This Customer Privacy
Policy governs the collection and use of personal information relating to potential
and existing
customers of CMP Information Limited by the company and its international
affiliates (collectively “CMP”).
CMP is committed to
abiding by this Customer Privacy Policy, as well as the
requirements of applicable laws, in the operation of its business.
Please read this policy carefully as it explains the kinds of personal information
we collect about you and how it is handled.
By your continued
use of our services (including our web sites), you consent to the collection and
use of your personal information for the purposes set out in this Customer Privacy
Policy.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We will generally let
you know at the time of collection how we intend to use your personal information. Usually, we collect personal information about
you which we require to respond to your inquires and for the provision of goods
and services to you. From time to time, we
may contact you for research purposes, or to tell you about our special offers and
other services in accordance with your contact preferences.
Where appropriate, we will obtain your consent to do so.
Personal information
collected from you may include your name, postal address, email address, landline
or mobile telephone number, as well as other non sensitive personal information. If you use our web sites, we may also collect
information about you or your computer when you browse to allow you to use the services
available.
If you are using our
web sites, we will use your personal information to help you to log on to, and to
permit future use of the web sites. We may use your IP address to help diagnose
problems with our server, or to administer our web sites.
We may conduct analyses of user traffic to measure the use of our sites and
to improve the content of our web sites and our services.
These analyses will be performed through the use of IP addresses and cookies. We may also use cookies to enable the signing
in process after you have registered with us and to provide you with more tailored
information when you return to our web sites.
A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive
by your web browser. Most browsers accept
cookies automatically, but usually you can alter the settings of your browser to
prevent automatic acceptance. If you reject
the use of cookies please note that the efficient operation of the web site that
you are using may be affected.
We will only disclose
personal information about you internally and to third parties for processing purposes
associated with the supply of goods and services, for web site administration, or
elsewhere when you have consented to such disclosures, or where such disclosures
are required or permitted by law. These third
parties we contractually bound only to use personal information to perform the services
that we hire them to provide. Where you have
agreed that we may do so, we may lease or rent your personal information to selected
third parties for their postal or telephone marketing use.
Third party data processors,
who may be located outside of the EEA, are required to take adequate technical and
organisational safeguards to protect personal information.
We also take measures to ensure that personal information transferred by
us outside of the EEA is adequately protected.
Security of Personal Information
We use administrative,
technical, and physical measures to safeguard personal information against loss,
theft and unauthorised uses, access or modifications.
Certain areas of our web sites may be password protected.
If you are a user of our web sites and have a password, you can help to preserve
your privacy by ensuring that you do not share your password with anyone else.
We take steps to regularly
validate the personal information we hold to ensure that the information is accurate
and, where necessary, up to date. Information
that is no longer required for any valid business purpose, and that we are not required
to keep pursuant to any applicable law, will be routinely destroyed by secure means.
Making Automated Decisions
We do not ordinarily
use personal information for the purposes of automated decision making.
However, may do so in order to fulfil compelling obligations imposed by law,
in which case we will inform of any such processing and provide you with an opportunity
to object.
Access to Personal Information
You may renew and update
personal information that we hold about you by contacting us as detailed below.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, you can email at
dpa@cmpinformation.com or write to the Data Protection Co-ordinator,
Dept SHP795, CMP Information Ltd, FREEPOST LON 15637, Tonbridge TN9 1BR. Freephone
0800 279 0357.
Changes to Privacy Policy
We reserve the right
to add to or amend this privacy policy at our sole discretion, without prior notice
to you. Please review our privacy policy
on a regular basis to make sure you have read the latest version and you understand
what we do with your personal information.
Your continued use of our services or our web sites following the posting of changes
to these terms means that you consent to those changes.
This version of the
privacy policy is effective as of 1st January 2008