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Privacy Policy
Appleton Associates Limited ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Appleton Associates Limited of 314 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 2UB.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU.
We may collect and process the following data about you.
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.appleton-associates.com
(our site). This includes information provided at the time of registering
to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting
further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a competition
or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our site.
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
• We may ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes,
although you do not have to respond to them.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment
of your orders.
• Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic
data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this
is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources
that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available
your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration
and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical
data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify
any individual.
For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet
usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard
drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more
personalised service. They enable us:
• to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
• to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise
our site according to your individual interests;
• to speed up your searches; and/or
• to recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser
which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select
this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless
you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our
system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have
no control.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that
your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables
you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping
this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely
secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot
guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission
is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use
strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways.
• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective
manner for you and for your computer.
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request
from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be
contacted for such purposes.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between
you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when
you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your
data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may
be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post
or telephone.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic
means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar
to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are not yet a customer, and/or where we permit selected third parties
to use your data, we (and/or they) will contact you by electronic means
only if you have consented to this.
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details
on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box
situated on the form on which we collect your data (the contact form).
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers,
but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for
example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their
advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information
to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for
example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected
from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying
their advertisement to that target audience.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of
our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and
its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
• in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case
we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of
such business or assets;
• if Appleton Associates Limited or substantially all of its assets are
acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about
its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
• if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order
to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our
terms of use [INSERT LINK TO WEBSITE'S TERMS OF USE] and other agreements;
or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Appleton Associates Limited,
our customers, or others, including exchanging information with other companies
and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing
purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we
intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your
information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your
right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms
we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time
by contacting us at Appleton Associates Limited, 314 Midsummer Boulevard,
Milton Keynes MK9 2UB or
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Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites
of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link
to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own
privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability
for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal
data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right
of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request
may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details
of the information we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future
will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed
and should be addressed to Appleton Associates Limited, 314 Midsummer Boulevard,
Milton Keynes MK9 2UB or
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Terms and Conditions
TERMS OF WEBSITE USE
This page (together
with the documents referred to on it) tells you the terms of use on which
you may make use of our website www.appleton-associates.com
(our site), whether as a guest or a registered user. Please read these terms
of use carefully before you start to use the site. By using our site, you
indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide
by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from
using our site.
INFORMATION ABOUT US
www.appleton-associates.com
is a site operated by Appleton Associates Limited ("We"). We are registered
in England and Wales under company number 03571711 and have our registered
office at 218 Downsbarn Boulevard, Downsbarn, Milton Keynes, MK14 7QH. Our
main trading address is 314 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes, MK9 2UB.
Our VAT number is 738766873.
ACCESSING OUR SITE
Access to our site is permitted on a temporary basis, and we reserve the
right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our site without notice
(see below). We will not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable
at any time or for any period.
From time to time, we may restrict access to some parts of our site, or
our entire site, to users who have registered with us.
If you choose, or you are provided with, a user identification code, password
or any other piece of information as part of our security procedures, you
must treat such information as confidential, and you must not disclose it
to any third party. We have the right to disable any user identification
code or password, whether chosen by you or allocated by us, at any time,
if in our opinion you have failed to comply with any of the provisions of
these terms of use.
You are responsible for making all arrangements necessary for you to have
access to our site. You are also responsible for ensuring that all persons
who access our site through your internet connection are aware of these
terms, and that they comply with them.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
RIGHTS
We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in
our site, and in the material published on it. Those works are protected
by copyright laws and treaties around the world. All such rights are reserved.
You may print off one copy, and may download extracts, of any page(s) from
our site for your personal reference and you may draw the attention of others
within your organisation to material posted on our site.
You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any materials you have
printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations,
photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any
accompanying text.
Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of material
on our site must always be acknowledged.
You must not use any part of the materials on our site for commercial purposes
without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
If you print off, copy or download any part of our site in breach of these
terms of use, your right to use our site will cease immediately and you
must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have
made.
RELIANCE ON INFORMATION
POSTED
Commentary and other materials posted on our site are not intended to amount
to advice on which reliance should be placed. We therefore disclaim all
liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on such materials
by any visitor to our site, or by anyone who may be informed of any of its
contents.
