The National Literacy Trust is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of its website users and other contacts.

We are based in the UK and our principal activities are providing information on developing literacy and promoting reading, and running a number of projects to develop innovative practice. Our privacy policy covers the National Literacy Trust and all subsidiary projects.

Our website

Our website aims to provide accurate information on literacy and related issues which meets the needs of all its users - we welcome news and information for inclusion on the site. We include links to third party web service providers and are happy for other sites to link to us, providing clear acknowledgement is made.

The site is developed in accordance with users' requests for information. Overviews written by the NLT aim to provide a synthesis of current fact and opinion and are not policy statements.

Other information comes from a range of sources and where these are cited, the views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the NLT.

We do not use cookies on our websites and you can access and browse them without disclosing your personal data. Anonymous information is collected, such as the number of visitors to the site in a given period, but it is purely statistical and cannot be used to identify individual users.

Email addresses

We collect email addresses from those who voluntarily sign up for any one of our free email newsletters. We do not sell or pass on these addresses to any other organisation, or use them for any other purpose ourselves. Other contact details are not passed on without advance notification or consent (or both).

Other personal data

We collect contact details for project partners, donors/supporters, key practitioners and researchers so that we can finance and carry out our work. Professional contact details provided on this site are either taken from public sources or given to us knowingly and used with permission.

In addition to the above, Reading Is Fundamental, UK collects contact details for children's book publishers and volunteers. This information is given to us knowingly and voluntarily so that we can manage the RIF initiative.

Our guidelines for use of personal data on our website and in our publications:

• We will not give the personal data or full name of any child in a photographic image
• We will not include personal email or postal addresses, or telephone or fax numbers in any of our publications
• We may use group photographs with very general captions such as, "Year 6 class choosing their RIF books"
• We will only use pictures of children who are suitably dressed, to reduce the risk of such images being used inappropriately
• If we name a child in the text, for example, as the author of a competition-winning entry on our website, we will not use a photograph of that child to accompany the text
• We request personal data (for example, age and postal address) from children only for the purposes of judging competition entries and sending out prizes. This information is then destroyed
• We seek permission from parents/guardians, either directly or via project partners, to use photographs of their children for promotional purposes and subject to the above guidelines

Our privacy policy is compliant with the UK Data Protection Act 1998, and we are entered in the Data Protection Register. Visit www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy, please call Sam Brookes on 020 7820 6255 or email sam.brookes@literacytrust.org.uk.