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Data Protection and Privacy Policy

We are LeaveThemKidsAlone.com ("Leave-Them-Kids-Alone / we / us"). Leave-Them-Kids-Alone respects the privacy of the users of our website. Leave-Them-Kids-Alone does not track, distribute, share or post any IP or email addresses of those who visit Leave-Them-Kids-Alone or contact us. (Your IP address is a number that lets computers attached to the Internet know where to send you data - such as the Web pages you view.) We do not spam or use pop-ups. The Internet allows people throughout the world to share valuable information, ideas and creative works. To ensure continued open access to such materials, we all need to protect the rights of those who share their creations with us.

At Leave-Them-Kids-Alone we are very serious about protecting your privacy. Your trust is our most important asset. This privacy policy explains how Leave-Them-Kids-Alone may collect information from you via our website and how that information may be used subsequently. If you have any queries in relation to this privacy policy please contact concerned_at_LeaveThemKidsAlone.com (replace "_at_" with "@")

By browsing and using our website you agree to this policy governing your use of the website. If you do not accept this policy, you must not use our website.

This policy applies only to this website and not to other websites to which we provide links. We may also enter into agreements with commercial partners whose websites may be co-branded or framed by us and which you may visit directly through our website. These websites are not subject to our privacy policy. You are advised to read the privacy policy of such other websites.

We may change our privacy policy from time to time without notification and you should regularly review this policy when you visit our site.

Collection of information

In order to provide the services you want, and to allow you to experience a more personalised service when you revisit us, we need to know your interests. We find these out by asking you, by reading your comments and by looking at which are the most popular areas of our sites.

Collection of personal information

We will only collect personal information from you (such as name, address, telephone number, email address etc) which you have provided voluntarily to us either by completing registration or enquiry forms or sending emails to us. Please do not submit your personal data to us if you do not wish us to collect it.

When you register with Leave-Them-Kids-Alone we may ask for any or all of the following details:

Your e-mail address

Your password

Your title

Your name

Your postcode

Your mobile / home / work telephone number

Your street / flat number

The country in which you live

Your date of birth

Your occupation

Any or all of this information may be entered into Leave-Them-Kids-Alone's database (we do not keep details of your password).

If you enter a contest or promotion we ask for your name, address and e-mail address. This is so we can run the contest effectively and notify you if you have won.

Use of your information

You agree that we may obtain, hold, correlate, merge and use your information (including personal information) for the purpose of providing you with our services and ancillary services and for our internal administrative purposes. These include (without limitation):

personalising your visits to the site and developing the design and style of the site to improve our services to you;

to inform you about the latest changes to our website, or products, services or promotional offers that you might find interesting;

communication (and personalising such communication) with you from Leave-Them-Kids-Alone and from other reputable and trustworthy third parties (if you have agreed to such);

informing you if you have been successful in any of the competitions or promotions;

compiling customer reviews;

for market research purposes;

to prevent you from posting illegal, offensive or objectionable comments on our sites;

to enable third parties to carry out statistical analysis, technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf including determining behavioural preferences to manage online advertising;

for strategic development;

for any purpose required by law or regulation; and

for accounting purposes.

Sharing Information

We may provide third parties, at our discretion, with certain aggregate statistical data about your use of our websites, which data may include demographic data such as age range and/or geographic location of groups of user. It will not include information that could personally identify you.

We may disclose your information to any company by means of a centralised database to which all companies have access or by means of a direct transfer of data from one office to another.

With your consent, we may supply personal information to third parties.

We reserve the right to access and to disclose personal information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests or requests by applicable regulatory bodies, to operate our systems properly or to protect either ourselves or our other users.

We may transfer or assign any of the information described in this policy to third parties as a result of a merger, consolidation, change of control, transfer of assets or reorganisation of Leave-Them-Kids-Alone.

You consent to the transfer of your personal information outside of the United Kingdom (which may not provide the same protection for such information as the United Kingdom provides) in the event that the processing of your information involves such a transfer

Monitoring emails

We may monitor and keep records of email communications which you send to us and other communications with you in accordance with this policy and our other business interests.

Safeguards and Security

No data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure, and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of our sites. However we use our reasonable endeavours to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorised access or use.

Email Alerts

Email Alert emails contain IDs that are unique to each user. Please do not divulge your password or forward Email Alert emails onto others as they could access your personal details stored by us.

In addition to our safeguards your personal information is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act. This provides that the information which we hold about you should be processed fairly and lawfully and should be accurate, relevant and not excessive. The information should, where necessary, be kept up to date and not retained for longer than is necessary. Please help us to keep your personal information accurate by updating your registration details on the website.

More Information

For more information on the Data Protection Act and the Information Commissioner please see www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk

Changing or accessing your information

Should you no longer wish to receive newsletters or services you have signed up for, or if you wish to modify, review or receive copies of the personal information we hold about you, or have any other queries please email concerned_at_LeaveThemKidsAlone.com (replace "_at_" with "@") including full details of your request.

We may charge a small administration fee in relation to fulfilling a request for access to personal information

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