Privacy Policy
Last update: 04.11.2009
1. Introduction
In a Fishbowl Ltd [[(registered number: 07067291) whose registered office is at 13-15 Regent Street, Nottingham, NG1 5BS ("we", "us" and "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of you and any other visitors to or users of the Fishbowl website at www.inafishbowl.co.uk (the "Website"), however we may collect, save and store data of yours in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy, which defines the use that we make of the data that you provide to us in the course of or in connection with your use of the Website and/or the services provided via the Website ("Services").
In using the Website and/or any of the Services, you hereby accept the terms and conditions stated in this Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions governing use of the Website generally that are available on the Website. You also confirm that you acknowledge and agree that we consider your acceptance of this Privacy Policy as valid from that point onwards.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy whenever it is considered necessary without any prior notice to you. You are therefore obliged to remain continually up-to-date with and aware of the latest version of this Privacy Policy, which you will be deemed to have understood and accepted through any use of the Website and/or any of the Services after the date on which the latest version of the Terms has come into effect. We therefore strongly recommend that you check this Privacy Policy on a regularly basis for changes.
2. Data that may be collected
We may collect and process the following personal data about you:
- information that you provide to us when you are registering, including name and e-mail address;
- information about your computer, your ISP and IP address, your geographical location and your browser;
- details of the visits, length of the visits and the resources that you access on the Website, including other websites that you access through the Website;
- information that you provide to us in order to have access to specific services;
- information that you post, publish or share on or through the Website;
- records of your communication or correspondence with us;
- statistical information that derives from online surveys or any other source; and
- any other information that you provide to us directly or through the Website.
3. Cookies
We use cookies, which enable us to save on your computer information that is accessible to us in connection with your activities on the Website for the purpose of providing you better Services through customised web content.
We use both "session" cookies, which expire after a defined period of time, and "persistent" cookies. The "session" cookies are used to track your activities on the Website and the "persistent" cookies to recognise you as a Website user.
If you have disabled the use of cookies on your browser, you might not be able to have full access to parts of the Website.
4. Use of collected data
We use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes and/or for such other purposes as are explicitly stated elsewhere on the Website. We may use your personal data to:
- administer your account, the Website and the Services;
- inform you about new services, products, any changes or other information that may be of interest to you;
- send or forward you advertisements that may be of interest to you;
- enable you to use the Services;
- optimise and personalise the Website according to your needs, so that you gain the maximum advantage of it; and
- deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you that relate to the Website, the Services and/or your use thereof.
Content or any other information that is contributed to, shared through or placed/published on the Website is available to us and any other users of the Website to whom it is addressed or who have permission to access it. We do not however guarantee you permanent access to any content or information that you contribute, share or place/publish for the purposes of modification or otherwise, therefore you are required to ensure that you only contribute, share or publish content or any other information if you are happy with it.
5. Disclosure
We may disclose information about you and/or other users of the Website if it is necessary to do so and/or for such other purposes as are set out in this Privacy Policy.
Other cases that may require a disclosure of information about you and/or other users are:
- as required by any laws, statute or regulations;
- as required in the course of any legal or possible legal proceedings;
- as required in the defence of our legal rights, including (without limitation) the disclosure of such information to third parties or other users of the Website in order to prevent fraud; or
- as required in any sale of our business or any part(s) of it or in any reorganisation of our corporate structure.
6. Provision of information to third parties
We may provide your contact details to third parties who are considered able to preserve and protect confidentiality and trustworthy or have some form of agreement with us adequately providing for such confidentiality and trustworthiness. The purposes for which your details may be provided include:
- to enable them to provide you with customised offers or services as they are requested by you;
- to analyse the user base of the Website and profiles thereof for purposes that aim to improve their services or the Services;
- to enable your participation in research projects and surveys; and
- to provide you with news and advertisements that may be of interest to you.
You hereby allow us to reveal and provide third parties with statistical information about the users of the Website, within which user identities will be kept anonymous.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for the purpose of generating revenue.
7. User rights
You have the right to request a summary of the personal information that we hold on or about you, which we will provide to you subject to your prior payment of 壣10.00.
We will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and for such other purposes that you have otherwise agreed to. You can change your status in this respect at any time by contacting us.
8. Security
We aim to take the highest possible security measures to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal data and information.
You acknowledge and agree that any kind of data transmission through the internet is insecure and, therefore, you hereby accept that we cannot guarantee a secure transmission of any of your personal data or information that you send through the internet.
It is your responsibility to keep your Website account details, i.e. username and password, secure and confidential at all times.
9. Personal profiles, blogs and forums
Users of the Website who decide to provide a personal profile on the Website are asked for additional information. You agree that we may also use that information for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.
You understand and accept that your personal profile will become available to other users of the Website or interest groups if you decide to make your profile publicly available or available to a number of selected interest groups. The use of the contents of your personal profile will, in such circumstances, be out of our control and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for any such use (or abuse or misuse of your personal profile in the context thereof).
You understand and accept that your contributions to the Website in the form of blogs, discussions or forums are publicly available, and therefore use of that material is out of our control. This applies also to messages that are sent by you to one or more users of the Website and we cannot be held in any way responsible or liable for any abuse or misuse of any such contributions or messages. You are advised to only publish information or material on the Website if you are happy with its content and happy that it is publicly available.
10. Changes to your profile and your contributions
If you decide to provide a personal profile on the Website, you are allowed to change any of the details of your personal profile at any time and hereby agree to keep all of the details of personal profile accurate and up to date at all times.
We do not guarantee that you are able to change or delete any content, information or material contributed by you to, shared by you through or placed/published by you on the Website, once it is contributed, shared or placed/published. It is in your own interest that you submit only content, information or material you are happy with.
In the event that you account and ability to access the Website and the Services is terminated, this does not entitle you to remove all submissions that were contributed, shared or published/posted by you previously.
We may retain your personal information in full or in part for other legitimate business purposes that do not require your authorisation or any prior notice to you. The use of any such information by us will be subject to and in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
11. Contacting us
If you wish to contact us for any reasons regarding this Privacy Policy, please send your comments, concerns or queries to privacy@inafishbowl.co.uk.
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