REVIEWS REVIEWED PRIVACY POLICY

Effective 01 November 2008

We at Reviews Reviewed understand that your privacy is important to you.

Our Privacy Policy (the "Policy") explains the information we collect about you and what we do with it. By using or navigating this site and its services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by this Policy or any modified Policy as posted. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use or revisit our site.

This Policy applies to all of the services offered by Reviews Reviewed on www.reviewsreviewed.net. Should more detail be necessary to explain our privacy practices, we will publish separate privacy notices.

Reviews Reviewed adheres to the Data Protection Act 1998 (Act).

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact us through our website or email us at administration@reviewsreviewed.co.uk.

1. Personal Information: how we collect and use it

1.1 We offer an online community and magazine service. Depending on the circumstances we may collect the following types of information:

(a) Information you provide - When you sign up for a Reviews Reviewed account or other Reviews Reviewed service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). We may use it and combine this information with information from other Reviews Reviewed services or third parties to enhance your experience and to improve our services. For certain services, we may give you the opportunity to opt out of combining such information.

(b) Reviews Reviewed cookies - When you visit Reviews Reviewed, we use "cookies" to enable you to sign back in to Reviews Reviewed's services easily and quickly and to help personalise your online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies contain information that we can read when you revisit us. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser to decline cookies. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to take advantage of some Reviews Reviewed features that may depend on cookies.

(c) User communications - When you send an email or other communication to Reviews Reviewed, we may retain those communications in order to process your enquiries and to improve our services.

(d) Affiliated sites - Some of the services we offer in connection with other service providers. Personal information you provide to those other service providers may be sent to Reviews Reviewed in order to deliver those services. We will process such information in accordance with this Policy. The other service providers may have different privacy practices and we encourage you to read their privacy policies.

(e) Links - Reviews Reviewed may present links to third party websites. Third party websites should have their own privacy policies and we recommend that you read such policies to find out how your personal details are protected. We are not responsible for the content of the privacy policies of these third party websites.

(f) If a user elects to use our referral service for telling a friend about our site or about a promotion or competition on our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Reviews Reviewed will automatically send the friend a single email inviting them to visit and register with the site. Unless the friend registers on the site, Reviews Reviewed will store this information for the sole purpose of sending this single email. The friend may contact Reviews Reviewed at administration@reviewsreviewed.co.uk to request the removal of this information from the database at any time.

(g) We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to·not having this information used by these companies, click here.

 2. Choices for personal information

2.1 If we use your personal information for a different purpose than that for which it was collected, we will ask for your consent.

2.2 We will not collect or use sensitive personal information unless we have obtained your specific consent.

2.3 You can decline to submit personal information to us or require us to cease processing it but should you do so Reviews Reviewed may not be able to provide its services to you.

2.4 If we contact you via e-mail or SMS we will give you the opportunity to decline to receive future email and SMS messages from us.

2.5 Where you have given us your permission to do so, you agree that we and other third parties (where applicable) may contact you directly by post or telephone with details of products, offers, services and promotions.

3. Information sharing

3.1 Reviews Reviewed only shares personal information with third party companies or individuals in the following circumstances:

(a) with your consent.

(b) where such information is provided to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for processing on our behalf, and only where they agree to process it in accordance with our instructions and the Act.

(c) where we believe in good faith that the processing of such information is necessary to (a) comply with law, regulation or governmental request, (b) enforce our terms and conditions of use, including the investigation of potential violations of those terms and conditions, or (c) deal with fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) enable Reviews Reviewed to provide its services.

(d) to fulfil orders you have made for goods and services.

(e) to provide you with such services as bulletin boards, email newsletters and competitions.

(f) for internal purposes to (a) improve our understanding of customer needs in developing our website, (b) to build marketing profiles or (c) to aid strategic development and to manage our relationship with our advertisers.

3.2 If Reviews Reviewed becomes involved in a merger or acquisition, we will notify you before your personal information is transferred.

4. Information security

We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of personal information. These include reviews of our information collection, storage and processing practices as well as physical security measures. We restrict access to personal information to only those Reviews Reviewed employees, contractors and agents who need it.

5. Data integrity

We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, but we depend on our users to update their personal information whenever necessary.

6. Accessing and updating personal information

When you use Reviews Reviewed services, we will provide you with access to your personal information to update it if it is inaccurate. We will delete your personal information once it is no longer required.

7. Changes to this policy

We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time and we will notify you of any material changes to the Policy by posting the new Policy here and changing the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to check this page periodically for any changes.

8. Fair Processing Information

8.1 The data controller is Information Associates Limited of Higher Norris Farm, North Huish, South Brent, Devon, TQ10 9NL.

8.2 Reviews Reviewed has not nominated a representative for the purpose of the Act.

8.3 The purpose(s) for which the data is to be processed are as set out above.

8.4 We provide comprehensive information as to how personal information will be processed.

9. Transfer of Personal Details Overseas

Because of the global nature of the Internet, use of the Internet to collect and process personal details may involve the transmission of data internationally. Therefore, by browsing this Website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree that we may process your details overseas. However, we will always ensure that any third party to whom your personal details are transferred (for example, a website posting company or operator) will take appropriate steps to safeguard your personal details.

10. Third Party Information

When you give us information about another person, you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, to consent to the processing of their personal data, including sensitive personal data and to the transfer of their information abroad and to receive on their behalf any data protection.

11. Data Security Policy

11.1 We have adopted measures to ensure that users' personal details are not misused, accidentally destroyed, lost or altered.

11.2 Occasions may arise where we pass your information to third parties (e.g. to prizes/goods/services fulfilment bureaus/houses, database consultants etc.) but such third parties will only act upon instructions from us in order to perform the services required.

11.3 Where information is transferred to a third party, that third party will be required to keep your personal details secure.

12. General

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to us.

Nothing in this Privacy Policy shall restrict or exclude any liability that we have to any party that cannot be excluded by law. This Privacy Policy shall be governed by English law and the courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over any disputes arising in relation to this Privacy Policy and this Website.