The Royal Meteorological Society is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. We use the information we collect about you to help us understand more about how our site is used.

Data Collected

Any personal data collected on this site is information that enables us to identify you, such as your email address, name, title, and address.

Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

This policy will let you know:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you

2. How your information is used

3. Who is collecting your information

4. With whom your information may be shared

5. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information

6. How you can access, update or delete your information

7. How RMetS treats your personal information

8. What about children’s privacy

9. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information

1. What personally identifiable information does RMetS collect from me?

Like many websites, RMetS uses cookies in order to provide you with a more personalised web service.
A cookie is a text-only string of information that we pass to your computer’s hard disk through your web-browser so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use per session cookies on our website:
per session cookies, are temporary cookies that remain in the cookies file of your browser until you leave the site
We use per session cookies to enable you to remain logged in, while browsing through our online booking system or buying products.
If you do not wish to receive cookies you can easily modify your web browser to refuse cookies, or to notify you when you receive a new cookie. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled, and so in order to enjoy the RMetS site to the full, we recommend that you leave them switched on.
For instructions on how to stop cookies being installed on your browser, please see http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies.

2. How does RMetS use my information?

We use the information we collect about you to help us with understanding more about how our site is used and to be able to record goods and services provided.

3. Who is collecting your information?

When you are on the RMetS website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with RMetS alone unless stated otherwise.

4. With whom does the RMetS share your information?

As a general rule, we will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information, except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.

5. What are my choices regarding, collection, use and distribution of my information?

If you have registered on the site, then we may contact you about this, either electronically or otherwise. RMetS does not sell, give or rent user information to any third party organisations.

6. What is RMetS’s policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

The accuracy of your individual identifying information is important to us. If you change email address or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your new contact details.

7. How does RMetS protect my personal identifiable information?

RMetS is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the individual identifying information that you provide to us.

8. What about children’s privacy?

The safety of children is very important to us. We do not collect personally identifiable information from children. Children should always ask a parent for permission before sending personal information to anyone online.

9. What security precautions are in place to protect against loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

When you give RMetS personal information that information may be stored and processed outside of the UK and we take steps to ensure that your information is treated securely.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, RMetS cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you transmit it at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.