Use of this site (www.core-issues.org) is provided by Michael Davidson. This is document outlines how your personal information will be treated. You should also read the Ground Rules.

Submitting personal information:

• From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (eg. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on this website. Such services include newsletters, live chats, discussion forums and membership/account details.
• By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the Core-issues/learning to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy.
• Our services aim to act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

Privacy Statement:

• We will respect your information, as well as treating it in accordance with the law. During the course of any visit to www.core-issues.org the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Visitors to this website:

• Cookies are stored within your web browser and identify your computer to my server. They also allow us to record how frequently you visit the site and the areas you navigate within it. You can check the cookie in your web browser to ensure that the information record is correct (see below).

Personal Information:

• www.Core-issues.org will ask for your consent to hold your personal details. These details will automatically be checked against the data contained within your Cookie.
• Your personal details will never be supplied to anyone without first obtaining your consent, unless I am obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.
• If you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to the CORE website or engage in any disruptive behaviour on the site, and I consider such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, I will use whatever information that is available to me about you to stop such behaviour. This may include informing relevant third parties.
• I will hold your personal information on my systems for as long as you use the service(s) you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, you no longer wish to continue your registration as a user.

What I collect:

• www.core-issues.org uses your information to understand better your needs and provide you with better service. Specifically, I use your information to help you complete a transaction, to communicate back to you, to update you on service and benefits, and to personalise the website for you.

How I use it:

• I will keep a record of your details. If you sign up to my newsletter your details will not be passed on to third parties. On this website, you can, make requests, download data and register to receive materials. The types of personal information collected at these pages are name, contact information, the type of request made and data downloaded.

Newsletters:

• From time to time, I may use your information to contact you by email. This will usually be for administration purposes. This means that I may contact you for a number of purposes related to the services you have signed up for. For example, it may be necessary to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance.
• If you reply to a message in any of the Discussion Forums, you are automatically subscribed to that Forum. This will result in you receiving emails of subsequent posts. Each of these Forum emails has details of how to unsubscribe.