Privacy Policy
This website (the “Site”) is owned and operated by yourbrandspace Limited, (“we” or “us” or “yourbrandspace”) whose registered office is at Unit 36, Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8PN. We are a registered company in England and Wales under company number 07731642.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is yourbrandspace and our nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is: Louisa Valvano
yourbrandspace is included in the Information Commissioner’s Register of Data Controllers, with registration number:[ ]
This online privacy notice is designed to tell you about how we collect and use information about visitors to the Site so that you can make an informed choice about using the Site. We respect the privacy of individuals and are committed to handling your personal information responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.
If you follow a link from the Site to a third party’s website, this privacy notice will no longer apply. We are not responsible for the information handling practices of any third party website and recommend that you read the privacy notice specific to such websites.
By registering your details with us or using the Site you agree to the collection, use and disclosure of your information by us under the terms of this privacy notice.
• Personal Information We May Collect
• Use of Cookies and Website Usage Information
• Use of Personal Information
• Marketing
• Accessing and Updating Personal Information / Your Rights
• Disclosure of Personal Information
• Where We Store Your Personal Information
• Hyperlinks
• Changes/Updates to the Privacy Notice
• Contact Us
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
We may collect the following information about you:
• Information volunteered by you, for example, in order to register with the Site to view the products and services, when you add further details to your user profile, when you participate in communications with other registered users using facilities provided by the Site, when you fill in a form on the Site to obtain information, subscribe to a service (such as a newsletter) or request further information (such as a brochure, report or quote) or when you provide information in response to a survey. This information may include your name, e-mail address, company name, address, post code, phone number, job title, industry, and business interests. We may also ask you to provide us with information regarding your professional interests, experience with our products, and more detailed contact preferences. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with the Site.
•We will collect information about activities carried out by registered users on the Site. This activity information includes: areas visited, resources opened, products added to your wish list and information about who contacted a representative of an organisation with an enquiry.
•If you communicate with us by email, telephone, post or fax, we may keep a record of that communication and your personal details.
•When you visit this Site, we will automatically collect standard website usage information through "cookies" and details made available by your browser, as explained below.
USE OF COOKIES AND WEBSITE USAGE INFORMATION
In common with most sites, we will collect information about your computer, including (where available) your IP address, operating system and browser type, from your browser when you access this Site. This information is used for system administration and to prepare statistical reports about browsing activity and patterns on our Site. The information gathered can thus be used to improve the Site and the user experience.
"Cookies" are pieces of information that a website transfers to a user’s hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow the website to remember important information that will make your use of the Site more convenient. Like most websites, we use cookies for a variety of purposes in order to improve your online experience. For example, we track the total number of visitors to our Site on an anonymous aggregate basis. We also use cookies to offer certain time-saving features to our users such as one-time log in, global-site shopping cart functionality and pre-populating name and address fields. We may also use information collected using cookies to store information about your preferences so as to help customise our Site according to your interests.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies.
If you continue to use the Site or provide information to us through the Site then you agree to our use of cookies.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be to access all or parts of our Site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon you visit our Site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect about you in the following ways:
· To adminster your website account(s) and otherwise in connection with any service for which you have provided your information, including any email alerts, transactions with us and competitions and promotions that you take part in;
· For generating aggregated statistics about users, traffic patterns etc of the yourbrandspace website and other services and developing yourbrandspace’s marketing plans.
· To improve the content of our Site and to ensure that it is presented to you in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
· To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
· To provide you with information, which we feel may interest you, such as information about, updates to our Site or about our products and services as described in the “Marketing” section below.
· To respond to questions or comments from you.
· At our discretion, to monitor your use of the Site to check for compliance with our Terms of Use.
In the event that yourbrandspace (or a relevant part of yourbrandspace) is acquired by or merges with another company, your personal information may be passed to the purchasing/merging company amongst the transferred business assets. This will enable your relationship to continue with yourbrandspace despite the change of ownership. Your personal information may also be passed (on a confidential basis) to companies with whom yourbrandspace is negotiating such a sale/merger as part of the verification exercise carried out on yourbrandspace by the third party.
We will keep your information secure by taking appropriate measures against its unauthorised or unlawful processing and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage. We will retain your information for as long as it is needed for the purposes set out in this privacy notice or as otherwise required by law.
MARKETING
If you register as a subscriber to the Site, we may contact you for marketing purposes with information about yourbrandspace products and services. We may also share information we collect about you with selected third party organisations (such as the sponsors of or brands displaying products on our Site) to help them contact you with information about their products and services for marketing purposes.
If you register as a subscriber to the Site, but no longer wish to receive marketing communications from us or no longer wish us to share your details with third parties for marketing purposes, please let us know by sending an e-mail to database (please no spam) @ (please no spam) yourbrandspace.com or by calling or writing to us using the details given below under the heading “Contact Us”. However, please note that, as explained in our Terms of Use, if you contact us indicating that you do not wish to receive marketing communications as described above, we reserve the right to (i) remove you from the Site and (ii) disable any further access by you to Site at any time in accordance with our Terms of Use.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may disclose information about you to selected third parties as described in the section headed “Marketing” above.
