For all of us at VuYou, the protection of personal data is of paramount importance. When you entrust your personal data to us, we go to great
lengths to ensure that personal data is held securely and used only for the purposes which you have agreed to. In this Privacy Policy we explain
the things which we think are important for you to know about the personal data we collect from you, the purposes for which we use the information
and how we protect your data. We also mention some of the rights you have in relation to your personal data. Finally, there’s a bit about cookies
– what they are and how to get rid of them if you don’t want them. If you have any questions relating to how we handle your personal data, please
write or email us at the contact address set out later in this policy.
What personal information we collect
We do not collect any personal data about you when you visit our website and do not use any of the services we make available through our website.
Before you can access any of these services, we require you to register on the website. On the registration page we ask for your contact details
including your full name, email address and country of residence. We also give you the facility at your option to provide other personal data
including address, date of birth, telephone number, gender, marital status as well as your likes, interests, and hobbies which you may choose to
publish on your personal blog page on the website. We may also store details of communications between you and us, including any customer feedback.
What we use your personal data for
We only use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide our services to you and to administer user records, including contacting you by email in relation to our website and the services which we offer
- To send you marketing information relating to our services and the services of our business partners which we think may be of interest to you
- To improve our services and your browsing experience
- To deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you
- As part of our collection of customer feedback
For full details of the data we collect and the purposes for which we process this data, please see our notification to the Information Commissioner’s
Office under the registration number listed below.
Who we can disclose your personal data to
We will not disclose your personal information to anyone save for the following exceptions.
- We will disclose your personal data to law enforcement agencies or regulatory bodies if we believe that you are involved in any illegal or harmful
conduct or if we are required to do so by law or we believe that such action is necessary to (i) comply with the law or with legal process;
(ii) protect and defend our rights and property or that of our customers; (iii) prevent fraud; (iv) protect against abuse, misuse or unauthorised
use of our website; or (v) protect the personal safety or property of our customers or the public.
- We may disclose your personal details to a third party if VuYou is acquired or is merged with another company.
- We may employ other companies to provide services for us, including for example, hosting and telecommunications services, which are necessary in
order for us to be able to provide our services to you. These companies have access to the personal information needed to perform their functions
and not for any other purposes and are bound by confidentiality agreements not to disclose any information for any other purpose.
- We may provide you with the facility at your option to make available some of your personal details (referred to above) as part of your publicly
accessible profile on your personalised blog page on the website which may be accessed by other VuYou members and Internet search engines. If you
choose to use this facility, you will be able to determine what personal information is accessible through your public profile.
If at any time we wish to disclose your personal data in circumstances other than those above, we will always obtain your consent before doing so.
We store your personal details on our servers in the United Kingdom and we will not be transferring your data outside the European Union.
Cookies
What is a cookie? A cookie is a text string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk (or
the memory of your mobile device) so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the
cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
We may use cookies to record information about how you access our website for statistics solely for us. To the extent that these cookies contain
personally identifying data, this is only data relating to your ‘session’ to facilitate your ease of use of the website. You can choose not to accept
cookies by setting the preferences on your internet browser. If you do not accept cookies from VuYou, this may impair or prevent some or all of the
services which we provide to you.
To find out more about cookies, what they are used for and how to remove them, please visit the Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe’s website at
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of
cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website.
Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
Contact Information
The data controller of our website is VuYou Limited (company registration number 06008521). Our registered office is 135 High Street, Egham, Surrey, TW20
9HL. We are also registered with the Office of the Information Commissioner under the registration number Z1288988. If you have any questions
regarding your personal data, please contact us at contactinfo@vuyou.co.uk.
Your rights in relation to your personal data
You can request to see your personal data which we hold, subject to the payment of a nominal fee (currently £10) to cover the administration required. If
you believe that any personal data we hold is incorrect then you can request that we amend the personal data. You can also request that we delete some or
all of your personal data which we will do on your request save where we are required by law to keep records.
Our safekeeping of your data
We will periodically evaluate your personal data which we hold to determine whether we should continue to hold it. We have implemented all appropriate
technical, organisational and security procedures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access or from accidental loss or corruption. Please note
that our storage of your personal data is incidental to our provision of our services to you and does not absolve you of your responsibility to back up your
important information. Please also note that data transmission over the Internet is insecure and we do not guarantee the security of data sent over the Internet.
How to unsubscribe
If you do not wish to receive mailings from us or if you wish to de-register then you can unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to emailcontact@vuyou.co.uk
with the details of your email address and other contact details. We will use these details to remove you from our database (subject to our legal obligations
regarding record-keeping). If you wish to see the data stored about you by VuYou, please send an email to the above address and we will send you all of the
relevant data.
Revisions to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make any material changes we will place a notice on our website and such changes will be posted on
this page in order that you are always aware of the information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.