National Gig Guide Web Site Privacy Statement
Last Updated: July 22nd, 2005

This policy covers the National Gig Guide's use of personal information that the National Gig Guide collects when you use nationalgigguide.co.uk. The policy also gives you information about cookies; National Gig Guide and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include nationalgigguide.co.uk registration.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the National Gig Guide and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal informaiton the National Gig Guide will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

Visitor Information
The Site uses cookies to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page, so that when you visit the site again, the experience will be personalised. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to set your computer to accept cookies, you may also choose to be logged into the Site automatically. You may also select a language and level of your choice as your default home page. This selection is stored in a cookie.
When someone visits the site, a cookie is placed on the customer's machine (if the customer accepts cookies) or is read if the customer has visited the Site previously. One use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site visitation statistics described above.

If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Site, you will be able to view the text on the screens, however you will not experience a personalized visit nor will you be able to subscribe to the service offerings on the Site.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent visits.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse nationalgigguide.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish to register for nationalgigguide.co.uk services. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to nationalgigguide.co.uk (e.g. for competitions, nationalgigguide.co.uk services or nationalgigguide.co.uk registration) we have obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to the National Gig Guide will only be used within the National Gig Guide and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to nationalgigguide.co.uk or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on nationalgigguide.co.uk, the National Gig Guide can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of nationalgigguide.co.uk registration you no longer wish to continue your registration as a nationalgigguide.co.uk member. For safety reasons, however, the National Gig Guide may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) arising from the use of nationalgigguide.co.uk services for a period of six months. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other nationalgigguide.co.uk services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Links to Other Web Sites
This Site may contain links to other Web sites. Please be aware that this privacy statement applies solely to the information collected on the Site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other Web sites. We encourage you to be aware when you are leaving this Site and read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit before providing any personally identifiable information.

Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information the National Gig Guide holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.) Please address requests to Data Protection, 20 Windermere road, Torquay, Devon or email info@nationalgigguide.com

Minors
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the National Gig Guide's website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.

Changes to this Statement.
The National Gig Guide may occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to be informed of how nationalgigguide.co.uk is helping to protect your information.