At Vals Media, we strongly believe in protecting the confidentiality and security of information we collect about our audience. This documentation below describes our privacy policy and describes how we treat the information we receive about you if you interact with any of our sites.
Why We Need to Know About You
We need to know about you so that we can provide you with information on products and services and better target our content offering to your interests. What we need to know about you may include but not limited to your address, age and preferences.
How We Learn About You
What we know about you is gathered through web cookies and other channels for which you have consented to. But we may also have to find out more about you from other sources in order to make sure that what we know about you is correct and complete. We do not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. For example, such personally identifiable information may be gathered from competitions, message boards, suggestions and transactional areas.
Your Right To Opt Out
At our points of data collection, you have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to “opt in” or “opt out” of receiving promotional and/or marketing information about other products, services and offerings from group companies and/or third parties on whose behalf we may send out information.
Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, we reserve the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to our service agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected.
You can request to “opt out” of further promotional contacts at any time and all promotional emails we send you allow you this facility. Also, upon request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts functionally to delete you and your personal information from our database; however, it may be impossible to delete all your entry without some residual information due to backups and records of deletions.
How We Protect Your Data
We treat what we know about you confidentially. Our employees take care in handling your information. They may get information about you only when there is a good reason to do so. We take steps to make our databases secure and to safeguard the information we have about you.
How We Use and Disclose Your Data
We may use anything we know about you to help us serve you better. We will not disclose your information to any third party save for the following exceptions:
- To help us process questions you may have about a purchase, registration or other inquiry you may have. * To confirm or correct what we know about you.
- To help us or law enforcement agencies prevent fraud, money laundering, terrorism and other crimes.
- To allow for verification of what we know about you.
- Data processing requirements.
- Assisting an agency perform research for us.
- Compliance with the law or request of a government agency for example, complying with a search warrant.
- Compliance with an audit of our business.
- If we sell all or any part of our business or merge with another company.
Generally, we will disclose only the information we consider reasonably necessary to disclose.
How You Can See and Correct Your Information
Generally, we will let you review what we know about you if you ask us in writing or email. If inform us that what we know about you is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree with you, we will correct our records.
Third Party Data Collection
You should be aware that sites within the group might sometimes permit third parties to offer you subscription, registration-based services, promotions or competitions through our network. We are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties and users should check the applicable privacy policy of such party when providing personally identifiable information to other parties.
Sharing Your Data in Public Areas of our Sites
You should be aware that when you voluntarily disclose personally identifiable information (e.g. user name, e-mail address) on any of our message boards, that information, along with any substantive information disclosed in your communication, can be collected and correlated and used by third parties and may result in unsolicited messages from other posters or third parties. Such activities are beyond our control.
How We Use IP Addresses
We may use your IP address to help diagnose any problems with our server or to administer our websites. Your IP address may be used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information that helps us understand user requirements. This specific information will only be used within our organisation and we will only share or use this information on an aggregate basis.
How We Use Cookies
We collect non-personal information and data through the standard operation of our servers or through the use of cookies. Users should be aware that we cannot control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for us. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g. customised delivery of information) available on our web sites.
Links to Other Sites
Our site contains links to other sites outside of our control. We are not responsible for the content of those websites.
Children Under 18 Years of Age
You must be 13 years and older to register to use the Valsmedia website. As a result, Vals Media does not specifically collect information about children. If we discover that we have collected information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We recommend that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 ask and receive their parents’ permission before using our service or sending information about themselves or anyone else over the Internet.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Vals Media may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances if any, it is disclosed.
If you decide to visit Vals Media or use any of our services, your visit and any possible dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of UK law.