Privacy & Legal
Use of LCG Bioscience website http://www.lcg-bourn.co.uk is governed by these Terms and Conditions. If a user does not accept these terms and conditions they should exit the LCG Bioscience website immediately. Specific attention is also drawn to the notice concerning copyright and the Privacy Statement.
LCG Bioscience may at any time revise these Terms and Conditions without notice. It is up to the user to regularly review the Terms and Conditions in case there are any changes. Continued use of the LCG Bioscience website after a change has been made is to be treated as acceptance of that change by the user.
Disclaimer
While LCG Bioscience tries hard to ensure that its website is functioning correctly and is as accurate as possible, this will not always be achievable and therefore the following disclaimer applies.
These websites are provided "as is" without any representation or endorsement made and without warranty of any kind whether express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, compatibility, non-infringement, accuracy and security. LCG Bioscience does not guarantee or represent that the content and/or facilities available or accessible via its website will always be accurate, complete or current or that access to the website will be uninterrupted.
LCG Bioscience expressly disclaims all liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage occasioned from the use or inability to use this website, whether directly or indirectly resulting from inaccuracies, defects, viruses, errors - whether typographical or otherwise, omissions, out of date information or otherwise.
Accessing this website and the downloading of material from it is done entirely at the user's own risk. The user, and not LCG Bioscience, will be entirely responsible for any resulting damage to software or computer systems and/or any resulting loss of data even if LCG Bioscience has been advised of the possibility of such damage.
Links
This website may contain links to other websites over which LCG Bioscience has no control. Such links are supplied solely for the convenience of users. LCG Bioscience is not responsible for the contents or reliability of the linked websites and does not necessarily endorse the views expressed within them or the organisation or persons providing them in any way.
LCG Bioscience does not guarantee that these links will work all of the time and we have no control over the availability of the linked pages.
Providers of other websites may place text-based links to pages on the LCG Bioscience website without seeking prior permission. However such links must not open LCG Bioscience website pages into frames within another website. Pages from the LCG Bioscience website must be loaded into the user's entire browser window. The use of the LCG Bioscience logo or the logos of any associated or subsidiary organisations must not be used for promotional or linking purposes unless prior approval in writing has been given. Please contact Dawn Course, IT and Core Services Director, Bourn Hall Ltd.
Jurisdiction
These terms and conditions will be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over disputes between a user and LCG Bioscience arising out of the access or use of these websites. Omissions by LCG Bioscience to exercise any right under these terms and conditions will not constitute a waiver of such right unless expressly stated by LCG Bioscience in writing.
Copyright
Unless expressly stated the copyright and other intellectual property rights (such as, design rights, trademarks, patents etc.) in any material provided on the LCG Bioscience website remains the property of LCG Bioscience (or as the case may be another rightful owner). LCG Bioscience owned material on this website including text and images, may not be printed, copied, reproduced, republished, downloaded, posted, displayed, modified, reused, broadcast or transmitted in any way, except for the user's own personal non-commercial use. Permission for any other type of use must be obtained – Contact Dawn Course, IT and Core Services Director, Bourn Hall Ltd.
Privacy Policy
LCG Bioscience respects user privacy and operates under a strict privacy policy.
Privacy Policy
This policy is designed to inform you of our commitment to upholding your right to privacy when using any of our web services. It describes the ways in which we capture information and the ways in which we use it.
For a statement of LCG Bioscience wider obligations under Data Protection Act, 1998 please view our Terms and Conditions.
LCG Bioscience considers its obligations under the Data Protection Act and related legislation to be of paramount importance, and has taken steps to ensure compliance with those provisions.
This privacy policy explains what information LCG Bioscience collects about those customers that use its websites and the procedures we have in place to safeguard your privacy.
What personal information do we collect?
The information we request from you will depend on the type of services you request or register for. It may simply be an e-mail address if you post a message to our bulletin board or it may include details such as your home address if you are registering to purchase goods on-line.
We do not obtain any payment information from you. This is collected and held securely by our provider of online payment facilities on our behalf. Please ensure you read the privacy policy on their website in relation to the information you submit in relation to payments. This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfil your orders. No financial information is stored on our servers.
