Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and disclose and make use of personal information. The following outlines our privacy policy.
Information we collect from our customers and users of our websites may be used in the following ways.
1. Contact details
We will use contact details provided by you as part of any registration process (i.e. your name, job title, telephone and fax number and your e-mail and postal addresses) to provide any product or services requested by you and also to tell you about important changes to relevant subscription services and their functionality.
Contact details other than e-mail addresses will be used by us and by our associated companies to provide you with information about other services and products which may interest you and may also be disclosed to third party businesses and advertisers for the same purpose. If you do not wish to be contacted for this purpose, you may contact us by clicking here.
We will not use or disclose your e-mail address for marketing purposes unless you have agreed that we may use or disclose it in this way. You may at any time opt-out of receiving further e-mails by contacting us here.
2. Voluntary Information
We may ask for further information about you as part of online surveys or other promotional feature. This information will be used to enable us to improve the relevant publication, product or service and may also be disclosed to other companies as specified in the relevant promotion.
3. Statistical information
We collect and retain aggregate statistical information to help improve our customer experience. We do not give or sell any of our colected aggregate statistical information to third parties.
4. Security
Your personal data will be held on a secure server. Our site is equipped with the latest security devices/firewalls.
5. Cookies
How we use cookies on our site and what information we collect:
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie folder of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. For more information about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
The following types of cookie are used on this website:
Session Cookies - These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site. We use them to maintain your login (so that you stay logged-in until you wish to log out), and to remember your preferences for things like forms and searches. If you disable these cookies, you will not be able to benefit from these features. You have the ability to accept or decline these cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.
Persistent Cookies - These are cookies which remain in the cookie file of your browser for a much longer period, though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie. We occasionally set persistent cookies to manage the number of times a day you will see product specials or other important notices. You have the ability to accept or decline these cookies by modifying the settings in your browser.
6. Changes to Privacy Policy
Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted here. Last updated: 26 March 2008
