Pri­vacy Policy

 

We are com­mit­ted to safe­guard­ing the pri­vacy of our web­site vis­i­tors; this pol­icy sets out how we will treat your per­sonal information

 

[Our web­site uses cook­ies.  By using our web­site and agree­ing to this pol­icy, you con­sent to our use of cook­ies in accor­dance with the terms of this policy.]

 

(1) What infor­ma­tion do we collect?

 

We may col­lect, store and use the fol­low­ing kinds of per­sonal information:

 

[(a) infor­ma­tion about your com­puter and about your vis­its to and use of this web­site (includ­ing [your IP address, geo­graph­i­cal loca­tion, browser type and ver­sion, oper­at­ing sys­tem, refer­ral source, length of visit, page views, web­site navigation.

 

[(b) infor­ma­tion relat­ing to any trans­ac­tions car­ried out between you and us on or in rela­tion to this web­site, includ­ing infor­ma­tion relat­ing to any pur­chases you make of our goods or services.

 

[© infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide to us for the pur­pose of reg­is­ter­ing with us.

 

[(d) infor­ma­tion that you pro­vide to us for the pur­pose of sub­scrib­ing to our web­site ser­vices, email noti­fi­ca­tions and/or newsletters.

 

[(e) any other infor­ma­tion that you choose to send to us.

 

 

[(2) Cook­ies

 

 

We may use both [“ses­sion” cook­ies] [and “per­sis­tent” cook­ies] on the web­site.  [We will use the ses­sion cook­ies to: keep track of you whilst you nav­i­gate the web­site.  [We will use the per­sis­tent cook­ies to: enable our web­site to recog­nise you when you visit.

 

[Ses­sion cook­ies will be deleted from your com­puter when you close your browser.]  [Per­sis­tent cook­ies will remain stored on your com­puter until deleted, or until they reach a spec­i­fied expiry date.]

 
A cookie con­sists of a piece of text sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The infor­ma­tion is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to iden­tify and track the web browser.
 

We may use both [“ses­sion” cook­ies] [and “per­sis­tent” cook­ies] on the web­site.  [We will use the ses­sion cook­ies to: keep track of you whilst you nav­i­gate the web­site.  [We will use the per­sis­tent cook­ies to: enable our web­site to recog­nise you when you visit.

 

[Ses­sion cook­ies will be deleted from your com­puter when you close your browser.]  [Per­sis­tent cook­ies will remain stored on your com­puter until deleted, or until they reach a spec­i­fied expiry date.]

 
[We use Google Ana­lyt­ics to analyse the use of this web­site.  Google Ana­lyt­ics gen­er­ates sta­tis­ti­cal and other infor­ma­tion about web­site use by means of cook­ies, which are stored on users’ com­put­ers.  The infor­ma­tion gen­er­ated relat­ing to our web­site is used to cre­ate reports about the use of the web­site. Google will store this infor­ma­tion.  Google’s pri­vacy pol­icy is avail­able at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.]

 

 

[Our adver­tis­ing ser­vices providers may send you cook­ies for the pur­pose of enabling the ser­vice of adver­tise­ments based on your pre­vi­ous vis­its to our website.]

 

[We pub­lish Google Adsense interest-based adver­tise­ments on our web­site.  These are tai­lored by Google to reflect your inter­ests.  To deter­mine your inter­ests, Google will track your behav­iour on our web­site and on other web­sites across the web using the DART cookie.  You can view, delete or add inter­est cat­e­gories asso­ci­ated with your browser using Google’s Ads Pref­er­ence Man­ager, avail­able at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.  You can opt-out of the Adsense part­ner net­work cookie at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ or using the NAI’s (Net­work Adver­tis­ing Initiative’s) multi-cookie opt-out mech­a­nism at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.  How­ever, these opt-out mech­a­nisms use cook­ies, and if you clear the cook­ies from your browser your opt-out will not be main­tained. To ensure that an opt-out is main­tained in respect of a par­tic­u­lar browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in avail­able at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

 
Most browsers allow you to reject all cook­ies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cook­ies.  For exam­ple, in Inter­net Explorer you can refuse all cook­ies by click­ing “Tools”, “Inter­net Options”, “Pri­vacy”, and select­ing “Block all cook­ies” using the slid­ing selec­tor.  Block­ing all cook­ies will, how­ever, have a neg­a­tive impact upon the usabil­ity of many web­sites[, includ­ing this one]
 

 

[Our adver­tis­ing ser­vices providers may send you cook­ies for the pur­pose of enabling the ser­vice of adver­tise­ments based on your pre­vi­ous vis­its to our website.]

