Virtual Reality Society Privacy Policy
What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for www.vrs.org.uk, served by The Virtual Reality Society, which governs the privacy of the users who choose to use the website.
The following privacy policy document details the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations and requirements of the users, the website and website owners regarding data related to user privacy. The way www.vrs.org.uk processes, stores and protects user data will also be detailed in the policy below.
The Virtual Reality Society Website
The Virtual Reality Society, its owners and administrators take a proactive approach to user privacy. We at VRS believe the privacy of anyone who uses our website is very important and as such we ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
The Virtual Reality Society, www.vrs.org.uk uses cookies (small files saved to the user’s computer to store information about the user’s interaction with VRS) to better the users experience while visiting the website. We comply with legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device. We only store
Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from www.vrs.org.uk on to their computer’s hard drive, they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
www.vrs.org.uk uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use the website. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. Google Analytics will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. For further information, please take a look at Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting The Virtual Reality Society, its editors and owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, following the principles detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but we advise users using such forms to email VRS that they do so at their own risk.
The Virtual Reality Society and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
External Links
Although The Virtual Reality Society only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)
The owners of VRS cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that The Virtual Reality Society, its editors and owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and engage with them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither VRS nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by email.
VRS uses social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web link URLs (Universal Resource Locators) to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy URLs.
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened URLs published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine URLs are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.