Privacy policy

Last modified: 17 March 2011 

This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Sociable Data Ltd. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or write to us at:

Customer Service (Privacy)

Sociable Data Ltd

John Carpenter House

John Carpenter Street

London

 

Information that we collect and how we use it

We may collect the following types of information:

  • Personal information that you provide – When you register on our site, you provide us with personal information. We combine this information with usage data on our site to identify the products and services that you are using, in order to better improve our services to you.
  • Cookies – When you visit our sites, we send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service, including by tracking user trends and remembering your access credentials.
  • Log information – When you access our sites via a browser, application or other client, our servers automatically record certain information. These server logs may include information such as your web request, your interaction with a service, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your account.
  • User communications – When you send emails or other communications to Sociable Data, we may retain those communications in order to process your enquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services. We may use your email address to communicate with you about our services.
  • Third party sites – This Privacy Policy applies to Sociable Data websites only. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

In addition to the above, we may use the information that we collect to:

  • Provide, maintain, protect and improve our services and develop new services;
  • Provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user; and
  • Protect the rights or property of Sociable Data or our users.

 

International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Areas (EEA).

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world.

You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

 

Information sharing

Sociable Data only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside itself in the following limited circumstances:

  • We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.
  • We provide such information to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies or other trusted businesses or persons for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf. 
  • In addition, we may disclose information about you: (a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings; (c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.

 

Information security

We take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. 

We restrict access to personal information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.

 

Accessing and updating personal information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. We will post any Privacy Policy changes on this page and if the changes are significant we will provide a more prominent notice.

 

Data controller

The data controller responsible for our website is Sociable Data Ltd.