Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At VWYW we have a few fundamental principles:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)

• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.

• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, VWYW collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. VWYW’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how VWYW’s visitors use its website. From time to time, VWYW may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

VWYW also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. VWYW does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to VWYW’s websites choose to interact with VWYW in ways that require VWYW to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that VWYW gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for an account at VoteWithYourWheels.co.uk to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with VWYW – by purchasing access to the VWYW service, for example – are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, VWYW collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with VWYW. VWYW does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

VWYW may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. VWYW may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, VWYW does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

VWYW discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on VWYW’s behalf or to provide services available at VWYW’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using VWYW’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. VWYW will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, VWYW discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when VWYW believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of VWYW, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an VWYW account and have supplied your email address, VWYW may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with VWYW and our products. We primarily use our various company blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. VWYW takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. VWYW uses cookies to help VWYW identify and track visitors, their usage of VWYW website, and their website access preferences. VWYWs visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using VWYW’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of VWYW’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, VWYW may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in VWYW’s sole discretion. VWYW encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a wordpress.com account, you should also check your blog’s dashboard for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Last updated: 8 March 2010