Privacy and Cookies
This page reports our Privacy Policy which covers our policies in relation to:
(a) any personal information we may collect about you consequent to your visit to this web site.
(b) cookies and the circumstances in which we use them.
This Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms of use. It is provided by Stirnet Limited and applies to this web site. It does not apply to any other company or to any other web site you visit, even if accessed through this site. In particular, it does not apply to PayPal or any other organisation we use as our collection agent for the processing of payments to us over the Internet. We confirm that we have no access to any of the credit/debit card or banking information you may provide to PayPal or any other collection agent.
1. When using personal information, as in all other matters, we will always endeavour to apply ‘best practice’ as far as we know it and to act in accordance with current legislation & regulation.
2. We respect the confidentiality of others. We will use any personal information that we obtain only for the purposes of operating our Membership Scheme. We intend & expect never to obtain anyone’s personal data unless that person has voluntarily provided that data to us.
* The computer databases we maintain are those that came with the WordPress template and plug-ins
* The manual databases we maintain are of subscription fees received and free membership periods granted.
* The only time we are likely to consider using email addresses for a mass-contact exercise is if there is a major change to the site.
* See the note on ‘Use of e-mail addresses’ on Terms of use.
3. We will not disclose any personal information obtained through this web site to anyone other than:
(a) as required by law or in support of a request by an official investigatory or regulatory body if it would be ‘good practice’ to comply with that request; or
(b) as is necessary for the purposes of preparing accounts or tax returns or for the development of the systems required for such preparations.
4. Whilst we have obligations to maintain & retain records for our corporate purposes, we accept that people have a right to ensure that the personal data we hold on them is correct & valid and necessary for our purposes. We do not retain information about people’s payment details.