Portsea Islander Privacy Policy statement

Portsea Islander, a division of Evisible Integrated Media Limited (later referred to as “we”) are committed to protecting and respecting your data and privacy.

This policy (together with our Terms of Use) sets out the basis of how any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, is processed by us. The following information should be read to understand our practices and ethos regarding your personal data and how it is managed whilst in our care.

By visiting www.portseaislander.co.uk you accept the following terms and consent to the practices set out in this our Ts and Cs document. If you do not agree or have concerns about any part of our policy, you should discontinue using this site.

In line with the Data Protection Act 1998 (the “Act”), the nominated data controller for this site is Evisible Integrated Media Ltd, 17 Kassassin Street, Southsea, Hants, PO4 9PS

Information we sometimes collect

We may collect and process the data about you including, but not limited to:

  • Information you provide to us.You may provide information about yourself by filling in forms on our site www.portseaislander.co.uk (later referred to as “our site” or “the site”) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, text or otherwise. Included information may include information you provided when you registered to use our site, subscribed to the site services, search for an item, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site and related network, enter a competition, promotion or survey, or when you report a problem with our site. Information you have given us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photographs, and opinions or comments you post on the site.
  • Information we collect about you.With regard to any visit to our site we may automatically collect the information about the visit.
  • technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login information, browser type, time zone, plug-in, operating system and platform, mobile device.
  • information about your visit, including Uniform Resource Locators (URL), click stream (including date and time). Items you have viewed or searched for, page response times, errors, session length, page interaction  (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs),  browse methods away from the page and any phone number used to call our or our partners’ customer services.
  • Information received from other sources.    We may receive information about you from other websites or  services we operate, or from third parties (including, e.g, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery solutions, ad networks, analytics providers or credit reference agencies) we may also receive information about you to prevent fraud and other criminal offences.

 

Public comment and forum sections

Parts of the site provide an opportunity for users to exchange information either in comments to articles or in forum posts. We may be unable to protect your privacy in these public areas. Any information you share in these areas becomes public, therefore you should always exercise caution in deciding whether or not to disclose your personal information. Such information is shared at your own risk and we cannot guarantee that it will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. Before using the public areas of the site, you should carefully read our Acceptable Use Policy which sets out the permitted uses and prohibited uses of our site. This is available on request.

Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a smooth and functional user experience and also allows us to review performance and further improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy which is available on request.

Uses Made of the Information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • Information you give to us.We will use this information:
  • to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us
  • to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or inquired about
  • to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are a registered customer and where you have opted in to receive information from selected third parties, we (or they) will contact you only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data
  • to notify you about changes to our service
  • to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

 

How we use information we collect about you. We will use this information:

  • to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
  • to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
  • to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
  • as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
  • to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
  • to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services or special offers, that may interest you or them;
  • to give you free regular weekly updates about what’s new on the site, which may include free weekly and monthly emails and other special offers which we think you may find of interest on the site;
  • to enable you to participate in interactive features, competitions, prize draws and other promotions via the site;
  • if you post comments on the site, to publish them for editorial purposes or in promotional material.
  • Information we receive from other sources.We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

  • We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company (being Evisible Integrated Media Ltd) and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

We may share information with selected third parties.

  • Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in PO4). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.
  • Selected third parties who wish to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and those third parties are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties, but only in the following circumstances:

  • If Evisible Integrated Media or substantially any of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
  • If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or law enforcement request, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Evisible, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for purpose of fraud protection and reducing credit risk.

How We Store Your Personal Data

Any information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions are encrypted using SSL technology and completed through our payment gateway provider PayPal. If you create a password for your account which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping your passwords confidential. We ask that you not share a password with anyone else. Transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we will do our very best to protect your personal data, we cannot and do not offer a guarantee as to the security of data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once received, your information, we  use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent any unauthorised access to your data.

Your rights      You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at hello@portseaislander.co.uk. or by post to Evisible Integrated Media Ltd 17, Kassassin Street, Southsea, Hants, PO4 9PS.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

If you no longer wish us to hold your details on a database then you may ask us to remove your details by contacting us at hello@portseaislander.co.uk.

Access to Information

If you have registered on our site, you can review and change your personal information by logging into the site and visiting your account profile page. Or email hello@portseaislander.co.uk to request access to, correct or delete any personal information you have provided.

We cannot delete personal information except by deleting your account.

If you delete information shared in the public areas of the site it may remain available in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other users of the site. The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this policy without notice to you. Please ensure that you review the policy regularly as you will be deemed to have accepted any variation if you continue to use the site after it has been posted.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Portsea Islander c/o Evisible Integrated Media, 17 Kassassin Street, Southsea, PO4 9PS or via hello@portseaislander.co.uk.

 

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