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Last Updated April 2008
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The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.
- Statement of intent
- Information on visitors
- What is a cookie?
- Submitting personal information
- Access to your personal information
- Users 16 and under
- How to find and control your cookies
- How do you know which sites use cookies?
- How to see your cookie code
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1. Statement of intent
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From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal
information about yourself (eg name and email address etc) in
order to receive or use services on our web site. Such services
include newsletters and competitions and personalised services.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable ELITE
SELECTION Services and its service providers to provide you with the services you
select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will
treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our
services are designed to give you the information that you want to
receive. ELITE SELECTION Services will act in accordance with current legislation
and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
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2. Information on visitors
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During the course of any visit to the ELITE SELECTION Services Web site, the pages you
see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your
computer (see point 3 for more on this). Most, if not all,
web sites do this, because cookies allow the web site publisher to
do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably
its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat
visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on
the last visit.
Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide
you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of
our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to,
say, the education pages, then we might find this out from your
cookie and highlight educational information on a second visit.
Toolshack.com, an independent measurement and research company,
gathers non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site on
our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site.
Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal
statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the
duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through
the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general
information. ELITE SELECTION Services uses this type of information, as with that
obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve
the services to its users.
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3. What is a cookie?
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When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued
with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer
to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the
individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this
whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows.
Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have
been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users
have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies,
to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies
at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain
personalised services cannot then be provided to that user.
NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject cookies you
can still browse our site anonymously until such time as you
register for ELITE SELECTION Services services.
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4. Submitting personal information
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When you supply any personal information to the ELITE SELECTION
Services Web Site (eg for registration) we have legal obligations towards you
in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly,
that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on
particular web pages that let you know why we are requesting the
information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to
anyone else. In general, any information you provide to ELITE
SELECTION Services will
only be used within ELITE SELECTION Services. It will never be supplied to anyone
outside ELITE SELECTION Services without first obtaining your consent, unless we are
obliged by law to disclose it. We will hold your personal
information on our systems for as long as you use the service you
have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has
been met, or, in the case of the newsletter, you no longer wish to
continue your registration as a personalised user. Where personal
information is held for people who are not yet registered but have
taken part in other ELITE SELECTION Services services (e.g. gift reminder), that
information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that
the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal
information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 1998.
If you are notified on a ELITE SELECTION Services site that your information may be
used to allow ELITE SELECTION Services to contact you for "service administration
purposes", this means that ELITE SELECTION Services may contact you for a number
of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For
example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or
notify you that the particular service has been suspended for
maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes,
such as notifying you of improvements to the service or new
services on ELITE SELECTION Services unless you specifically agree to be contacted for
such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site,
or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such
promotional information.
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5. Access to your personal information
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You have the right to request a copy of the personal information
ELITE SELECTION Services holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We
charge £ 10 for information requests.) Please address requests to
the Data Protection Officer (email:
dpa.officer@eliteselectionservices.co.uk).
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6. Users 16 and under
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If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's
permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to
the ESS website. Users without this consent are not allowed to
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7. How to find and control your cookies
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If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Security tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled
by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as
appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
- Choose View, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Advanced tab
- Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and
choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.
In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that
says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
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8. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?
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If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
- Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0:
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the General tab
- Click Settings
- View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- View, then
- Internet Options
- Under the tab General (the default tab) click
- Settings
- View Files.
Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- View
- Options
- Advanced
- View Files
Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive.
You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows
machines.
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9. How to see your cookie code
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Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of
text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which
can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
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ELITE SELECTION Services
32 High Street
Wootton
Northampton
NN4 6LW
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