Data Protection
We do not collect or process any of your personal information when you visit this website.
If you are a member of the pension fund and would like to know what personal information we hold and how we use it, please review the Highland Pension Fund Full Privacy Policy. Our contact details can be found here should you wish to get in touch.
IP addresses and cookies
We may collect information about your computer. We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
Cookies are small text files located in browser directories. Cookies are used to enhance a user’s experience by ensuring the websites work efficiently, perform certain functions and to provide information to the website owners. Some of the cookies used are essential for the site to operate. We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type and for system administration. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
Further details on the cookies used in this site appear in the table below:
| Cookie | Purpose | Activated | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google analytics | |||
| These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from, and the pages they visited. You can find more information at Privacy at Google. | |||
| _utma | This cookie keeps track of the number of times a visitor has been to the site, the date of their first visit, and the date of their last visit. | On visit | Never expires |
| _utmb | This cookie records the exact time a visitor enters the site. | On visit | Browser session |
| _utmc | This cookie records the exact time a visitor leaves the site. | On visit | Browser session plus 30 minutes |
| _utmz | This cookie records the details of how a visitor reached the site. This may be in the form of a link on another site, or the search engine and keywords used. | On visit | Never expires |
| Initiated by you | |||
| The following cookies are essential to the normal operation of our website, and do not store any personal information. | |||
| ASP.NET_SessionId | This cookie stores a unique identifier that is used to recognise you as you move between pages of the site. | On visit | Browser session |
| ASPXAUTH | This cookie records if you are logged in to the site. | On log in | Browser session or log out |
| cc_cookie_accept | This cookie records if you have accepted cookies on this site. | On accepting cookies | 12 months |
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use our browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all of parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and block them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by [post or telephone.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please contact us on the email address below.
Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
· In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
· If Hymans Robertson LLP or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
· If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Hymans Robertson LLP, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at pensions.section@highland.gov.uk.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.