Privacy Policy

General Policy
Fair Finance Consortium takes your privacy seriously the following privacy statement covers the Fair Finance Consortium website at: http://www.fair-finance.net. Links to other websites are not covered by this policy including the Online Business Surgery, supplied to to the Fair Finance Consortium by the National Fediration of Enterprise Agencies ‘Small Business Advice’service. If you have any questions please Contact Us.

Information collection and use
Except where we specifically ask for information from you, this website does not collect personal information. We do collect anonymous information such as IP addresses (unique addresses of computers on the Internet) and pages viewed which we use for statistical reporting about the website.

We use cookies to help you navigate our website and make the most of its features. Cookies are small text files saved on your computer. They allow our website to save information about your preferences between visits to the site. We don't save any cookies with your personal information unless we ask you first and get your permission. If you log in to the website as a registered user, your cookie will contain your user ID so that we can check which services you are allowed to access. We also use temporary session cookies but they only last as long as your browser is open.
Website registration form

You may be asked for personal information if you want to take advantage of specific services that we offer. In each case we will only use the personal information you provide to deliver the services you have asked us to. Fair Finance Consortium will not sell or rent your personally identifiable information, gathered as a result of filling out the site registration form, to anyone. We will however send personally identifiable information about you to other partner organisations, companies or people when:

• We have your consent to share the information
• We respond to court orders or other legal processes
• Where we are required by law to provide information to others
• A service you have requested is supplied by a partner organisation on our behalf

We may also share information with selected partner organisations in the Business Support Network to help us make the West Midlands the best place to start and grow a business.

Email newsletters
Fair Finance may during the future development of the web site operate email newsletters. This will be a free service which will/ may require user sign up to receive the service. What we ask of you is your email address, at times we may ask you for further information, which is used for demographic purposes. We do not give our email lists out to other parties unless you choose to opt in to a scheme whereby third parties may use your details for their own purposes. Our newsletters may contain promotions or advertisements from various businesses or information on other sites or services that we offer/ broker. If at any time you wish to unsubscribe from our newsletter you may do so by visiting the site you signed up and using the unsubscribe facility. You may also email the website administrator although it may take a longer time before your email address is removed than with the automatic unsubscribe facility.

Registration
Our site may require you to register with us. This is to allow access to extra services that we provide for you. The information is not used for sending you newsletters or promotions unless stated.

Third party sites
Our site operates with third party sites (Small Business Advice Service). We may, on occasion, share non-personal aggregated information to these third parties.

Surveys
On occasion we may conduct online surveys. This is used to gauge our service, collect demographic information and other information that we may find useful. These surveys are optional. We may share non-personal, aggregated information with third parties.

Security
While we strive to keep the information that you supply directly or indirectly secure please be aware that the Internet is not a fully secure medium.

Competitions
From time to time we operate competitions and promotions. Participation in these is optional. Information submitted may be submitted to third parties, check individual competition rules. You may also be given an option to sign up for a free email newsletter, opting out of this does not disqualify you from a competition.

Usage of information
If requested we may submit your information to local or government authorities an funding bodies, in order to gauge the wards of the region where demand is high/ low for the future development of the Community Development Finance Sector.

Policy changes
By using our site you agree to accept this privacy policy and are aware that our policy may change with time. Any changes to this policy will appear on this web page.