In any case, we will only request information that is necessary to enable us to provide you with the service you have requested.
If you are under 18, please get your parent/guardian's permission before providing personal information to LCG Bioscience.
Why do we collect and store your information?
LCG Bioscience operates in a wide variety of business areas and therefore uses personal data in many different ways. These purposes are notified, where required to the Information Commissioner who regulates the Data Protection Act and you can see any current notifications for LCG Bioscience at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
The principle purposes for which we collect and store your information are:
- Notification of new products or services
- Notification of special offers and discounts
- Research
- Marketing
- Provision of customised web enabled services
- General information relating to LCG Bioscience activities
How do we contact you?
We may contact you to provide the services that you have purchased or registered for. Depending on your preferences we may contact you by post, email, telephone or text messaging.
What do we do with your information?
Direct Marketing
When we collect information from you we will tell you if we would like to send you information about our products and services. We will give you the opportunity to tell us you do not wish to receive such information. If you do not object to receiving marketing material at the time, but subsequently change your mind, you may tell us so at any time by contacting Dawn Course, IT and Core Services Director, Bourn Hall Ltd.
If we wish to share your data with third parties for marketing purposes, we will again tell you about this and only do so if we get your consent. Again, you may tell us at any time that you no longer agree to your details being shared with third parties for marketing purposes.
Research
Occasionally, we or one of our agents may contact you for research purposes. We only hire reputable third parties do undertake such projects on our behalf. You are under no obligation to participate in this research.
Disclosing information
We may disclose your personal data to our service providers who are responsible for operating some of our services.
Where such disclosures are made, this will be under contractual arrangements with LCG Bioscience and carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act, 1998.
We may also disclose your personal data to other agencies at their request, for the purposes of crime prevention and detection and where otherwise required to do so by law.
Use of cookies on our site
A cookie is a piece of text that a website transfers to a directory on your computer's hard disk, so that the website can remember who you are. This text file is known as a `cookie`.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the website from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Allowing a website to create a cookie does not give that or any other website access to the rest of your computer, and only the site that created the cookie can read it.
Two types of cookies are used on our websites:
Session cookies
Which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
Persistent cookies
Which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred choices. Most major websites use cookies.
Our cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Find out more about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/
How we use cookies on our site and what information we collect
Session cookies
- To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information
- To allow you to maintain a shopping basket
- Within registration to allow you to access stored information
Persistent cookies
- To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly
- Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so
- Third party cookies
- Third parties serve persistent cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes:
- To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users interact with our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way
- To serve advertisements on our site and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users
- To control how often a particular advertisement is shown
- To tailor preferences
- To count the number of anonymous users of our site
- To provide security within shopping baskets or transactions
Use of web beacons
Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count visiting these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which includes a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign. Find out more about web beacons at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/web-beacons/
Disabling / enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.
You may disable cookies through your browser by following the instructions found at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/
Protecting your information
We use up-to-date industry procedures to protect your personal information. We also protect the security of your data during transmission using Secure Sockets (SSL) Layer encryption software.
We have appropriate security measures in place in our physical facilities to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from you via our websites.
The internet is not a secure medium of communication. LCG Bioscience cannot guarantee the security of any information you input on this website or send to us on the internet.
LCG Bioscience is not, and will not be, responsible for any damages you or others may suffer as a result if the loss of confidentiality of any such information.
Changes to this policy
We may revise this policy at any time by posting the revised policy on the LCG Bioscience website. Your continued use of the site will mean that you accept those revisions.
Links to other websites
The LCG Bioscience website may contain links that make it easier for users to visit other websites. If you use the links to leave this website and to visit one operated by a third party, we will not have any control over that website or if it makes use of cookies.
LCG Bioscience cannot be responsible for your protection and privacy when visiting such websites. You should check the privacy policies of those websites before entering any personal information.
Contact details
Dawn Course,
IT and Core Services Director,
Bourn Hall Ltd
Bourn Hall
Bourn
Cambridge CB23 2TN