PRIVACY POLICY

For the purposes of our data management policy, we comply with the relevant provisions and principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 when dealing with all data received from users of the Website.

Information Collected

We receive, hold and process the data which we believe is reasonably necessary to offer the services provided on the Website. Data may include your personal details, such as name, address, telephone number, fax number, email address, together with data about your use of the Website. It may also include such other information which may be needed from time to time to process a request you submit.

Information Use

Data is only used for the purposes described in our entry on the UK Data Protection Register. Our Data Protection Register number is Z9956953. All reasonable precautions are taken to prevent unauthorised access to this information. This safeguard may require you to provide additional forms of identity should you wish to obtain information about your account details. We retain personal data for as long as necessary. Once data is no longer needed it is deleted from our files. We may send emails to registered users of the Website with news and information updates, as well as newsletters. These are only sent to those customers who have registered with SemacaTM or those who have previously indicated an interest to receive such items, whether via our Website or another related site. All such emails sent by us contain clear information on how to unsubscribe from receiving our emails.

Disclosure of Data

We do not rent or sell mailing lists to third parties, but we do make them available to other members, associates and/or affiliates of the Semaca group. We do share commercial and technical data with our associates, affiliates or partners where a user has accessed and used the Website via another site belonging to one of them. In accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, we do not send bulk unsolicited emails (known as "spam") to email addresses. We may send emails to existing users or prospective customers who have enquired or registered with us, or one of our associates, affiliates or partners, regarding products or services directly provided by Semaca. All emails sent by us will be clearly marked as originating from us. All such emails will also include clear instructions on how unsubscribe from our mailing list and any future emails. Such instructions will either include a link to a page to unsubscribe or a valid email address to which you should reply, with "unsubscribe" as the email subject heading.

Cookies

Our Website uses "cookies" to track use, including your entry to it, to record the location from where you arrived. This is used for tracking you from our affiliate sites. They are also used to track the contents of your shopping cart if you choose to purchase documents. Please note that these cookies do not contain or pass personal, confidential, financial information or any other information that could be used to identify individual visitors to the Website or customers purchasing from the Website. Please note that you are free to refuse cookies. However, for purely technical reasons this may prevent you from purchasing from our Website. This is because anonymous cookies are commonly used to keep track of the contents of customers' shopping baskets or trolleys during the checkout process. This facility ensures that the items added to (or removed from) your basket are accurately stated when you go to pay. Each page of our Website which is accessed is normally recorded in a log file. The contents of the log file may be analysed from time to time to help determine the number of hits received, which pages are most frequently accessed, and from where they arrive. We only share this information with members of Semaca and/or their affiliates and associates.

Credit Card and Payment Details

We do not receive or store any credit card information. This information is taken and processed on our behalf by the secure servers of PayPal. They may transfer certain information outside the EU area for the purposes of credit card validation and authentication.

Changes to this Policy

Our policy will be that which covers users of this Website unless it is superseded by a more recent version. Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be placed here. We will take reasonable steps to draw your attention to any changes in our Policy. However, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.