FromEast.co.uk

Privacy Policy

FromEast.co.uk is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of our many offerings. This policy may change from time to time so please check back periodically.

FromEast.co.uk is Industry-certified. This certification applies to all English-language sites under the FromEast.co.uk domain. Please keep in mind that some of the products or services mentioned specifically in this policy may not be available on all of our international FromEast.co.uk sites at this time.

 

This policy will let you know:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you;

2. What cookies are and how they are used;

3. How your information is used;

4. Who is collecting your information;

5. With whom your information may be shared;

6. What choices are available to you regarding collection, use, and distribution of your information;

7. How you can access, update or delete your information;

8. How FromEast.co.uk treats your personal financial and health-related information;

9. The kind of security precautions that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of your information;

 

NOTICE: For important information about safe surfing please read below.

 

1. What personally identifiable information does FromEast.co.uk collect from me?

FromEast.co.uk collects information in several ways from different parts of our network of web sites.

Some personal information is gathered if you register for any of our forthcoming "Special Offers". During registration, FromEast.co.uk will ask for your name, E-mail address, birth date, gender, postal code, occupation, industry and personal interests. The more information you volunteer (and the more accurate it is), the better we are able to customise your experience. Once you register you are no longer anonymous to FromEast.co.uk - you are able to take full advantage of FromEast.co.uk's "Special Offers".

In addition to registration, we may ask you for personal information at other times, including (but not limited to) when you make a purchase using FromEast.co.uk and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If you contact FromEast.co.uk we may keep a record of that correspondence. FromEast.co.uk also occasionally asks users to complete surveys that we use for research purposes. Wherever FromEast.co.uk collects personal information we make an effort to include a link to this Privacy Policy on that page.

 

2. What are cookies and how does FromEast.co.uk use them?

As part of offering and providing customisable and personalised services, FromEast.co.uk uses cookies to store and sometimes track information about you. A "cookie" is a small amount of data that is sent to your browser from a web server and stored on your computer's hard drive. All sites on FromEast.co.uk where you are prompted to log-in or that are customisable require that you accept cookies.

Generally, we use cookies to:

(a) Remind us of who you are and to access your account information (stored on our computers) in order to deliver to you a better and more personalised service. This cookie is set when you register or "Sign In" and is modified when you "Sign Out" of our "Special Offer" services. FromEast.co.uk also uses cookies to store your postal code.

(b) Estimate our audience size. Each browser accessing FromEast.co.uk is given a unique cookie which is then used to determine the extent of repeat usage, usage by a registered user versus by an unregistered user, and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behaviour.

(c) Assist merchants in FromEast.co.uk stores to track visits to and business at their stores, and to process the items in your shopping basket. This information collected by cookies is sometimes called "clickstream" or "click trail" and may also describe which pages you have seen in each merchant's store.

(d) Track your progress and number of entries in some of our promotions. When a FromEast.co.uk-hosted promotion uses cookies, the information written to the cookie indicates the player's progress through the promotion, and may be used to track entries, submissions, and status.

(e) Measure certain traffic patterns, which areas of FromEast.co.uk's network of web sites you have visited, and your visiting patterns in the aggregate. We use this research to understand how our users' habits are similar or different from one another so that we can make each new experience on FromEast.co.uk a better one. We may use this information to better personalise the content, banners, and promotions that you and other users may see on our Website.

Advertising networks that serve ads onto FromEast.co.uk may also use their own cookies. FromEast.co.uk also collects information for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.

 

3. How does FromEast.co.uk use my information?

FromEast.co.uk's primary goal when collecting personal information is to provide you, the user, with a customised experience on our network of sites. This includes personalisation services, interactive communications, online shopping and many other types of services, most of which are completely free to you. In order to provide services free of charge, we display advertisements. By knowing a little about you, FromEast.co.uk is able to deliver more relevant advertisements and content, and hence better service, to you.

In our role of delivering targeted advertisements, FromEast.co.uk plays the role of the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience they want to reach (for example, males over 25 years old or females under 40 years old). FromEast.co.uk takes the advertisement and displays it to users meeting their criteria. In this process, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. Only FromEast.co.uk has access to individuals' accounts. This kind of advertisement targeting is done with banner ads as well as promotional E-mail through FromEast.co.uk. You will only receive special offers via E-mail from FromEast.co.uk if you have indicated in your account preferences that you would like to receive them. You can change your account preferences at any time.

FromEast.co.uk does research on our users' demographics, interests, and behaviour based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand and serve our users. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated basis. FromEast.co.uk may share this aggregated data with advertisers or business partners.

 

4. Who is collecting information?

When you are on a FromEast.co.uk site and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with FromEast.co.uk alone, unless it is specifically stated otherwise. In order to provide this co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information with our partner company. If data is being collected and/or maintained by any company other than FromEast.co.uk, you will be notified prior to the time of the data collection or transfer. If you do not want your data to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer by not using that particular service.

Promotions that run on FromEast.co.uk may be sponsored by companies other than FromEast.co.uk or may be co-sponsored by us and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be shared with the sponsor. If data will be shared, you will be notified prior to the time of data collection or transfer. You can decide not to participate in the promotion if you don't want your data to be shared.

Please be aware that FromEast.co.uk Internet access partners, advertisers, and websites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those Internet access partners, advertisers, and web sites linked to FromEast.co.uk are not covered by this privacy statement.

 

5. With whom does FromEast.co.uk share my information?

As a general rule, FromEast.co.uk will not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances, such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances described below. Please see the Terms and Conditions or User Agreements for each of our products and services for more detailed information about how your personal information may be shared. The following describes some of the ways that your information may be disclosed.

