This Privacy Policy sets out how GrahamWilliamson.com uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website (www.grahamwilliamson.com). The term “GrahamWilliamson.com” or “us” or “we” refers to the owner of the website. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of our website.
GrahamWilliamson.com is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be confident that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this page. Any variations are effective immediately upon posting to the website and by continuing to use the website you will be deemed to have accepted any such variations. You should, therefore, check this page from time to time to ensure that you are in agreement with any changes.
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
- name and job title
- contact information including email address
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
- other information relevant to user surveys and/or offers
How we use the information we collect
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons.
- Internal record keeping.
- We may use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional email about new products, special offers or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email address that you have provided.
- From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail.
- We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Managing your personal information
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties. We will not release your personal information to third parties unless required by law to do so.
Log files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Virgin Media), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited throughout our site. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Blogs and discussion forums
Please remember that any information that is disclosed in a blog or discussion forum becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Cookies
We use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once during your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.
We also use third party advertisements to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is generally used for geotargeting purposes (showing Northumberland holiday cottage ads to someone in Northumberland, for example) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cycling ads to someone who frequents cycling sites).
You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this may affect how you are able to interact with our site, as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. We do not have any control over external websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Mailing lists
By subscribing to a GrahamWilliamson.com mailing list or newsletter you agree to GrahamWilliamson.com sending you occasional email alerts providing information about new additions to the website, other relevant developments and product news. You can unsubscribe at any time.
Email a friend
We may from time to time operate an ‘Email a friend’ service. This is a referral service, designed to make it easy for users to recommend our website or offers to a friend. This is a two-step process. First, a user sends us the friend’s name and email address and, second, we contact the friend, telling them who we are, and inviting them to take advantage of a particular offer, or to visit our website. When we contact your friend, we always advise them of the name and email address of the friend who made the original referral. We will not use your friend’s details for any other purpose.
When a user wishes to sponsor a friend and provides us with his/her name and email address, we reasonably assume that such user has obtained his/her friend’s prior consent in order for us to process his/her data. Users supply such information freely and voluntarily, under their sole responsibility.