Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Whitmar Publications Ltd uses
and protects any information that you give Whitmar Publications Ltd
when you use this website.
Whitmar Publications Ltd is committed to ensuring that your
privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain
information by which you can be identified when using this website,
then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance
with this privacy statement.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help
provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text
files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you
browse websites
Our cookies help us:
• Make our website work as you'd expect
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Offer you free services/content (thanks to
advertising)
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like
Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to
offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
• Collect any personally identifiable information (without
your express permission)
• Collect any sensitive information (without your express
permission)
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use
cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this
website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this,
and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine
with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our
site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will
likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
• Remembering your search settings
• Remembering if you have accepted our terms and
conditions
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to
not use our site.
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily "Like" or share our content on the likes of
Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our
site.
Cookies are set by:
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/privacy
• Facebook - https://en-gb.facebook.com/about/privacy/
• LinkedIn - http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy#pri-top
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to
social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you
have chosen on these networks.
Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many
people have visited our website, what type of technology they are
using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site
isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long
they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us
to continuously improve our website. These so called "analytics"
programs also tell us if how people reached this site (e.g. from a
search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to
put more money into developing our services for you instead of
marketing spend.
We use:
Advertising Cookies
Cookies are widely used in online advertising. Neither us,
advertisers or our advertising partners can gain personally
identifiable information from these cookies. We only work with
advertising partners who work to accepted privacy standards such as
http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/iab-good-practice-principles
You can learn more about online advertising at http://www.youronlinechoices.com
. You can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices
although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help
keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting
out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts,
just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.
We use:
Banner Adverts
We fund our site by showing adverts as you browse our site. These
adverts are usually managed by a partner specialising in providing
adverts for multiple sites. Invariably these partners place cookies
to collect anonymous data about the websites you visits so they can
personalise the adverts to you, ensure that you don't see the same
adverts too frequently and ultimately report to advertisers on
which adverts are working. Our partners include:
Remarketing Cookies
You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site you see
increased numbers of adverts from the site you visited. This is
because advertisers, including ourselves pay for these adverts. The
technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we
may place a so called "remarketing cookie" during your visit. We
use these adverts to offer special offers etc to encourage you to
come back to our site. Don't worry we are unable to proactively
reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised. You
can opt out of these cookies at anytime as explained above.
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser
settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing
so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large
proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part
of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called
"spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you
may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by
automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn
more about managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from content
provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a
marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar
information for your own website you can use their free cookie
audit tool.
Privacy
As part of its normal operation, some parts of the site may
collect information which relates either to the user or equipment
and network that you use to access the site.
Your privacy is important to us, and this page explains how that
information may be used.
What personal information is collected?
If you register to use our site, to provide comments or
feedback, or to receive email or attend events that are advertised
here, we will collect the information that is needed to provide
these services, including your name and the email address that you
provide. Any information that we must have to perform the service
is marked with an asterisk - other information is optional, but by
providing it you may make it simpler or easier for us to meet your
requirements.
Why do we collect personal information?
Our sites are tailored to provide you with a personalised view
of the data they hold. To do that, we need to collect information
in a profile relating to your use of the site and your personal
data. In some cases (for example with your email address) we may
need to use that data to contact or interact with you, and the data
will be held in an identifiable form, securely on our servers. In
other cases (for example with passwords) we only need to hold
enough information to check that data you provide matches that held
by us, and we are unable to retrieve the actual data directly (for
example to tell you a forgotten password). At any time, for payment
of a small fee, we will inform you as to the data currently held on
our server about you, and allow you to correct or have it
deleted.
Contacting you
By providing us with your contact details, you permit us to
contact you regarding events or other services that we may offer
from time to time, by email, telephone, fax or social networking.
We will only do this if you give us authority by ticking the
relevant box in your profile or registration, and will use this
privilege with due care and attention. We do not pass the
information you provide through to third parties without your
express permission, unless required by law.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest.
However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you
should note that we do not have any control over that other
website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and
privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such
sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.
You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement
Changes to this policy
This Privacy policy is under regular review, and can be checked
at any time. It was last updated in September 2012.