Privacy Policy

Published on Monday, 20 February 2012 12:45

Ask The Experts is the trading name of the F10 Group Social Media and News site.

At Ask the Experts, we respect your privacy and we promise to:

1. Use your personal information only to provide you with the information you have requested or have agreed to receive.

2. Keep your data safe and secure and process it in a manner that follows your wishes.

3. Use cookies and web beacons (but only those which don't personally identify you) to improve the quality and relevance of the messages we send you.

4. Assist you to change your mind at any time about the communications you have signed up to receive.

5. Only disclose your data to third parties for marketing purposes when you have said it's OK to do so.

Where your data is held

Your data is held on secure servers operated by F10 in the UK, and will be stored under the robust security measures described below.

We comply absolutely with the protection offered to you under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Data Security

When you give your personal data to us we will process that data in accordance with our responsibilities under the Data Protection Act 1998, and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and other relevant legislation.

We will keep your data safe and secure. To prevent unauthorised access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct usage of information, we monitor and adjust our physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure your personal data while in our care, or in the care of any outside suppliers with whom we may contract to process your data on our behalf. Any outside suppliers are under strict contractual terms to mirror the security policies that we currently have in place.

What we do with your data - and what we don't do

We will use the data you supply in order to process your news and article updates and to provide any other service you have requested when you sign up on our website. We will only use your personal data for the purposes you have permitted and we will not share it for marketing purposes outside of F10 Ltd unless you have given us permission to do so.

Messages on our websites from third parties.

Occasionally we allow partner companies and advertisers to post relevant messages on our website. By accessing our website, whether you register or not, you are agreeing to view these messages.

Links to other websites

Our website provides links to resources that we believe may be useful. These links will lead you to websites operated by third parties that operate under different privacy policies. Should you choose one of these links you will be leaving the Ask The Experts site for a site over which we have no control.

Updating and accessing your information.

You have a right under the Data Protection Act 1998 to see what information we hold about you, subject to certain conditions. If you want to exercise this right, you should make an application to us in writing. We may ask you to provide us with sufficient information so that we can be sure of your identity. We also reserve the right to make a charge of £10 for providing you with the information you are requesting. If you would like to proceed with a request to see what data we hold about you, please write to The Data Protection Compliance Officer, Ask The Experts, Talon House, Presley Way, Crownhill, Milton Keynes, MK80ES .

We hope you will enjoy the communications we send you, but if at any time you change your mind, you may unsubscribe to our email or mobile messaging, by following the instructions we give you at the time we broadcast a message to you. If you have given us permission to write to you or to phone you with marketing messages, you may change your mind by writing to: The Data Protection Compliance Officer, Ask The Experts, Talon House, Presley Way, Crownhill, Milton Keynes, MK80ES .

If we do not hear otherwise from you, we will assume that the information you provide to us is accurate and up-to-date and we will continue to use the information to send you the communications you have requested.