The Socialist Party website is committed to protecting your privacy. You can travel through our site without giving us any information about yourself. However if you request a service, such as to join our party, or ask for more information, we do need information to provide you with what you request, and this statement of privacy explains data collection and use in those situations. 

Collecting your Personal Information If you want to join or find out more about our party, we ask you to fill in a form. The only required fields are name, address, and email. You get a confirmation email and you can re-submit corrections if you wish.

If you want to subscribe to The Socialist newspaper, we need your name and address, so that we can post your subscription to you. If you pay online, the payment is facilitated by Worldpay, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland, on their secure site, not on our site, and we have no access to your payment details.

Like most other websites, our hosting service provides us with logs to tell us which of our pages are most frequently visited and by how many users, etc. This is aggregate data and does not identify any individual. These web logs provide statistical information about the usefulness of various pages and designs. 

Bookshop: Your basket If you browse our bookshop you are given an order number, which your browser retains while it is open. When you close your browser the information is lost. This is a kind of cookie which the bookshop asks your browser to retain only while it is open. No information is saved to your computer.

If you place some books in your basket while browsing through our bookshop, then temporarily leave our website but return to it later without closing your browser, the books in your basket can be retrieved and displayed. But when you close your browser down without going to the checkout and buying the books, the information about the books in your basket is lost. We do not save this information to your computer.

We do not share the cookie with any third party. The cookie does not save any other information except the number of your order.

We do not share any information you submit with any third parties. We will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.  You can contact us during office hours on 020 8988 8777 to correct any information you have submitted, or write to us at the address below. We carefully protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration, or destruction.

Any changes to our policy will be posted here.

Updated 29 Jan 2010

Write to us at

Socialist Party, PO Box 24697, London E11 1YD

Call our national office on 020 8988 8777