Privacy Statement
The Local Futures Group Ltd ('LFG') takes the confidentiality of personal data seriously. Please contact us on 020 7440 7360 if you have any questions or comments on this Privacy Policy.

Introduction
LFG's Privacy Policy sets out the ways LFG processes personal data. This Privacy Policy only relates to personal data collected by LFG via LFG/Local Knowledge website, membership registration forms, event forms, emails and telephone calls. Any personal data collected by LFG is used in accordance with UK data protection legislation.

Use Made of Personal Information
Personal data will be collected and processed by LFG for the following purposes (1) to provide goods and services requested, (2) administration and (3) marketing, advertising and promotions, notification of events, workshops and training sessions run by LFG.
Processing personal data for the above purposes may entail sharing the information with employees, contractors, agents and professional advisors of LFG.

Verifying, updating and amending your personal information
When completing a Local Futures Network membership application form or a Local Knowledge subscription form, one representative within each organisation is nominated to act as the primary point of contact. Unless told otherwise, LFG will enter the email addresses of this representative onto LFG database to receive LFG communications and marketing information via email.
LFG may provide information on LFG products, membership services, events, and training programmes. If at any time users want to alter their preferences or LFG to stop sending such communications they should email marketing@localfutures.com with the subject heading: delete from database.
If, at any time, a user wants to verify, update or amend their personal data they may email marketing@localfutures.com

Disclosure of Data to Third Parties
LFG will not pass email addresses on to third parties for marketing purposes.

Cookies
A "cookie" is a small text file that is placed on a user's computer hard drive by a website. There are several types of cookie and the most common are often referred to as 'session' cookies. These are used to keep track of information needed by a user as they travel from page to page within a website. These cookies have a short lifetime and expire within a few minutes of the user leaving the site.
Other types of cookies can be used to track internet activity after the user has left a website. These are usually sponsored by organisations external to the website being visited and are generally known as 'third party' cookies. These usually have a long lifetime with several months being quite common. They are 'harvested' and 'refreshed' whenever the user visits a page where the same or a similar cookie is being used.
LFG uses benign, short lived 'session' cookies to tell whether a website user has logged, in, where to find details that can be used to pre-fill parts of on-line forms and to personalise the user's visit to the website. They are also used to track anonymously which areas of the site are popular and which are not used, this allows us to target carefully our website resources.
LFG cookies do not analyse visits to other website or any searches undertaken whilst on LFG website.
Internet browsers normally accept cookies by default; however, it is possible to set a browser to reject cookies. If this is done it is important not to exclude the benign and useful session cookies. Choose an option that rejects all third party and long lived cookies.

Links to Third Party Websites
This Privacy Policy applies solely to the personal data collected by LFG and does not apply to third party websites.
LFG is not responsible for the privacy policies of third party websites. LFG advises users to read the privacy policies of other websites before registering any personal data.

Notification of Changes
LFG will notify all members of any changes it makes to its Privacy Policy. Users have the right to ask LFG for a copy of all the personal data held about them and to request that LFG correct any inaccuracies in that information.