Cookie Policy

We would like to thank you for visiting the site. We are committed to protecting our visitors’ privacy and we will not collect any personal information about you as a visitor unless you provide it voluntarily. Any personal information you communicate to us is kept within the National Commission for the Promotion of Equality, in accordance with the Data Protection Act.

The Data Protection Act 2001 was enacted on 14 December 2001 and came fully into force on 15 July 2003. We therefore have a legal duty to respect and protect any personal information we collect from you and we will abide by such duty. We take all necessary measures to prevent unauthorised access and we do not pass your details collected from you as a visitor, to any third party except as detailed below or unless you give us your consent to do so.

Download Information

If you read or download information from our site, we automatically collect and store the following non-personal information:

• The requested web page or download;
• Whether the request was successful or not;
• The data and time when you accessed the site;
• The Internet address of the website or the domain name of the computer from which you accessed the site;
• The operating system of the machine running your web browser and the type and version of your web browser

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of data that the site transfers to the user’s computer hard drive when the user visits the website. Our website uses only session cookies which are erased when the user closes the Web browser. The session cookie is stored in temporary memory and is not retained after the browser is closed. Session cookies do not collect information from the user’s computer. They will typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.

Personal Information

When using this website’s online Directory of Professional Women, data subject will be required to provide personal data for the purpose of data collection. The aim of such data is to give visibility to professional women in their various sectors. For such purpose, the below data shall be published online:

• Job Title
• Job Description
• Years of Experience
• Years of Specialised Expertise
• Employment Status
• Highest level of education attained – optional
• Qualifications – optional

You may request access to any information that we hold on you in relation to your profile and have the right to correct and erase inaccuracies where applicable.
To prevent any cyber abuse, we also retain a record of the messages sent by the website users to professional women.

Links

In our site you may find links to the websites of other local and international organisations and agencies, including private organisations. It is important for you to note that upon linking to another site, you are no longer in our site and you become subject to the privacy policy of the new site.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

If there are any changes to this privacy policy, we will replace this page with an updated version. It is therefore in your own interest to check the ‘Privacy Policy’ page any time you access our web site so as to be aware of any changes which may occur from time to time.