Privacy Policy

Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (together with its affiliated entities which include all direct and indirect subsidiaries of Akzo Nobel NV (AkzoNobel) and UNICEK UK ("we" or "us") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act in England and Wales), the data controllers are:

  • Imperial Chemical Industries Limited (trading as ICI Paints AkzoNobel), registered in England and Wales under company number 218019, and with its registered office at 26th Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BG.
  • The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF, a charity registered in England and Wales, No 1072612, and with its registered office at 30a Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DU.

This policy applies to UNICEF UK to the extent it is considered to be a data controller in its own right and not only ICI Paints AkzoNobel's data processor under the Act in England and Wales.

Our nominated representatives for the purpose of the Act in England and Wales are:

  • For Akzo Nobel: The Data Protection Officer, Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, 26th Floor, Portland House, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5BG England..
  • For UNICEF UK: The Data Protection Officer, UNICEF UK, 30a Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DU, England.

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect, use, store and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide or have previously provided by filling in forms on our sites including through any interactive features (our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, naming a color, making a donation and posting or sending material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our site.
  • If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence and any information contained in it.
  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP Addresses And Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to the marketing agencies we use. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

  • To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  • To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
  • To speed up your searches.
  • To recognise you when you return to our site.

By using our site you are deemed to consent to our use of cookies. However you may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Where We Store Your Personal Data

The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us, one of our group companies or for one of our marketing agencies or other suppliers (directly or indirectly). By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy and as permitted by the applicable laws on data protection.

The transfer, storage and processing of personal data collected through this website is secured by means of current, usual technical measures. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

Uses Made Of The Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  • To contact you about operational and technical matters relating to your use of the site.
  • To contact you about UNICEF UK's work for children including for fundraising and/or to ask you to take some campaign action (where you have chosen to ‘opt in' to receive such contact).
  • To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
  • To process donations or other payments and verify financial transactions.
  • To notify you about changes to our service.
  • (In aggregated, anonymised form) to transfer to other of our group companies or third party marketing agencies or services databases for analysis purposes.

Disclosure Of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.

We may disclose your personal information directly or indirectly to third parties:

  • Where we use third parties to develop the site and/or maintain it and/or provide advertising/marketing and/or hosting or other technical services.
  • Where we use third parties to perform functions on our behalf, including processing credit/debit card payments.
  • Where we use third parties to perform marketing/advertising services.
  • If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us under or in connection with this Privacy Policy will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your Rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes in each case outside the scope of your use of our site. You can then exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at [ICI Paints AkzoNobel, Wexham Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 5DS, England OR ownacolour@akzonobel.com. If we contact you by email, each time you receive a message you will also have the option to decline to receive further information from us by clicking "unsubscribe".

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties (such as Facebook). If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access To Information

You have the right to access information held by us about you and may do so by contacting us using the details below. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in

providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to this policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

Responsiblity

AkzoNobel and UNICEF UK are not responsible for any acts or omissions of the other in relation to the operation of this site or the charitable promotion. The liability of AkzoNobel or UNICEF UK for their respective obligations and liabilities in relation to the site and the charitable promotion shall be several.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to [ICI Paints AkzoNobel, Wexham Road, Slough, Berkshire, SL2 5DS, England OR ownacolour@akzonobel.com