Introduction
Axis recognises privacy as an important issue. We therefore strive to ensure that our services do not compromise the users privacy in any way. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal data we gather when you use the Axis web site, as well as some of the steps to safeguard it.
Personal data is information that individually identifies you, such as your name, address or email address, to which UK data protection laws apply.
Data Collection
- You can access and browse our web site without disclosing your personal data.
- Axis does not automatically capture or store personal data from visitors to the site, other than to log the users IP address. This information is used only for administration of the site system and in the compilation of statistics used by Axis to assess the use of the site.
- Some of Axis services require you to register for an account. Axis will ask for personal data in order to create an account (typically your name, email address and a password for your account) and we will use this information to provide the service.
- For certain services, such as purchasing a service or product, we may request credit card information which we may maintain in encrypted form on secure servers.
- When we require personally identifying information, we will inform you about the types of information we collect and how we use it.
Use of Personal Data
- Axis will use the personal data to provide and improve the service to the user, or notify the user of changes to the service.
- Axis may from time to time provide the user with information about products, services and events that we think may be of interest to you.
- We will never pass your details on to third parties without your express consent.
- Axis may make personal data available internally to members of staff, to enable them to monitor the performance of the service.
Information Sharing
- Axis will never pass your personal data on to third parties without the your further express consent.
- While it is unlikely, Axis may be required to disclose your personal data by a court order to comply with other legal requirements. We will use all reasonable endeavours to notify you before we do so, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.
- If you have a user account, we may share the personal data submitted under your account within the organisation in order to provide and improve the quality of our service.
Use of cookies
- We use cookies for a statistical purposes, registration and advert tracking.
- For more information about cookies and managing them, including how to turn them off, please visit our page on Cookies
Information Security
- Axis will take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data.
- Axis restrict access to your personally identifying information to employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services.
- All Axis employees, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our users personal data.
Updating
- Axis provide mechanisms for updating and correcting your personally identifying information for accounts. For more information see the account help pages.
Access to the personal data we hold about you
Axis gives you online access to all your personal data through your account.
- You can add or update personal data stored as part of you account at any time.
- If you do not wish to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your account preferences.
You can also ask us whether we are keeping personal data about you by:
- Sending an email mark@axisweb.org
- Sending postal mail to Axis, Studio 17/18, Leeds Design Innovation Centre, 46 The Calls, Leeds, LS2 7EY, United Kingdom
We will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within 28 days. We will require proof of your identity and will provide the information at a charge of 
10.
Upon request, which you can indicate by:
- Sending an email mark@axisweb.org
- Sending postal mail to Axis, Studio 17/18, Leeds Design Innovation Centre, 46 The Calls, Leeds, LS2 7EY, United Kingdom
- Where appropriate you may have your personal data held by Axis:
- Erased
- Rectified or amended
- Completed
Assent to terms of privacy policy
By using the service you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this privacy policy and that you agree to us using your personal data for the purposes set out above and in the Axis terms and conditions for use of the website . Axis may amend this privacy policy at any time. Axis will notify you through the service of the changes.
