Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us.  This Privacy Statement describes the online information practices which we at Future Pink ("we", "our", "us") employ in relation to the information which you, our users, ("you", "your") provide when using the www.futurepink.com site ("Website").  By accessing and using the Website you are accepting and agreeing to the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

The Information We Collect

We collect and process personally identifiable information relating to you (including name, address, phone number and e-mail address ("Personal Information"))  to enable the provision of our services to you.  Such information may be collected in the following situations:

• when you contact us to obtain information relating to us or our services, communicate with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise, complete a questionnaire or competition entry form;
• whenever you interact with the Website, we receive and store certain types of information using "cookies".  We describe how we use "cookies" below; and
• when we receive information from third parties we use in providing services to you from time to time.

We collect no more Personal Information than is required to provide the relevant services and we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected.  All reasonable technical and organisational security measures are in place to ensure that unauthorised access to Personal Information is prevented.  The purposes for which we process data are registered with the Information Commissioner's Officer (ICO).  This is available on the Public Register of Data Controllers.

How We Normally Use Information About You

We will only use your Personal Information for the purpose(s) for which you provide it to us including for example to:

• respond to your enquiries;
• communicate with you about our services and promotional offers (if you have consented in advance we may send you information on our promotional offers and those offered by other businesses.  If you no longer want to receive such offers, please notify editor@futurepink.com
• update our records;
• prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our Website (where necessary to prevent fraud or reduce credit risk we may exchange your Personal Information with other companies and organisations);
• enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf (from time to time we may employ other companies to perform functions on our behalf including sending customer communications, analysing data, providing marketing assistance and providing customer service.  They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes); and
• other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share your information.

Occasionally we may use your Personal Information to inform you of offers of goods and services and we may share your details with selected third parties in order for those third parties to do the same.  Where we use Personal Information in this manner, we will always offer you the right to 'opt in' to receive such communications by means of ticking a box as part of our data capture process.  You also have the right to opt out of receiving such communications at any time by emailing us or writing to us at the address set out below.

You may request details of the personal information we may hold about you.  To make such a request, please write to the Editor, Future Pink, 3 Gawsworth Close, Oxton, Wirral CH43 2GS.  Please note that a £10 administrative fee is payable in advance and is non-refundable.

[We may transfer Personal Information which users in the European Union provide to us to other countries (including the United States), the data protection laws of which may differ from those of the European Union, and you expressly agree to such transfer]

Please note that email correspondence with us is in free format text and cannot be encrypted.  Accordingly please do not send any sensitive information such as credit card details or passwords via mail.

"Cookies"

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.

When you visit our Website we send you a cookie.  Cookies may be used in the following ways:

• To enable the personalisation features on our Website (which give you the ability to recall recently viewed pages and see information which you have input on line).
• To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website and to help us improve the structure of our Website.  We cannot identify you personally in this way.

[Two types of cookies may be used on this website, session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and 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)]

Disabling/Enabling Cookies

You can accept or decline "cookies" by modifying the setting in your browser.  Please note that if you disable "cookies" you may not be able to use all the features of our Website.

Revisions to this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Statement or any part of it from time to time.  Please review the Privacy Statement periodically for changes.  Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Statement applies from time to time to all information that we have about you.  

How to Contact us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Statement or how we use your Personal Information you may contact us by email at editor@futurepink.com.  If at any time you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use any of your Personal Information or wish to change the use to which your Personal Information can be put, please let us know by emailing us at editor@futurepink.com.

Controller of Your Information

Information which you provide to us or we gather from the Website is controlled by: Future Pink, 3 Gawsworth Close, Oxton, Wirral  CH43 2GS

[Last Updated: 3 June 2007]