The Willan Publishing Ltd site may capture personal information in three ways, through our enquiry form, our inspection copy form and our shop.

Information collected for the satisfactory operation of both the enquiry form and inspection form is used for that purpose alone. We will only store your details for use in our mailing lists if you indicate your desire for us to do so.

Information collected for the satisfactory operation of the shop is used for that purpose alone. Users may elect to have their address details stored on the Web server to expedite future visits to the shop. Such stored data is only accessible to the user and is only used for the stated purpose.

Any personal information collected via the online shop is securely stored by Willan Publishing Ltd and its distributors, and will be used exclusively for the provision of purchases made by the user. The information will not be sold, leased or otherwise supplied to any third parties, other than to facilitate the supply and delivery of the ordered goods.

If you choose to join our mailing list, your mail/email address will be used solely to facilitate your membership of the list including, from time to time, to inform you of any news or developments which we may deem to be appropriate.

This site does use cookies to record unique visits to the site, shopping cart numbers and geographical locations (to facilitate the appropriate currency display). Cookies are not used for collection of any personal information, but merely to assign a unique cart number and country code to each visitor.

Under the terms of The Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of your personal data held by Willan Publishing Ltd. Requests should be made in the first instance by emailing our Data Management department.

A fee of not more than £10.00 may be payable for each request.

This privacy policy only covers the Willan Publishing Ltd Website at http://www.willanpublishing.co.uk, other links within this site to other websites are not covered by this policy.

Summary of terms

Browser
Used to locate and display Web pages via a software application. The most popular ones are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

Cookie
Message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.txt. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back. A cookie's main objective is to identify users and personalise their visit by customising web pages for them for example by welcoming them by name next time they visit the same site.