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Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement

Privacy Statement
Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing (RSOBHD) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the highland-dancing.com site and governs data collection and usage. By using the highland-dancing.com site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
RSOBHD collects personally identifiable information, such as your email address, name and telephone number through our Contact US form.

There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by BRSOBHD. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used by RSOBHD for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the highland-dancing.com site.

RSOBHD encourages you to review the privacy statements of Web sites you choose to link to from the highland-dancing.com so that you can understand how those Web sites collect, use and share your information. RSOBHD is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Web sites.

Use of your Personal Information
RSOBHD collects and uses your personal information to operate the highland-dancing.com Web site and deliver the services you have requested.

RSOBHD does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

RSOBHD does not use or disclose sensitive personal information without your explicit consent.

RSOBHD Web sites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on RSOBHDl or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of RSOBHD; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of RSOBHD, or the public.

The RSOBHD will retain your personal data in accordance with the applicable law. We may also retain certain information in order to conduct audits, comply with our legal obligations (and to demonstrate compliance) and to resolve disputes. However, we will not retain your personal data for longer than reasonably necessary. Once your data is of no further use it will be deleted from our systems. Your rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)(Regulation (EU) 2016/679) are protected.

Use of Cookies
The highland-dancing.com Web site use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the highland-dancing.com Web site.

Security of your Personal Information
RSOBHD secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. RSOBHD secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Changes to this Statement
RSOBHD will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. RSOBHD encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of how RSOBHD is protecting your information.

Contact Information
RSOBHD welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that RSOBHD has not adhered to this Statement, please contact RSOBHD at admin@rsobhd.net. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem.