Privacy Policy

Significant Others Ltd ("we", “us” or "SO") have a firm commitment protecting your personal information and informing you about how we handle it. This, our privacy policy explains how we do this. We will review this policy in the light of comments we receive so please check the latest version. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please
contact us.

This privacy policy applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, data gathered on the www.significantothers.co.uk web site and email communications between www.significantothers.co.uk members (collectively, the "Site") but does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between www.significantothers.co.uk, or any other company and consumers.

Each time you visit the Site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.

Your IP Address

like most web sites, each time you visit the Site, we automatically collect your IP address and as appropriate, the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimise the Site for you and to diagnose any problems, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad, demographic information about you.

Cookies

like most Web sites, the Site uses cookies to keep track of your account and other activity on the Site and enhance your experience on the Site. We also use cookies to:

Third party advertisers on the Site may also place or read cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the "help" selection of the toolbar on your Internet browser will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Site.

How We Use Personal Information

We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with www.significantothers.co.uk). These types of communications are known as "Operational Communications". In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.

We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for www.significantothers.co.uk’s or third parties’ (if appropriate) goods or services. We attempt to send you offers that are of value to you, such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from s ignificantothers.co.uk (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general.

To operate the Site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services, customer relationship management services, order fulfillment, sweepstakes and promotional fulfillment. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.

By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, or electing to receive communications (such as emails or magazine subscriptions) or electing to participate in contests, sweepstakes or other programs (such as discount or rewards programs), offered or sponsored by third parties on the Site, you consent to our providing your personal information to those third parties. Those third parties may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact those third parties to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such third parties in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.

In some cases, we may enter into a promotional relationship with another company in which we prominently display their brand name or trademarks on pages of the Site. These pages are known as "Co-Branded Pages" and these companies are known as “Co-Branded Partners.” If the page on which you submit information is a Co-Branded Page, or was accessed by clicking on a link on a Co-Branded Page, then we may share your personal information with the associated Co-Branded Company. Co-Branded Companies may use your personal information in accordance with their own privacy policies. You will need to contact Co-Branded Companies to instruct them directly regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them. Additionally, you agree that we may use and disclose all such information so submitted to such Co-Branded Partners in the same manner in which we are entitled to use and disclose any other information you submit to us.

Some Co-Branded Pages may contain an action tag (also known as a Web Beacon or a 1 pixel .gif file) that a third party, such as an advertiser on the Site, may use to read cookies that it, or its clients, may have placed on your browser at other (non-significantothers.co.uk ) web sites before your visit to significantothers.co.uk . This technology is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements on such other Web sites that promote Co-Branded Pages. Further, these advertisers, or such other third parties, may use the information collected through this technology to learn more about your visits to this Site and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. We have been informed by our Co-Branded Partners and advertisers that unless you are otherwise notified, they do not use your name, address, e-mail address or telephone number, and do not link your online actions to any information that can be used to identify or contact you. However, as we may not verify that this is the case, we ask that you seek direct assurances yourself and do not hold us accountable for the accuracy of the above statement.

If you would like our Co-Branded Partners and advertisers to provide you with more information about their practices, please contact them directly, or contact us to receive their contact details. Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.

Removing yourself from our service

You may have your registration details removed at any time. To remove yourself please click here and we will remove all your Member Details.

Disclosure for legal reasons

We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member's personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

Data Retention Period

We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes to which you consent under the www.significantothers.co.uk
Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.

Contacting significantothers.co.uk

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with SO, you can contact us on privacy@significantothers.co.uk . You can also use this address if you wish to request from us a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data

Data Protection Information

You can obtain further information about UK data protection laws by
visiting the Information Commissioner's web site at
www.dataprotection.gov.uk.