Introduction
Discover Mobile respects your right to privacy and complies with
our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002.
The purpose of this Web Site Privacy Policy is to outline how we
deal with any personal data you provide to us while visiting this
web site. Naturally, if you are not happy with this Web Site Privacy
Policy you should not use this web site.
By visiting this web site, you are accepting the terms of this Web Site Privacy Policy. Any external links
to other web sites are clearly identifiable as such, and we are
not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of these
other web sites.
Types of Information Collected
We retain two types of information:
· Personal Data
This is data that identifies you or can be used to identify or contact
you and may include your name, address, email address, phone number,
organisation and user IP addresses where they have been clipped
or anonymised. In some circumstances, billing and credit card information
may also be retained. Such information is only collected from you
if you voluntarily submit it to us.
· Non-Personal Data
Like most web sites, we gather statistical and other analytical
information collected on an aggregate basis of all visitors to our
web site. This Non-Personal Data comprises information that cannot
be used to identify or contact you, such as demographic information
regarding, for example, user IP addresses where they have been clipped
or anonymised, browser types and other anonymous statistical data
involving the use of our web site.
Purposes for Which We Hold Your Information
· Non-Personal Data
We use the Non-Personal Data gathered from visitors to our web site
in an aggregate form to get a better understanding of where our
visitors come from and to help us better design and organise our
web site.
· Cookies
This web site uses “cookie” technology. A cookie is
a little piece of text stored by the browser on your computer, at
the request of our server. We may use cookies to deliver content
specific to your interests and to save your personal preferences
so you do not have to re-enter them each time you connect to our
web site. Our cookies are not available to other web sites. Cookies
are required on the website to allow users to access the Customer
and Partner Extranets. No personal information is recorded, and
the cookie is automatically deleted when you log out or close your
browser. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser
permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being
sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer at your
discretion. Note that if you decline our cookies or ask for notification
each time a cookie is being sent, this may affect your ease of use
of this web site.
· Personal Data
We will process any Personal Data you provide to us for the following
purposes:
a) to provide you with the goods or services you have ordered;
b) to contact you if required in connection with your order or to
respond to any communications you might send to us;
c) where you have subscribed to receive them, to send you informational
Newsletters, Event Alerts and to communciate with you about Discover
Mobile activities.
Please note all credit card or other payment information is transmitted
in an encrypted form.
Depending upon the products or services requested, payment information
details, including credit card numbers and bank details may be retained
if recurring charges have been explicitly approved by you. Otherwise,
payment information details are permanently deleted from our servers
when the payment has been processed.
Disclosure of Information to Third Parties
We may provide Non-Personal Data to third parties, where such information
is combined with similar information of other users of our web site.
For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number
of unique users who visit our web site, the demographic breakdown
of our community users of our web site, or the activities that visitors
to our web site engage in while on our web site. The third parties
to whom we may provide this information may include commercial partners,
licensees, researchers and other similar parties.
We will not disclose your Personal Data to third parties unless
you have consented to this disclosure or unless the third party
is required to fulfil your order (in such circumstances, the third
party is bound by similar data protection requirements. We will
disclose your Personal Data if we believe in good faith that we
are required to disclose it in order to comply with any applicable
law, a summons, a search warrant, a court or regulatory order, or
other statutory requirement.
Sale of Business
We reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal
Data) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, liquidation,
receivership or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets
of our company provided that the third party agrees to adhere to
the terms of the Web Site Privacy Policy and provided that the third
party only uses your Personal Data for the purposes that you provided
it to us. You will be notified in the event of any such transfer
and you will be afforded an opportunity to opt-out.
Security
Your Personal Data is held on secure servers hosted by Kerna Communications.
The nature of the Internet is such that we cannot guarantee or warrant
the security of any information you transmit to us via the Internet.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100%
secure. However, we will take all reasonable steps (including appropriate
technical and organisational measures) to protect your Personal
Data.
Updating, Verifying and Deleting Personal
Data
You may inform us of any changes in your Personal Data, and in accordance
with our obligations under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2002
we will update or delete your Personal Data accordingly. To find
out what Personal Data we hold on you or to have your Personal Data
updated, amended or removed from our database, please contact us
directly. Any such data subject requests
may be subject to the prescribed fee.
Changes to the Web Site Privacy Policy
Any changes to this Web Site Privacy Policy will be posted on this
web site so you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose
it. If at any time we decide to use Personal Data in a manner significantly
different from that stated in this Web Site Privacy Policy, or otherwise
disclosed to you at the time it was collected, we will notify you
by email, and you will have a choice as to whether or not we use
your information in the new manner.
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