This statement sets out Carbon Alliance policies with respect to your interactive use of the material contained in the Carbon Alliance web site and the collection/use of your personal information. Carbon Alliance is committed to the principle of protecting an individual's privacy and acknowledges that you have a right to control your personal information.

Any personal information that we are entrusted with will be treated with due regard to these rights. Unless you give us explicit consent to act otherwise, the following policy will govern how Carbon Alliance handles your personal information and safeguards your privacy.

We will be guided in our dealings with you by respecting your choice as to who can use your personal information and how it can be used. We believe that our privacy policy is consistent with industry best practice.

Collecting personal information about you

Whenever you visit our website, the web server automatically retains your IP address and your activity on the site i.e. time of the visit and the pages which you visit. We also count, track and aggregate all site activity, which allows us to analyse general traffic flows and to identify the most useful sections of the site. The reason this information is gathered is to enhance and develop the site to best meet the needs and expectations of our customers.

It also provides us with the means by which we can monitor and develop our infrastructure in order to provide a robust web service. If the Carbon Alliance site requires you to provide an email address and/or other particulars to facilitate a query response or to process an order for the supply of goods, these details will be stored on the company's web server. This information will be kept confidential and will not be distributed to any third party without your express consent.