The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.
This policy covers mepage’s use of personalinformation that mepages collects when you use mepages.co.uk. The policyalso gives you information about cookies; mepages and third parties' use ofcookies; and how you may reject such cookies.
From time to time, you will be asked to submitpersonal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) inorder to receive or use services on our website. Such services includenewsletters and mepages.co.uk membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested,you enable mepages and its service providers to provide you with theservices you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, wewill treat that information in accordance with this policy. When usingyour personal information the mepages will act in accordance with currentlegislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
During the course of any visit to mepages.co.uk , thepages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', aredownloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookiesenable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether thecomputer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. Thisis done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookieleft there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us toprovide you with a better online user experience and assist us toanalyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previousvisit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from yourcookie and highlight educational information on your second andsubsequent visits. Some cookies also help us by showing how our usersuse and move around the site and which services they like or don'tlike. When looking at this information, we do on an anonymous andaggregate basis without viewing any of your personal details.
A cookie is a small amount of data, which oftenincludes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browserfrom a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive.Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser'spreferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser onlypermits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you,not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your onlinepreferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers toaccept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not toreceive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means thatcertain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user userand accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all ofthe mepages.co.uk features. Each browser is different, so check the 'Help'menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies youcan still browse mepages.co.uk anonymously until such time as you wish toregister for mepages.co.uk services. For further information on cookiesplease visit www.aboutcookies.org.
When you supply any personal information tomepages.co.uk (e.g. for competitions mepages.co.uk membership) we have legal obligations towards you in the waywe use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, wemust explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpagesthat let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell youif we want to pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to mepages will only be used within mepages and by its agents and serviceproviders. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged orpermitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate orobjectionable content anywhere on or to mepages.co.uk or otherwise engagein any disruptive behaviour on mepages.co.uk , Mepages can use whateverinformation that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour.This may involve informing relevant third parties such as youremployer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agenciesabout the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on oursystems for as long as you use the service you have requested, andremove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the caseof mepages.co.uk membership you no longer wish to continue your registration as a mepages.co.uk member. For safety reasons, however, mepages may store messaging transcript data (including message content,member names, times and dates) arising from the use of mepages.co.uk Community services such as Connector for a period of six months. Wherepersonal information is held for people who are not yet registered buthave taken part in other mepages.co.uk services (e.g. competitions), thatinformation will be held as long as is necessary to ensure that theservice is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal informationsupplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act1998.
If you are notified on a mepages site that yourinformation may be used to allow mepages to contact you for 'serviceadministration purposes', this means that the mepages may contact you for anumber of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. Forexample, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notifyyou that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you ofimprovements to the service or new services on mepages.co.uk unless youspecifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time yousubmit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign upspecifically to receive such promotional information.
You have the right to request a copy of the personalinformation mepages holds about you and to have any inaccuraciescorrected. (We charge £10 for information requests.) Please addressrequests to the Mepages,London,UK, (Email: info@mepages.co.uk).
If you are aged 16 or under, please get yourparent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personalinformation to the mepages's website. Users without this consent are notallowed to provide us with personal information.
Just click on a cookie to open it.You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are youridentification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave youthe cookie. [Top]