Knitted Knockers UK is a nonprofit organisation that provides services to women only who have undergone mastectomy and or lumpectomy operations. Knitted knockers are supplied FREE of charge to the recipient and are not for resale or personal gain. All parcels by or on behalf of Knitted knockers UK will have a return address label on as follows. Knitted Knockers UK, PO Box 17025 BIRMINGHAM, B31 9EU. This is in case of non delivery or returns.  All information supplied within this website, are the property of Knitted Knockers UK and its information may not be shared by persons for personal gain. Any persons found to be in breach of this will be accountable by law and all incidents of exploitation/fraud will be reported to the Action Fraud in addition to the police. All such matters will be taken seriously and civil action may be taken against persons for all incidents of fraudulent behaviour. Knitted Knockers UK does not wish to be affiliated with any business that intends to use the knitted knockers for profit in any form. 

 

 

Terms of Website Use 

 

Please read these terms of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you 

indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not 

agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site. 

Reliance On Information Posted & Disclaimer 

The materials contained on our site are provided for general information purposes only and do 

not claim to be or constitute legal or other professional advice and shall not be relied upon as 

such. 

We do not accept any responsibility for any loss which may arise from accessing or 

reliance on the information on this site and to the fullest extent permitted by English 

law, we exclude all liability for loss or damages direct or indirect arising from use of this 

site. 

 

Information about us 

 

www.knittedknockersuk.com is a site operated by Knitted Knockers UK ("We"); we are a Foundation CIO Registered Charity 

Organisation. Registration number 1161125.

Accessing our site 

 

Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or 

amend the service we provide on our site without notice (see below). We will not be liable if for 

any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period. 

Intellectual property rights 

 

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our site, and in the material 

published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All 

such rights are reserved. 

You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from our site for your 

personal reference and you may draw the attention of others within your organisation to 

material posted on our site. 

You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have printed off or 

downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio 

sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text. 

Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material on our site must 

always be acknowledged. 

You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes without 

obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors. 

 

If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these terms of use, your right 

to use our site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies 

of the materials you have made. 

Our site changes regularly 

 

We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time. If the need arises, 

we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely. Any of the material on our site may be 

out of date at any given time, and we are under no obligation to update such material. 

Our liability 

 

The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions or warranties 

as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, and third parties connected to us hereby 

expressly exclude: 

 All conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied by statute, 

common law or the law of equity. 

 Any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by any user 

in connection with our site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the 

use of our site, any websites linked to it and any materials posted on it, including, without 

limitation any liability for: 

 loss of income or revenue; 

 loss of business; 

 loss of profits or contracts; 

 loss of anticipated savings; 

 loss of data; 

 loss of goodwill; 

 wasted management or office time; and 

for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by 

tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeable, 

provided that this condition shall not prevent claims for loss of or damage to your 

tangible property or any other claims for direct financial loss that are not excluded 

by any of the categories set out above. 

 

This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising from our negligence, nor our 

liability for fraudulent misrepresentation or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor 

any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law. 

 

Information about you and your visits to our site 

 

We process information about you in accordance with our privacy policy.

By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that 

all data provided by you is accurate. 

 

Viruses, hacking and other offences 

 

You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses, trojans, worms, logic bombs or 

other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain 

unauthorised access to our site, the server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or 

database connected to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack or a 

distributed denial-of service attack. 

By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse 

Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will 

co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a 

breach, your right to use our site will cease immediately. 

We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, 

viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, 

computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our site or to your 

downloading of any material posted on it, or on any website linked to it. 

Links from our site 

 

Where our site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links 

are provided for your information only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or 

resources, and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from 

your use of them. When accessing a site via our website we advise you check their terms of use 

and privacy policies to ensure compliance and determine how they may use your information. 

Jurisdiction and applicable law 

 

The English courts will have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any claim arising from, or related to, 

a visit to our site. 

These terms of use and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with them or their 

subject matter or formation (including non-contractual disputes or claims) shall be governed by 

and construed in accordance with the law of England and Wales. 

Variations 

 

We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check 

this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. 

Some of the provisions contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or 

notices published elsewhere on our site. 

Media 

All newspapers wishing to produce media articles must have the prior permission of the 

Trustees board. All media articles regarding Knitted Knockers UK must be legal, decent, honest 

and truthful, and ensuring that the article is not defamatory and does not infringe the copyright, 

moral rights or any other rights of Knitted Knockers UK. In the event of any error, misprint or 

omission in an article, Knitted Knockers UK will retain the right to request a retraction and or 

reprint of the article with no costs incurred. 

Knitted Knockers does not permit any persons to print any articles in newspapers without the 

express permission of the Trustee board. No persons are to sign any contracts with regards to 

Knitted Knockers UK. 

Any person wishing to appear in a local newspaper must seek and gain permission from the 

Trustees. Once permission has been granted we would advise that the guidance document 

situated in the files of the Knitted Knockers UK Facebook Knitting Group is used to arrange their 

intended article and then submit the outline to the Trustees, where further guidance can be 

given in required and permission granted once approved. 

 

Your concerns 

 

If you have any concerns about material which appears on our site, please click on the contact us 

button. 

 

Privacy policy

 

Knitted Knockers UK ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. 

This policy (together with our terms of use www.knittedknockersuk.com and any 

other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from 

you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to 

understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We 

keep certain basic information when you visit our website and recognise the importance of 

keeping that information secure and letting you know what we will do with it. 

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Knitted Knockers 

UK. 

This policy only applies to our site. If you leave our site via a link or otherwise, you will be 

subject to the policy of that website provider. We have no control over that policy or the 

terms of the website and you should check their policy before continuing to access the 

site. 

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU 

We may collect and process the following data about you: 

 Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.knittedknockersuk.com (our 

site). This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, 

subscribing to our service or requesting further services. We may also ask you for 

information when you report a problem with our site. 

 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. 

 We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you 

do not have to respond to them. 

 Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, 

weblogs, operating system, browser usage and other communication data, whether this is 

required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. 

IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES 

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, 

operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate 

information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and 

patterns, and does not identify any individual and we will not collect personal information in this 

way. 

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is 

stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to 

your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more 

personalised service. They enable us: 

 To estimate our audience size and usage pattern. 

 

 To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site 

according to your individual interests. 

 To speed up your searches. 

 To recognise you when you return to our site. 

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to 

refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access 

certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse 

cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. 

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA 

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination other then 

the headquarters of Knitted Knockers UK. It may also be processed by persons who complete 

work for us. Such persons maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, 

the processing of donations and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal 

data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary 

to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. 

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure computers. 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. 

Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of 

your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received 

your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent 

unauthorised access. 

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION 

We use information held about you in the following ways: 

 To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and 

for your computer. 

 To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we 

feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. 

 To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. 

 To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so. 

 To notify you about changes to our service. 

We may also use your data, to provide you with information about events which may be of 

interest to you and we may contact you about these by post, email or telephone. 

If you do not want us to use your data in this way, please tick the relevant box situated on the 

form on which we collect your data. 

 

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION 

We will never disclose your personal information to third parties:

However, 

 If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any 

legal obligation. This includes exchanging information with other companies and 

organisations for the purposes of fraud protection. 

YOUR RIGHTS 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will 

usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes. 

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms 

we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at 

www.knittedknockersuk.com. 

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of advertisers and 

affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their 

own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. 

Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION 

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be 

exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet 

our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you. 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, 

where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. However, we advise that you check this page 

regularly to keep up to date with any necessary changes. 

CONTACT 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be 

addressed to Trustees, Knitted Knockers UK, PO Box 17025, Birmingham, B31 9EU

 

Updated 6.3.2016