Privacy


Privacy Statement of

North Wales Links



Statement No 0004 (updated 05/08/07)


The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination
practices for the Websites listed below.

http://www.northwaleslinks.co.uk

Overview

As part of the normal operation of our services we collect
and, in some cases, may disclose information about you. This Privacy Policy
describes the information we collect about you and what may happen to that
information. By accepting this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions,
you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information
in the manner prescribed in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is
incorporated into and subject to the terms of the Terms and Conditions.

This Privacy Statement applies to all related sites. All
other worldwide sites operate under similar privacy practices as described
in this Privacy Policy, and subject to the requirements of applicable local
law, we strive to provide a consistent set of privacy practices throughout
the online personals sites.

1. A Special Note About Children

Children are not eligible to use our services, and we ask
that minors (under the age of 18) do not submit any personal information
to us. If you are a minor, you can use this service only in conjunction
with your parents or guardians.

2. Information We Collect

Our primary goal in collecting personal information is to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. This allows
us to provide services and features that most likely meet your needs and
to customize our service to make your experience easier. You agree that
in order to assist our members to meet each other we may feature members'
profiles in our editorials and newsletters that we send out from time to
time to our members. Your name, address and telephone number are confidential
and will not be posted in your profile. Your profile is available for other
members to view. Members' profiles include a description and photos, likes
and dislikes, individual essays and other information helpful about themselves. Your viewable profile does not include any identifying information
about you, except the username you chose upon registering.

Please note that your personally identifiable information
will be stored and processed on our computers in the UK. The
laws on holding personal data in the UK may differ from other
laws but as we explain below, We will hold and transmit your information
in a safe, confidential and secure environment.

We automatically track certain information based upon your
behavior on our Websites using cookies and other devices. We use this information
for internal research on our members' demographics, interests, and behavior
to better understand and serve you and our community. This information may
include the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on our site
or not). Which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on our site or not),
what browser you are using, and your IP address.

We use data collection devices such as "cookies"
on certain pages of our Websites. "Cookies" are small files placed
on your hard drive that assist us in providing customized services. We also
offer certain features that are only available through the use of a "cookie".
Cookies can also help us provide information which is targeted to your interests.
Most cookies are "session cookies", meaning that they are automatically
deleted from your hard drive at the end of a session. You are always free
to decline our cookies if your browser permits.

We use a third party advertising company, to serve ads on
our behalf across the Internet. The third party may also collect anonymous
information about your visits to our Web site. These third parties may use information about your visits to this and other Web sites
in order to provide ads about goods and services of interest to you.

3. Our Use of Your Information

We use information in the files we maintain about you, and
the other information we obtain from your current and past activities on
the Websites to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our
Terms and Conditions. At times, we may look across multiple members to identify
problems or resolve disputes, and in particular we may examine your information
to identify members multiple Member ID No. or aliases.

You agree that we may use personally identifiable information
about you to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to analyze site
usage, improve our content and product offerings, and customize our Site's
content, layout, and services. These uses improve our site and better tailor
it to meet your needs.

You agree that we may use your information to contact you
and deliver information to you that, in some cases, are targeted to your
interests, such as targeted banner advertisements, administrative notices,
product offerings, and communications relevant to your use on the Websites.
By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly agree to receive this information.

4. Our Disclosure of Your Information

Due to the existing regulatory environment, we cannot ensure
that all of your private communications and other personally identifiable
information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this
Privacy Policy. By way of example (without limiting and foregoing), we may
be forced to disclose information to the government, law enforcement agencies
or third parties. Under certain circumstances, third parties may unlawfully
intercept or access transmissions or private communications, or members
may abuse or misuse your information that they collect from our Websites.
Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy,
we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your personally identifiable
information or private communications will always remain private.

As a matter of policy, we do not sell or rent any personally
identifiable information about you to any third party. However, the following
describes some of the ways that your personally identifiable information
may be disclosed.

Financial Information. Under some circumstances we may require
some additional information, such as, but not limited to credit card details.
We use this financial information, including your name, address, and other
information, as well as to bill you for use of our services. We use your
financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services
and/or products, to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar
programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or
engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial
information on the Websites, you consent to our providing of your financial
information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine
are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as
well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties
may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process
and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or
making reservations for products or services of third parties offered on
the Websites, or by participating in programs offered on the Websites that
are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial
information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your
financial information to those third parties. Any of these various third
parties may be authorized to use your financial information in accordance
with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance
with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you
agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or
omissions. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such
information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which
we are entitled to use and disclose any other information that you submit
to us.

Advertisers. We aggregate (gather up data across all our
members' accounts) personally identifiable information and disclose such
information in a non-personally identifiable manner to advertisers and other
third parties for other marketing and promotional purposes. However, in
these situations, we do not disclose to these entities any information that
could be used to identify you personally. Certain information, such as your
name, email address, password, credit card number and bank account number,
are never disclosed to marketing advertisers. We may use third-party advertising
companies to serve ads on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies
and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure
advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect
via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous.

External Service Providers. There may be a number of services
offered by external service providers that help you use our Websites. If
you choose to use these optional services, and in the course of doing so,
disclose information to the external service providers, and/or grant them
permission to collect information about you, then their use of your information
is governed by their private policy.

