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Assureweb is provided by Assureweb Limited (ASW) whose registered office is at Eagle Tower, Montpellier Drive, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1TA. To contact our Data Protection Officer please write to: - The Data Protection Officer at Eagle Tower, Montpellier Drive, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire GL50 1TA.

As a result of the operation of the website or your use of the website and also in connection with the services provided by ASW ("Services"), we may obtain certain information about you. This Privacy Policy sets out the principles governing our processing and use of that information.
By your access and use of the website and, if we ask you to register to use any Services by your registration, you agree to our processing, storing and use of that information in accordance with the principles set out in this Privacy Policy.
We respect your privacy and will not make available information about you or your customers to persons outside the ASW organisation except to the limited extent specified in this Privacy Policy or with your explicit consent.
When you register to use the website we will ask you to provide certain information such as your contact details and demographic information. ASW may also collect additional personal information from you in optional survey and feedback forms. We will use any information collected to contact you, to inform, offer or provide you with the Services in accordance with the terms and conditions giving use of the website and otherwise in connection with our use and improvement of the website.
We may pass information we obtain about you and your customers to third parties including ASW partners, Providers of content to the website and third party Service providers:
- to enable you to gain access to restricted parts of the website or any other website
- to enable us to provide or for you to receive and/or pay for both current and future Services
- to enable you to receive information you have requested to be sent to you
- in order to fulfil a request you may have made.
- to provide statistical information to Content Providers and business partners
- to improve current Services and offer new Services provided via the website
- to enable other providers of services to contact you with details of their services which they think may be of interest to you (if you do not want us to do this tick the opt out box on the registration form or contact us).
If you have consented we may periodically send you information relating to products/services from ASW, and any companies detailed on the website. If at any point you want to change your preferences or need to review and update your personal details you may do this by amending 'My Details' on Assureweb. You will also be given the option to opt out of receiving email communications on each email sent to you. However, we reserve the right to contact you via post, telephone, email or other means solely in relation to the administration of your access to and use of the Assureweb website.
Our website may link to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of any other person or for the content of any other website. You should appraise yourself of the privacy policy and procedures applicable to such other websites and of the persons operating and controlling such other websites.
Whilst we do take reasonable steps to keep information about you secure when in our possession we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose on-line. You accept the inherent security implications of providing information over the Internet and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security or disclosure of your information unless we have been negligent.
We may supplement the information you provide to us with information we receive from third parties. You have the right to receive details of personal data, which we hold about you and certain other information under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you wish to receive such details or are concerned that any of the information we may hold about you is incorrect or incomplete please contact our Customer Services Helpdesk on 0845 4084022 or email us at customer.services@assureweb.co.uk and we will inform you of the appropriate procedure. We may charge a small fee.
We use cookies to store information such as your user id and session identifiers to enable us to identify whether you are registering onto the website and, if so, to shortcut your access to the website. We will only read cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web-browser's interaction with the website.
You agree that we may disclose any information requested or required relating to you, or if relevant, any of your clients to any regulatory authority to which we are subject or to any person in power to require such information by or under any legal enactment or where a third party has provided to our reasonable satisfaction written confirmation that it genuinely and reasonably believes your use of the site has been defamatory or otherwise unlawful and further that the disclosure of your data is necessary (a) for the purpose of, or in connection with, any legal proceedings (including prospective legal proceedings), or (b) for the purpose of obtaining legal advice, or is otherwise necessary for the purposes of establishing, exercising or defending legal rights.
ASW reserves the right to monitor and intercept communications for lawful business purposes.
Systems personnel who operate and support electronic communications facilities need, from time to time, to monitor transmissions or observe transactional information to ensure proper functioning of the company’s facilities and services. On these and other occasions, such personnel might inadvertently become aware of the contents of electronic communications. Except as provided for under Lawful Business Practice Regulations, personnel are not permitted to intentionally examine the contents of transactional information or disclose or otherwise use what they have seen, heard or read. If, however, violations of law or Company policy are discovered, personnel are required to report these to the appropriate officer.
It is your responsibility to inform your customers that we will collect and use information about them in accordance with this privacy policy and to make this policy available to them. Where sensitive data is being passed to us (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998) it is your responsibility to obtain explicit consent for this use and disclosure of such data.

July 2005
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