OUR SITE CHANGES REGULARLY
We aim to update our site regularly, and may change the content at any time.
If the need arises, we may suspend access to our site, or close it indefinitely.
Any of the material on our site may be out of date at any given time, and
we are under no obligation to update such material.
OUR LIABILITY
The material displayed on our site is provided without any guarantees, conditions
or warranties as to its accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, we, other
members of our group of companies and third parties connected to us hereby
expressly exclude:
• all conditions, warranties and other terms which might otherwise be implied
by statute, common law or the law of equity;
• any liability for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage
incurred by any user in connection with our site or in connection with the
use, inability to use, or results of the use of our site, any websites linked
to it and any materials posted on it, including, without limitation any
liability for:
• loss of income or revenue;
• loss of business;
• loss of profits or contracts;
• loss of anticipated savings;
• loss of data;
• loss of goodwill;
• wasted management or office time; and
• for any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether
caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise,
even if foreseeable.
This does not affect our liability for death or personal injury arising
from our negligence, nor our liability for fraudulent misrepresentation
or misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter, nor any other liability
which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
AND YOUR VISITS TO OUR SITE
We process information about you in accordance with our privacy
policy. By using our site, you consent to such processing and you warrant
that all data provided by you is accurate.
VIRUSES, HACKING AND
OTHER OFFENCES
You must not misuse our site by knowingly introducing viruses,
trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically
harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our site, the
server on which our site is stored or any server, computer or database connected
to our site. You must not attack our site via a denial-of-service attack
or a distributed denial-of service attack.
By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the
Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant
law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities
by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your
right to use our site will cease immediately.
We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service
attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect
your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material
due to your use of our site or to your downloading of any material posted
on it, or on any website linked to it.
LINKING TO OUR SITE
You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way
that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage
of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any
form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists.
You must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
Our site must not be framed on any other site, nor may you create a link
to any part of our site other than the home page. We reserve the right to
withdraw linking permission without notice.
If you wish to make any use of material on our site other than that set
out above, please address your request to
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LINKS FROM OUR SITE
Where our site contains links to other sites and resources
provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information
only. We have no control over the contents of those sites or resources,
and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may
arise from your use of them.
JURISDICTION AND APPLICABLE
LAW
The English courts will have exclusive jurisdiction over any
claim arising from, or related to, a visit to our site although we retain
the right to bring proceedings against you for breach of these conditions
in your country of residence or any other relevant country. These terms
of use are governed by English law.
TRADE MARKS
"TELESALES-PROMPT" and "SPRINGBOARD" and "APPLETON ASSOCIATES"
and the apple logos connected with these names are trade marks of Appleton
Associates Limited.
VARIATIONS
We may revise these terms of use at any time by amending this
page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice
of any changes we made, as they are binding on you. Some of the provisions
contained in these terms of use may also be superseded by provisions or
notices published elsewhere on our site.
YOUR CONCERNS
If you have any concerns about material which appears on our
site, please contact
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Thank you for visiting our site.
Acceptable Use Policy
Appleton Associates Ltd - ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY FOR USE OF www.appleton-associates.com WEBSITE
1.1 This acceptable use policy (Acceptable Use Policy) sets out the terms
between you and us under which you may access our website www.appleton-associates.com
(our site). The Acceptable Use Policy applies to all users of, and visitors
to, our site.
1.2 Your use of our site means that you accept, and agree to abide by, all
the policies in the Acceptable Use Policy, which supplement our Terms
of Use
2. INFORMATION ABOUT US
2.1 www.appleton-associates.com
is a site operated by Appleton Associates Ltd (we or us). We are registered
in England and Wales under company number 3571711 and we have our registered
office at, 218 Downs Barn Boulevard, Downs Barn, Milton Keynes, MK14 7HQ.
Our main trading address is Midsummer Court, 314 Midsummer Boulevard, Central
Milton Keynes, MK9 2UB. Our VAT number is 738 7668 73.
