Privacy policy

 
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Bottletalk Ltd. makes every effort to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that users of our site wish to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not fall into the hands of a third party. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.

Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site unless directed otherwise. If this policy should change in the future then we shall provide notification in advance, and the opportunity for all users to indicate whether or not they would prefer that we do not provide the information to third parties as proposed.

Bottletalk uses cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience and to learn about how you use the Bottletalk web site and service in order to improve the quality of our services.

Here is a list of the information we collect, and why we collect it:

Basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details.

This information is used:

Your domain name and e-mail address

These details are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded.

This information is:

Your bottletalk.com personal profile

Your profile is available to be seen by web browsers throughout the world. Information from your personal profile other than that which specifically identifies an individual, may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular part of the Bottletalk web site or service. Some of this information is classified as sensitive information by the UK Data Protection Act 1998. We make the assumption that in giving this information to us, you consent to our holding it for the duration of your membership of Bottletalk.

Information volunteered by you

Other information supplied by you, for a particular purpose, for example a personal profile, survey, or competition entry, will be used exclusively for the purpose for which you have provided it. Information is only disclosed to third parties where the third party concerned qualifies in whatever way the web site page requires. In the case of competitions, we will make absolutely clear on the face of the page, any intention to publicise the name of a winner or share the information collected with a third party.

Business information

This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours such as in relation to your application to partner with us or advertise with us. Such information is retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you and any partner to reciprocate this policy.

Disclosure to Government

We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorization such as a search warrant or court order.

Information request

You may contact us at any time to review or update the personal information that we hold about you as supplied by you, by contacting us at the address below. To safeguard your personal information, we will also take reasonable steps to confirm your identity before granting access or making changes to your personal information.

This privacy policy has been compiled to comply with current UK, US and EU legislation, so far as we are aware. If you have any question regarding the privacy policy, please contact us at: contact@bottletalk.com

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