Privacy Policy

Eurocodes Plus is a service provided by BSI (British Standards Institution), whose principal business address in the United Kingdom is 389 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 4AL United Kingdom. BSI is a company incorporated in the United Kingdom by Royal Charter. BSI is committed to protecting your privacy online.

We protect your personal information on the internet to an equivalent high standard as that of our responsibilities to you in any other dealings that we may have with you.

You can access your account details at any time if you wish to.

What information do we collect?

We collect information directly from you that you provide to us when you register on Eurocodes Plus. This information may include your name and email address, as well as any other information specified in the registration process.

Eurocodes Plus also automatically collects and receives certain information from your computer or mobile device, including the activities you perform on the site, the type of hardware and software you are using, and information obtained from cookies (for more information about cookies please see below and refer to the Eurocodes Plus Cookie policy). We may link this data to your unique Eurocodes Plus user ID to better understand your needs and the needs of users in the aggregate, diagnose problems, analyse trends, and improve the features and usability of our site.

The information we collect is used for the following purposes:

  • • To identify you when you log into your account
  • • To remember your preferences
  • • To monitor abuse of our content
  • • To collate statistical information about our website

We do not pass your details on to third parties.

Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We use cookies to identify registered users automatically when they log on and also to track users as they travel through the system. You can set up your browser to reject cookies but you should be aware that this could limit your ability to use certain features on our site.

Google Analytics

Eurocodes Plus uses a specific cookie in order to facilitate the use of Google Analytics for gathering usage data about our site. If you choose to log into Eurocodes Plus, we may use your unique user ID in combination with Google Analytics to track and analyse your use of the site. We do this only to better understand how you use the site, with a view to offering improvements for all Eurocodes Plus users. Google Analytics cookies do not provide BSI with any Personal Information.

Learn more about privacy at Google and to opt-out of this feature by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

For more information on the cookies used on Eurocodes Plus, please see our cookie policy. For more information on cookies, how to enable or disable cookies on your computer, how they are used and how to delete them please visit www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/

Shared information with other BSI businesses

Information sent to other BSI businesses may be shared with any other relevant BSI businesses in order to fulfil your information needs about products or services of those other BSI businesses in which you register an interest. Such information may include your contact details (if you have requested us to contact you in this regard).

We will not pass any information to any party outside the BSI Group, although we reserve the right to pass your details to law enforcement agencies if required to do so by applicable law.

If the ownership of BSI is changed, or the assets of BSI are sold we reserve the right to pass your details to the new purchaser, subject to notifying you of this as soon as is reasonably possible in the case of an asset sale.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted here although we may choose to email you directly or direct you to an updated policy when you visit our site if the changes are significant.