What is personal information?

Personal information is information about an identifiable individual, as defined by applicable law.

 Collecting personal information

We only collect and hold personal information provided by you.You may elect to provide us with personal information if, for example, you

• contact us with an enquiry;
• register on the site (where applicable);
• fill out a survey or other form with your personal information included;
• request us to provide you with information or services;

In providing personal information you consent to the transfer of such personal information to, and the collection and processing of such information in, other countries or territories. Any such transfer and processing by us will be in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

 Use of cookies on our websites

Like most websites, MatchlessWD.co.uk, (‘the site’), uses ‘cookies’ (small data files that our server sends to your browser when you visit the site) to gather and store information about your visit to our website. Primarily we use cookies for the sole purpose of monitoring traffic e.g. the IP address from which you access the site; the location (country) from which you access the site; the type of browser and operating system used to access the site; the date and time of your access to the site; the pages you visit; the Internet address of the website from which you accessed the site; to log repeat visitors for statistical and analytical purposes; to track interaction with online advertising (e.g. to monitor the number of times that a banner ad is displayed and the number of times it is clicked) and to compile and report to third parties aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related site information.We will never pass any personal information on to any third party without your express permission. You are able to ensure in your browser settings that cookies will be deleted when you close your browser. This remains your option.

 Disclosure of personal information

We value your privacy and hereby assure you that we will only share your personal information with ‘service providers’ that provide adequate protection for such information. From time to time we may disclose personal information to:

• third parties to whom you have provided your consent;
• law enforcement, governmental or regulatory agencies, or other third party in order to comply with law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to comply with law or detect, protect or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations.

In such circumstances such ‘service providers’ and third parties have agreed not to collect, use or disclose personal information for any purpose other than to perform such functions on our behalf or to provide services to us or as otherwise required by law and will be bound by confidentiality obligations and restrictions on use of personal information.

 Security

To keep your personal information secure we have in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard the information you provide. However, we do not have control over the privacy of any communications while in transit to us. As such we ask that you do not include confidential, proprietary or sensitive information in such communications.Where we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or under our control may have been compromised, we will endeavor to notify you of such as promptly as possible and, to the extent we have your e-mail address, we will notify you by e-mail.

 Links

The site may contain links or references to other websites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have no control over these websites and our Privacy Statement does not apply to these sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements and terms and conditions of linked or referenced websites you enter.

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