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At Choose Ltd we are dedicated to safeguarding and preserving your privacy when visiting our websites or communicating electronically with us.
This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.
By using our websites you consent and agree to the collection, use and disclosure of this personal data and to the privacy practices set out in this Policy. We reserve the right to modify this Policy at any time.
We do update this Policy from time to time so please do review this Policy regularly.
Information We Collect
In operating our websites we may collect and process the following data about you:
i. Details of your visits to our websites and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data including IP addresses, weblogs and other communication data.
ii. Details of any products or services or third party websites you visit through our websites, including, but not limited to, product or service data, traffic data and location data.
iii. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our websites.
iv. Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
Use of Cookies
We may gather information about your computer for our services and collect statistical information regarding the use of our websites.
Such information will not identify you personally it is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our sites. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
Similarly to the above, we may gather information about your general Internet use by using a cookie file. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer as cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our websites and the service that we provide to you.
All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to use particular parts of our websites.
Our advertisers and the product or service providers listed on our websites may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Such cookies (if used) would be downloaded once you sign up for a product or service or click on advertisements on our websites.
Find out more about the cookies we use and how to decline them here.
Use of Your Information
The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
i. To provide you with information requested from us, relating to the products or services we cover. To provide information on other products or services which we feel may be of interest to you, where you have consented to receive such information.
ii. To meet our contractual commitments to you.
iii. To notify you about any changes to our websites, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about products and services similar to those which you were previously interested in.
Further, we may use your data, so that you can be provided with information about unrelated products and services which we consider may be of interest to you. We may contact you about these products and services by any of the methods that you consented to at the time your information was collected.
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for.
If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data.
Please be advised that we do not reveal information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may, on occasion, provide them with aggregate statistical or non-personally identifible information about our visitors.
Storing Your Personal Data
We may transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. Also, it may be processed by staff operating outside the European Economic Area who work for us or for one of our service providers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
The data we collect and that is provided to us is stored on our servers or on the servers of our third party service providers. This data may be transferred to and processed on employee computers and backed up to removable media.
The transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
Third Party Services
We use third party services to help us provide our service to you. These third party service providers may store the data you provide to us and have their own privacy policies which you should also review before using our services.
Broadband Availability Checker
If you use our broadband availability checker we will only use your telephone number and postcode for the purpose of carrying out that check and any subsequent checks. We cache your postcode and telephone number to enable us to perform faster checks. We also store your postcode and telephone number in a cookie whilst you are using our website so that you do not have to re-enter your details between pages.
Email Subscription Service
If you subscribe to our newsletter or any email subscription service we provide, your email address and the email subscription preferences you choose will be stored by MailChimp.
You can review MailChimp's privacy policy here.
Web Analytics Data
We use Google Analytics as a third party web analytics service provider. Details of your visits to our websites are recorded by the Google Analytics service.
The data collected includes, but is not limited to, location data, traffic data and details of how you use our websites. It does not identify you personally.
We also use Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting, which helps us to learn about the different types of people who visit our website. Again this information does not identify anyone personally.
Please refer to our cookies page for details on the cookies used by the Google Analytics service.
You can review Google's privacy policy here, which includes information on how you can opt out of having information about your web visits sent to Google Analytics, more here.
Disclosing Your Information
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to third parties:
i. Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
ii. Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
Third Party Links
You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
Access To Information
The Data Protection Act gives you the right to access the information that we hold about you. Please note that any demand for access may be subject to payment of a fee of £10 which covers our costs in providing you with the information requested. Should you wish to receive details that we hold about you please email us here.
Choose Ltd is registered with the Information Commissioner's Office, registration number ZA037815.
Contacting Us
We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us, you can find our contact details on our Contact Us page.