 

[We pub­lish Google Adsense interest-based adver­tise­ments on our web­site.  These are tai­lored by Google to reflect your inter­ests.  To deter­mine your inter­ests, Google will track your behav­iour on our web­site and on other web­sites across the web using the DART cookie.  You can view, delete or add inter­est cat­e­gories asso­ci­ated with your browser using Google’s Ads Pref­er­ence Man­ager, avail­able at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.  You can opt-out of the Adsense part­ner net­work cookie at: http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ or using the NAI’s (Net­work Adver­tis­ing Initiative’s) multi-cookie opt-out mech­a­nism at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.  How­ever, these opt-out mech­a­nisms use cook­ies, and if you clear the cook­ies from your browser your opt-out will not be main­tained. To ensure that an opt-out is main­tained in respect of a par­tic­u­lar browser, you should use the Google browser plug-in avail­able at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.

 
Most browsers allow you to reject all cook­ies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cook­ies.  For exam­ple, in Inter­net Explorer you can refuse all cook­ies by click­ing “Tools”, “Inter­net Options”, “Pri­vacy”, and select­ing “Block all cook­ies” using the slid­ing selec­tor.  Block­ing all cook­ies will, how­ever, have a neg­a­tive impact upon the usabil­ity of many web­sites[, includ­ing this one]
 
(3) Using your per­sonal information

Per­sonal infor­ma­tion sub­mit­ted to us via this web­site will be used for the pur­poses spec­i­fied in this pri­vacy pol­icy or in rel­e­vant parts of the website.

 

We may use your per­sonal infor­ma­tion to:

 

[(a) admin­is­ter the website;]

 

[(b) improve your brows­ing expe­ri­ence by per­son­al­is­ing the website;]

 

[© enable your use of the ser­vices avail­able on the website;]

 

[(d) send to you goods pur­chased via the web­site, and sup­ply to you ser­vices pur­chased via the website;]

 

[(e) send state­ments and invoices to you, and col­lect pay­ments from you;]

 

[(f) send you gen­eral (non-marketing) com­mer­cial communications;]

 

[(g) send you email noti­fi­ca­tions which you have specif­i­cally requested;]

 

[(h) send to you [our newslet­ter and other] mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions relat­ing to our busi­ness [or the busi­nesses of carefully-selected third par­ties] which we think may be of inter­est to you by post or, where you have specif­i­cally agreed to this, by email or sim­i­lar tech­nol­ogy (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require mar­ket­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions);]

 

[(i) pro­vide third par­ties with sta­tis­ti­cal infor­ma­tion about our users – but this infor­ma­tion will not be used to iden­tify any indi­vid­ual user;]

 

[(j) deal with enquiries and com­plaints made by or about you relat­ing to the web­site; and]

 

[Where you sub­mit per­sonal infor­ma­tion for pub­li­ca­tion on our web­site, we will pub­lish and oth­er­wise use that infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with the licence you grant to us.]

 

[We will not with­out your express con­sent pro­vide your per­sonal infor­ma­tion to any third par­ties for the pur­pose of direct marketing.]

 

[All our web­site finan­cial trans­ac­tions are han­dled through our pay­ment ser­vices provider, Pay­Pal.  You can review the Pay­Pal pri­vacy pol­icy at www.paypal.com.  We will share infor­ma­tion with Pay­Pal only to the extent nec­es­sary for the pur­poses of pro­cess­ing pay­ments you make via our web­site and deal­ing with com­plaints and queries relat­ing to such payments.]

 

(4) Dis­clo­sures

We may dis­close infor­ma­tion about you to [any of our employ­ees, offi­cers, agents, sup­pli­ers or sub­con­trac­tors] inso­far as rea­son­ably nec­es­sary for the pur­poses as set out in this pri­vacy policy.

 

In addi­tion, we may dis­close your per­sonal information:

 

(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

 

(b) in con­nec­tion with any legal pro­ceed­ings or prospec­tive legal proceedings;

 

© in order to estab­lish, exer­cise or defend our legal rights (includ­ing pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion to oth­ers for the pur­poses of fraud pre­ven­tion and reduc­ing credit risk);

 

[(d) to the pur­chaser (or prospec­tive pur­chaser) of any busi­ness or asset that we are (or are con­tem­plat­ing) selling.

