The Biochemical Society is a Registered Charity no. 253894 and Registered Company no. 892796, limited by guarantee. We are registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (no. Z5546006) in the UK under the Data Protection Act 1998.

The types of personal information we collect may include your title, first name, surname, gender, date of birth, your qualifications, home and work contact details (telephone, fax, street address, email address, credit card details or bank details) and your mailing address. We may also collect information relating to your employment, including where you are currently employed, your job title, areas of interest/expertise and your job function if this is relevant to the submission of information.

The Biochemical Society respects the privacy of its members and website users, and aims to act consistently with the Data Protection Act, and the 8 principles of data protection.

Generally, the Biochemical Society collects personal information directly from you. For example, we collect personal information when you submit any information to the web site or make an enquiry via a web form.

We collect personal data to administer our activities, products, services or grants and bursaries.

With your permission The Biochemical Society may use this information for such purposes as:

If you do not want to receive email from us in future please let us know by sending an email to education@biochemistry.org.

You can correct or update personal data by contacting the Biochemical Society by email at education@biochemistry.org.

The Biochemical Society's policy is not to disclose any personal information that we hold on you to any unrelated third party, except where you have given your express consent for us to do so or where required by law.

Arrangements are occasionally made with suppliers of goods and services (such as other scientific societies for their mailings to be sent to members). All material is carefully vetted and the mailing list is never released to third parties. The Biochemical Society may use your email address for the purpose of notifying you about products, services, events or activities of relevance to you. If you tell us that you do not wish us to use your personal information for a particular purpose, we will not do so.

Personal information collected on this website will be used only for the purpose stated (for example, to follow up on your feedback or keep you up-to-date with our educational activities) and such information will be held for as long as necessary to fulfil the stated purpose.

The Biochemical Society (or its committee members/representatives) may, from time to time, email you with additional information considered to be relevant to your professional/scientific interests, but only to those who have given their agreement to receiving such communications.

Information that you supply to the Biochemical Society is held securely and strict security procedures are followed to prevent unauthorized access or use.

We also collect information automatically about your visit to our site. This information is used to help us follow browsing preferences on our site so that we can regularly improve our website and enable more advanced features of our website.

You can seek access to the personal information we hold about you, by contacting us. You should include your name, address and telephone number. The Biochemical Society may charge a fee of £10 for responding to an access request. If the information we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated, please inform us so that we can correct it.

Alison McWhinnie (alison.mcwhinnie@biochemistry.org)
The Biochemical Society Data Protection Officer
The Biochemical Society
Charles Darwin House
12 Roger Street
London
WC1N 2JU

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7685 2400
Fax: +44(0) 20 7685 2470