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This is a legal document which sets out how Website
Charts handles data which identifies you. You should read it in conjunction
with the Website Charts Terms and Conditions,
of which this Privacy Policy forms part.
At Website Charts, we believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our users
personal information. This statement describes the privacy practices we apply
for the Website Charts Service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach
to complying with the data protection laws which apply in the United Kingdom.
If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in
the same way as we notify changes to the Website Charts
Terms and Conditions.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact
The Website Charts Customer Advice Dept.
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| 1. The Information we Gather and Track. |
• Information gathered on registration. When you register for the Website
Charts Service, you provide your name, your date of birth, your email address
and other optional registration information. They are available to you, and
capable of being changed, through the your Profile page.
• Cookies. We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance users' experience
of the Website Charts Service as follows:
• To hold Members login information, when you visit the Website Charts
Service.
• To facilitate optimal use of the Website Charts Service by Members, by
means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when the
Member's browser session ends, or if the Member clicks the "logoff" text which
appears on the Website Charts Service.
• Third party cookies are used on some parts of the site. They are used for
tracking the success of advertising campaigns. These cookies are normally
permanent. Blocking of third party cookies by users will not affect the
functionality of the website.
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| 2. Sharing and Use of Information. |
• The over-riding principles we apply are these:
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• We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents,
will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation
- thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members'
email addresses to a third party; and
• the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to
a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy
Policy.
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• Email through the Website Charts Service. We do not
directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the
Website Charts Service. The only legitimate way of making contact with a friend
found on the Website Charts Service is for a Full Member to enter a message
which we will send on the Member's behalf. We will notify the addressee Member,
using the email address he/she has provided to us, that Website Charts is
holding an email for him/her, and the Member can collect the email when logged
in to the Website Charts Service.
Members may check and (if required) change the email address we hold for them
at any time through your Profile. Members personal notes must not include their
email address. Sent and received email may appear in a Member's Inbox on
the Website Charts Service for an indefinite period - we do not delete it
after any specific period. However, this does not mean that we will retain your
email forever; there may come a time when we will need to delete some or all of
it, for technical or other reasons. In this event, we will endeavour to give
you advance warning that we are going to do so.
• Advertising. The Website Charts Service may include interactive advertising
for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymised
demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more
appropriately.
• Newsletters. We have regular and occasional emails, which Members can decide
to take or not, according to their preferences. This option is selected through
Your Profile.
• Credit Card information. There has been a lot of publicity about Credit Card
security on the Internet so we decided to use Paypal plc, who operate a secure
server, to process our credit card payments. They encrypt Members credit or
debit card information and authorise payment directly. This means that Members
credit card details are never revealed to us. Paypal plc may transfer to,
process and hold your credit card information in countries either within or
outside the European Economic Area in connection with performing their duties.
• Companies in the Website Charts group. We may share data supplied by you
(or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies in our
group, but only for the purposes described in this policy.
• Changes in Website Charts business. If all of the assets which Website
Charts uses to operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired
by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.
• Place of processing. The personal information held by us is held on and
processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.
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| 3. Security. |
We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access
to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member's
responsibility:
• to protect against unauthorised access to your Profile;
• to ensure against use by anyone else of the Website Charts Service
through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to
the Website Charts Service;
• to log off or exit from the Website Charts Service when not using it;
and
• to keep his/her password secret.
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| 4. Opt-out Policy. |
• You may have your registration details removed at any time. To remove
yourself please click here and we will remove all Your Details.
• We provide Members with the opportunity to personalise the receiving of
e-mails which they have previously opted to receive. This can be effected by
making appropriate selections at your Profile. |
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| 5. Disclosure for Legal Reasons. |
We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member's personal information as
we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a
legally-compliant request for its disclosure. |
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| 6. Data Retention Period. |
We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes
to which you consent under the Website Charts
Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, or as
is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.
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| 7. Contacting Website Charts
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If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this
site, or your dealings with Website Charts, you can contact us
here . You can also use this
address if you wish to request from Website Charts a copy of the personal
data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by
English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this
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| 8. Links to third party sites |
Our site contains links to other sites. Website Charts is not responsible for
the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.
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