Smugly Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1. What information do we collect?
   
   We collect the following information about you and your use of our Website, Platform and service (together, our "Platform") in order to create a better, more personalized experience for you.
   
   We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
   1. information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views);
   2. information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to your subscription payment amount and membership duration (note we do not store any bank details as we operation a subscription service via PayPal who are responsible for your financial information);
   3. information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us , including your email address, your name, a password selected by you and your borough location;
   4. when you join Smugly you may choose to create and store a short description or statement which will be viewed by anyone who is accessing Smugly;
   5. any other information that you choose to send to us
   We use the above information to research our members usage pattern, interests, demographics and general behaviour to better understand and serve all Smugly members.
2. Cookies
   
   A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. Cookies allow you to enter your password less frequently during a session and to provide for an easier registration process.
   
   We may use both “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website. We will use the persistent cookies to: enable our website to recognise you when you visit.
   
   Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
   
   [We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information.
   Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
   
   Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.
3. Using your personal data
   
   Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.
   
   We may use your personal information to:
   1. administer the website;
   2. improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
   3. enable your use of the services available on the website;
   4. send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
   5. send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
   6. send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
   7. send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
   8. send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business;
   9. provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
   10. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website and enforce our Terms of Use Policy.
   11. use for promotional, sales or any use that we consider appropriate your correspondence with us or photographs submitted for publication on our website, be it via email, postings on our website, or feedback. Our use of such materials is consistent with the restrictions on disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information set forth in Section 4.
   Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
   
   We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.
   
   All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Paypal. You should only provide your personal information to Paypal after reviewing the Paypal privacy policy (available at www.paypal.com). We will share information with Paypal only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website.
4. Disclosures
   
   WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT, WE DO NOT SELL, RENT OR SHARE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION WITH OTHER THIRD PARTIES, UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED AS DESCRIBED BELOW. TO THE EXTENT WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH OUR PARTNERS AND ADVERTISERS, WE SHARE ONLY AGGREGATED OR OTHERWISE NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT IS NOT LINKED TO YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION. Aggregated information that we may share with our marketing partners includes, but is not limited to, information showing the relative popularity of one Smugly topic or the number of users in a given area.
   
   We may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.
   
   In addition, we may disclose information about you:
   1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
   2. in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
   3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
   4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
   You should understand that information you provide through the registration process or post to the public areas of our website, or through the use of our Platform may be accessible by search engines, crawlers, metasearch tools, metacrawlers and other similar programs.
   
   Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
5. International data transfers
   
   Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.
   
   Information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States and Japan) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area.
   
   In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available, via the internet, around the world.
   
   You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.
6. Security of your personal data
   
   We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
   
   We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall- protected) servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology.
   
   Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
   
   You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. We will not ask you for your password.
7. Policy amendments
   
   We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.
8. Your rights
   
   You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).
   
   You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)
9. Third party websites
   
   The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.
10. Updating information
    
    Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated. It is your responsibility to inform us of any change to your email address.
11. Contact
    
    If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to privacy@smugly.co.uk or by post to:
    
    Smugly
    Battersea Business Centre,
    99 Lavender Hill,
    London.
    SW11 5QL
    
    Policy Updated 13/09/09