Privacy Policy

The British Iranian Chamber of Commerce (BICC) is committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of everyone who visits this website. In this website privacy policy, we have set out how any personal information that we may collect from or that is about you, will be managed by us. We will safeguard the information covered by this policy in a manner consistent with your rights and our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR)

On Visiting Our Site

When you view our site in a browser, that browser allows us to collect, store and use information about your visit including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of stay, page views and how you navigated around the site.

To make this site work properly, small data files called cookies are sometimes placed on your device. These data files are not dangerous or invasive to your computer, and most websites do this. For more information, click here to read our Cookies Policy.

Website Form

The 'Contact Us Online' form is a method by which visitors to our site can makes enquiries of the BICC. The form allows us to collect only enough relevant information by which these enquiries can be met.

On Joining the BICC

We hold the following information on our members:

• Name of the corporate contact or individual member
• Name of the Company
• Address of the company or individual member
• E-mail address
• Telephone number

Sensitive Data

In Article 9, the GDPR refers to sensitive personal data as "special categories of personal data"

We do not collect personal data that is deemed as 'special categories of personal data', and this includes anybody's ethnic origin, physical health, mental health, religious beliefs, political views, trade union affiliations, sexual orientation, genetic data or biometric data.

We do not collect any personal information from anyone that we have identified to be under the age of 18.

All forms on this site require confirmation that the user be over 18.

We require this information to provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

On Visiting Our Site

To improve our website as we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information we receive from your browser.

Website Form

The BICC is committed to offering a broad a services as possible, and we understand that there is sometimes a need to contact us outside of regular office hours. For this reason, we have put in place forms on the website to facilitate this, thus allowing us to offer an alternative method of communcating with us.

On Joining the BICC

We use the information we collect on our members to:

• send information about forthcoming events;
• to communicate major developments at the Chamber;
• to update membership records;
• receive payment for membership, services and attendance at events

All data we receive is processed in accordance with this privacy policy.

We may use the information provided to us for the following purposes:

• to create web analytic reports
• to answer enquiries

if you are a member:

• we send information about forthcoming events
• we communicate major developments at the Chamber
• we update membership records
• we receive payment for membership, services and attendance at events

We do not use the information you provide to sell, trade, or rent your information to other companies for marketing purposes.

As part of running the chamber, we may share your information with:

• Board and Staff Members of the BICC
• Our Web Hosting Company, BerminghamWeb
• External Venues for Events

We may also share your information if we merge with another chamber.

In accordance with GDPR you have a right to access any information that we hold relating to you.

We will provide the first request for this data electronically, free of charge and in a reasonable time not exceeding one month.

We do reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee when a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive and particularly if it is repetitive.

This website contains links to other websites. We have no control over these websites. We cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites. These sites do not come under the governance of this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and always look at the privacy statement when visiting a third party site linked from this website.

Please do not hesitate to contact us regarding any matter relating to this Privacy Policy at admin@bicc.org.uk

This policy is updated from time to time. The latest version is published on this page.

This website privacy policy was updated on: 25/05/2018