Privacy Policy
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive
approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to
protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.
This website complies to all Unites States of America national laws and
requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
This
website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the
website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system
allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or
disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies
with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit
consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as
cookies on a user's computer / device.
Cookies are small files saved
to the user's computer’s hard drive that track, save and store
information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This
allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a
tailored experience within this website.
Users are advised that if
they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to
their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their
web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website
and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software
to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This
software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track
visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard
drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the
website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You
can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [
http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].
Other cookies may be stored to
your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses
referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for
conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days,
though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or
collected.
Contact & Communication
Users
contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion
and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your
personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it
is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection
Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form
to email submission process but advice users using such form to email
processes that they do so at their own risk.
This website and its
owners use any information submitted to provide you with further
information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in
answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This
includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter
program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and
your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email
process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or
enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the
email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your
user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material.
Email Newsletter
If
this website operates an email newsletter program, it is used to inform
subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users
can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to
do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be
manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.
Subscriptions
are taken in compliance with US Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and
Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details
relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the
Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third
parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that
operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may
request a copy of personal information held about you by this website's
email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like
a copy of the information held on you please write to the business
address at the bottom of this policy.
Email marketing campaigns
published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities
within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a
database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may
include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of
links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity
[this is by no far a comprehensive list].
This information is used to
refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant
content based around their activity.
In compliance with US Spam Laws
and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time
through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of
each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is
unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed
instead.
External Links
Although this website
only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users
are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web
links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable
text / banner / image links to other websites.)
The owners of this
website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked
website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they
click on external links at their own risk and this website and its
owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by
visiting any external links mentioned.
Adverts and Sponsored Links
This
website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically
be served through our advertising partners, to whom may have detailed
privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.
Clicking
on any such adverts will send you to the advertiser’s website through a
referral program which may use cookies and will track the number of
referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies
which may in turn be saved on your computer’s hard drive. Users should
therefore note they click on sponsored external links at their own risk
and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or
implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication,
engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms
that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms
and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social
media platform respectively.
Users are advised to use social media
platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and
caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This
website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive
information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing
to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary
communication channels such as by telephone or email.
This website
may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly
from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are
advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at
their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track
and save your request to share a web page respectively through your
social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This
website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may
share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media
platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses].
Users are advised to
take caution and good judgment before clicking any shortened urls
published on social media platforms by this website and its owners.
Despite
the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social
media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website
and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications
caused by visiting any shortened links.