The CMPoon.com Team is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using the CMPoon.com Team services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our audience. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through cmpoon.com websites.
In order to provide you with the full range of the CMPoon.com Team services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.
This privacy policy explains the following:
As set out above, the CMPoon.com Team is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information, including the Data Protection Act 1998 (these laws are referred to collectively in this Privacy Policy as the "data protection laws").
The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.
When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any cmpoon.com website, such as newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards or register with the online registration system used across different parts of cmpoon.com, we may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the CMPoon.com Team and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.
Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information (e.g. if you're sending in an application to be a contributor on a political party we may need to know your political leanings). When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.
The CMPoon.com Team also uses cookies (see paragraph 13 below for details) and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.
The CMPoon.com Team will use your personal information for a number of purposes including the following:
Where the CMPoon.com Team proposes using your personal information for any other uses we will ensure that we notify you first. You will also be given the opportunity to withhold or withdraw your consent for your use other than as listed above.
The CMPoon.com Team may contact you:
Local pages will give you detailed information about how the CMPoon.com Team will contact you in relation to specific services.
The CMPoon.com Team won't contact you for marketing purposes, or promote new services to you unless you specifically agree to be contacted for these purposes.
We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies) or as described inparagraph 7 below. Generally, we will only use your information within us. However, sometimes the CMPoon.com Team uses third parties to process your information. The CMPoon.com Team will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and the CMPoon.com Team will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.
Please note that if you are accessing the CMPoon.com Team from outside the UK and you make a comment or complaint regarding any element of advertising (see paragraph 11 for more details about this) then the CMPoon.com Team may forward your correspondence to Kings Network only for the purposes of responding to you.
If you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to cmpoon.com, or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on cmpoon.com, the CMPoon.com Team may use your personal information to stop such behaviour.
Where the CMPoon.com Team reasonably believes that you are or may be in breach of any of the laws of England or Wales (e.g. because content you have posted may be defamatory), the CMPoon.com Team may use your personal information to inform relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider or law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to CMPoon.com.
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with the CMPoon.com Team or the CMPoon.com Team's corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long). In the case that you wish to cancel your registration as a cmpoon.com member, once an account is deleted a red flag goes on the database and, while people cannot use the personal information, it stays on the system for a period of one year for administration purposes before being deleted automatically.
Where you contribute to cmpoon.com the CMPoon.com Team will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted. For example, the CMPoon.com Team will only keep copies of entries to a photographic competition for the duration of the competition. However other projects (e.g. the People's War website) are likely to have a longer, or even permanent, duration.
The CMPoon.com Team also has an obligation to record snapshots of history which may include some User Generated Content i.e. content provided by users. Therefore, some content submitted to or shared with the CMPoon.com Team may be retained for prolonged periods of time or potentially indefinitely in the CMPoon.com Team's Archive, which is true of News contributions which are published. There may also be rare instances where we will share your contribution with third parties in the interests of maintaining historical archives (e.g. contributions about people's experiences in the World War II were given to the Imperial War Museum). Where possible, we will endeavour to inform you upfront or let you know at a later date where we are likely to keep content indefinitely or pass it onto an approved historical archive.
Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to request a copy of the personal information the CMPoon.com Team holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests and will require you to prove your identity with 2 pieces of approved photographic identification.) We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete personal information about you on our files.
Please address requests and questions about this or any other question about this Privacy Policy to[email protected].
www.cmpoon.com is published in the UK by the CMPoon.com Team. For international users accessing the site from outside the UK, the site is made available to you by the CMPoon.com Team's commercial subsidiary, Kings Network Web Hosting Organization ("Kings Network"), on a commercial basis (i.e. some of the pages you access will have advertising on them) under licence from the CMPoon.com Team. However all personal information submitted by you to the site goes directly to the CMPoon.com Team and will be processed in accordance with this Privacy Policy (and any local terms that apply on websites) unless terms on sites specify otherwise.
You should note that Kings Network does place a number of cookies on www.cmpoon.com and may collect information about international users from these - please see paragraph 13 for more information about cookies.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time so you may wish to check it each time you submit personal information to any cmpoon.com website. The date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes a unique identifier that is sent to your computer or mobile phone (referred to here as a "device") browser from a website's computer and is stored on your device's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences and allow us to tailor the websites to your interests. Users have the opportunity to set their devices to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of cmpoon.com features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
During the course of any visit to cmpoon.com, the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your device. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the device (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to analyse the profile of our visitors and help us to provide you with a better user experience. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our blog pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight blog information on your second and subsequent visits.
The CMPoon.com Team (and Kings Network in relation to international users) also use a number of independent measurement and research companies. They gather information regarding the visitors to the CMPoon.com Team sites on our behalf using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The CMPoon.com Team and Kings Network use this type of information to help improve the services it provides to its users. The CMPoon.com Team and Kings Network strictly require that third parties do not use any information for their own business or other purposes (seeparagraph 6 above). Certain other areas of cmpoon.com may use cookies for a specific reason - for example, to help an online game work effectively on your device. If this is the case, the local terms for that area of the website will make this clear and you should refer to those local terms for additional information.
The way you can minimise the number of cookies you receive is to adjust your browser settings to reject cookies (for mobile phones you will have to refer to your handset manufacturer's help manual) using one of the following procedures (depending on your website browser);
To see your cookie code, just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.
If you have set your device to reject cookies you can still browse cmpoon.com anonymously until such time as you wish to register for cmpoon.com services. For further information on cookies please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.