Business Partners & Sponsors: FromEast.co.uk may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but this is specifically described to you prior to data collection or prior to transferring the data. Details of shared use can be found in specific Terms and Conditions or User Agreements, and sweepstakes and promotions rules. Some or all data collected during a FromEast.co.uk promotion may be shared with a sponsor.

If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you before we collect or transfer the data.

Many promotions will offer opportunities to request additional information from sponsors. By requesting more information, you give FromEast.co.uk permission to transfer your personal information to the sponsor so they can fulfill your request. In many instances, only your E-mail address will be shared. If more information will be shared with the sponsor, you will be notified prior to the transfer.

FromEast.co.uk Stores & Shopping: If you make a purchase from a store or a merchant hosted by FromEast.co.uk the information obtained during your visit to those stores, and the information you give such as your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchants. This is to enable transactions to take place.

Merchants listed in FromEast.co.uk Shopping or Site or in FromEast.co.uk Stores have separate privacy and data collection practices. FromEast.co.uk has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. For more information regarding the merchant, their store, and their privacy policies, return to that store's home page and click on their Information Link.

From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special offers from third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these third parties, FromEast.co.uk will (with your permission) share your name and E-mail address with them.

Third Party Data & Data in the Aggregate: Under confidentiality agreements, FromEast.co.uk may match user information with third party data. Also, FromEast.co.uk discloses aggregated user statistics (for example, 45% of our users are female) in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties, and for other lawful purposes.

Other: FromEast.co.uk may also disclose account information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating FromEast.co.uk's Terms and Conditions or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) FromEast.co.uk's rights or property, other FromEast.co.uk users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. FromEast.co.uk may disclose or access account information when we believe in good faith that the law requires it and for administrative and other purposes that we deem necessary to maintain, service, and improve our products and services.

 

6. What are my choices regarding collection, use, and distribution of my information?

FromEast.co.uk may, from time to time, send you E-mails regarding our products and services. In addition, if you indicated upon registration that you are interested in receiving offers or information from FromEast.co.uk and our partners, we may occasionally send you direct mail about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. Only FromEast.co.uk (or agents working on behalf of FromEast.co.uk and under confidentiality agreements) will send you these direct mailings and only if you indicated that you do not object to these offers. If you do not want to receive such mailings, simply tell us when you give us your personal information.

On some types of FromEast.co.uk promotions, we will ask for your E-mail address in order to update you on your score, entries, and status in prize drawings. When you participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related E-mail, unless you choose the no-E-mail option that some promotions offer. Occasionally these promotion-related E-mail messages may include targeted advertisements.

You also have choices with respect to cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies you will not be able to use those FromEast.co.uk services that require registration in order to participate.

FromEast.co.uk does not sell or rent user information to anyone. We will notify you at the time of data collection or transfer if your data will be shared with a third party and you will always have the option of not permitting the transfer. If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a particular service or not to participate in certain promotions.

 

7. What is FromEast.co.uk's policy on allowing me to update, correct, or delete my personally identifiable information?

You may edit your FromEast.co.uk Account Information and your public FromEast.co.uk Profile at any time by contacting us.

Your FromEast.co.uk account can be deleted or deactivated, but doing so will result in not being able to access any area of the FromEast.co.uk network. If you saved the confirmation E-mail you received when you first created your FromEast.co.uk account, you can use the URL provided in that message to delete your account at any time. Please contact us for further instructions about deleting or deactivating your FromEast.co.uk account. Residual information will remain within our archive records.

If you are participating in a FromEast.co.uk promotion and you wish to update your E-mail address on the promotions mailing list or to quit a promotion and cease receiving promotion-related E-mail, please contact us.

 

8. How does FromEast.co.uk protect my personal financial information?

Keeping your personal financial information private is vitally important to us. As with all information, FromEast.co.uk will never rent or sell your personal financial information. This includes information kept in your FromEast.co.uk Portfolio or from any FromEast.co.uk assessment tools.

Knowing that you use certain services or features may help us to offer you better and more relevant content and advertisements. But as with all personally identifiable information, we do not make this available to any third parties without your permission. Any user statistics that we may provide to prospective advertisers or partners regarding financial product or service usage on FromEast.co.uk are provided in the aggregate only and do not include any personally identifiable information about any individual user.

Please note that there are several places on the FromEast.co.uk network of Web sites where you can transmit credit card information in order to complete a purchase transaction or for verification purposes. Any time we ask for a credit card number we transmit that credit card number in an encrypted format. We use industry-standard, SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.

9. What security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of my information?

Your Account Information and Profile are protected so that you and only you have access to this personal information. You may edit your LetsShop 247.com Account Information and LetsShop 247.com Profile by contacting us.

As a global company LetsShop 247.com has international sites and users all over the world. When you give LetsShop 247.com personal information, that information may be sent electronically to servers outside of the country where you originally entered the information, such as to the United States, Germany or other countries. In addition, that information may be used, stored and processed outside of the country where you entered that information.

Whenever LetsShop 247.com handles personal information as described above, regardless of where this occurs, we takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with the relevant Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, LetsShop 247.com cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online - for example on message boards, through E-mail, or in chat areas - that information can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties in return.

Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your information. Please be careful and responsible whenever you're online.

Additional Information

Questions regarding this statement should be directed to us at our E-mail address.

Copyright (c) 2000 FromEast.co.uk Inc. All rights reserved.

April 19, 2000