Copyright and Privacy Statement

Copyright

All documents on this website - including text, graphics, sound and video - remain the property of the Eco Trust unless they are the logos, graphics or copyright material of our associates, sponsors, funders or prize shortlist entrants. In this case they remain the property of those associates, sponsors, funders and entrants. In each case the copyright holder should be evident. Usually their logo or image will hotlink to their website. Please get in touch with them directly if you wish to use their logo, image or any other of their copyright material. If in doubt as to who owes what material please contact the Eco Prize.

The Eco Trust accepts no liability whatsoever for users of the site who may copy - without appropriate consent - the logo, image or any other copyright materials appearing on the site and owned by our associates, sponsors, funders, entrants or any other third party.

Eco Trust property may not be reproduced, stored or retransmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, photocopying or otherwise) without prior written permission from the Eco Trust, unless ALL of the following conditions apply:

• the document must be used for information purposes only AND
• the document must only be used for non-commercial purposes AND
• any copy of the document, or portion of it, must include a copyright notice signifying Eco Trust ownership.

The Eco Trust makes no representations or warranties, either express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information held here or its fitness for any purposes whatsoever. In no event will the Eco Trust be liable for any direct, special incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of the information held on this site.

Privacy

i. Website Visit Information

Registration
All areas of the Eco Prize website are freely available. No registration is required and therefore no personal details are requested or captured.

Log files
Log files do not contain any personal information. Rather the server identifies an IP address linked uniquely to your computer as is standard practice online. As with most websites, specialist software puts together standard log file information from all website visitors. This enables us to know how many unique visitors the site received, the length of time at the site and the way visitors moved round the site. Aggregated, this information may be used by the Eco Trust to modify the website and assess the success of its publicity by the number of people visiting the site.

In addition, should you choose to use the tell a friend feature, your IP address and the email address being sent to may be logged to prevent abuse of this function by spammers. No other use will be made of this logged data.

Cookies
Cookies are the tools that give websites a sense of memory, allowing them to recognise one user from another. Most sites use them to count the number of viewers for example or to deliver tailored editorial content. The advertising that funds many free sites relies on the reporting information delivered by counting cookies and website editors can use cookies to understand which of their pages are most popular. The Eco Prize website does not currently use cookies.

ii. Prize Entrant Information

Contact information supplied by entrants will be used by the Eco Prize to return entries, to inform candidates that they have been shortlisted and for subsequent correspondence connected with the prize. It is the policy of the Prize not to add contact details to any mailing list or any database, nor pass, sell, rent or trade them to associates, sponsors, funders or any third party, but rather to return this information to the entrant with their returned entries. In addition, entries are judged anonymously.

The terms of the Prize invite entrants to supply an address label and stamps to cover the postage cost of the return of their entry. If no postage is included we cannot guarantee return and the entry may be destroyed in the three month period following the prize entry deadline. In this case the entrants contact details will be destroyed as part of the entry.

We accept no liability for the safe return of any, or all, of the material submitted.

iii. Enquiry Information

The website has a ‘contact us’ page with a form for e-mailing the Eco Prize. The Eco Prize e-mail address is set so that incoming e-mail addresses are not stored automatically. In addition, incoming e-mails are deleted after they have been answered. Information supplied in written enquiries, including enquirer address details, and sent to the Prize PO Box will be returned to the enquirer with the reply. Thus information supplied in this way, including the e-mail address, is treated in the same way as if the information was supplied as prize entrant information (see above).

iv. Data Protection Act

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, the Data Controller for the Eco Prize is the Eco Trust. Any queries regarding the Eco Trust’s use of data and its data policies in connection with the Eco Prize should be sent to the Secretary, Eco Trust via our web form.
For further information about the Data Protection Act:
Data Protection Act
Information Commissioner