In particular, we may disclose your contact details and information about your activities on the Site, including information about areas visited, duration of visits, products viewed, enquiries made to brands and products added to your wish list. This information may be used by that organisation for marketing purposes as described in the section headed “Marketing” above.
Outside yourbrandspace, we may disclose information about you to any third party, which is acquiring all or any of our business or assets or from whom we are buying any business or assets (and our and their legal and professional advisors).
We may also share information about you with our service providers who are engaged by us to perform a variety of functions, such as, for example, fulfilling orders, assisting with promotions, supplying online services or providing technical services for our websites. These companies may have access to information about you if needed to perform such functions. However, these companies may only use such information for the purpose of performing that function and may not use it for any other purpose.
We may disclose information about you if we are under a duty to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements with you or to protect our rights, property, or safety or those of others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The information that we collect about you may be transferred to, stored at and/or processed by us, or by service providers engaged by us outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Please be aware that data protection laws outside the EEA may not offer the same level of protection as in the EEA. We will take appropriate measures with respect to security and handling of your data in accordance with this privacy notice outside of the EEA.
You must treat your username, password and any related code as confidential and must not disclose them to any third party. For further information about your responsibilities and our rights in relation to security of your username and password and any related code, please refer to our Terms of Use.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted by you to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use appropriate procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access to it.
ACCESSING AND UPDATING PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have registered as a subscriber on the Site, you can access and update the information contained in your user profile at any time. In addition, upon request, we offer you the opportunity to access and correct information that we maintain about you, such as transaction information (e.g. contact information, such as name, address, phone number, e-mail). You can request this information by e-mailing us at database (please no spam) @ (please no spam) yourbrandspace.com or by writing to us or calling us using the details given below under the heading “Contact Us”. A statutory charge (currently £10.00) may be asked for before this information can be supplied. If your personal information changes, please notify us of any such changes by updating your user profile or by sending us an e-mail message at database (please no spam) @ (please no spam) yourbrandspace.com - or by contacting us at the address or phone number given under the heading “Contact Us” below.
We will endeavour to update any change to your marketing preferences or personal details which you communicate to us as promptly as practical; however you may receive communications for a transitional period whilst we process the update to your records.
HYPERLINKS
This Site may contain links to other websites. Their inclusion cannot be taken to imply any endorsement or validation by us of the content of the said website. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of, nor do we accept any liability in connection with the content of, such websites.
CHANGES/UPDATES TO PRIVACY STATEMENT
We may make changes to this privacy notice in future, for example, in order to keep up with changing legislation and best practice. Therefore, we may revise this privacy notice at any time without notice so please check back periodically so that you are aware of any changes. This privacy notice was last updated on 16th September 2011.
CONTACT US
We welcome feedback about this privacy notice. If you have any questions or comments about this privacy notice or how we handle your personal information, please contact us at database (please no spam) @ (please no spam) yourbrandspace.com or alternatively, at:
Database Manager
Yourbrandspace Ltd
Unit 36
Hatton Garden
London
EC1N 8PN
UK
Email: database (please no spam) @ (please no spam) yourbrandspace.com
Terms and Conditions
ATTENTION: This legal notice applies to the entire contents of the website and to any correspondence by e-mail between yourbrandspace Limited and you. Please read these terms carefully before using the website.
Using the website indicates that you accept these terms regardless of whether or not you choose to register any details with us. If you do not accept these terms, do not use the website.
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 These terms (together with the documents referred to in it) tells you the terms of use (“Terms of Use”) on which you may make use of this website (“Site”) and the content on this Site. Please read these Terms of Use carefully before you start to use the Site. By using our Site (a “User”), you indicate that you accept these Terms of Use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these Terms of Use, please refrain from using our Site.
1.2 We may amend these Terms of Use at our sole discretion, at any time and without notice to you. Any such amended version shall be effective upon its posting on the Site and, by continuing to use the Site, you will be deemed to have accepted any amended version of the Terms of Use as posted on the Site. You should check this Site from time to time to review the current Terms of Use.
2 INFORMATION ABOUT US
2.1 Our Site is owned and operated by yourbrandspace Ltd, (“we” or “us” or “yourbrandspace”) whose registered office is at Unit 36, 88-90 Hatton Garden, London, EC1N 8PN. We are registered in England and Wales under company number 07731642.
3. ACCESSING OUR SITE
3.1 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that the Site is normally available 24 hours a day, access to our Site is on a temporary basis, and we reserve the right to withdraw or amend the service we provide on our Site without notice. We will not be liable if for any reason our Site is unavailable at any time or for any period.
3.2 We reserve the right to (i) remove you from the Site and (ii) disable any further access by you to the Site at any time should we deem your behaviour and/or conduct on the Site to be unacceptable. What is deemed to be unacceptable behaviour and/or conduct will be determined by us in our sole discretion.
3.3 If you subscribe to yourbrandspace we may send you information about our products and services or those of selected third parties. You may also receive information from selected third parties, such as sponsors or brands, about their products and services and receiving this kind of information is fundamental as to how the Site operates. We reserve the right to (i) remove you from the Site and (ii) disable any further access by you to the Site at any time if you contact us indicating that you do not wish to receive such marketing communications.
