ScreenMenus Online Privacy Policy
(Last updated 7th April 2005)
ScreenMenus have established this Privacy Policy to explain
how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from
you (the customer) online.
1.
Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure
Your use of the ScreenMenus site and/or your registration
for ScreenMenus products and services constitute your consent to the terms
of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy
Policy, please do not use the ScreenMenus site.
ScreenMenus may occasionally update this Privacy Policy.
When it does, ScreenMenus will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
In addition, ScreenMenus will seek a customer’s prior consent, by email,
for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information collected from the
customer prior to the change. ScreenMenus will notify customers by email
of changes to this policy that will affect information collected from them
in the future. In certain circumstances, however, ScreenMenus will not inform
and obtain the consent of the customer, such as in connection with an investigation
of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where the
life, health or security of an individual is threatened, the collection of
a debt or in compliance with the request of a law enforcement agency or a
court order.
A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection,
use and disclosure at any time by sending an email to
.
Please note that, if you do, ScreenMenus may suspend its provision of products
and services to you. When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee
period for any ScreenMenus product or service and you request a refund,
the guarantee will be honored.
2.
Accountability
ScreenMenus collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on
to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies
you) including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work
address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware
and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain
name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).
ScreenMenus has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect
personal information received from its customers, and to respond to any inquiries.
The Privacy Policy also provides that ScreenMenus will use appropriate contractual
means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal information
which is sent for processing by third parties on ScreenMenus’s behalf.
ScreenMenus takes responsibility for your personal
information very seriously, and ensures compliance with the principles
in this Privacy Policy at all times.
3.
Purposes for Collecting Personal Information
ScreenMenus collects and uses personal information for the
following Identified Purposes:
- to understand customer needs regarding ScreenMenus’s services
- to develop and provide our web site and our products
and services for our customers
- to fulfill your requests for products, services or
information
- to communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary,
and to inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and
services available from ScreenMenus, its affiliates and third parties
- to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of ScreenMenus’s site
- to personalise some of our services and products for
you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from ScreenMenus
and third parties
- to bill accounts and maintain payment records
- to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or government request
- to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable
belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of
the agreements or policies that govern your use of the ScreenMenus site
or any ScreenMenus product or service
- to protect the services, products or rights of ScreenMenus,
including but not limited to the security or integrity of the ScreenMenus
site,
- andto identify and resolve technical problems concerning ScreenMenus’s site,
products and services.
ScreenMenus also uses personal information in an aggregate
form (i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis,
operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
4.
Limiting the Collection of Personal Information
ScreenMenus limits its collection of personal information
to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes.
ScreenMenus does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any
personal information from children under the age of thirteen.
When you visit the ScreenMenus web site, a cookie may be
placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the
ScreenMenus site previously. ScreenMenus uses cookies to allow ScreenMenus
to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that ScreenMenus does not provide
redundant information to you, and, if you are an ScreenMenus affiliate,
to track ScreenMenus sales made to customers referred by you so that you
can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to
not have your browser accept cookies from the ScreenMenus web site, you
may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience
a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings
on the ScreenMenus site.
5.
Disclosure, Processing and Retention
ScreenMenus does not sell, rent or disclose your personal
information to anyone else, except:
- to ScreenMenus’s employees and service providers, acting
on ScreenMenus’s
behalf for any of the Identified Purposes
- as necessary if ScreenMenus has reason to believe that disclosure
is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone
who may be causing injury to or interference (either
intentionally or unintentionally)
with ScreenMenus’s
rights or property, other users of ScreenMenus’s web site, products
or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities
-
to respond to judicial process and provide information to law
enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters
related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required
by law.
In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we
or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may
merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may
be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that ScreenMenus
or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information
may be one of the transferred assets.
Your information may be stored and processed in the United
Kingdom, or in any other country in which ScreenMenus or its affiliates,
subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent
to any such transfer of information outside of your country.
After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request
to be removed from our database), ScreenMenus will keep your personal information
in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for
tax reasons or to prove ScreenMenus’s compliance with any applicable law.
6.
Accuracy of Personal Information
ScreenMenus will use reasonable efforts to keep customer
personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimising
the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such
information. Customers are responsible for informing ScreenMenus about changes
to their personal information. You can do this by calling 01522 683462
or sending an email to
. ScreenMenus will
use new or updated personal information it receives from customers
to update its own records.
7.
Security Safeguards
ScreenMenus will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.
8.
Access to Personal Information
ScreenMenus will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review
the personal information in your file, if you so request by calling 01522
683462, or writing to:
ScreenMenus
135, Doddington Road
Lincoln
LN6 7HE
United Kingdom
... or upon request to
If
ScreenMenus is not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s personal
information, it will provide reasons for denying access such as;
that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party,
or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney–client
privileged communications, or that the information relates
to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure
could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another
individual.
Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete
information be amended as appropriate, by contacting ScreenMenus as described
above. ScreenMenus will promptly correct such personal information.
