| Privacy
statement
We have adopted a set of information
management guidelines that serve as the basis for our customer
and advertiser relationships. These have been
developed to comply with the Data Protection Act 1998. We
take note of
advice published from time to time by the Information Commissioner.
Accordingly, guidelines are subject to change and any such
changes to our
privacy policy will be posted on this page without notification.
Questions regarding this statement should
be directed to the gt-vehicles.com
site coordinator at webmaster@gt-vehicles.com
For information on the Data Protection
Act 1998 and the Information
Commissioner please follow this link. www.dataprotection.gov.uk
A summary of the measures taken by GT
Vehicles Ltd to protect our users'
privacy is as follows:
We do not provide or sell your details
to third parties unless you have
specifically requested that we do so, in order that these
advertisers and/or
third parties can offer you information, goods and services
that may be of
interest to you.
We reserve the right to disclose information about member
usage and
demographics to advertisers and partners, but in anonymous
aggregate form
only. GT Vehicles Ltd will not reveal your personal identity
in connection
with the disclosure of such information.
You decide whether to post publicly a personal email address
when
participating in online discussions when available. If you
would like to opt
out of this arrangement at any time please elect to unsubscribe
when posting
discussions.
gt-vehicles.com contacts users by email with updates about
our website and
its services. All our email correspondence includes an unsubscribe
option.
What personally identifiable information
do we collect about you?
We collect information on our users in
two ways: through cookies and through
registration. For more information about cookies, please see
below.
We require users to provide us with a
name, email address, postal address
and postcode in order to register for access to certain services.
We may
also ask for other non-mandatory demographic information from
subscribers.
This information is stored by us and our data processors (see
below).
Following registration we will employ
a registration cookie to recognise a
subscriber and his or her access privileges on gt-vehicles.com,
as well as
to track site usage.
We may also collect personal information
from you through your use of
enquiry and feedback forms and every time you email us your
details.
We also log IP addresses, or the location
of your computer on the internet,
for systems administration and troubleshooting purposes. We
occasionally use
IP addresses to track a user's session, but do not link IP
addresses to
personally identifiable information.
What do we do with the information collected?
We may perform statistical analyses of
user behaviour in order to measure
relative consumer interest in the various areas of our site
(for product
development purposes) and to inform advertisers as to how
many consumers
have seen or 'clicked' their advertising banners. In performing
these
statistical analyses, we will disclose information to third
parties only in
aggregate form. Personal information on individual subscribers
will not be
provided to any third party if you object.
We may periodically send you email updates
on gt-vehicles.com and services
offered by gt-vehicles.com and its advertisers. If you wish
to opt out of
receiving such information from us, please use the unsubscribe
option
included in all our email correspondence or send an email
to gt-vehicles.com
stating that you would prefer not to receive such mailings.
We will also use your information to
target banner and box advertising on
the site so you will see advertising that may be more relevant
to you. You
will never be targeted as an individual, but as a larger demographic
group
of similar users. This use of your personal information is
contractual to
the use of gt-vehicles.com. If you do not wish your information
to be used
in this way then you will be unable to use those areas of
gt-vehicles.com
that require registration.
With whom do we share the information
we collect?
We will not sell, trade or rent your
personal information to others unless
you have given us your permission. With your permission we
will only share
the information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy
third
parties. Also, we may provide aggregate statistics on our
customers, sales,
traffic patterns and related site information to reputable
third-party
vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying
information.
We are not responsible for the content
or the privacy policies of Web sites
to which gt-vehicles.com may link.
We may employ external companies to act
on our behalf as data processors for internal business purposes.
Data processors will abide by the Privacy Policy
detailed here and will not disclose personal details to any
other
organisations or use data other than for purposes required
by us. This use
of your personal details is contractual to the use of gt-vehicles.com.
Cookies
What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small, numeric text file
that is stored by your browser on
your computer's hard drive. Any information you provide to
us is held
securely on our web servers and not on your machine.
Why does gt-vehicles.com use cookies?
Cookies make it possible for us to identify
registered users without needing
to ask for registration details every time you access one
of our sites.
Using cookies makes accessing our sites more convenient as
you don't need to remember you username and password each
time you enter.
We may also use cookies to track registered
or unregistered users as they
travel through the site - for instance, we might use cookies
to count the
total number of unique users who are accessing the site over
a particular
period of time, or to ensure that you don't see a particular
advert more
than once. This information is only shared with third parties
in aggregate
form. The use of cookies in this way helps to make our systems
more
efficient.
Opting to have an automatic login cookie
on your computer's hard drive will
allow you to bypass login screens, unless you have cookies
disabled in your
browser. Firewalls set up by your company network may prohibit
the use of
browser cookies.
What information is visible to other
gt-vehicles.com users?
If you are submitting an item to feedback
or to the message boards and would prefer not to have your
email address displayed then simply click on the
option to screen your email address from being published.
Our policy is to
publish email addresses unless you specify otherwise.
Only GT Vehicles Ltd and our external
data companies can read the
information about your ID and password that you submit when
registering.
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