THE INTERNATIONAL GAMING AWARDS (IGA)
PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to THE INTERNATIONAL GAMING AWARDS (referred to as "IGA") takes your privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy and cookie policy.
ONLINE PRIVACY PRACTICES
1. We at the IGA and our affiliated companies ("we, us, our") are keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from the internet and other products and services we may be able to offer to you.
2. We request that all users read and accept the terms and conditions and this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions or the privacy policy applicable to this Site you must cease using the Site, or the one linked from it that is within our control, immediately.
3. We are fully registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act") and to ensure we comply with all protection the Act affords to you we have set out below how we intend to utilise the information provided by you. Further information on the Act is on the internet at www.ico.gov.uk .
4. We will not share your personal information for marketing or any other purposes without your consent unless where required by law. If you have registered your interest with the IGA and/or any of our associated companies, and thereby given your consent, you may be contacted with relevant promotions, offers or information that you have expressed an interest in or that might be of interest to you. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RECEIVE FURTHER UPDATES PLEASE EMAIL COLIN@GAMING-AWARDS.COM . We will always respect your privacy and any personal communication between you and ourselves. We will always comply with any data protection legislation currently in force.
5. When you access the site, we may ask you to give us your name, email address and other personal information that will be needed to supply the services to you. You can 'unsubscribe' at any time. We may use your personal data for contacting you via the phone or e-mail for support, notification of new products or new versions, general correspondence regarding the Site and correspondence which may relate you. If you would rather not receive future marketing emails from us once you have registered please inform us by e-mail at
COLIN@GAMING-AWARDS.COM
6. The information you provide will be kept confidential and will only be passed on to external companies if you have opted in to permit IGA to give your contact information to selected companies, business partners, sponsors and advertisers. If you opt out of permitting IGA to pass on your information, it will be used only to support your customer relationship with us (i.e. e-mails only from IGA) and to provide the specified service. We do not disclose or sell your information outside our corporate group except if we sell the whole or part of our business.
7. Our Site may not always be available and the material on it may not necessarily reflect our views. All users must agree not to tamper with the site and respect our intellectual property rights and those of our licensors and by accepting this privacy policy and the terms and conditions you hereby agree to do so. The Site may also have links to other websites over which we have no control.
TRADING FROM OUR SITE
10. Making sure you can buy safely online is a priority for us and certain links accessible from our Site offer items and services online. We have made strenuous efforts to ensure that security is one of our highest priorities and we have devoted a great deal of effort to ensure that our online security measures help to safeguard your information.
COOKIES
11. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website:
- 11.1 Session Cookies: which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.
- 11.2 Persistent cookies: which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
- 11.3 Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
HOW WE USE COOKIES ON OUR SITE AND WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
12. Session Cookies
- 12.1 To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
- 12.2 To allow you to maintain a shopping basket.
- 12.3 Within registration to allow you to access stored information.
13. Persistent Cookies
- 13.1 To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
- 13.2 To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
- 13.3 Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.
DISABLING/ENABLING COOKIES
14. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. Find out how to disable/enable cookies by clicking on the "Manage Cookies" section of the Interactive Advertising Bureau UK website .
FURTHER INFORMATION ON DATA PROTECTION AND PERSONAL PRIVACY
15. For further information from us on data protection and privacy contact us via post sent to the following address:
IGA (Clever Duck Media Ltd)
Suite 105 Park Plaza
Point South
Hayes Way
Staffordshire WS12 2DB
Information on the Data Protection Act 1998 is also on the Information Commissioner's web site at www.ico.gov.uk . |
