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Privacy Statement

SeaView (which means the SeaView Group, SeaView Network Ltd and associated companies) is committed to protecting your privacy when you use our on-line, telephone or other services ("Services"). In this policy we explain how and why we collect your information, what we do with it and what controls you have over our use of it.
From time to time, we add or change functions, features or products to our websites or add or change Services. This, and our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information, may result in periodic changes to this Privacy Policy. As a result, please remember to refer back to this Privacy Policy regularly to review any amendments.
Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to SeaView's Privacy Policy Manager at privacy@seaview.co.uk, or alternatively see the section "Comments" below.

Your acceptance of these Privacy Statement terms

By using any of the sites within our website network ("websites") or our services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

What data do we collect and how do we use it?
SeaView collects and processes information about you in order to:
(i) Identify you each time you visit a website or wish to have a service provided
(ii) Process applications submitted by you
(iii) Improve our services and websites
(iv) Customise your experience, for example, provide advertisements that we think are relevant to you and which support any specific requests for information you may make through keyword searches
(v) Carry out research on the demographics, interests and behaviour of all of our visitors
(vi) Send you information we think you may find useful, including information about new SeaView products and services.
You may be asked, either when you register with us, or at other times, for information about yourself, such as your name, e-mail address, postal address and telephone number.ÊYou may also be asked to share with us your interests, hobbies and preferences. In addition, when you use certain services, we may need to know your credit/payment card number and expiration date. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but if you donÕt then we may not be able to provide you with certain services or personalise your experience and tailor our services for you.

Log files/IP addresses
When you visit our websites, we automatically log your IP address (the unique address which identifies your computer on the internet) which is automatically recognised by our web server. We use IP addresses to help us administer our websites and to collect broad demographic information for aggregate use. We do not link IP addresses to personally identifiable information.

Non personal information
We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our websites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our websites. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third partyÊsites from which it is possible to link to our websites with information relating to the number of users linking to our websites from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

Use of Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify customers or passwords.ÊCredit card information is not stored in cookies.

We use cookies for the following reasons:
(i) To identify who you are and to access your account information
(ii) To estimate our audience size and patterns
(iii) To ensure you are not asked to register twice
(iv) To control how often visitors see similar ads
(v) To track preferences and to improve and update our websiites
(vi) To track the progress and number of entries in some of our promotions and contests.

With whom is the information shared?
We may disclose your personal information to third party suppliers who provide services on our behalf and/or to other companies within SeaView's group.
SeaView may disclose aggregate statistics about our sales, our website visitors and customers of our telephone services in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will not include personally identifying information.
SeaView may disclose personal information if required to do so by law or if it believes that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of SeaView and its website, visitors to the websites and customers of our services.
Our website contains links to the sites of third parties. When you visit these sites, we suggest that you read their privacy policies. SeaView is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.
We will only sell or rent your personal information to a third party either as part of a sale of the assets of a SeaView company or having ensured that steps have been taken to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected.

Information about products and services
It is very important to us that we provide you with the highest level of service. In order to help us do this, from time to time SeaView companies may send you details of our products and services which we think may be of interest to you. If at any time you do not wish to receive these details, please click here.

Security
SeaView places a great importance on the security of all information associated with our customers. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of customer data under our control. For example, our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorised personnel have access to user information. With regard to our websites, we use secure server software (SSL) to encrypt financial information you input before it is sent to us. While we cannot ensure or guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur, we use our best efforts to prevent this.

Where is the information stored?
Information which you submit via our websites is stored on a computer located in the European Economic Area. This is necessary in order to process the information and to send you any information you have requested. Information submitted by you may be transferred by us to our other offices and to reputable third party suppliers, which may be situated outside the European Economic Area.ÊNot all countries outside the EEA have data protection or privacy laws. In addition, if you use our services while you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with those Services.

Specific Services
Public forums on SeaView's websites
Some of our websites make message boardsavailable to their users. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

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