PRIVACY POLICY: version [November 2009] MadOystercan Ltd. t/a Blinked.TV ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We comply with the Data Protection Act, and our notification to the Information Commissioner can be found under reference Z8019458. This policy (together with our  terms of use can be found at: http://www.blinked.tv/etp/terms) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you: 

  1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on Blinked.TV. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter any competition or promotion, and when you report a problem with our site.
  2.  If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
  3. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
  4. Details of any transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of any orders.
  5. Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
  6. Information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type.
We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies are text-only strings of information that a website transfers to your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. We're sorry for any inconvenience but it really is impossible to program a system like this without keeping track of who is posting what. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to register and use the community features of Blinked.TV if cookies are disabled.

 

Where we store your personal data

 

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of orders, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

  All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

  How we use your personal data

We use information held about you in the following ways: 

  1. To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
  2. To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you which we offer or may plan to offer. 
  3. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us. 
  4. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
  5. To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you.

 Where we permit selected third parties to use your data, 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 on the registration form.

 We may provide our advertisers with aggregate information about our users. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  1. In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
  2. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of child protection, fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
  3. For site or membership administration, including the blocking of users or IP addresses.

Your Rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing 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 http://www.blinked.tv/etp/contact.

  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

Access to Information

The Data Protection 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

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.