Legal Statement

To the fullest extent permitted at law, The Diocese of Winchester is providing this site and its contents on an 'as is' basis and makes no (and expressly disclaims all) representations or warranties of any kind with respect to this site or its contents including, without limitation, warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In addition, the Diocese of Winchester does not represent or warrant that the information accessible via this site is accurate, complete or current.

Except as specifically stated on this site, to the fullest extent permitted at law, the Diocese of Winchester or any of its representatives will be liable for damages 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.

Privacy Statement

The Diocese of Winchester regards the lawful and correct treatment of personal information as important to our service.

We will ensure that our staff and those acting on our behalf obtain, use and disclose personal information lawfully and correctly. To this end we fully endorse and adhere to the principles of data protection, as set out in the UK Data Protection Act 1998 (the 'Act'). We shall apply the Act globally, except where part or all of any local law is stronger.

In particular we will:

observe the conditions in the Act regarding the fair collection and use of personal information
meet our legal obligations to specify the purposes for which we process personal information, this information being set out in our data protection notification particulars which can be found on the Information Commissioner's website at www.dpr.gov.uk
collect and process appropriate personal information, only to the extent that it is needed to fulfill our operational needs or to comply with any legal requirement
ensure the accuracy of any personal information kept by us
apply checks to determine the length of time personal information is held by us
ensure that the rights of people about whom personal information is held, are able to be exercised fully under the Act
take appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard personal information
ascertain that personal information is not transferred outside the European Economic Area without suitable safeguards or agreement from the individual.

If we collect personal information via our website, prior to finally submitting any personal information to our website, we will endeavour to ensure that you are informed as to:

the purpose for collecting the information
what the information will be used for
the identity of anyone else to whom the information will be given and what they will use it for
how you can request copies of any personal information we hold on you

Please note that, where our website contains links to other websites, we are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites and this statement applies solely to any personal information collected by our website.

IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. We only use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer our website, track general user movements, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.