LDA Privacy Statement

Use of Web beacons

The LDA Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called "single-pixel gifs" - that allow the LDA to count the number of users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. Web beacons are not used to access your personally identifiable information on the LDA site. They are a technique used to compile aggregated statistics about the LDA website usage. Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, the time and date of a page view and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.

Website usage data

With or without cookies, our website keeps track of usage data such as the source address of a page request (i.e. your IP address and domain name), the date and time of the page request, the referring website (if any) and other parameters in the URL (e.g. search criteria). We use this data to better understand the use of our website by visitors and to identify user preferences. This information is stored in log files and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting, but is not attributed to you as an individual.

Security

We recognise industry standards and employ security safeguards to protect information from unauthorised access and misuse. We use the most accurate and current information you provide in order to process your request. Furthermore, whenever you transmit sensitive information such as billing or credit card information to us through our website, we provide you access to our secure server that allows encryption across the Internet.

User submissions

Any material, information or other communication that you transmit or post to our website (other than your personal information) will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary, unless we are advised to the contrary. You are accordingly requested not to post confidential or proprietary information to our website. The LDA and its designees (including the local enterprise companies) will be free to copy, disclose, distribute, incorporate and otherwise use the communications in all data, images, sound, text and other things embodied therein for commercial or non-commercial purposes.

Users of our website are prohibited from posting or transmitting to or from this site any unlawful, threatening, libellous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or other material that would violate any law.