The www.animated-encounters.org.uk website is owned and operated by Brief Encounters. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read this Privacy Policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time to time so please check it periodically.
Consent
Your use of the www.animated-encounters.org.uk website signifies your consent to us collecting and using personal information about you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
What information do we collect?
During registration we ask for some personal details. We need to know your email address.
We may from time to time ask you for further information in order to update our records or for particular purposes. We will always tell you how we will use any further information received from you. We may share aggregate data, based on users' demographics, interests, and behaviour with our advertisers or business partners but this aggregate data will not contain personally identifiable data.
If you contact us we may keep a record of that correspondence and incorporate the information it contains into our database.
If you would like to revise the information provided to us, or feel what we currently have on record is incorrect, you may update the information by emailing info@animated-encounters.org.uk.
How and why do we use personal information ?
We need to know some personal details to keep you informed of any updates or changes to our website.
We may use your personal details to communicate with you by email, fax or telephone, for record keeping purposes, for the purpose of technical administration of our website, for research and development and for customer administration.
From time to time we conduct surveys and promotions and may request information from you as part of these. Participation in these is entirely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose any information which might be required.
Disclosure of personal information
We may share your personal details as may be necessary with any sub-contractors used by Brief Encounters as part of any transaction entered into by you with us. It is possible that we, our subsidiaries, joint ventures, or any combination of such, could merge with or be acquired by another business entity. Should such a an event occur, we would share some or all of your information in order to continue to provide the products and services. You will receive notice of such event and we will require that the new combined entity follow the practices disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
We may also ask you whether you would like to receive promotional emails and mailings from us about our other products or services or from other companies about their products and services which may be of interest to you. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.
We will only pass on your details to other companies if you have indicated that you would like to receive further information from them.
If we are requested by the police or a regulatory or government authority investigating illegal activities to provide information concerning your activities whilst using the network we shall do so. Similarly, we will disclose your personal data as part of a transaction whereby our company or business assets are transferred to a third party or if we are compelled to do so by law.
Email Newsletters
We send you a welcoming email to verify your details. You also have the option to receive various email services we offer and in this regard we present the option to not receive these types of communications.
Correction/Updating Personal Information/Privacy Support
If your personal information changes or if you no longer wish to subscribe to the service, we will endeavour to correct, update or remove the personal data provided to us as speedily as possible. This can be done by emailing us at info@animated-encounters.org.uk. You may also email info@animated-encounters.org.uk if you have any enquiries or concern about our privacy policy.
Under the Data Protection Act you are entitled to a copy of your personal data held by us on payment of a fee.
How we protect information
You acknowledge the Internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication and, accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to us (or we send to you) via the Internet. We are not responsible for any damages which you, or others, may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.
We take every precaution to protect your information. To this end all personal information stored by us is kept on a server in a secure environment. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information.
We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Log files
Every time someone visits our web site a log file is generated on our server. This contains information such as the user's IP (Internet Protocol) address, how long that user spent on the site and which parts of it they looked at. We collect this information to help us diagnose problems and administer our systems, to report aggregate information to our advertisers, and to audit the use of our site (e.g. what part of the world users are connecting from, or what ISPs are being used).
We do not normally link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable, which means that you remain anonymous even though we include your IP address in our aggregate information. However, we can and will attempt to use IP addresses to identify a user when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms and conditions, or to protect our services and other users.