 

[(e) to any per­son who we rea­son­ably believe may apply to a court or other com­pe­tent author­ity for dis­clo­sure of that per­sonal infor­ma­tion where, in our rea­son­able opin­ion, such court or author­ity would be rea­son­ably likely to order dis­clo­sure of that per­sonal information.]

 

Except as pro­vided in this pri­vacy pol­icy, we will not pro­vide your infor­ma­tion to third parties.

 

[(5) Inter­na­tional data transfers

 

Infor­ma­tion that we col­lect may be stored and processed in and trans­ferred between any of the coun­tries in which we oper­ate in order to enable us to use the infor­ma­tion in accor­dance with this pri­vacy policy.

 

Infor­ma­tion which you pro­vide may be trans­ferred to coun­tries [(includ­ing [the United States], [Japan], [other coun­tries])] which do not have data pro­tec­tion laws equiv­a­lent to those in force in the Euro­pean Eco­nomic Area.

 

[In addi­tion, [per­sonal infor­ma­tion that you sub­mit for pub­li­ca­tion on the web­site] will be pub­lished on the inter­net and may be avail­able, via the inter­net, around the world.  We can­not pre­vent the use or mis­use of such infor­ma­tion by others.]

 

You expressly agree to such trans­fers of per­sonal information.]

 
(6) Secu­rity of your per­sonal infor­ma­tion
 

We will take rea­son­able tech­ni­cal and organ­i­sa­tional pre­cau­tions to pre­vent the loss, mis­use or alter­ation of your per­sonal information.

 

[We will store all the per­sonal infor­ma­tion you pro­vide on our secure (pass­word– and fire­wall– pro­tected) servers. All elec­tronic trans­ac­tions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted [using SSL technology].]

 

Of course, data trans­mis­sion over the inter­net is inher­ently inse­cure, and we can­not guar­an­tee the secu­rity of data sent over the internet.

 

[You are respon­si­ble for keep­ing your pass­word and user details con­fi­den­tial. We will not ask you for your pass­word (except when you log in to the website).]

 
(7) Pol­icy amend­ments
 

We may update this pri­vacy pol­icy from time-to-time by post­ing a new ver­sion on our web­site.  You should check this page occa­sion­ally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

 

[We may also notify you of changes to our pri­vacy pol­icy by email.]

 
(8) Your rights
 

You may instruct us to pro­vide you with any per­sonal infor­ma­tion we hold about you.  Pro­vi­sion of such infor­ma­tion will be sub­ject to:

 

(a) the pay­ment of a fee (cur­rently fixed at £10.00); and

 

(b) the sup­ply of appro­pri­ate evi­dence of your iden­tity [(for this pur­pose, we will usu­ally accept a pho­to­copy of your pass­port cer­ti­fied by a solic­i­tor or bank plus an orig­i­nal copy of a util­ity bill show­ing your cur­rent address)].

 

We may with­hold such per­sonal infor­ma­tion to the extent per­mit­ted by law.

 

You may instruct us not to process your per­sonal infor­ma­tion for mar­ket­ing pur­poses[, by send­ing an email to us].  In prac­tice, you will usu­ally either expressly agree in advance to our use of your per­sonal infor­ma­tion for mar­ket­ing pur­poses, or we will pro­vide you with an oppor­tu­nity to opt-out of the use of your per­sonal infor­ma­tion for mar­ket­ing purposes.

 

(9) Third party websites

 

The web­site con­tains links to other web­sites. We are not respon­si­ble for the pri­vacy poli­cies or prac­tices of third party websites.

 

(10) Updat­ing information

 

Please let us know if the per­sonal infor­ma­tion which we hold about you needs to be cor­rected or updated.

 
(11) Con­tact
 

If you have any ques­tions about this pri­vacy pol­icy or our treat­ment of your per­sonal infor­ma­tion, please write to us by email to or by post to 5 Pio­neer Cen­tre, Lon­don SE15 2EE.

 

(12) Data controller

 

The data con­troller respon­si­ble in respect of the infor­ma­tion col­lected on this web­site is mai­son mari.