2.2 We are a limited company.
3. PROHIBITED USES
3.1 You may use our site only for lawful purposes. You may not use our site:
(a) in any way that breaches any applicable local, national or international
law or regulation;
(b) in any way that is unlawful or fraudulent, or has any unlawful or fraudulent
purpose or effect;
(c) for the purpose of harming or attempting to harm minors in any way;
(d) to send, knowingly receive, upload, download, use or re-use any material
which does not comply with our content standards (Listed below).
(e) to transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised
advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation
(spam);
(f) to knowingly transmit any data, send or upload any material that contains
viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time-bombs, keystroke loggers, spyware, adware
or any other harmful programs or similar computer code designed to adversely
affect the operation of any computer software or hardware;
3.2 You also agree:
(a) not to reproduce, duplicate, copy or re-sell any part of our site in
contravention of the provisions of the Terms
of Use;
(b) not to access without authority, interfere with, damage or disrupt:
(i) any part of our site;
(ii) any equipment or network on which our site is stored;
(iii) any software used in the provision of our site; or
(iv) any equipment or network or software owned or used by any third party.
4. INTERACTIVE SERVICES
4.1 We may from time to time provide interactive services
on our site, including, without limitation:
(a) chat rooms.
(b) bulletin boards.
(c) on line demos or checks(together the Interactive Services).
4.2 Where we do provide any Interactive Service, we will provide clear information
to you about the kind of service offered, if it is moderated and what form
of moderation is used (including whether it is human or technical).
4.3 We will do our best to assess any possible risks for users from third
parties when they use any Interactive Service provided on our site, and
we will decide in each case whether it is appropriate to use moderation
of the relevant service (including what kind of moderation to use) in the
light of those risks. However, we are under no obligation to oversee, monitor
or moderate any Interactive Service we provide on our site, and we expressly
exclude our liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of any
of the Interactive Services by a user in contravention of our content standards,
whether the service is moderated or not.
4.4 Where we do moderate an Interactive Service, we will normally provide
you with a means of contacting the moderator, should a concern or difficulty
arise.
5. CONTENT STANDARDS
5.1 These content standards apply to any and all material
which you contribute to our site (Contributions), and to any Interactive
Services associated with it.
5.2 You must comply with the spirit of the following standards as well as
the letter. The standards apply to each part of any Contribution as well
as to its whole.
5.3 Contributions must:
(a) be accurate (where they state facts);
(b) be genuinely held (where they state opinions); and
(c) comply with applicable law in the UK and in any country from which they
are posted.
5.4 Contributions must not:
(a) contain any material which is defamatory of any person;
(b) contain any material which is obscene, offensive, hateful or inflammatory;
(c) promote sexually explicit material;
(d) promote violence;
(e) promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability,
sexual orientation or age;
(f) infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
(g) be likely to deceive any person;
(h) be made in breach of any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a
contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
(i) promote any illegal activity;
(j) be threatening, abuse or invade another´s privacy, or cause annoyance,
inconvenience or needless anxiety;
(k) be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
(l) be used to impersonate any person, or to misrepresent your identity
or affiliation with any person;
(m) give the impression that they emanate from us, if this is not the case;
or
(n) advocate, promote or assist any unlawful act such as (by way of example
only) copyright infringement or computer misuse.
6. SUSPENSION AND TERMINATION
6.1 We will determine, in our discretion, whether there has been a breach
of the Acceptable Use Policy through your use of our site. When a breach
of this policy has occurred, we may take such action as we deem appropriate.
6.2 Failure to comply with the Acceptable Use Policy constitutes a material
breach of the Terms
of Use upon which you are permitted to use our site, and may result
in our taking all or any of the actions specified in paragraph 12 of the
Terms
of Use.
6.3 We exclude liability for actions taken in response to breaches of the
Acceptable Use Policy. The responses described in the Acceptable Use Policy
and the Terms of Use are
not limited, and we may take any other action we reasonably deem appropriate.
7. CHANGES TO THE ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
We may revise the Acceptable Use Policy at any time by amending
this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take
notice of any changes we make, as they are legally binding on you. Some
of the provisions contained in the Acceptable Use Policy may also be superseded
by provisions or notices published elsewhere on our site.