privacy policy

This website is owned and operated by Spoton Corporation Limited

Spoton Corporation Limited is committed to maintaining and protecting your privacy when using its website.

Our privacy policy explains the types of information we collect from you and how this is used.

This policy applies solely to the information you provide while visiting this website and does not relate to information collected or distributed by means other than the site, e.g. via telephone or postal mail.

Collection of Personal Information

We sometimes request users of our website to voluntarily provide personal information.

This information may include your name, e-mail address, contact address and/or delivery address and credit/debit card details.

All credit/debit card information is encoded to maximize security before being sent over the Internet.

We may also ask you for demographic and job-related information when conducting our market-research surveys.

The website also collects information through the use of “cookies”. Please read about cookies opposite.

How Personal Information is Used

We use the personal information that you provide for such purposes as:

• Completion and support of the activity for which the information was provided, such as allowing access to or delivery of our products or services, processing or fulfilling your orders, or responding to your requests and enquiries;

• Tailoring our website to your needs by gathering information via market research surveys;

• Notifying you about enhancements to our website;

• Communicating with you about products, services and any special offers which we believe may be of interest to you.

All e-mail messages sent from our database have an “unsubscribe” option, should you not wish to receive such information;

• Personalising the service that you receive. Disclosure of Personal Information Access to your personal information is restricted to our employees, agents, representatives , printing and fulfilment operations.

We occasionally share information with carefully selected companies or third parties, but only when we have received your permission to do so.

Some of these companies or third parties may be located in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) which do not have the same data protection laws as the EEA.

If we transfer your information outside of the EEA, we will ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected. We will not otherwise disclose any personal information without your consent, except under the following circumstances:

• If we believe it necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities;

• In response to court orders or legal process, or to exercise our rights to defend against legal claims;

• If Spoton Corporation Limited, this website or a related asset or line of business is acquired by, transferred to, or merged with another company. Access and Changes to Personal Information

You may access your personal information by contacting our Customer Support Team at the address or telephone number detailed.

Your personal information is stored by us for as long as the information is relevant to our business purposes or until you request that we remove it from our records.

You may request that your information is removed by contacting our Customer Support Team at the address or telephone number detailed.

Commitment to Data Security

We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of the information you have given to us in order to protect your privacy.

Your personal information is stored on servers that are behind a firewall and physically located within a secured data centre.

In addition, our internal practices limit access to and use of your personal information and therefore help to secure your privacy.

Questions, Comments and Complaints If you have any questions, comments or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact our Customer Support Team.

Some of the features on the Spoton Corporation Limitedwebsites require the use of "cookies". Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer.

We use cookies to:

* Authenticate your access to the site

* Enhance your experience using our website

* Personalise the service you receive We make very limited use of cookies and do not use cookies to access data from your hard drive, to determine your e-mail address, or to view data in cookies created by other websites.

Cookies only store information that a web server places in them.

They cannot look at other cookies on your hard drive nor can they look at any other information on your computer.

We do not use cookies to harvest information from your computer.

Spoton Corporation Limited cookies in the following ways:

* Session cookies - when you use our website a temporary cookie records some information related to your current browser session.

It is used only to store information about that instance and is deleted when the browse session is closed.

The purpose of this cookie is to help the system remember the activities you asked it to perform such as the search term, the number if hits on a page etc.

They are no longer accessible after the browser session expires i.e. once it has been inactive for fifteen minutes or when the browser is closed

* Permanent, persistent or stored cookies - these are used in only a few places.

They help to remember the search history feature and they remember the user across the various Emerald web sites.

These cookies are stored on the user's hard drive

Please note that users do not have to have permanent cookies enabled in order to use our websites but session cookies must be enabled.

All browsers allow the user to independently allow session cookies from permanent cookies.

There are a number of internet browsers and different versions of each browser which all act in different ways.

Please click on this link www.aboutcookies.org which provides details for various browsers on:

* How to stop cookies being stored

* How to enable session cookies

* How to delete cookies if they have already been stored.