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Data Protection Notice

The NSS Data Protection Notice provides further information as to what personal information NSS as an organisation use, what our legal basis is for using it, and how we protect it.

Collecting and using personal information

We collect certain information or data about you when you use our website.

This includes:

  • your email address if you contact us using our contact web form.
  • information on how you use the site, using cookies and page tagging techniques to help us improve the website (these cookies aren't used to identify you personally)

This helps us to:

  • respond to any feedback you send us, if you've asked us to
  • improve the site by monitoring how you use it

We won't share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes, and we don't pass on your details to other websites.

Disclosing or sharing your information

Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so.

Content disclaimer

We seek to ensure that information on our website is up-to-date and accurate. However, the information does not constitute legal or professional advice and we cannot accept liability for actions arising from its use. Neither can we be held responsible for the contents of any pages referenced by an external link.

Links to and from our website

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this site and doesn't cover other websites.

We welcome websites to link to our site. You don't have to ask for permission to do so.

However, we don't give you permission to suggest that your website is associated with, or endorsed by, our website.

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.