PRIVACY STATEMENT

This privacy statement should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions which may be accessed by clicking on Terms.

Your right to privacy is important to us.

We aim to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring that you obtain full value from this web-site and other services we or our advertised service providers may wish to market to you.

We are fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 and ensure that we comply with all protection the Act affords to you. Further information on the Act is on the internet at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. or www.dti.gov.uk.

Our service providers are licensed by the UK Telephone preference service ("TPS") and regularly check the list of mobile numbers we use in our promotions against the subscriber lists maintained by the TPS - for further information see www.tpsonline.org.uk.

Our service providers abide by the Code of Practice prescribed from time to time by PhonepayPlus ("PPP") - for further information see www.phonepayplus.org.uk

Opt Out

You will find that in respect to any mobile phone related service which uses a premium rate mechanism you may opt out at any time from that Service and / or opt out from receiving further communications from the service provider or sending a text message to opt out. The relevant service provider is required to provide you with clear details as to how this can be achieved but if you should have any difficulty, we suggest you first contact your mobile network provider (eg: Vodafone, Orange etc) failing which contact PPP. If you wish to opt-out of any service provided to you directly by us from this web-site simply click “unsubscribe” where indicated on the home page.

What information do we or our service providers collect?

We or they may collect two basic types of information:

1. Personally identifying information eg: name, address, email address, mobile telephone number;
2. Non-personally identifying information eg: when you visit our web site we may record the pages you browse by the use of "cookies" (see further below)

If you subscribe online, we ask you to give us your name, email address, mobile telephone number and other personal information that will be needed to supply our services to you. The provision of this information also enables us to respond more efficiently to any enquiries or complaints you may have.

We may use cookies to identify users of our web-site and to personalise your visit by customising web pages for you. A cookie is a message given to a web browser by a web server. The message is then stored by the browser in a text file called cookie.text. Each time the browser requests a page from the server, this message is sent back.

How do we use your information?

The information you give us is used in a variety of ways, including:

1. to send you promotional material relevant to this Service and generally for the several purposes set out in the Terms and Conditions.
2. to promote and advertise new services which based on your existing user experience with us we feel may be of interest to you;
3. to enable you to receive details of similar new services from our affiliates with whom we have a commercial relationship;
4. to prepare user profiles - this assists us in ensuring that our services are tailored to your preferences;
5. to improve on the services we offer you including this web-site and to develop additional web-sites;
6. to provide you with updates regarding our services and other services we or our affiliates run;
7. credit checking;
8. age verification and anti-fraud prevention

Who do we disclose your information to?

The following persons may have access to your information:

1. our employees insofar as they need to know such information in order to provide our services and related benefits to you;
2. other members of our "Group" (if any) which for the purpose of this Privacy Statement shall mean any company or other entity in which we own more than 15% of the issued share capital;
3. regulators and law enforcement agencies eg: PPP;
4. third party service providers with whom we have a commercial relationship. We will only pass on your information to trustworthy persons.

For further details regarding how the relevant service provider may use your personal information contact the service provider direct. Full details of the service providers advertised on this web-site can be found by [ ]

Transferring your information and Security

We do our best to protect your personal data including, where appropriate, through the use of encryption technology but we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose. Communications by email or telephone are not secure unless encrypted. We cannot accept any responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our reasonable control.

We reserve the right, where reasonable to do so, to transfer your personal information to other members of our Group or third party service providers located in countries outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA"). The data protection and other laws of these countries may not be as comprehensive as in the EEA and where this is the case we will exercise all reasonable endeavours to ensure your privacy rights are respected.

Contacting Us

We want to provide you with a first class service. We appreciate that from time to time, even though we use every reasonable effort, a problem may arise. In such an eventuality, we want you to feel that you can contact us for a full and complete response. You can contact us in a number of ways - click on Contact Us .

You have the right to know if we hold your personal data and if we do, the uses to which it is put. We may charge an administration fee in connection with any request for such information and presently this is £10.