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This website and its services are owned and administered by BFBi. BFBI is a Brewing, Food and Beverage Industry Sector portal. BFBi appreciates that you trust us with your data. With our intention being transparent please see the details on how we use your data below.
What personal information we have and where do we store it?
BFBi as data controllers stores basic contact information of its members which includes first name, last name, email, address, city, country, postcode, telephone and fax of our members and employees. We also collect and store the email addresses of our newsletter subscribers.
Information is gathered when visitors fill forms on our website, via email or telephone to us, asking to be subscribed.Â
Data is stored until requested to be removed. If a request for removal is made the data is removed from our database.Â
How will this information be used?
The information about you as an identifiable individual, including contact details, may be used in a number of ways, including:
The collected data is not used for any additional purpose, such as to profile those who access our website.
What are your rights for your personal information?
You can contact us at info@bfbi.org.uk for any of the following requests for the personal information we hold of you
If you have any additional questions about BFBI’s collection and storage of data, please contact us at:
BFBI
11 Sidestrand
Pendeford Business Park
Wolverhampton, WV9 5HD
UK
Tel: +44 1902 422303
Fax: +44 1902 795744
E-Mail:Â info@bfbi.org.uk
Who will you share my personal information with?
Your personal details may be shared with third party organisations we have contracted to provide services to us which include processing data. We may also have to release information (which could include the contents of email communications between any persons) because of a legal requirement on us or pursuant to a court order.
What legal basis are we relying on to process the personal data?
The lawful basis for this information is contract with the individual and/or legitimate interests: We can process personal data without consent if we have a genuine and legitimate reason (including commercial benefit).
Information security
We have taken appropriate steps to ensure your information is safe with us. This includes but is not limited to
IPtables firewall, server hardening, server uptime monitoring, regular server updates and patches, brute force prevention on SSH and FTPES, Application firewall using Mod-Security, DDoS protection from Hetzner, OpenVas scans, Weekly checks for server security and performance, backup and archive solutions, disaster recovery solution, and HTTPS for the website.
Is any data stored or handled outside of the EEA (European Economic Area)?
Most of the data is stored within the EEA at Hetzner (www.hetzner.de) which we use for hosting requirements. Hetzner does not have software access to our servers as it does not have any OS accounts.
Our processor sapnagroup Ltd. a UK based IT company has sub processors Sapna Technologies in India which we use for our services which include software development and server maintenance. Sometimes data may be processed outside the EEA. Where this happens, we will ensure that it is given the same levels of protection as required under the UK Data Protection Act.
Processors
Whom to contact if you have queries or complain?
If you have any queries or complains you can write to us at  info@bfbi.org.uk
Communication with us
When you send email or other communications to BFBi or any of our team members, we may retain and store those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.
Cookies
This website uses cookies to store information on your computer. Cookies are small text files located in browser directories. Some of these cookies are essential to make our website work and others help us to improve by giving us some insight into how the site is being used. We use civicuk tool for you to manage the cookies on our site (https://www.civicuk.com/cookie-control) and explicitly give consent to non necessary cookies.Â
The cookies we may use on the BFBi website may be categorized as follows:
Strictly necessary cookies
To know how to manage your cookies (enable/disable etc) please refer to how to control cookies on www.aboutcookies.org.
Links from our site
Our website may contain links to other websites. Please note we have no control of websites outside our domain, and if you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
BFBI may change the privacy policy from time to time. All changes to privacy policy will be on this page.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us any time at info@bfbi.org.uk
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