Privacy Policy
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and its wholly owned subsidiary company, IWM Business Services Limited (together CIWM), are committed to protecting the privacy of the users of this website.
This privacy policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website.
What information we collect about you?
Any information collected from you during the application process for a WAC course is held by the WAC centre you are applying to. Individual WAC centres are responsible for their own data protection, privacy and other policies. Information about these can be obtained either from their own websites or directly from the centre itself. CIWM, and IWMBS its trading subsidiary, has no responsibility for each centres policies.
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. Cookies allow web applications to respond to your interests and needs by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to track visitor use of individual website pages, to compile statistical reports on website activity and to improve our website by tailoring it to customer needs.
Cookies do not contain any personal information about you and they cannot be used to identify an individual user.
For further information about cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in some cases this may mean that some of our website features do not function.
The cookies used on our site are as follows:
| Cookie Set | Cookie Name | Purpose | More information |
| Essential site cookies |
ASP.NET_SessionId |
This cookie is essential for the website facilities and is set upon your arrival to the website. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. | Session ID explanation |
| Essential site cookies |
.ASPXAUTH |
This cookie is essential for the website facilities and is set upon login to the website. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser. | |
| Google Analytics | _utma _utmb _utmc _utmz |
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. | Google Analytics Privacy |
| Site specific cookie | CIWM | This cookie is set when you log in to the site and is removed from your machine 10 days after visiting the site. | |
| Text size cookies | ciwm_fontsize | This is used to store your text size choice when changing the text size on the screen using the web site facility to do this. This cookie is deleted after 1 year on your machine. |
Other websites
Our website contains links to other websites. These are provided for your convenience. They do not signify that we endorse the website and we have no responsibility for the content on the linked website(s). This privacy policy applies only to CIWM's website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.
Changes to our privacy policy
We keep our privacy policy under review and we will place any updates on this webpage. This privacy policy was last updated on 27th September 2011.
How to contact us
Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy policy. Please email compliance@ciwm.co.uk or write to:
Data Controller,
Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
9 Saxon Court
St.Peters Gardens
Northampton, NN1 1SX