Privacy
Last updated : 20 April 2010
1. Introduction and General Terms
Alison Penny Garden Design is committed to protecting you and your family’s personal information when you are using our website. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through this website.
Whenever you provide any information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the “data protection laws”).
The website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
2. What information will the website collect about me?
When you sign up to participate in discussions on the website, or contact us using the form on the site, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, email address, and website address. Different webpages may ask for different personal information.
3. Alison Penny Garden Design will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
for “service administration purposes”, which means that we may contact you for reasons related to the service you have signed up for; or to contact you about a submission you have made to the websites, including any content you provide
4. When will Alison Penny Garden Design contact me?
The website may contact you:
in relation to the functioning of any service you have signed up for in order to ensure that the website can deliver the services to you;
where you have opted to receive further correspondence;
in relation to any contribution you have made, eg on message board.
5. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes?
We may occasionally contact you for marketing purposes, or to inform you about new services that we think may be of interest. If you would not like to receive any information from us, please let us know and we will remove your name from our records. Email hello@alisonpenny.co.uk
6. Will the website share my personal information with anyone else?
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described in paragraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within Alison Penny Garden Design. However, sometimes we may use third parties to process your information. We will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and we will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
7. Offensive or inappropriate content on the Alison Penny Garden Design website
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on the website, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Alison Penny Garden Design, we may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where the owners of Alison Penny Garden Design reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), we may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
8. What if I am a user aged 16 or under?
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.
9. How long will you keep my personal information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service. Where you contribute to the website, we will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. You can remove your name from our system at any time by emailing hello@alisonpenny.co.uk
10. Can I find out what personal information the website holds about me?
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information the website holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to the hello@alisonpenny.co.uk
11. Changes to Privacy Policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to fge website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
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13. Contacting us about this Privacy Policy
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please email hello@alisonpenny.co.uk