ACN (UK) Limited - Privacy Statement
This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for ACN (UK) Limited
(herein the "Company" or We) and trading as host-junction.com for the purposes of this Statement.
The Company respects your privacy and is committed to protect the personal
information that you share with us. Generally, you can browse through our website
without giving us any information about yourself. When we do need your personal
information to provide services that you request or when you choose to provide
us with your personal information, this policy describes how we collect and use
your personal information.
Information Collection and Use
The Company is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. The Company collects information from our users at several different points on our website.
Registration
In order to use this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact the user about the services on our site for which they have expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (such as gender), and unique identifiers (such as social security or national insurance number), but encouraged so we can provide a more personalized experience on our site.
Order
We request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information
about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable
information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply
terminates. For instance, by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have
to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. If a user
rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. The only drawback to this is that the
user will be limited in some areas of our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance
the experience on our site.
Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers).
However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Sharing
We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers.
This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company
to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or
use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.
We partner with another party to provide specific services. When the user signs up for
these services, we will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for
the third party to provide these services.
These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the
purpose of providing these services.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.
Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as name and email address.
Surveys, Contests and Competitions
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as post or zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Referrals
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. The Company will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. The Company stores this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email. The friend may contact the Company at host-junction.com to request the removal of this information from their database.
Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users
submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both
online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such
as credit card number and/or social security or national insurance number), that information is encrypted
and is protected with the best encryption software in the industry - SSL. While
on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers
such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed
to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.
If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email
to security@host-junction.com.
Special Offers
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify password and username. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.
Site and Service Updates
We also send the user site and service announcement updates. Members are not able to un-subscribe from service announcements, which contain important information about the service. We communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email or phone.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the member information page or by emailing our Customer Support.
Choice/Opt-Out
Our users are given the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having their information used
for purposes not directly related to our site at the point where we ask for the
information. For example, our order form has an ‘opt-out’ mechanism so users
who buy a product from us, but don’t want any marketing material, can keep
their email address off of our lists.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from
our partners may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe
in the subject line in the email or email us at support@host-junction.com
Users of our site are always notified when their information is being collected
by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as
to whether they should proceed with services that require an outside party, or not.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.