privacy policy

At moyne.co.uk (“Moyne”), we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices and policy regarding the collection and use of information (including personally identifiable information) made available to us through the www.moyne.co.uk website (the “Moyne Site”). You are, of course, free to use the majority of the Moyne Site without providing any information to us. However, to the extent that you or other users do provide or make available any information to us, that information can generally be categorized as either anonymous or personally identifiable. Anonymous information is information that cannot be traced back to a specific individual. Personally identifiable information is information from which you or another individual can be identified. This information can include your name, email, address, postcode etc.

Opt In
When you sign up for any of the services that we offer for example, newsletters and/or email communications about news and events (“Services”) you ‘opt in’ to our Privacy Policy i.e. you agree to our use of any personally identifiable information that we may collect from you or be provided with by you in connection with your use of the moyne.co.uk Site. By ‘opting-in’ you agree to our use of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do subscribe to any of our Services you may also unsubscribe from the relevant distribution list(s) at any time. You may also withdraw your consent to our use of any other personally identifiable information that we hold on you at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe from our Services or withdraw any consent that you have previously provided to our use of your personally identifiable information, please see paragraph 11 below (Unsubscribing, Correction and Deletion of Personally Identifiable Information).

1. Collection of Personally Identifiable Information
Moyne collects the details provided by you when you sign up for any of our Services together with any personally identifiable information we learn about you through your use of the Services. For example, we may collect additional personally identifiable information through your participation in any promotions and competitions offered by us. We will not make new use of any personally identifiable information which Moyne gathered from individual members or users prior to any such change in our Privacy Policy without first obtaining the user’s consent for any new uses.

2. Security
The security of your personally identifiable information is a priority to us. Unfortunately, no security system, or system of transmitting data over the internet, can be guaranteed to be 100 per cent secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers, the means by which information is transmitted between your computer and our servers, or any information provided to us or to any third party through or in connection with the Moyne Site. You provide all such information at your own risk.

3. Newsletter and Email Communications Subscribers
If you decide to subscribe to one or more of our newsletters or email communications services, we will need to collect your email address in order to send our newsletters and/or email communications to you. We will not use your email address for any purpose except in connection with sending you the newsletters and/or emails you have requested, maintaining our subscription and unsubscription lists, communicating with you in the event of a change in the ownership of Moyne or its business, or notifying you of changes to the Moyne Site, business practices, Terms of Service or Privacy Policy, unless (i) we are required to do so by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in Moyne discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of Moyne, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; or (iii) you have provided your consent for us to do so.

4. How we use the Personally Identifiable Information you provide
We use the personally identifiable information we collect to supply our Services to you. We may also use your contact details to communicate with you (including without limitation in the event of a change in ownership of Moyne or its business, our business practices, or our Terms of Service or Privacy Policy). Except where you have asked us not to, we may contact you by email, post, text message or telephone. We may also use your personally identifiable information to send you information, special offers, promotions, whether on behalf of ourselves or our group companies or on behalf of carefully selected third parties.

5. Disclosure of your Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose your personally identifiable information in the following instances: (i) if we are required to do so by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in Moyne discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of Moyne, a member or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in connection with a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of the assets or stock of Moyne or its affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, Moyne reserves the right to allow access to its systems to third parties providing necessary technical services when such access is required in order to provide those services and to provide your personally identifiable information to third parties who provide services on behalf of Moyne, provided that such third parties are bound by Moyne Privacy Policy.

6. Other Web Sites
Where we provide links to third party web sites (whether or not they are affiliated with Moyne and even if Moyne branding appears on these sites), such sites are not controlled by us and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. These links are provided for your convenience only. If you access these sites by using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy. Although where possible we endeavor to ensure that the site operators abide by our Privacy Policy, we cannot guarantee that they will and you are advised to check the privacy policy of such third parties before providing information to them.

7. Cookies
Use of Cookies on our Site 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: Session cookies – temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site; Persistent cookies – these remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies.

How we use cookies on our website and what information we collect

Session cookies: To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to log-in many times. Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent cookies:
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. Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.
We do not pass any personally identifiable information obtained by cookie use to third party advertising companies.

Third-party cookies:
To count the number of anonymous users of our site. To aggregate anonymous information for marketing purposes.

Use of web beacons
Some of our web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the web beacon resides. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

Disabling or enabling cookies
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.

8. Blog and Other Public Forums
Please note that our forums are open to the public and if you choose to disclose personally identifiable information in these areas you are consenting to its unrestricted distribution in a public forum. We therefore cannot be responsible for the protection or security of such information, regardless of its sensitivity. You disclose all such information on our blog or other public forums entirely at your own risk.

9. Third Party Personally Identifiable Information
You must not disclose personally identifiable information relating to any third party on our blog or other public forums or in conjunction with any Service, unless you have their express consent to do so.

10. General
Your personally identifiable information will be held and used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy and UK data protection legislation. You have a right to access the personally identifiable information that is held about you. To obtain a copy of the personally identifiable information Moyne holds about you please contact us via email to info@moyne.co.uk with your name and address.

11. Unsubscribing, Correction and Deletion of Personally Identifiable Information
If you would like to have your personally identifiable information on our database amended or deleted, please contact us at info@moyne.co.uk and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to comply with your request in accordance with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. (We may need to contact you or verify who you are in order to be sure that we are deleting or changing the appropriate information).
When requesting that personally identifiable information be amended or deleted, please keep in mind that there will be residual information that will remain within our databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain such personally identifiable information. The residual information will not be used for commercial purposes. However, we may use that information, from time to time, to recontact former visitors to the Moyne Site in certain limited circumstances – for instance, if required to do so by law.