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The following statement explains our policy regarding
the personal information we collect about you.
1. Introduction
This policy covers the Blue Ocean Diving's use of personal
information that the we collect when you use
blueoceandiving.co.uk. The policy also gives you information
about cookies; Blue Ocean Diving and third parties' use of
cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.
From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal
information about yourself (e.g. name and email address)
in order to receive or use services on our website. Such
services include newsletters and updates.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you
enable the Blue Ocean Diving website and its service providers
(if applicable) to provide you with the services you
select. Whenever you provide such personal information,
we will treat that information in accordance with this
policy. When using your personal information Blue Ocean
Diving
will act in accordance with current legislation and aim
to meet current Internet best practice.
2. Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to
blueoceandiving.co.uk, the
pages you see, along with a short text file called a
'cookie', maybe downloaded to your computer. Many
websites do this, because cookies enable website
publishers to do useful things like find out whether the
computer (and probably its user) has visited the website
before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to
see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last
visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide
you with a better online user experience and assist us
to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if
on a previous visit you went to our portfolio pages, we
might find this out from your cookie and highlight new
case studies on your second and subsequent visits.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often
includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to
your browser from 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's preferences
allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser
only permits 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 online
preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their
computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a
cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time.
The last of these, of course, means that certain
personalised services cannot then be provided to that
user and accordingly you may not be able to take full
advantage of all of the Blue Ocean Diving website 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 you can
still browse the Blue Ocean Diving website anonymously until such
time as you wish to register for Blue Ocean Diving website
extended services. For further information on cookies
please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Blue
Ocean Diving
(e.g. for registering for email newsletters or updates)
we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use
those data. We must collect the information fairly, that
is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices
on particular webpages that let you know why we are
requesting the information) and tell you if we want to
pass the information on to anyone else.
In general, any information you provide to Blue Ocean
Diving will
only be used by us unless clearly stated otherwise. Your
information will be disclosed where we are obliged or
permitted by law. Also, if you post or send offensive,
inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to
Blue Ocean Diving website or otherwise engage in any disruptive
behaviour on blueoceandiving.co.uk, we can use whatever
information that is available to us about you to stop
such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant
third parties such as your employer, school
e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies
about the content and your behaviour.
We will hold your personal information on our systems
for as long as you use the service you have requested,
and remove it in the event that the purpose has been
met, or, until you no longer wish to continue your usage
of said service. For safety reasons, however, we may
store messaging transcript data (including message
content, member names, times and dates) arising from the
use of our site (if applicable) for a period of six
months. We will ensure that all personal information
supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 1998.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal
information Blue Ocean Diving holds about you and to have any
inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £15 for information
requests.) Please address requests to the Data
Protection Officer, Blue Ocean Diving, West Park Road,
Maidstone, Kent ME15 7AF (Email: info@blueoceandiving.co.uk).
5. Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or under, please get your
parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you
provide personal information to our website. Users
without this consent are not allowed to provide us with
personal information.
6. How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the Privacy Tab
Click on Custom Level
Click on the 'Advanced' button
Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and
select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as
appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the Security tab
Click on Custom Level
Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are
handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt
for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
Choose View, then
Internet Options
Click the Advanced tab
Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under
Security and choose one of the three options to regulate
your use of cookies.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the
button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
7. How do you know which of the sites you've visited
use cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
Edit, then
Preferences
Click on Advanced
Click on Cookies
Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
Choose Tools, then
Internet Options
Click the General tab
Click Settings
View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
View, then
Internet Options
Under the tab General (the default tab) click
Settings
View Files.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
View
Options
Advanced
View Files.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard
drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls
Cookie.txt on Windows machines.
8. How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a
short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your
identification card, which can only be seen by the
server that gave you the cookie.
9. List of Blue Ocean Diving's cookies
We use statcounter to monitor our website usage and
track returning visitors. To do this statcounter place a
cookie on your computer. This cookie can be denied using
your browser's settings and will not affect your
browsing of the blueoceandiving.co.uk website. Accurate as of
27/07/2006
We regularly monitor this website and will update this
list of cookies when necessary.
Blue Ocean Diving Limited © 2006
West Park Road
Maidstone
Kent ME15 7AF |
