Independent Digital News and Media Limited is hereinafter
referred to in this Privacy Policy as IDNM. Please note that IDNM may revise this Privacy Policy at any
time by posting an update on its website. Please ensure that you
check this website from time to time to review the current privacy
policy against any preferences you may have indicated. This Privacy
Policy was last updated on the date indicated above.
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The basic principles
By accessing and using the Website you are agreeing to be
legally bound by the Legal Terms and Policies and this Privacy
Policy. You should therefore also read the Legal Terms and Policies
before using the Website.
IDNM is determined to protect your privacy. It is very important
to us that you should be able to use and enjoy the Website without
having to compromise your privacy unacceptably.
Knowing something about our users is, however, necessary to
ensure that our service is continually improved. We need to build
an accurate picture of the needs and wishes of our users, and to be
able to communicate with you. That enables us to offer a service
that is relevant and truly interactive, which is what our users
expect. It also helps us to maintain the greatest possible
free-to-user access to the Website.
Behavioural advertising: technology now also enables interest
based advertising which allows advertisers to customize adverts to
your particular interests and is referred to below.
We answer your important questions
"What information do you collect about me?"
We automatically collect some data about our users' browsing
actions and patterns. This is aggregate data and does not identify
any individual.
We may also ask you to provide personal information on a
voluntary basis in order to get a clearer picture of our users. It
is then entirely up to you whether you are happy to give us this
information.
In the course of entering competitions, promotions and other
offers you will be asked to give some details about yourself. You
may also choose to e-mail us or make contact with us in other ways.
Such contact gives us information about you.
If you have any financial dealings, for instance if you make
purchases with our trading partners on co-branded sites, or if you
place an order through The Independent Shop, the information you
submit will be disclosed to us and to relevant third parties, for
example suppliers of goods and services and our web service
providers.
"For what purposes do you collect and use my
information?"
We use aggregate audience details (where no individual is
identifiable) to help us improve our understanding of our users and
their preferences. We may use it to assist us in arranging relevant
advertising, commercial opportunities and competitions, as well as
ensuring the best editorial coverage. It also helps us develop the
Website and audit its use.
The information about you as an identifiable individual,
including contact details, may be used in the following ways:
* to conduct market research and other surveys.
* to create and draw to your attention editorial material and
commercial opportunities that may be of interest to you.
* to be shared with advertisers, trading partners and other
commercial entities with whom we have or might have an association.
We may also be able to share the information that they obtain about
their users.
* to respond to any enquiry you make.
"How private are my details?"
Apart from other companies in the IDNM group, we only share
personal information about you with third parties whom we have
selected carefully and with whom we have, or may have, a commercial
relationship. IDNM complies with the relevant legal requirements
and takes all reasonable care to ensure that your information is
secure and private and is only seen by responsible third parties.
However we cannot be held responsible for the actions of any third
party who receives or obtains access to the information, or for any
breach of security. We may also disclose your information if
required to do so to comply with any laws, regulations, legal
proceedings or governmental request - but this will be subject in
each case to the requirements of the Data Protection Act 1998.
If you tell us that you do not want us to use your details, by
emailing a request to customerservices@independent.co.uk, then data about your use of the Website would then
only form part of aggregated statistics and would not be related to
you as an individual.
You can ask to see the information we have about you by emailing
a request to customerservices@independent.co.uk.
Use of cookies on a website
The basic principles
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website
transfers to the cookie file of the browser of your computer's hard
disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will
typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has
come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly
generated unique number.
Two types of cookies are used on the Website: Session Cookies which are temporary cookies that
remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the
Website. Persistent Cookies which remain in the cookie file
of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the
lifetime of each specific cookie). Cookies can help a website to
arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly.
Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by
themselves to identify you.
How we collect cookies on the Website and what information we
collect
Session Cookies: To allow you to carry information
across pages of the Website and avoid having to re-enter
information. Persistent Cookies: To help us recognise you as a
unique visitor (just a number) when you return to the Website and
to allow us to tailor content, advertisements and the presentation
of the Website to match your preferences. To compile anonymous,
aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use the
Website and to help us improve the structure of the Website. We
cannot identify you personally in this way.
Third Party Cookies
Third parties serve cookies via the Website. These are used for
the following purposes: To serve advertisements on the Website and
track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users; To
control how often you are shown a particular advertisement; To
count the number of anonymous users of the Website, and; To provide
security within transactions.
Interest Based Advertising
Interest based advertisements on our site are provided by our
advertising partner. Our advertising partner will serve ads that it
believes are most likely to be of interest to you, based on certain
information about your visit to this and other websites. This
information is collected and used without reference to other data
which could identify you in the real world, in that it does not
include your name, street address, e-mail address or telephone
number. In order to do this, our advertising partner may need to
place a cookie (a small text file) on your computer. You have the
right to exercise control over the way we collect and use
information about your online activities in this way and you are
entitled to opt-out of receiving this type of interest based
advertising.
For more information about this type of interest based
advertising, about cookies, and about how to turn this feature off,
please visit www.youronlinechoices.co.uk. Please note that the
effectiveness of any opt-out for interest based advertising may be
impacted by deleting all cookies on your browser.
See below for instructions on controlling cookies in the most
recent version of Internet Explorer (users of other browsers should
contact their operators for instructions).
Windows Internet Explorer
Select Tools Internet Options then Privacy Tab then Advanced
Check Override automatic cookie handling
Click Accept, Block or Prompt then OK twice
Firefox
Please visit
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies
for details
Please refer to the 'Help' function of your particular browser
for further information.
By using your browser settings to disable cookies you may
prevent the Site from operating fully.
Use of Web Beacons
Some of our web pages may contain electronic images know as web
beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count
users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only
limited information which including a cookie number, time and date
of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web
beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party
advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable
information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a
particular campaign.
Disabling/Enabling Cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying
the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use
all the interactive features of the Website if cookies are
disabled.
International transfer of personal data
As you will know, the internet does not recognise national
boundaries. Services on the net are accessible globally so
collection and transmission of personal data is not always confined
to one country. You should be aware that by using the Website and
those of our partners or any site we link through to, your personal
data may be processed in or transferred to other countries, the USA
for example, and you agree to your personal data being transferred
or processed in this way.
"What do I do if I am not happy for you to share information
about me with others?"
You may not wish us to share personal details about you with
third parties outside IDNM, or to use your information in the other
ways we have described in this Privacy Policy. You can e-mail
customerservices@independent.co.uk at any time to let us know of
any objections you may have to how we use or disclose your data in
the ways set out in this Privacy Policy. Your personal details may
in any event be shared with third party organisations we have
contracted to provide services to us, on an agency basis, which
include processing data. We may also have to release information
(which could include the contents of e-mail communications between
any persons) because of a legal requirement on us or pursuant to a
court order.
Further information
If you want further information, or wish to communicate with us
about this Privacy Policy and your wishes about your personal
information, please e-mail us at
customerservice@independent.co.uk.
Company and data protection information
The data controller of data on the Website is Independent
Digital News and Media Limited, registered in England and Wales
under company number 732 0345, whose registered office is at 2
Derry Street, London, W8 5HF, UK. VAT number GB 995 5180 73. Any
queries or notices under the Data Protection Act should be
addressed to the IT Director at the above address.
This newspaper adheres to the system of self-regulation overseen
by the Press Complaints Commission. The PCC takes complaints about
the editorial content of publications under the Editor’s Code of
Practice, a copy of which can be found at www.pcc.org.uk
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