This Privacy Statement is provided by Preferred Names Limited (referred to as “us”, “our” or “we in these terms) for the information of visitors and customers (referred to as “you” or “your” in these terms) of our website.
We wish to demonstrate our firm commitment to your rights to privacy. This is why we have set out the privacy guidelines shown below. You will appreciate that these guidelines will need to change over time and so we will post changes to this page when such changes are necessary.
1 Law
The information contained in this Privacy Statement shall be governed and construed in accordance with English law and be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.
2 Who we are
This website is owned and controlled by Preferred Names Limited a company incorporated in England under Company Registration Number 4689139. Preferred Names and Preferred Name are trademarks and trading names of Preferred Names Limited.
The full postal address in order to contact us is: Preferred Names, PO Box 22735 , London , N22 6ZB , England , UK .
Telephone number: +44 (0) 870 760 6324
E-mail address: names@preferrednames.com
3 Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”)
Preferred Names Limited has notified the Data Protection Commissioner under the terms of the Act that it may obtain information about data subjects.
4 Information gathered by us
4.1 You will appreciate that we need to gather some personal information from you when you register to use our services. The full details of the information we need are set out on our registration application and renewal forms along with details provided in our terms and conditions.
4.2 We may, on occasions, collect additional personal information from surveys and contests, which you will not be obliged to fill in or return to us.
4.3 The information you provide will enable us to provide information about us to you and to contact you. We give you the opportunity to elect not to receive materials from us. If you sign up for any electronic newsletter or e-mail list, we provide instructions on how to ‘unsubscribe'.
4.4 We also collect demographic and profile data on our website. This information may be combined with other forms of information to permit us to bring together, in aggregate form, information about the people who use our site. Such information will enable us to understand, in general terms, user preferences in relation to the content of the site and the effectiveness of the advertising.
5 Information that is automatically logged
When you enter our site, we use your internet protocol (“IP”) address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our website and to help identify you. We also have the ability to know what type of operating system and browser software you use and to identify the geographical location of your browser. Your IP address is also used by us to gather broad demographic information and other purposes, such as monitoring visitor frequency.
6 Cookies
You may be aware that there is a technology called “cookies”. This is a file that is transferred from the website to the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies to track your activities on our website. A cookie will not allow a website operator to obtain information of a personal nature that will identify yourself to us, such as your name and address. We will only be aware of such information if you provide the information to us or you have set the preferences in your browser to provide this information automatically. If you disable cookies in your browser, you will not be able to register a domain name with us.
7 What we do with the information we collect
7.1 The information in aggregate form permits us to carry out an analysis of user behaviour in general. This allows us to measure overall interest in our website and to help us develop the website to make it more interesting in general terms. We will also be able to inform advertisers how many users have clicked on to the various advertisements displayed on our site if applicable. The analysis we perform does not include any personal information provided by you. We merely use the aggregate form of the information for these purposes. We will not provide any personal information to any third party unless you give us specific authority to do so.
8 Sharing information
8.1 Any information that is gathered from visitors or customers to this site is not sold, made available to, or otherwise distributed to third parties, however, we may share the information we gather with advertisers and other partners.
8.2 We may need to provide your name and delivery address to third parties that we use to provide you with certain services.
9 Protecting your Privacy
9.1 We will always take such reasonable steps as are appropriate to protect your privacy including such security measures to protect your personal information in storage.
10 Updating Information
10.1 If you wish to know what information we hold on you, please contact us. We will only send this information to the e-mail address we have on file, unless you request us to send the information to you at your postal address.
10.2 You can help us maintain the accuracy of the information we hold about you by notifying us in the following ways:
10.2.1 Send an e-mail to us at: update@preferrednames.com
10.2.2 Visit our URL at: http://www.preferrednames.com/update.php
10.2.3 Send a letter to Update Department, Preferred Names, PO Box 22735 , London N22 6ZB , England , UK .
11 Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, how we run the website or your dealings with our website, please send an e-mail to us at: questions@preferrednames.com