Privacy policy

 

IDG PK company is a UK based website operated by IDG PK.

Please read this policy carefully in order to understand what information we collect, when we collect it and what we do with it as well as the parties with whom we share your data and what you need to do to unsubscribe.

 

Data protection

 

IDG PK company is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. We comply with the Data Protection Act in operating this website.

We take your privacy seriously and we take precautions to safeguard the personal information you supply to us.

 

Collection of your personal information

 

When you register, you are asked to provide information to enable us to identify you, such as your name, email address and other identifying information. This information enables you to become a member of IDG PK company's website and for us to provide offers that will be of interest to you.

 

The personal information enables us to select products or services which may be of interest to you and to send you relevant details of offers and opportunities.

 

From time to time you will be given an opportunity to participate in further prize competitions or offers. When doing so, you will normally be asked for additional information.

Whenever we ask for information, we will identify the information which is mandatory and the fields which are optional. You are not required to give us any information which is optional, but you may of course do so as this may assist us in providing you with more personalised offers and a better service.

 

What happens to your personal information?

 

Information about yourself or data you provide to this website will be controlled and managed by IDG PK company. The information will be hosted and stored on servers maintained by IDG PK company which are held in Germany. IDG PK company is the Data Processor under the Data Protection Act. The information you supply is used to identify offers, products and services which will be of interest to you. Also we share your data/information with our carefully selected partners in order to add you to their (partner's) competitions or prize draws, but no more than one time per month.

 

We use your personal information:

By becoming a member you consent to receive offers from us and carefuly selected third parties by email. This may include our newsletter, solus emails (which are e-mails containing only advertisements from us or our partners) and details of the offers which we think may be of interest to you.

 

How do we use cookies?

 

A cookie is a text-only file which is entered into the memory of your browser. Cookies are used on the IDG PK company website to record user specific information on what pages you access and for the purpose of identifying you when you return to our site.

If you disable your resident cookies, you will still be able to use the site, but you will not have the benefit of automatic recognition.

Cookies, called session cookies, are used to store data on the server that are individually identifiable. A session cookie will be stored on your machine and will expire once your visit to the site has ended. The functionality of the site depends on your browser accepting session cookies.

Visitors are attracted to the IDG PK company website by using referrer tracking. Click thru and open mail tracking are used when sending e-mails. This tracking enables IDG PK company to profile the recipients of our communications, which means that you will be sent products, services and offers which are of most interest to you.

 

Other websites

 

This privacy policy applies to the collection and processing of information through the IDG PK company website. From time to time you will be offered the opportunity of clicking on links which will take you to websites or landing pages which are operated by our partners or advertisers. When you click on those links, you may be taken to another website which is not part of IDG PK company and which is not under our control. You must ensure that when you do so, you recognise that the terms and conditions of this policy cease to apply and you should review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the organisations operating those websites.

 

Providing your data to third parties

 

We select our partners carefully and we believe that the products and services they offer will be of interest to IDG PK company members. Your data will be shared with partners who offers competition or prize draws, but not often than one time per month. These partners may be based in countries outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection for your personal data than that provided under English or European law. Your data may also be provided to partners where they already have information about you but where we have additional information which may assist them in providing their service to you. This is referred to as appending information to that which they already hold. When first contacting you, these partners will seek your appropriate consent. Although the information on this website will at all times be under the control of IDG PK company, we may on occasions rely on specialist third party suppliers to carry out certain processes for us. We only supply these processors with such personal information as is necessary to enable them to provide the relevant service to us. Outside service providers may be based in countries outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection for your personal data than that provided European law. In those circumstances, we have put in place contractual arrangements to keep your information secure.

Your data, together with that of other subscribers to this website, may be aggregated in a format where your personal information is not readily identifiable, in order to build statistical and analytical tables. Your data will not be individually identifiable in those tables. In addition to the above, there is also the possibility that IDG PK company or part(s) of it, may one day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. If IDG PK company or its business is sold or merged, the acquiring (or merging) companies will have access to your information.

 

Refer a friend service

 

We are not responsible for any verified and unverified email address entered by anyone visiting this website in the Refer a friend section. You agree to privacy note stated in a Refer a friend section.

 

Accessing your data and unsubscribing

 

Should you wish to see all information that IDG PK company holds on you or unsubscribe, please contact us here.

The consequences of choosing to unsubscribe are that your details will be placed in a suppression file and you will not receive any further email communications from us. You will also no longer be eligible to win any IDG PK company sponsored competitions you may have previously entered. Any data provided to our partners prior to your request to unsubscribe will not be affected by this request as it will have already been passed over to them. If you wish to unsubscribe from partner sites you will need to contact them directly.

 

Security

 

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We make significant efforts to achieve this. We use various technologies including, in certain instances, encryption to ensure the high security standards. Any data that is stored on the IDG PK company's server is treated as confidential and is not generally available to the public. IDG PK company have an internal security policy with respect to the confidentiality of customer and other data, limiting access only to those employees who we reasonably believe need to know such information for the purpose of performing their jobs. Please keep in mind, however, that the Internet is not a 100% secure medium. Therefore, although we make significant efforts to protect your information, the possibility of somebody defeating our security measures does exist.

 

Updating this policy

 

This policy is updated and reviewed from time to time as we upgrade our privacy arrangements. We would therefore encourage you to review this privacy statement from time to time even if you have previously visited this website.

 

Your consent

 

By entering your personal information and registering as a member of IDG PK company, you are consenting to the collection, use and transfer of your data as described in this policy.

 

Contact

 

If you have any queries regarding privacy, please contact us here.

 

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