This privacy policy tells you what to expect when National Herdspersons Conference collects personal information that you provide to us.
Visitors to our websitesWhen someone visits this 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 that 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. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.
Search EnginesSearch queries and results are logged anonymously to help us improve our website and search functionality. No user-specific data is collected by either b4b marketing or any third party.
Email MarketingWe use third-party email service providers, MPZMail and iContact, to deliver our email marketing. We gather statistics about email opens and clicks using industry standard technologies including clear gifs to help us monitor and improve our e-marketing activity. Please see iContact’s policy for further details.
Cookie PolicyThis website uses cookies. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to National Herdspersons Conference’s use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
Cookies are files sent by web servers to web browsers and stored by the web browsers.
The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables a web server to identify and track web browsers.
There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.
We use cookies on this website, for the following purposes:
We use a third-party service to help maintain the security and performance of the National Herdspersons Conference website. To deliver this service, it processes the IP addresses of visitors to the website.
Contact FormsShould you choose to contact us using a contact form on our website or an email link, the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). We use a third-party service which encrypts the email content using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.
Social MediaIf you send us a private or direct message via social media the message will be stored within our password-protected account. It will not be shared with any other organisations.
EmailsWe use a third-party provider to encrypt and protect our email traffic. If your email service does not support TLS, you should be aware that any emails we send or receive may not be protected in transit.
We will also monitor any emails sent to us, including file attachments, for viruses or malicious software. Please be aware that you have a responsibility to ensure that any email you send is within the bounds of the law.
Access to Personal InformationNational Herdspersons Conference tries to be as open as it can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information. Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’. If we do hold information about you, we will:
give you a description of it;
tell you why we are holding it;
tell you who it could be disclosed to; and
let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.
To make a request to National Herdspersons Conference for any personal information we may hold, you need to put the request in writing addressing it to the address provided below.
If you agree, we will try to deal with your request informally, for example by providing you with the specific information you need over the telephone.
If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by, once again, contacting us via the address below.
Links to other websitesThis privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
Changes to this privacy noticeWe keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 13 April 2024.
How to contact usIf you want to request information about our privacy policy, you can email us.
After much consideration and consultation with sponsors and partners we have, for the time being, took the decision to postpone the national herdspersons conference for this year. As many of you will know, our normal April dates had to be moved to July due to availability of accommodation at Harper Adams University, and whilst the new dates would normally fit between silage cuts for most, the spring and early summer weather this year has had an impact on silage making and field work with many people being unable to commit to attendance. Like many events over the next few weeks who are also reporting similar issues, we have had to consider not only the viability of going ahead but most importantly the experience of the delegates who can attend and our aim would always be to put on a vibrant conference where delegates depart not only with new knowledge and ideas, but also new friends and contacts within the sector. As a not for profit event and with many being unable to commit until very late, we feel this would be compromised and that the decision to take a pause this year is the correct one as we focus our efforts towards the future.
We will be working with speakers and sponsors over the summer with a view of bringing video presentations and content via social media platforms to get the latest thinking and ideas out to you and to maintain a presence as we evaluate the best way to deliver leading techniques, the latest knowledge, best practice and the latest innovations in herd management directly to you - the UK’s cow professionals and how to show case and celebrate the fundamental and crucial role you play in the UK dairy sector.
In the meantime there are a number of one day events coming up over the next few weeks by industry partners and colleagues and I would urge you to try to attend one of these:-
Keep an eye out for news and the content we will be making on social media and we look forward to bringing you a live event in the not too distant future!