Other Corporate Entities. We share much of our data, including
personally identifiable information about you, with our parent and/or subsidiaries
that are committed to serving your online needs and related services, throughout
the world. To the extent that these entities have access to your information,
they will treat it at least as protectively as they treat information they
obtain from their other members. Our parent and/or subsidiaries will follow
privacy practices no less protective of all members than our practices described
in this document, to the extent allowed by applicable law. It is possible
that We and/or its subsidiaries, or any combination of such, could merge
with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a combination
occur, you should expect that we would share some or all of your information
in order to continue to provide the service. You will receive notice of
such event (to the extent it occurs) and we will require that the new combined
entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Legal Requests. we Cooperate with law enforcement inquiries,
as well as other third parties to enforce laws, such as: intellectual property
rights, fraud and other rights. We can (and you authorize us to) disclose
any information about you to law enforcement and other government officials
as we, in our sole discretion, believe necessary or appropriate, in connection
with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringements, or
other activity that is illegal or may expose us or you to legal liability.

5. Your Use of other Members Information

Our services also include access to instant messaging and
chat rooms. As a member you have access to the Member's ID No., and you
might gain access to other contact information of the Member(s) through
the regular use of the instant messaging and chat rooms. By accepting this
Privacy Policy, you agree that, with respect to other Members' personally
identifiable information that you obtain through instant messaging communication,
the chat rooms and email, We hereby grant to you a license to use such
information only for: (a) Your Company related communications that are not
unsolicited commercial messages, and (b) any other purpose that such member
expressly agrees to after adequate disclosure of the purpose(s). In all
cases, you must give Members an opportunity to remove themselves from your
database and a chance to review what information you have collected about
them. In addition, under no circumstances, except as defined in this Section,
can you disclose personally identifiable information about another member
to any third party without our consent and the consent of such other member
after adequate disclosure. NorthWalesLinks and our members do not tolerate
spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to
add a NorthWalesLinks member to your mail list (email or physical mail)
without their express written consent after adequate disclosure. To report
spam from other NorthWalesLinks members, please Contact Us.

6. Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Profile

Following registration, you can review and change the information
you submitted during registration through the Member Service Menu including:
Your password and e-mail address. If you change your password and email
we may keep track of your old password and email. You may also be able to change your registration information such as: name, address, city, state, zip code, country, phone number, profile, likes and dislikes, desired date profile, essays and saves
search criteria.

Upon your written request, we will suspend your membership,
contact information, and financial information from our active databases.
Such information will be suspended as soon as reasonably possible in accordance
with our suspension policy and applicable law. To remove your profile so
that others cannot view it, visit the Remove Your Profile section of Member
Services.

We will retain in our files information you have requested
to remove for certain circumstances, such as to resolve disputes, troubleshoot
problems and enforce our terms and conditions. Further, such prior information
is never completely removed from our databases due to technical and legal
constraints, including stored 'back up' systems. Therefore, you should not
expect that all of your personally identifiable information will be completely
removed from our databases in response to your requests.

7. Control of Your Password

You are responsible for all actions taken with your login
information and password, including fees. Therefore we do not recommend
that you disclose your NorthWalesLinks password or login information to
any third parties. If you choose to share this information with third parties
to provide you additional services, you are responsible for all actions
taken with your login information and password and therefore should review
each third party's privacy policy. If you lose control of your password,
you may lose substantial control over your personally identifiable information
and may be subject to legally binding actions taken on your behalf. Therefore,
if your password has been compromised for any reason, you should immediately
change your password

8. Other Information Collectors

Except as otherwise expressly included in this Privacy Policy,
this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect
from you. To the extent that you disclose your information to other parties,
whether they are on our Websites or on other sites throughout the Internet,
different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information
you disclose to them. To the extent that we use third party advertisers,
they adhere to their own privacy policies. Since NorthWalesLinks does not
control the privacy policies of the third parties, you are subject to ask
questions before you disclose your personal information to others.

9. Security

NorthWalesLinks uses industry standard practices to safeguard
the confidentiality of your personal identifiable information, including
"firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. NorthWalesLinks treats data
as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access.
We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized
access by members inside and outside the company. However, "perfect
security" does not exist on the Internet.

10. Notice

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time based
on your comments and our need to accurately reflect our data collection
and disclosure practices. All changes to this policy are effective immediately
they are published. It is your responsibility to revisit this privacy page
from time to time to check for updates. The most current update date will
be displayed at the top of this page.




Privacy Support

If you have an enquiry or concern about our privacy policy
or the web site, please contact us via the website or write to the address shown below:





































Contact
Name/designation :
Roy Norry - Webmaster
Department :
NorthWalesLinks
Address :


17 Hamilton Road,

Connahs Quay,

Deeside,

Flintshire.

U.K.

CH5 4XB

Other Info:
Phone Number : 07092 158490 (07092 158490)
Fax Number : 07092 158490
Email address : Please use the contact link provided here: http://www.northwaleslinks.co.uk/contact
URL : http://www.northwaleslinks.co.uk




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