
PRIVACY POLICY
Devolution Media Ltd ("we") are committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy.This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it)
sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or
that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the
following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data
controller is Devolution Media Limited of 35 St. Johns Road, Boxmoor,
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 1QQ.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site http://www.devolutionmedia.eu
(our site). This includes information provided at the time of
registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, submitting your
original work and/or contributions to the original works of other users
published on our site, posting material or requesting further services.
We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition or
promotion sponsored by us and when you report a problem with our site.
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research
purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
● Details of transactions you carry out through our site.
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to,
traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data,
whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and
the resources that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where
available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system
administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns
and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general
internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive
of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to
your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to
deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:
To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise our site according to your individual interests.
To speed up your searches.
To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your
browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if
you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our
site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we
have no control.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored
at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may
also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or
for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other
things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment
details and the provision of support services. By submitting your
personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We
will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is
treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any
payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we
have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you
to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping
this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with
anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not
completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal
data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our
site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your
information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try
to prevent unauthorised access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request
from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to
be contacted for such purposes.
To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us.
To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service,
when you choose to do so.
To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your
data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may
be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post
or telephone.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic
means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar
to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer and where we permit selected third parties to
use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if
you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your
details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the
relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the
website registration form). [Insert hyperlink]
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our
advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about
our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30
have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use
such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of
audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make
use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to
comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to
that target audience.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group,
which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its
subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case
we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of
such business or assets.
If Devolution Media Limited or substantially all of its assets are
acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about
its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
We are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order
to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our
terms of use and other
agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Devolution
Digital Productions Limited, our subscribers/users or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations
for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for
marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your
data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to
disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can
exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes
on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the
right at any time by contacting us at info@devolutionmedia.eu.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites
of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a
link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have
their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility
or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you
submit any personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you.
Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any
access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in
providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be
posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are
welcomed and should be addressed to info@devolutionmedia.eu
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