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Privacy Policy
Please note that this Policy applies only to the RSA website. The RSA is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party sites that may link from our site nor does it undertake to recommend any of those sites as places where goods or services may be purchased or offered.
Consent
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Information that you may input from time to time
The RSA requires that customers supply personal information when registering to access particular services. Over a period of time The RSA may collate further personal information from users.
The collection and use of your information will be restricted to the minimum required to continue to deliver, develop and improve services to you. Dependent on the questions asked and the services offered you may from time to time receive from us either an email or postal description of products or services. If you choose not to receive these the company will only contact you if they feel your access to the service may be affected, you may also at any time ask for your details to be removed from the database simply by sending an email to the webmaster with the word 'remove from database' in the subject area - see below for the email address.
Security
We have strict security and confidentiality procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information in order to safeguard it, to prevent unauthorised access and to comply with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. We only permit authorised employees, who are trained in the proper handling of customer information, to have access to information. Employees who breach our Privacy Policy are subject to our usual disciplinary procedures.
Whenever we sub-contract other organisations to provide support services, we require them to conform to our privacy standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
Further information that you post on any message board is visible to the public. If you disclose personal information publicly, including your email address, it can be collected and used by others which may result in unsolicited messages from other parties. The RSA cannot guarantee the security of your information although all reasonable measures will be taken to stop
this falling into the wrong hands. The user or subscriber is responsible for the secrecy of your password(s) and/or any account information.
Contact details
Should you feel that your privacy or security is being compromised, or have any questions on this statement, please contact the webmaster.
Furtherfield.org: The Zero Dollar Laptop
Nice to see Bruce Sterling picking up on the excellent media arts collective furtherfield.org’s Zero Dollar Laptop project.
Working with clients from St Mungo’s homeless charity, they’re helping people break up old laptops and build new ones, adding free opensource software to help them build new computers for themselves entirely free of charge.
It’s a great project. [...]
On houses that fall into the sea
Earlier this week the papers were full of stories of Ridgemont House in Devon – a house bought for £150,000 by auction, only to see its garden plummet down towards Oddicombe Beach.
The story brought together the national obsession with house prices with the fact of increasing coastal erosion due to climate change. Artist Kane Cunningham is jealous [...]
Pothole gardens; opportunity from decay
This via Thriving Too:
“An ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain’s roads by Pete Dungey, a Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton.”
On Dungey’s web page the photos are accompanied by the quote: ”If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the [...]
Arts
Royal British Society of Sculptors: 18@108:Found
Kate MacGarry Gallery: Ben Rivers
The Book Club: Rich Hendry's Ice Age exhibition at Marvel Bar
Gimpel Fils: Splitting in Two / Downstairs: Review Part II
Duckett and Jeffreys: Sally Taylor - Mouths with Triangles
Stephen Friedman Gallery: Wayne Gonzales
Diemar/Noble Photography: Marcus Doyle: The House Martin and the Cinema
Environment
The forest scheme that fails to protect trees
Charges against sushi chef who served whale
Solar PV failed in Germany and will fail here
Egg boss jailed for 'free range' fraud
England's lost species by region
Does switching off an escalator at Victoria station really save energy?