Cookie & Privacy Policy
What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for this website www.pennylane.co.uk and served by PENNY LANE COMPUTERS and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website
This website and it's 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.
Use of Cookies
What
Are Cookies
As is common practice with almost all professional websites
this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your
computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they
gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will
also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may
downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality.
For
more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP
Cookies...
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of
reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry
standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the
functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you
leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case
they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling
Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings
on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that
disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites
that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain
functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that
you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
This site offers
newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if
you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might
only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
When you submit data to
through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may
be set to remember your user details for future
correspondence.
Third Party Cookies
Our site may link to third party sites. We have no control over there cookies.
More Information
Hopefully that has clarified things
for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't
sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case
it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However if you
are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of
our preferred contact methods at the bottom of this page
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or it's 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 advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.
This website and it's 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. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
Email Newsletter
This website operates an email newsletter program, 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 UK 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
it's 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 UK 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 should always adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website.
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 it's 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 it's 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 it's 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 it's owners through their social media
platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default
some social media platforms shorten lengthy url's [web addresses] (this
is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).
Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened url's published on social media platforms by this website and it's owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine url's are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and it's owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Resources & Further Information
- Data Protection Act 1998
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
- Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 - The Guide
- Twitter Privacy Policy
- Facebook Privacy Policy
- Google Privacy Policy
- Linkedin Privacy Policy
- Mailchimp Privacy Policy
Free Website Privacy Policy written by Jamie King Media - SEO Pembrokeshire © 2013 - v.2.0 April 2013 |
Edited & customised by: PENNY LANE COMPUTERS - 243-245 Dales Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP1 4JY3. 01473 408888