 STONEWRITE
MEMORIALS UK - OUR PRIVACY POLICY COMMITMENT TO YOU
This site is owned and operated by
Stonewrite Memorials UK. Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost
importance to us.
At Stonewrite Memorials UK, we want to make
sure your privacy is protected and any personal information you give
us is treated accordingly.
Because we gather certain types of
information about our customers, we feel you should fully understand our
policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use
of that information. This privacy statement discloses what
information we gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION STONEWRITE MEMORIALS
UK _ GATHERS AND
TRACKS
Stonewrite Memorials UK gathers two types of
information about users:
- Information that users provide
through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary
submissions to receive respond to your enquiry, process your
order and receive our electronic newsletters, to
participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend,
and from participation in polls and surveys:
- Information Stonewrite
Memorials UK gathers
through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This information
allows us to better tailor our content to readers' needs and to
help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the
demographics of our audience. Under no circumstances does
Stonewrite Memorials UK divulge any
information about an individual user to a third party.
Stonewrite Memorials UK Gathers User
Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free
services, which require some type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
1. Message boards/forums policy
Users of the site's Message Boards
and Forums must register separately for these services (both are
free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn't
register to visit the site. During registration the user is required
to supply a username, password, and email address.
2. "E-mail this to a
friend" policy
Our site users can choose to
electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by
clicking "e-mail this to a friend". The user must provide
their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This
information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of
course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The
information is not used for any other purpose.
3. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to
users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and
see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or
other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to
any particular user. Stonewrite Memorials UK may use a system to "tag"
users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a
particular question. This tag is not correlated with information
about individual users.
4. Surveys
Stonewrite Memorials may occasionally conduct
user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We never share
any of this personal information about specific individuals with any third
party.
Children
Consistent with the Federal
Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will
never knowingly request personally identifiable information from
anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
Stonewrite Memorials UK tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate
this information with data about individual users. Stonewrite
Memorials UK does
break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain
name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from
the browser string (information contained in every user's browser).
Stonewrite Memorials UK sometimes tracks and
catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function,
but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use
tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users
like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a
"cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie
itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable
us to relate your use of this site to information that you have
specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal
information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.
A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files
created by other sites. Stonewrite Memorials UK uses cookies to track user traffic
patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a
one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning
them off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn you
before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with
each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this
site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in
message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
How the information gathered
is used
USE OF INFORMATION
Stonewrite Memorials uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our
network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized
elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on
the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use
information that users voluntarily provide in order to respond to
your enquiry, process your order, send out
electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums.
Stonewrite Memorials UK never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third
parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
We do not rent or sell your
personally identifying information to other companies or
individuals, unless we have your consent. We may share such
information in any of the following limited circumstances:
- We have your consent
- We provide such information to
trusted businesses or persons for the sole purpose of processing
your order. When this is done, it is on the proviso that those
parties only use such information on our instructions and in
compliance with this Private Policy Statement and Security
measures.
TRACKING INFORMATION
When we use tracking information
to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like
based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual
users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This
helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search
terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what
interests our users. But we don't track which terms a particular
user enters.
Stonewrite Memorials UK creates aggregate
reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers,
sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more
effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are
pertinent to their needs. Because we don't track the usage patterns
of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a
specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information
about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
Stonewrite Memorials uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs
and help our advertisers better understand our audience's
demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free.
We will
not share information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to
protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
SECURITY
Stonewrite Memorials UK operates secure data
networks protected by industry standard firewall and password
protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are
periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized
individuals have access to the information provided by our
customers.
We restrict access to your
personally identifying information to employees of Stonewrite
Memorials and suppliers and contract workers who need to know that
information in either to process your order, or operate, develop or
improve our services
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever
necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to
receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in
certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need
to gather any personally identifiable information from our users.
If you wish to exercise the Opt-Out-Policy please write to us at
the address on our Contact page or e mail us.
English Law
As Stonewrite Memorials is based in the UK we operate and comply
with the advertising law of England and Wales.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to
the collection and use of this information by Stonewrite Memorials
UK. If we decide
to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this
page so that you are always aware of what information we collect,
how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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