Fotheringay Estates Ltd Privacy Statement
Updated: 6th May 2005

Fotheringay Estates Ltd is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of the Fotheringay.com Web site. The Fotheringay.com Web site is owned and operated by Fotheringay Estates Ltd..

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@fotheringay.com

SummaryS
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site. We use aggregated (gathered up data across all user accounts) information to develop content targeted to users' interests and to better the Web site user experience. Fotheringay Estatesl Ltd is committed to your privacy and will not share any personal information with any third party at any time, unless required by law.

What this Privacy Policy Covers
This privacy policy covers the Web site Fotheringay.com Web site. Please be aware that Web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you on their Web sites. The information practices of those parties are not covered by this privacy statement. Fotheringay.com users should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others.

Data Protection Law
Your personal details will be held by Fotheringay Estates Ltd (Fotheringay.com) in accordance with current data protection law for the purposes of carrying out our agreement with you. We will not sell or pass on your details to any third party. If you do not wish to give this consent or if you wish to exercise your rights to receive a copy of the information that we hold about you, please write to us at our postal address, details can be found by clicking This Link.

Gathering of Information
Voluntary Submission
Fotheringay Estates Ltd does not collect personally identifying information about any individual Fotheringay.com Web site user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For example, we may ask you for information, such as your e-mail address, post code and the country in which you are viewing the Web site when you register to become a client of Fotheringay.com. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Fotheringay Estates Ltd Web site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.

Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie file can contain information, such as a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have visited. Fotheringay.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns throughout the Fotheringay Estates Ltd Web site and to remember your passwords so that you don't have to reset them each time you visit the Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user. Business partners of Fotheringay Estates Ltd and vendors providing hosting and other services for Fotheringay Estates Ltd., as well as advertisers who contract directly with a third-party service to serve their advertisements, may set their own cookies which may collect similar anonymous information.

Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.

Browser Level Information
Fotheringay Estates Ltd Web servers automatically collect information about a site user's IP address, browser type and the URL that you just came from (whether this URL is on the Web site or not) and which URL you next go to (whether this URL is on the Web site or not) by reading this information from the user's browser (information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected in a database and used--in an aggregated, anonymous manner--in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This information is automatically logged by most Web sites.

Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your experience on our Web site.

To Target Content
To develop content targeted to your interests, we use aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web site users prefer based upon traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but instead how well each page or content area performs overall.

To Provide Interactive Communications From Fotheringay Estates Ltd
From time to time we may provide e-mails highlighting new features, promotions on the Web site to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to send such communications as part of their user profile.

Provide Communications From Third Parties
We respect the privacy of our users and shall NOT disclose or distribute our user list to any third party, nor shall it permit anyone else to do so.

Control of Your Information
Users may change their user profile to stop receiving newsletters or marketing material from Fotheringay Estates Ltd or on behalf of external third party business partners. Users may choose to stop receiving such communications at any time by visiting the "edit my profile" page at http://www.fotheringay.com/system.php?name=Clients.

Sharing of Information
When you are on an area of Fotheringay.com and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Fotheringay Estates Ltd only.

As Required By Law
Fotheringay Estates Ltd may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Fotheringay Estates Ltd or to protect and defend the rights or property of Fotheringay Estates Ltd.

Security
Your information is stored on Fotheringay Estates Ltd's servers located in the United Kingdom. We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption, "firewalls" and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet.

Privacy of Children
Kids under 16: Do not send any information about yourself to us--including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible.

How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@fotheringay.com. We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly to every one.

How Will I Know if the Privacy Policy Is Changed?
This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically. If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail.

Definitions:
IP address: Every computer connected to the Internet has a numeric address called an "IP address." This may or may not correspond uniquely to a particular computer. In some cases, IP addresses can be resolved to domain names, which may indicate a site visitor's Internet service provider, employer, university, etc. As part of its database analysis Fotheringay Estates Ltd resolves IP addresses to domain names.

Browser type: A user's browser is a software program running on a computer that allows users to access documents on the World Wide Web. Browsers can be either text or graphic. They read HTML coded pages that reside on a server and interpret the coding into what the user sees as Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are examples of Web browsers. Browser type typically discloses hardware platform, operating system, and browser software and version.

Referrer: The referrer is the URI of the Internet resource or page that causes a browser to request a page or image from Fotheringay Estates Ltd servers.

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