Gain Time IT Privacy Policy

Date Updated: Oct 2009

This privacy policy demonstrates our absolute commitment to your privacy and the protection of your personal information.

WEBSITE PRIVACY POLICY

What information will you collect about my usage of your website?

We will collect information about your visits to our site including numbers of visits, pages visited,

What information will you collect about my IP address and cookies?

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type to report aggregated information via our website analytics tools. This is statistical information about our users’ and does not identify any individual.

We may also collect information about your general internet usage via a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies include information stored on your computer by ourselves for the purpose of improving our site and enabling a more personalised service. They enable us to:

(a) To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
(b) To speed up your searches.
(c) To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

MEMBERSHIP DATABASE PRIVACY POLICY

Why do we store your personal data?

In order to manage your subscription effectively we will hold minimal information on our membership database. This will include any information you provide during the signup process or whilst we provide our services to you.

Do you store credit card information?

We do not capture or store any credit card information you use to purchase from our site. All payment transactions are carried out independently on the PayPal website. PayPal informs us after the purchase is successfully completed.

How we protect your privacy

We use appropriate security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

Are you covered by the Data Protection Act?

Gain Time IT is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 via Edgescale Ltd our parent company.

Can you tell me what data you hold about me?

At any time you can request us to send a report of all data we hold about you within our database. Please request this by completing the on-line Customer Support Form. There may be a small charge of £10 to provide this information to you.

WEBSITE EMAIL SIGNUP PRIVACY POLICY

Why did we send you an email?

Our email marketing is permission based. If you received an email from us this means that our records show either you:

(a) have “opted-in” to our email service OR

(b) have registered with us or purchased from us or otherwise have a relationship us.

We respect your time and control the frequency of our mailings.

If you believe you have received unwanted, unsolicited email sent via this system, please forward a copy of that email with your comments to email-abuse@gaintime.co.uk for review.

How do you stop receiving email from us?

Each email sent contains an easy, automated way for you to cease receiving email from us. If you wish to do this, simply follow the Unsubscribe links at the end of any email.

How we protect your privacy

We use appropriate security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of data used by our system.

Personal Information Sharing and Usage

We will never share, sell, or rent personal information with any person or company without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Only employees of Gain Time IT will be able to view your information for contacting you or sending you emails based on your request for information. Any third party contracted service may also have access to your information for the purposes of providing our communications with you.

Use of Web Beacons

When we send you emails, we may include a web beacon to allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we may record this individual response to allow us to customize our offerings to you. Web beacons collect only limited information, such as a cookie identifier, time and date of a page being viewed, and a description of the page on which the Web Beacon resides (the URL).

Web Beacons can be refused when delivered via email. If you do not wish to receive Web Beacons via email, you will need to disable HTML images or refuse HTML (select Text only) emails via your email software.

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