Disclaimer and Privacy Statement
Disclaimer
Northumbria Police Federation is providing this site on an 'as is' basis and makes no representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this site or its contents and disclaims all such representations and warranties. In addition, Northumbria Police Federation makes no representations or warranties about the accuracy, completeness, or suitability for any purpose of the information and related graphics published in this site. The information contained in this site may contain technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. All liability of Northumbria Police Federation howsoever arising for any such inaccuracies or errors is expressly excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Neither Northumbria Police Federation nor any of its officers, employees or other representatives will be liable for loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of this site. This is a comprehensive limitation of liability that applies to all damages of any kind, including (without limitation) compensatory, direct, indirect or consequential damages, loss of data, income or profit, loss of or damage to property and claims of third parties.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, none of the exclusions and limitations in the clause are intended to limit any rights you may have as a consumer under local law or other statutory rights which may not be excluded nor in any way to exclude or limit Northumbria Police Federation liability to you for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our officers, employees or agents. We are the proprietor/ trade mark appearing at the top of the home page. All other trademarks, brand names, product names and titles and copyrights used in this site are trademarks, brand names, product names or copyrights of their respective holders. No permission is given by Northumbria Police Federation in respect of the use of any of them and such use may constitute an infringement of the holder's rights. Northumbria Police Federation use outside organisations to provide Local, National and other news stories for their web site. The articles published do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Northumbria Police Federation Joint Branch Board.
Terms & Conditions
Terms of website use
This page (together with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which you may make use of our website https://www.norpolfed.org.uk whether as a guest or a Northumbria Police Federation member user. Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
Information about us
Our site is operated by Northumbria Police Federation ("We"). Our address is Northumbria Police Federation, 11-14 Apex Business Village, Annitsford, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 7BF.
Accessing our site
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time, if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of these terms of use.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these terms, and that they comply with them.
Intellectual property rights
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved. You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to material posted on our site. You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.
Reliance on information posted
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its contents.
Our site changes regularly
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely.
Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material.
Our liability
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby expressly exclude:
All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, common law or the law of equity.
Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any liability for:
loss of business;
loss of profits or contracts;
loss of anticipated savings;
loss of data;
loss of goodwill;
wasted management or office time; and
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
Whilst we work with and recommend the services and products of our Member Services partners, we do not necessarily endorse their services and/or products, and are not responsible for any loss, damage or inconvenience caused through the use of these services and/or products. If you wish to make a complaint about a Member Service provider, please email us at info.npf@polfed.org
Information about you and your visits to our site
We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate.
Viruses, hacking and other offences
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful.
You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it.
Linking to our site
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice. The website from which you are linking must comply in all respects with the content standards set out in our acceptable use policy.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set out above, please address your request to info.npf@polfed.org
Links from our site
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
Jurisdiction and applicable law
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site, although we retain the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions in your country of residence or any other relevant country.
These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales.
Variations
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.
Your concerns
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please contact info.npf@polfed.org
Privacy Policy
Northumbria Police Federation ask that you read this Privacy Policy ('the Policy') carefully as it contains important information about how we will use your personal data. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, Northumbria Police Federation ('we' or 'us') is a 'data controller' and as such we are responsible for the controlling and processing of, your personal data. We will act within the Data Protection Act 1988. Personal data we may collect about you
We will obtain (sensitive) personal data about you (such as your name, address, membership number, telephone number, rank, age, family, health, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, political opinion, lifestyle and social circumstances, education and employment and information regarding offences) whenever you complete an online or hard copy form and/or enquire about or access any representation or services. For example, we will obtain your personal data when you update your details on the website. We may also obtain sensitive personal data about you if you volunteer it during the completion of an online or hard copy form in relation to our provision of services or representation. If you volunteer such information, you will be consenting to our processing it for the purpose of providing this representation or service and other similar services to you.
We may monitor your usage of this website. This will not include tracking of your individual personal data. This data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually.
How we may use your personal data
We will use your personal data for the purposes of providing representation and services to you as a member, family of member, supporter, enquirer, employee, customer, service provider or professional consultant or representative of the Northumbria Police Federation Joint Branch Board Federation. These purposes include (not exhaustive):
- to help us identify you and any accounts you hold with us
- providing representation
- providing current and future services of a similar nature
- fulfilling any legal obligations - contractual, regulatory or otherwise
- which we consider to be in your vital interest
- administration
- statistical analysis
- fraud prevention and detection
- to notify you any changes to our website or our services which we may make
- improving our services
- pursuing the legitimate interests of the Branch Board
- marketing
Keeping your data secure We will use appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:
- we store your personal data on secure servers
- where required, encryption, privacy and password protection are in place
Whilst we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data which are transferred from you or to you via the internet.
Your rights
You have the right to request access to personal data which we may process about you and be provided with a copy (subject to exemptions defined within the Data Protection Act 1988). If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- put your request in writing
- include proof of your identity and address (e.g. a copy of your driving licence or passport, and a recent utility or credit card bill)
- specify the personal data you want access to, including any account or reference numbers where applicable.
- Make a payment of £10
You have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your data free of charge. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- put your request in writing
- provide us with enough information to identify you
- specify the information that is incorrect and what it should be replaced with.
You have the right to require the cessation of any personal data processing for the purpose of direct marketing. Details of this will be included on every direct marketing communication which we send to you. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- Put the request in writing
Our contact details
If you wish to contact us:
Please send an email to info.npf@polfed.org or you can write to us at Northumbria Police Federation, 11-14 Apex Business Village, Annitsford, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 7BF or call us on 0191 437 3000.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version which will apply each time you access this website.