Privacy Policy

rWe (The Cayman Islands Government Office UK) are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of visitors to our web site and subscribers to our newsletters, correspondence and annual briefing. 

Here you’ll find the legally required information on how we treat data that we collect from visitors to our website, or when someone subscribes to our newsletter. 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. Here we offer you the opportunity to peruse the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Visitors to Our Website

When someone visits the cigouk.ky website we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. You can find more information on how cookies are used on this website in the Cookies Policy BELOW. 

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site  www.cigouk.ky (“our site”). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, signing up to receive newsletters, posting an enquiry, submitting and rsvp for an event, subscribing to a service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
• We run competitions and events and will collect your name and email address for so we can contact you with invitations and prizes or record your RSVP.
• Details of your visits to our site and the resources that you access.
• We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns and occasionally to provide targeted advertising to you based on your previous activity on our site).

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

Photography

We often take pictures of our events-in-progress to use on our Facebook page, website and in other promotional material. Whilst we do not require your permission or a model release form under UK law, we would prefer to do this with your approval and will assume that it is implicitly given when you attend our events unless you tell us otherwise.

We will not take or publish pictures of anyone under the age of 16 without permission from their parents.

Sensitive Personal Information

We don’t collect any sensitive personal information from you. Your gender, religion, abilities, sexuality and anything else that you deem none of our business, is quite rightly none of our business. However, if you have are differently abled and you would like to have some alternative support in order to get a fulfilling experience from our events and communications, then please feel free to get in touch in advance at news@cigouk.ky so that we can do our best to offer this to you. 

Disclosure of Your Information

We do not disclose your personal information to third parties except:

• 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 and conditions of supply and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our staff or others. This includes exchanging information with other Cayman Islands Government organisations for the purposes of  protection and risk reduction.

Newsletter Sign Up

As part of the sign up for the CIGO newsletters and annual briefing, we collect personal information. We use that information to inform you of news and updates from the Cayman Islands and to let you know what the Cayman Islands Government office is up to, this is a great way for you to keep in formed about our up coming events and videos. We may also contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information; to check our records are right and to check every now and then that you’re happy and satisfied. We have a partnership with our affiliate Cayman Connection, a network for Caymanians overseas, we will, from time to time share their news with you, but we never rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.

We use a third party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. 

You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing news@cigouk.ky.

Links to Other Websites

This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this privacy policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Access to Your Personal Information

You are entitled to access the personal information that hold. Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed in the first instance to: Privacy Officer, CIGOUK, 34 Dover Street, London W1S 4NG or news@cigouk.ky.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 18 September 2020.