Data Protection and Privacy Policy
We are Unicitee ("Unicitee/we/us"). At Unicitee we are very serious
about protecting your privacy. Your trust is our most important asset. This privacy
policy explains how Unicitee may collect information from you via our websites and
how that information may be used subsequently. If you have any queries in relation
to this privacy policy please contact support@unicitee.com
By browsing and using our website you agree to this policy governing your use
of the website. If you do not accept this policy, you must not use our website.
This policy applies only to this website and not to other websites to which we provide
links. We also enter into agreements with commercial partners whose websites may
be co-branded or framed by us and which you may visit directly through our website.
These websites are not subject to our privacy policy. You are advised to read the
privacy policy of such other websites.
We may change our privacy policy from time to time without notification and you
should regularly review this policy when you visit our site.
Collection of information
In order to provide the services you want, and to allow you to experience a more
personalised service when you revisit us, we need to know your interests. We find
these out by asking you, by reading your comments and by looking at which are the
most popular areas of our sites.
Collection of personal information
We will only collect personal information from you (such as name, address, telephone
number, email address etc) which you have provided voluntarily to us either by completing
registration or enquiry forms or sending emails to us. Please do not submit your
personal data to us if you do not wish us to collect it.
Examples of where we may collect your personal information include (without limitation):
- If you use our "Invite a friend" service, we ask for the friend's name and email
address. We then send an automatic, one-time e-mail inviting your friend to visit
us. Details of this transaction are stored only to send that one-time e-mail or
to track complaints of mischievous use. Your friend may email privacy@uncitee.com
to ask that it be deleted.
Collection of other information
In addition to asking you to submit personal information, we may collect information
about you automatically when you visit the site. The collection of information may
involve the use of cookies and web beacons. A web beacon is a small graphic image
placed on a web page that is designed to allow us to monitor visitors to our site.
A cookie is small text file that is placed on your computer's hard drive by your
web browser when you first visit our site. The cookie allows us to identify your
computer and find out details about your last visit. Most internet browsers accept
cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to
erase cookies or prevent automatic acceptance if you prefer. If you choose not to
receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience with our website will
be as quick or responsive as if you do receive cookies.
The information collected by cookies and web beacons is not personally identifiable,
it includes general information about your computer settings, your connection to
the internet e.g. operating system and platform, IP address, your browsing patterns
and timings of browsing on our website and your geographical location.
Use of your information
You agree that we may obtain, hold, correlate, merge and use your information (including
personal information) for the purpose of providing you with our services and ancillary
services and for our internal business purposes. These include (without limitation):
- Personalising your visits to the site and developing the design and style of the
site to improve our services to you
- To inform you about the latest changes to our website, or products, services or
promotional offers that you might find interesting
- Communication (and personalising such communication) with you from Unicitee,
and from other reputable and trustworthy third parties (if you have agreed to such)
- Informing you if you have been successful in any of the competitions or promotions
- Compiling customer reviews
- For market research purposes
- To prevent you from posting illegal, offensive or objectionable comments on our
sites
- To enable third parties to carry out statistical analyses', technical, logistical
or other functions on our behalf including determining behavioural preferences to
manage online advertising
- For strategic development
- For any purpose required by law or regulation
- For accounting purposes
Sharing Information
We may provide third parties, at our discretion, with certain aggregate statistical
data about your use of our websites, which data may include demographic data such
as age range and/or geographic location of groups of user. It will not include information
that could personally identify you.
With your consent, we may supply personal information to third parties.
We reserve the right to access and to disclose personal information to comply with
applicable laws and lawful government requests or requests by applicable regulatory
bodies to operate our systems properly or to protect either ourselves or our other
users.
We may transfer, sell or assign any of the information described in this policy
to third parties as a result of a sale, merger, consolidation, change of control,
transfer of assets or reorganisation of Associated.
You consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the European
Economic Area (which may not provide the same protection for such information as
the United Kingdom provides) in the event that the processing of your information
involves such a transfer.
Monitoring emails
We may monitor and keep records of email communications which you send to us and
other communications with you in accordance with this policy and our other business
interests.
Safeguards and Security
No data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure, and therefore we
cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of our sites.
In addition to our safeguards your personal information is protected in the UK by
the Data Protection Act. This provides that the information which we hold about
you should be processed fairly and lawfully and should be accurate, relevant and
not excessive. The information should, where necessary, be kept up to date and not
retained for longer than is necessary. Please help us to keep your personal information
accurate by updating your registration details on the website.
For more information on the Data Protection Act and the Information Commissioner
please see www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Changing or accessing your information
Should your personal information change (e.g. your postcode), or if you no longer
wish to receive newsletters or services you have signed up for, or if you wish to
review or receive copies of the personal information we hold about you, or have
any other queries please email support@unicitee.com including full
details of your request.
We may charge a small administration fee in relation to fulfilling a request for
access to personal information.