3. What is sensitive information?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\nSensitive information is a subset of personal information. It means information or opinion about an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, membership of a political organisation, religious beliefs or affiliations, philosophical beliefs, membership of a professional or trade association, membership of a trade union, sexual orientation or practices, criminal record, health information about an individual, genetic information, biometric information that is to be used for the purpose of automated biometric verification or biometric identification or biometric templates.<\/p>\n
In general, we attempt to limit the collection of sensitive information we may collect from you, but depending on the uses we may collect sensitive information from you in order to carry out the services provided to you.<\/p>\n
However, we do not collect sensitive information from you without your consent.<\/p>\n
The type of sensitive information we may collect from you or record about you is dependent on the services we provide to you and will be limited to the purpose(s) for which it is collected. We do not use sensitive information to send you Direct Marketing Communications (as defined in section 8 below) without your express consent.<\/p>\n
Consent to collection of certain types of sensitive information<\/strong><\/p>\n