This notice explains how we will process your personal information.<\/p>\n
Data Protection Principles<\/strong><\/p>\n Boston Matthews Inc. complies with the principles of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. The eight principles relating to the processing of personal information are:<\/p>\n Your privacy and security is of utmost importance to us. We will always follow these principles and ask you how you would like us to communicate with you. The Information Commissioner regulates compliance with the Data Protection Act. See details at end of this page.<\/p>\n Why we collect your data?<\/strong><\/p>\n By collecting your data, it allows us to understand what your needs and wants are. It also allows us to provide targeted offers and services you may be interested to hear about.<\/p>\n Cookies and IP Addresses<\/strong><\/p>\n A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.<\/p>\n Cookies can be used by web servers to identity and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and to identify users returning to a website.<\/p>\n Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A persistent cookie consists of a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, which will be stored by the browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.<\/p>\n \t\t\t <\/strong>We use these types of cookies to monitor the usage of our website. These cookies provide us with information that helps us provide a better service \/ product to our customer, they also identify any areas that may need maintenance.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n \t\t\t <\/strong>We may also track IP addresses. An IP Address is a number that can identify an Internet Service Provider and country location. It cannot provide personal information.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n How to control the use of cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n You are not obliged to accept cookies and may modify your browser so that it will not accept cookies. The browser you use allows you to see cookies and control their use.<\/p>\n You can control them by allowing them, deleting them individually or deleting all of them. You can also set your browser to not accept cookies altogether. If this option is selected, you should be aware that many websites will not function properly or at all. It may be possible to set your browser to not accept cookies and ask for your consent before each cookie is set on your device. This gives you control over what is set on your device, however has the drawback of slowing down your browsing experience.<\/p>\n There are different levels of control too. You are able to prevent just third party cookies being deployed, effectively opting out of behavioural advertising, and some even allow you to block specific companies you do not wish to deploy a cookie, instead of selecting all companies.<\/p>\n In order to manage your cookies, please select your browser from the list below and follow the instructions:<\/p>\n How To Prevent Online Behavioural Advertising<\/strong><\/p>\n Further to configuring your browser to control the use of cookies, there are also other ways that you can opt out of online behavioural advertising.<\/p>\n The “Your Online Choices<\/a>” page provided by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB), provides an easy way to opt out of behavioural advertising from each (or all) of the networks represented by the IAB.<\/p>\n Some more useful information about Cookies<\/strong><\/p>\n More information about cookies can be found at the following websites:<\/p>\n\n
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