Home Schools, Centre, Clubs Newsletter Mailing List Join Owners Club Boat Register Events Results Tuning Rules/Docs Technical Gallery Spec/Prices For Sale Contact Us Links Help?	Your Privacy and The RS Class Association Posted: 05/01/2004 at 09:30 GMT rs-association.com is owned and operated by The RS Class Association. RS Class Association East Hayes Grove Road Lymington Hants SO41 3RN The RS Class Association strongly believes in the importance of keeping members' personal information personal. It will never use your information for any use beyond that stated or the permissions you give us. Cookies A cookie is a text file automatically issued to your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used to track the flow of traffic through a website and identify the computer on any future visits to our site. The information stored in a cookie is not used to identify a particular user, just the computer used to access the site. By accepting a cookie you will allow information about your computer such as your internet browser type, screen resolution and location country to be used to compile anonymous statistics about visits to the website. The RS Class Association site uses cookies for the members only areas, this is to stop you having to login every time you display a new page, only your password and name is stored in the cookie no other personal information is stored in the cookie. The cookie is also only session based and all the information stored in that cookie is cleared as soon as you close your browser. If you do not wish to receive cookies please read the instructions at the bottom of the page. Please Note that if you do disable cookies your viewing will be restricted to the non-members areas only as the members sections use session cookies. For more information on cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org IP Addresses and Server Logs The RS Class Association site does record IP addresses and produces server logs – as all Web Servers do. This information is used solely for monitoring the volume of traffic the site receives and measuring the number of Members. We do not use the information for tracking the activities of specific visitors to the site. Advertising The RS Class Association contains links to many third-party Web sites and displays banner links to those third party sites. If you encounter any problems with the advertising please contact: Webmaster. Email and Online Forms Members who choose to subscribe to the Yahoo class mailing lists will be bound by the Yahoo privacy statement. Members who complete any of our online forms, may be asked to supply personal data. If they choose to do so, that information is recorded and used only by the RS Class Association. If permission is granted, this information may be used to target specific users with occasional emails informing them about commercial services provided by The RS Class Association. If permission is granted, this information may be used to send occasional emails containing offers from our partners. This will only ever be provided to members who have specifically given us permission to use their information in this way. The RS Class Association will never use your data for anything beyond the reason stated and the permissions you grant us. To unsubscribe from the daily updates, visit the following URL. Make sure that you enter exactly the same e-mail address as you used to join this service: http://www.rs-association.com/index.asp?fleet=RS Vision&selection=mailing Competitions Members who enter The RS Class Association competitions will be asked for some personal information, but only to allow us to judge the validity of their applications and to contact them should they be declared a competition winner. If permission is granted, this information may be used to target specific users with commercial services provided by The RS Class Association. If permission is granted, this information may be used to send occasional emails from The RS Class Association containing offers from our partners. This will only ever be provided to Members that have specifically given us permission to use their information in this way. The RS Class Association will never use your data for anything beyond the reason stated and the permissions you grant us. Publishing We reserve the right to publish emails and letters sent to The RS Class Association. If the sender asks that that we don't reveal his or her identity, that information won't be published. We never publish a private email address unless specifically asked to do so by its owner. Third Parties The RS Class Association has partnered with other organisations to provide you with some services such as discounted dinghy insurance and special rates online magazines. All have their own privacy policies, which can be found within their sites. Data Protection Anyone who provides The RS Class Association with personal information is given the opportunity to manage how that information is used. This includes opting out of any services and restricting the use of that information. You can do that by visiting this address or by contacting the Webmaster. Accessing your Data Members of The RS Class Association have certain rights under the UK’s Data Protection Acts. You can, for instance, ask to be told what information we hold about you on our databases. The RS Class Association will provide you with all of the details that we hold about you, both online and offline, upon request. The RS Class Association reserves the right to charge a £10 administration fee for this process. If you would like to request this information please use the contact details below. Changes to this Policy As statutory and online requirements change so this policy document may change. Any changes will be highlighted across the site to ensure that all Members have the opportunity to respond to these changes. Contacting The RS Class Association Data Controller If you wish to contact The RS Class Association regarding any aspect of the Privacy Policy you should use the following contact details: By Post: RS Class Association The Data Controller 34 Houlgate Way Axbridge Somerset BS26 2BY By Email membership@rs-association.com By Phone: 01275 872466 Cookie Control Internet users can choose whether to accept all cookies, recieve notification each time a cookie is about to be issued or not to receive cookies. Information on configuring these options for popular browsers is detailed below. Netscape 6.0: On your Task Bar, click: 1. Edit, then 2. Preferences 3. Click on Advanced 4. Click on Cookies Internet Explorer 6.0: 1. Choose Tools, then 2. Internet Options 3. Click the Privacy Tab 4. Click on Custom Level 5. Click on the 'Advanced' button 6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action. Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5: 1. Choose Tools, then 2. Internet Options 3. Click the Security tab 4. Click on Custom Level 5. Scroll down to the sixth option and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action. Internet Explorer 4.0: 1. Choose View, then 2. Internet Options 3. Click the Advanced tab 4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options. Internet Explorer 3.0: You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies. Netscape Communicator 4.0: On your Task Bar, click: 1. Edit, then 2. Preferences 3. Click on Advanced 4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies. View and delete the cookies that have been issued to you You can view the contents of each cookie stored on you computer by clicking on it, the cookie can be deleted by selecting the file and pressing the delete key. Netscape 6.0: On your Task Bar, click: 1. Edit, then 2. Preferences 3. Click on Advanced 4. Click on Cookies 5. Click the View Cookies button Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0: 1. Choose Tools, then 2. Internet Options 3. Click the General tab 4. Click Settings 5. View Files Internet Explorer 4.0: On your Task Bar, click: 1. View, then 2. Internet Options 3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click 4. Settings 5. View Files. Internet Explorer 3.0: On your Task Bar, click: 1. View 2. Options 3. Advanced 4. View Files. Netscape Communicator 4.0: Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. The file is called Cookie.txt.