Privacy Statement

The Highland Mountain Culture Association Limited (HMCA), Registered Address: Airds House, An Aird, Fort William, Inverness-shire, PH33 6BL, which runs the Fort William Mountain Festival is serious about your privacy. Please read the following privacy policy, which covers in detail the information we collect from you, how we use it to make the site better for you and how we keep this information secure. We comply fully with European principles of data protection, which say that data must be:

• Fairly and lawfully processed;
• Processed for limited purposes;
• Adequate, relevant and not excessive;
• Accurate;
• Not kept longer than necessary;
• Processed in accordance with the data subject's rights;
• Secure;
• Not transferred to countries without adequate protection.

What the Privacy Policy covers

This Privacy Policy covers treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect when you are on the this site.

There are many links within these pages, which will take you to other web sites. Please make sure you read the privacy policy of any other sites that may ask for personally identifiable information before you register with them.

What we Collect and How we use it

HMCA collects a minimal amount of personally identifiable information.

When you use our ticketing system we ask you to supply a certain ammount of personal information.

HMCA also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address , browser type and the pages you request.

HMCA uses this information in the following ways:

It enables us to customise the advertising & content of the web site and direct the site's development in ways that are suited most to your needs and interests.

We may use the information to contact you about our competitions, special offers and promotions.

Cookies

HMCA does not currently use cookies on this website

Your IP address will not be linked to your identifiable information.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

HMCA will not sell, share or hire out your personally identifiable information to anyone.

HMCA is the sole owner of the information collected on this site.

HMCA may send personally identifiable information about you to other companies or people when:

We need to share the information to provide a service you have requested; We need to send the information to member companies who work on behalf of HMCA to provide a service to you. (Unless we tell you differently, these companies do not have the right to use the personally identifiable information we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us).

or when...

We respond to legal summonses, court orders or other legal processes.

Changes to this Privacy policy

HMCA may amend this policy from time to time to take into account developments in the site and changes to information collected. If we make substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on our pages.

Should you have any queries regarding the capture, storage and use of personal information by HMCA please e-mail us with your question. Contact Us.

Summary of Terms

Browser

A browser is used to locate and display web pages via a software application. The two most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explore and Netscape Navigator.

Cookies

A cookie is a file that stores information given by a web server to a web browser. Each time your browser requests a page from the server, a cookie message is sent back to the browser. The main use of cookies is to identify users and allow a site to personalise visits by customising web pages - for example by welcoming you by name the next time you visit a site. A site using cookies will usually invite you to provide personal information such as your name, e-mail address and interests. When you clean out your Temporary Internet Files by doing a 'Disc Cleanup' the cookies that sites have put on your hard drive in order to load faster and provide personalised services will be lost. You may have to fill out registration forms again, and sites may seem to load lower.

IP address (Internet Protocol)

Anyone connected to the Internet has one. It should look something like this: 213.171.120.11

Web Server

A web server delivers web pages to your computer. Web site information is 'held' on web servers.