Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Statement of intent
Submitting personal information
Access to your personal information
Users 16 and under
Use of cookies
Notification of changes



1. Statement of intent   (back to top of page)

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, competitions, emails, reward certificates.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable icontactedyou.com and its service partners to provide you with relevant news and services. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive.

2. Use and storage of your personal information   (back to top of page)

When you supply any personal information to icontactedyou.com (e.g. for personalised letters, questionnaires and reward certificates) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular web pages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to icontactedyou.com will only be used within our organisation and by its service partners. It will never be supplied to anyone outside icontactedyou.com without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to icontactedyou.com or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on icontactedyou.com, and icontactedyou.com considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, icontactedyou.com can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, or e-mail provider about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use our services, and remove it, in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of . For safety reasons, however, icontactedyou.com may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of icontactedyou.com forums for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other icontactedyou.com services (eg competitions), that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you are notified on a icontactedyou.com site that your information may be used to allow icontactedyou.com to contact you for "service administration purposes", this means that icontactedyou.com may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. 

3. Users 16 and under  (back to top of page)

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the icontactedyou.com website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

4. Use of cookies

Shop and Learn website at www.icontactedyou.com and our sponsors may use cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. 

5. Notification of changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it.  If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email.  Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

If you have any queries about our privacy statement please send us an email to liz@icontactedyou.com

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Nottinghamshire
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