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Privacy Policy

At neighbourhoodwatch.net 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) that we collect when you are on our website, neighbourhoodwatch.net (the Site). The policy also gives information about cookies; neighbourhoodwatch.net’s and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may disable such cookies.

Opt in
When you register as a member of neighbourhoodwatch.net or sign up for any of the services that we offer for example, newsletters, you will be asked to 'opt in' to our Privacy Policy, i.e. to confirm that 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 Site. By 'opting-in' you agree to our use of your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not provide your consent, you will not be able to register with neighbourhoodwatch.net nor use many of our services.
If you do subscribe to any of our services you may also unsubscribe from any 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.

Collection of personally identifiable information
Neighbourhoodwatch.net collects and keeps the details (which may include your name, email address, age, gender, post code, occupation, industry, and personal interests) you provide when you register as a member of neighbourhoodwatch.net or sign up for any of our services together with any personally identifiable information we learn about you through your use of the Site. For example, we may collect additional personally identifiable information through your participation in any promotions and competitions we offer.

We will notify our members when we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy that affect the use of any personally identifiable information we collect. We will not make new use of any personally identifiable information which we have gathered from individual members or users prior to any such change in our Privacy Policy being announced or without first obtaining the member's or user's consent for any new uses.

How we use the personally identifiable information you provide
We use the personally identifiable information we collect to supply and customise 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 neighbourhoodwatch.net 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. With your permission we may also use your personally identifiable information to send you information, requests for feedback, special offers and promotions whether on behalf of ourselves or on behalf of carefully selected third parties.

Your personally identifiable information will be held and used by us in accordance with this Privacy Policy and UK data protection legislation.

Disclosure of your personally identifiable information
Your personally identifiable information may be passed to and used by our third party partners and service providers in connection with providing services to you on the Site, delivering or making our services available to you and/or in association with our operation of neighbourhoodwatch.net. Please note that some of our third party partners and service providers may be located overseas in countries which do not have as extensive data protection laws as in the United Kingdom.

We may also 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 neighbourhoodwatch.net's discretion, to protect the legal rights or the property of neighbourhoodwatch.net, 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 the assets of neighbourhoodwatch.net (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). In addition, neighbourhoodwatch.net 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 neighbourhoodwatch.net, provided that such third parties are bound by neighbourhoodwatch.net's Privacy Policy.

Other web sites
Where we provide links to third party web sites (whether or not they are affiliated with neighbourhoodwatch.net and even if neighbourhoodwatch.net branding appears on these sites), such sites are not controlled by us and are not covered by our 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 endeavour 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.

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 throughout neighbourhoodwatch.net and to and by other members of the Site. We therefore cannot be responsible for the protection or security of such information, regardless of its sensitivity. You disclose all such information on our forums entirely at your own risk.

Third party personally identifiable information
You must not disclose personally identifiable information relating to any third party on our forums or in conjunction with any of our services unless you have their express consent to do so.

Security
The security of your personally identifiable information is important 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 neighbourhoodwatch.net. You provide all such information at your own risk.

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 neighbourhoodwatch.net:
Session Cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site;
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).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you and therefore they do not constitute personally identifiable information.

If you wish to find out more about cookies you may click cookies.

How we use Cookies on our site and what information we collect.

Session Cookies
· To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information;
· To allow you to maintain a shopping basket;
· Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent Cookies
· To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
· 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.

Third party Cookies
Third parties serve cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes:
· To serve advertisements on our site and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users.
· To control how often you are shown a particular advertisement.
· To tailor content to your preferences
· To count the number of anonymous users of our site.
· To provide security within shopping baskets or transactions.

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 include a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign.

If you wish to find out more about web beacons click Web Beacons.

Disabling/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.

Queries, unsubscribing, correction and deletion of personally identifiable information,
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or if you would like to have your personally identifiable information on our database amended or deleted, or to unsubscribe from our services, please contact us at helpdesk@neighbourhoodwatch.net 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). Alternatively you may write to us at Neighbourhoodwatch.net, UK Neighbourhood Watch Trust, First Floor, 52 London Road, Oadby, Leicester, LE2.

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 members or visitors to the Site in certain limited circumstances - for instance, if required to do so by law.

General
By using the Neighbourhoodwatch.net, you confirm your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, incorporated herein by this reference. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use Neighbourhoodwatch.net and do not register for any of our services. Subject to the provisions above regarding material changes to this Privacy Policy, which we will notify you of, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice (including, without limitation, on the introduction of new services to our users which affect our privacy practices). Any such change will take effect once the revised privacy policy has been made available on the Site. You will be bound by any such changes to the Privacy Policy. Therefore, we ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure your continuing familiarity with the most current version of our Privacy Policy. Your continued use of Neighbourhoodwatch.net following such changes to the Privacy Policy means you accept those changes.