agents and Advertisers) may collect information from or about you when you visit their web sites. If you leave Virgin Unite and "link" to one of these other sites, Virgin Unite has no control over the way the information you give to these third parties (or what these third parties gather about you) is used and this information process is not subject to this Privacy Policy.
How is your information used?
The information collected during the application process may be used to match your skills and experience to relevant volunteer opportunities. It is also collected to form the basis of Your Account.
In order to provide you with access to a wide variety of opportunities, services and information that we believe will interest you, and make your experience more rewarding and enjoyable, Virgin Unite may also share information about our Users in anonymous statistical aggregate form. This aggregated statistical data could be shared with current and prospective advertisers, business partners and other third parties we believe can provide services or products that are interesting or useful to you. This aggregated statistical data does not contain any personally identifiable information about you.
What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
You can change, modify or delete information previously provided by logging onto Virgin Unite and visiting the appropriate page or by sending an email to contact@virginunite.co.uk
You may also deactivate your account and delete your information from the Virgin Unite database by sending an email to contact@virginunite.co.uk.
This email must include your full name, email address, address and contact information in order to allow Virgin Unite to verify the user's identity.
It is important to note, however, that once you have shared your information with another Virgin Unite User or any other third party, Virgin Unite cannot recover that information, even if you later decide to deactivate your Virgin Unite account.
What kinds of security procedures are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of information under Virgin Unite's control?
Virgin Unite has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of the information under our control including firewall intervention, software and hardware redundancy and a comprehensive data backup schedule. Nonetheless, due to the inherent risks of the Internet we cannot guarantee the protection of such information against loss, misuse or alteration.
How can you correct any inaccuracies in the information?
You can personally correct any inaccurate information by logging on to Virgin Unite and going to the appropriate page and making the changes yourself or by sending an e-mail to contact@virginunite.co.uk
This site, its promotions and its third party associations are intended only for persons over the age of 18.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this privacy policy without notice by posting the resulting revised Privacy Policy on the Virgin Unite website