YellowHawk Ltd Privacy Policy

Because your privacy is important to us, YellowHawk Ltd ("YellowHawk"), which owns the GadgetSpeak site, operates by these principles:

This policy is effective from the 1st May 2018 (previous version)

BY ACCESSING THE GADGETSPEAK WORLD WIDE WEB PAGES (THESE "The Site"), YOU AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING PRIVACY POLICY (THIS "POLICY") AS STATED BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS POLICY, PLEASE DISCONTINUE YOUR USE OF THIS SITE.

Modification of Site

YellowHawk may change this Policy, or change, modify or withdraw access to, or the content on this Site, at any time, with or without notice, so you should recheck this Policy prior to each visit to or use of this Site. YellowHawk has posted above the effective date of this version of this Policy above for your reference. Any such changes will be consistent with legal requirements in force at the time.

Applicability

This Policy is applicable to this Site and not to any other site on the World Wide Web.

What we collect

GadgetSpeak is primarily a membership only site, individuals complete a registration process to become a member ("Member"). A number of the features of the site are only available to Members.

Registration involves providing a valid email address. No other personal information is required in order to obtain a membership account.

Members may also be encouraged at certain times to provide additional voluntary personal information about themselves including and we may get some information about you from any correspondence you enter into with us:

  • name and email address
  • geographic location so that we can tailor content to your region, including advertisements
  • demographic information such as preferences and interests
  • other information relevant to customer surveys, competitions and/or offers
  • If you post content on our site, for example as comments on articles or in our forums, or other interactive features on our web-site then your message will be visible to any web-site visitors. Your email address or personal information however will not be visible (unless you include that information in the message itself, which we discourage).

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to manage your GadgetSpeak account and to better understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

  • to tell other members of the site about yourself and your interests to help us build a cooperative community
  • to create marketing profiles
  • to assist strategic development of the site
  • to monitor usage of the site
  • to provide you a personalized service

This privacy policy applies to our processing of such additional information as well.

Information gathered on The Site may be shared with our Partners in aggregate form so as not to reveal our Members' identities. We do not share this information with other companies, excluding suppliers contracted to provide services that involve processing data on our behalf except with the Member's express permission.

Where we run a competition we may need to share information about winners with any partner organisations helping us with the competition, for example so that they can ship prizes to winners. If we need to do this we will clearly indication this on the competition page.

Providing The Site with personal information does not result in you receiving offers and communication, unless you elect to "opt-in" to receive such information.

Our basis for holding and using your data

GadgetSpeak is a membership site. We hold your data on a 'legitimate interest' basis in order to provide the service to members. You may terminate your membership at any time by contacting us via email at [email protected]. You may alternatively change or remove information we store about you by logging in to the site and using your account page.

We delete all information about you when you terminate your membership.

You may change the emails that we send you at any time using the link at the end of each of the emails and following the instructions. Your can also contact us at [email protected] and we'd be happy to make changes on your behalf.

We send membership emails periodically and we send these on a 'consent' basis. You may remove consent to specific emails by either logging into your GadgetSpeak account and changing your preferences or by clicking on the 'unsubscribe' link at the end of each email.

You have complete control over the data we hold on you at all times.

The Site uses "cookies", which are small text files placed on your computer. Cookies are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

If you'd like to know more about cookies and their use generally then please read this Wikipedia article.

We make use of the following cookies on this site:

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Session CookieW1t3b3amsession Exists only for a single session and distinguishes your visit from all the other people currently visiting GadgetSpeak. A simple string (session ID) is stored in the cookie. This does not identify any private information about you and will 'expire' 30 minutes after your last page view on the site. Visit the Whitebeam web-site
Login cookiewhitebeamCLpersistent Placed onto your computer when you log in only if you check the "remember me" checkbox. This cookie allows our servers to remember you and to avoid you having to login in on your next visit.
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where vistors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.

Google Analytics are use by very many sites including the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) itself.

Click here for an overview of privacy at Google

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Information Transfer

Members of The Site may elect to share some of their personal information with other Members on the site by using public profiles ("Profiles"). By making your Profile public, you agree that we may transfer the information thereon across international borders by making it available on The Site to other Members.

YellowHawk may transfer ownership of the GadgetSpeak site, brand and/or database to a third party at any time. Should this happen then part of the conditions of using this site is that you agree to the transfer of your membership information to that third party.

Discussion Forums and BLOGs

The Site makes discussion forums and personal Blog space available to Members. Please remember that any information disclosed in these areas becomes public information and as such is available to all other Members. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in public forums.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Security

YellowHawk have taken appropriate reasonable measures to prevent unauthorized access to and improper use of your personal information. The Site membership database is stored on servers located in a secure UK data centre.

Accuracy of collected data

The Site offers users the ability to change the information collected during registration at any time and as often as necessary. Additionally, the administrators of The Site may on their own initiative, or at your request, replenish, rectify or erase any incomplete, inaccurate or outdated personal data. If you have any questions or requests concerning your personal information, please contact us using our contact page at http://www.gadgetspeak.com/content/contact.rhtm

Minors

If you are under the age of 18, you may not submit any personal information to The Site or subscribe to any fee-based service without the consent of your parent or legal guardian.