Summary
- We don't share your information with other companies without your prior permission.
- Email - we will only send you emails if you specifically give us your consent to do so.
Personal Information
If you register to receive information in the form of emails and e-newsletters, we will ask you to provide us with some basic details about yourself which we will handle in accordance with the United Kingdom's Data Protection legislation. We maintain strict security standards and procedures with a view to preventing unauthorised access to your data by anyone, including our staff. We use leading technologies such as (but not limited to) data encryption, fire walls and server authentication to protect the security of your data. All Group companies, all our staff and whenever we hire third parties to provide support services, we will require them to observe our privacy standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
Please be advised that sending emails or information electronically is not totally secure. Whilst we endevour to protect your privacy and personal data, we are not responsible for the security of any information during transmission.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disc for record keeping purposes. Cookies can make the web more useful by storing information about your preferences on particular sites, thus enabling website owners to provide more useful features for their users.
They contain no name or address information or any information that will enable anyone to contact you via telephone, e-mail or any other means.
Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to disable cookies or inform you when they are set. However, given that we may sometimes use cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do disable them.
Our website uses two kinds of cookies.
Session cookies, which are integral to the operation of the website, are stored in your computer's memory temporarily and get deleted when you terminate your current session on the website.
Persistent cookies, which are stored on your machine until they expire at their per-configured expiry date, that are in use on our website are described below.
Flash cookies (also known as local share objects)
Flash cookies are used in embedded videos available on content pages throughout the site. Flash cookies are used in the same way as other cookies – to store information you provide in terms of settings or preferences.
To remove or disable a Flash cookie, visit the Flash Player security and privacy section on the Adobe website. Here you will find detailed guidance on how to delete or disable Flash cookies, either for a specific domain or for all websites. However, some of the content will cease to work properly if Flash cookies are disabled.
Google cookies
This site uses Google/YouTube cookies to record information about which pages you have landed on and how you have navigated through the site. This data enables us to understand:
- Which pages people visit on the site
- Which devices and internet browsers are being used
- What is popular
Additionally, we use a Google Translate API cookie to store your translation preferences for a specific page should you choose to use the translation service available to you using Google Translate.
For more information visit Google Privacy Center: transparency and choice, YouTube's privacy policy.
Note: Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. This means Google will not associate your activity on websites using analytics with other information they may hold as part of your google account or with searches you make on their search engine.
Facebook cookies
There may be some occasions when we would use a Facebook "social plug in" tool to add various Facebook functions to our site, for example the "Like button". When we do this, Facebook sets browser cookies when a user visits a page on our site which includes an embedded Facebook function. Additionally, if the user is already logged into Facebook then Facebook will know that the user has visited our site.
Add This cookies
Add This enables you to share stories and pages from our website via social media or email. Their privacy policy can be found at: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
