We understand that the privacy
of your personal details, and the security of
your transactions with us, is of paramount importance
to you. We have therefore adopted data protection
policies with respect to your privacy and security.
Our Privacy Policy sets out the rules we will
abide by when dealing with personal information
we collect from individuals in the course of our
business.
In order to ensure that we meet
and maintain our Privacy standards, we have appointed
a privacy officer. Should you wish to contact
us in relation to Privacy, please contact us via
email.
We may make alterations or additions
to this policy from time to time. Should we do
so, we will update the policy on our web site.
We require that all our customers agree to abide
by our Privacy Policy as part of our terms of
trade. This policy also applies to users of our
web site who are our customers or clients.
Please note that we cannot and
do not assume any responsibility for the privacy
or security practices of any other web sites,
which you may be able to access through our site,
or for our customers' level of compliance with
our code.
We collect different
information about you at different times. There
are four broad categories of information that we
collect from you:
Information we require to supply
our services.
When you first sign up or contract
with us for our services, or when you make an
inquiry about our services, we request information
such as your name, address, telephone number,
domain name, email details of your primary and
secondary contacts, credit card details (if you
are paying online). We may also ask for your age
and gender.s
We may also monitor and/or record
telephone conversations with you from time to
time in order to train staff and to improve our
service to you.
Non personally identifying information.
In addition to the information,
you specifically provide above, we operate statistics
gathering software on our web site to collect
information about the number of visitors coming
to the site. No identifying information is collected
by this software. The software records the IP
address of the visitor only. We use this information
to improve our own technical structure and performance,
and to determine which areas of our web site are
most popular.
We also use 'cookies'. Cookies
are pieces of information that a web site can
transfer to an individual's computer in order
to allow that web site to store information about
user preferences. We use cookies, which expire
once the visitor leaves our web site. Cookies
are used to collect session ID's. It is possible
to adjust your Internet browser to refuse cookies,
but you may find that this reduces the functionality
of this site.
Other demographic information.
If you respond voluntarily to our
surveys or other interactive communications, we
collect the responses and use the information to
improve the quality and range of our products and
services.
We collect and use your personal
information to operate our web site and deliver
our services to you.
You may stop the delivery of
future promotional email from us by following
the specific instructions in the email you receive.
These instructions will tell you how to remove
your name from our promotional email list.
We may use your personal information
to:
Contact you in relation to upgrading
your use of our services, special offers (from
us, or on behalf of third parties), with newsletters,
surveys, and individual service audits. We may
give extracts of our customer lists containing
personal information to third party contractors
to do this on our behalf. We will ensure that
those contractors are bound to protect your personal
information to the same standard that we are.
identify the source of new customers
;
monitor and address complaints,
other feedback, and to resolve disputes;
in the case of credit cards,
to bill you for services;
in the case of government issued
id's, to verify your identity;
n the case of our partners who
are IT professionals, to ascertain your areas
of specialty and to refer prospective customers
to you; if you have attended our partner road
shows, we may have a record of your attendance
and areas of special interest;
maintain a technical and account
history of your dealings with us, and to re-establish
your account with us where you rejoin as a customer
within six months after having terminated your
account;
monitor your compliance with
our Acceptable Use Policy and other terms and
conditions of supply;
comply with our reporting and
other obligations to third party licensees (such
as reporting to software suppliers the number
and identity of software licenses we have issued
as part of our products).
We will treat all
information we collect from you as strictly confidential.
We do not rent or lease its customer lists to third
parties. We will not reveal, disclose, sell, distribute,
rent, license, share or pass onto any third party
(other than those who are contracted or supply services
to us) any personal information that you may have
provided to us unless we have your express consent
to do so, other than in the circumstances set out
in the next paragraph.
We will disclose your personal
information, without notice or your consent, only
if:
we are required to do so by
law or in the good faith belief that such action
is necessary to conform with the laws, applicable
code of conduct or legal process served on us
in relation to our business or web site;
to protect and defend the rights
or property of our company;
if we consider it necessary
to do so in order to enforce or apply the terms
of any of our agreements with you;
if we sell our business or part
of it; and
in extreme circumstances, to
protect the personal safety of users of our services,
its web site, our staff or the public.
We have implemented security
features in our database to protect your personal
information from unauthorized access. We maintain
our servers in a controlled, secured environment.
Only staff that needs to have access to your personal
information in order to perform their job function
is authorized to access the database. Constant
changes to the Internet and technology mean that
we cannot guarantee that data transmission will
be 100% secure, or safe from attack by unauthorized
intruders.
This Privacy Policy does not
apply to any public boards or chat rooms that
might be made available on our website. You enter
information on these boards at your own risk and
we urge you to be extremely cautious in handing
out personal information. You can make use of
these options without revealing any information
that might be detrimental to your privacy.
You should never reveal your
password to third parties. If you lose control
of your password, you may lose control over your
personal information and may be liable for actions
taken on your behalf by third parties using your
password and/or personal information. Therefore,
if your password has been compromised for any
reason, you should immediately change it.
From time to time you may need
to update your personal information. We keep this
information in a secure environment. In order
to amend any of your personal information, please
email or phone us with the new information. You
may be asked your username and password for security.
If you contact us via telephone,
you might need to answer a few security questions
before any personal information is revealed or
amended.
We recognize the importance
of protecting children's privacy. We will endeavor
not to collect, use or disclose knowingly personal
information about anyone under the age of 18 unless
we have the consent of a parent or legal guardian.
Our Website site contains links
to other sites. In addition, some of the content
appearing on the web site may be supplied by third
parties, for example, by framing third party web
sites or the incorporation through "framesets"
of content supplied by third party servers
While we will always endeavor
to engage in business arrangements with commercial
entities of good repute and ethical business practices,
we are ultimately not responsible for the privacy
practices or the content of such web sites. However,
our contractual arrangements with these parties
seek to ensure that an equivalent level of privacy
protection is afforded to you. We encourage you
to read and understand the privacy policies on
those web sites prior to providing any information
to them.
Search terms that you enter
when using our search engine are collected, but
are not associated with any other information
that we collect. We use these search terms for
the purpose of aggregated statistical analyses
so we can ascertain what people are looking for
on our web site, and to improve the services that
we provide.
Also, from time to time, we
may use external companies to provide us with
detailed aggregate statistical analyses of our
web site traffic. At no time is any personal information
made available to these companies, nor is the
aggregate information ever merged with personal
information such as your name, address, email
address or other information you would consider
sensitive or would compromise your privacy.