This privacy policy details how Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) uses and protects any information that you provide to us whilst you use any website under the control of the CPC, including but not limited to www.thecpc.ac.uk. CPC is fully committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should CPC ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
CPC may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. We have updated this page in line with GDPR requirements which came into force on 25th May 2018.
We collect necessary user data for anybody that completes one of our data collection forms such as member registration forms, the contact us form, the CPC Quote Tool, the CPC Sourcing Cloud Tool or the CPC Web Chat Tool. We shall only use this data in the following ways;
Our lawful basis for processing your general personal data stems from our legitimate interest in offering you our procurement services, where genuine needs for our services have been identified.
Processing your data is necessary because regular marketing contact with you is an effective way to determine whether you have a genuine need for our services and to agree a contact strategy with you that best suits your preferences and timescales, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights or freedoms.
CPC, in accordance with best practice, are committed to ensuring that your information is stored securely. To prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, CPC administer suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
If you sign up for our newsletter, which is administered through Mailchimp, or if you register for our site, we will store some of your information, including your email address, IP address and certain information about the links you click within the emails we send you, on a Mailchimp server.
Mailchimp will never contact you. Neither we nor Mailchimp will ever sell your email address. Neither will we share it with any other party, unless we are legally compelled to do so.
You are always free to unsubscribe from our newsletter, but as long as you are registered with CPC we may use Mailchimp to send you information about your account.
For further information about Mailchimp please see: mailchimp privacy policy
You can select to restrict or remove the collection or use of your personal information by writing to CPC or emailing us at [email protected]. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018. If you would like a copy of the information that CPC hold on you please write to:
Crescent Purchasing Ltd (CP Ltd),
Procurement House,
Unit 23,
Leslie Hough Way,
Salford,
M6 6AJ
The My Account section of the website provides a dashboard where you can manage your account and alter your contact preferences.
We use a number of different cookies on our site. If you do not know what cookies are, or how to control or delete them, then we recommend you visit http://www.aboutcookies.org for detailed guidance.
You will find information below on the cookies that we use on this site and their uses. Currently we operate an 'implied consent' policy which means that we assume you are happy with this usage. If you are not happy with our usage of cookies then you could delete the cookies after having visited the site or you could browse the site using your browser's anonymous usage setting (called "Incognito" in Chrome, "InPrivate" for Internet Explorer, "Private Browsing" in Firefox and Safari etc.)
These are cookies that are set by this website directly.
We make use of both session cookies and persistent cookies throughout all of the CPC websites; including but not limited to www.thecpc.ac.uk, this is to provide a fluid and consistent service. We deem these as being strictly necessary to the working of the website. If these are disabled then we expect that certain features of the website will not function correctly.
More information on the different types of cookies and what they are used for can be found at:
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about visitor behaviour on our website. Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. This Analytics data is collected via a JavaScript tag in the pages of our site and is not tied to personally identifiable information.
Facebook:This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables CPC to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables CPC to see how our users move between devices when accessing the CPC web site and Facebook, to ensure that CPC’s Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the CPC web site.
For further information about the Facebook Pixel please see: About the Facebook Pixel
LinkedIn:This Cookie is placed by LinkedIn. CPC use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about members interacting with our LinkedIn ads.
For further information about LinkedIn please see: About LinkedIn conversion tracking