4. USE OF SITE
4.1 All intellectual property rights in the Site and in all material published on it (the "Content") are reserved by yourbrandspace and no such rights whatsoever are assigned to you under these Terms & Conditions.
4.2 As a User you may in good faith and to the extent that the use of the Content is reasonable and the Content is owned by yourbrandspace:
a) download and display any page(s) from the Site on a computer screen;
b) where a page of the Site specifically states that specific Content may be downloaded, download and store it on the hard
disk of your computer (but only use it to the extent so specified and not transfer or further copy it);
c) where a page of the Site states that specific Content may be downloaded on to a portable media player (such as an iPod), download that Content to the hard disk of your computer once only and upload it on to one portable media player only (and only to the extent so specified; you shall not be entitled to further transfer, copy or use it);
d) print one copy of any page(s) from the Site and use it for private archival purposes only (but not further copy it); and
e) use extracts from the Site to form a collage of ideas (in either electronic or hard copy form) PROVIDED THAT:
(i)the collage is used strictly only for internal purposes within the User’s organisation; and
(ii)no further copies of the collage are made.
4.3 For the avoidance of doubt, you shall not distribute, reproduce, modify, store, transfer or in any other way use any of the Content (including by using it as part of any library, news, information, archive or similar service) other than as set out in Clause 4.2, and in particular you shall not (unless with the written consent of yourbrandspace):
(a) upload Content into any shared system;
(b) create a database of any of the Content;
(c) effect or permit "spidering" of the Site, i.e. collation of an automated stream of Content;
(d) include any Content in a website;
(e) make any commercial use of the Content whatsoever;
(f) make any use whatsoever of any of the yourbrandspace trade marks (including the registered trade marks “yourbrandspace" and "yourbrandspace.com") other than to the extent required to comply with Clause 4.2; or
(g)remove the copyright or trademark notice from any copies of the Content.
4.4 The User shall notify yourbrandspace immediately in writing of any misuse of the Content and/or the Site including any infringement of copyright or other intellectual property rights arising in the Content and/or the Site.
4.5 Please note that where any unauthorised use of Content by you is discovered, yourbrandspace shall be entitled to suspend your use of the Site immediately and reserves its right to take any enforcement action against you as may be available.
4.6 Any consent given by yourbrandspace does not constitute either a general consent to use the Content or a waiver of any of the obligations and/or restrictions set out in these Terms & Conditions.
5. Specific Use
You further agree not to use the Site to send or post any message or material that is unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, indecent, threatening, harmful, vulgar, obscene, sexually orientated, racially offensive, profane, pornographic or violates any applicable law and you hereby indemnify yourbrandspace against any loss, liability, damage or expense of whatever nature which yourbrandspace or any third party may suffer which is caused by or attributable to, whether directly or indirectly, your use of the Site to send or post any such message or material.
6. INDEMNITY
6.1 You shall indemnify us on demand from and against any and all losses, claims, damages, costs, expenses (including without limitation legal fees) and liabilities which we may sustain or incur (whether directly or indirectly), as a result of your breach of these Terms of Use, your submission of any content on our Site and/or any activity which you carry out through or via our Site.
7. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND LICENCE TO USE
7.1 For the purposes of these Terms of Use, “intellectual property” means patents, inventions, know how, trade secrets and other confidential information, registered designs, copyrights, database rights, design rights, rights affording equivalent protection to copyright, database rights and design rights, semiconductor topography rights, trade marks, service marks, logos, domain names, business names, trade names, moral rights, and all registrations or applications to register any of the aforesaid items, rights in the nature of any of the aforesaid items or the Content in any country or jurisdiction, rights in the nature of unfair competition rights and rights to sue for passing off, arising from or associated with the Content and the Site.
7.2 We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Site and in the material published on it. Those works are protected by copyright laws and other worldwide intellectual property rights as applicable. All such rights are reserved by yourbrandspace.
7.3 Subject to your compliance with these Terms of Use, we grant all registered users a non-exclusive non-transferable licence to access through a generally available web browser (but not through any scraping, spidering, crawling or any other technology designed to harvest data) to view and use the Content for your personal reference only.
7.4 You may print off a copy and download any page(s) from our Site for your personal reference.
7.5 You must not modify the paper or digital copies of any Content you have printed off or downloaded in any way, and you must not use any illustrations, photographs, video or audio sequences or any graphics separately from any accompanying text.
7.6 Our status (and that of any identified contributors) as the authors of Site Content must always be acknowledged.
7.7 You must not use any part of the Content on our Site for commercial purposes without obtaining a licence to do so from us or our licensors.
7.8 If you print off, copy or download any part of our Site in breach of these Terms of Use, your right to use our Site will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the Content you have made.
8. VIRUSES, HACKING AND OTHER OFFENCES
8.1 You must not misuse our Site by knowingly introducing viruses, Trojans, worms, logic bombs or other material which is malicious or technologically harmful. You must not attempt to gain unauthorised access to our Site or any part of it, the server on which our Site is stored or any server, computer or database connected to our Site. You must not attack our Site via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-service-attack. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Site will cease immediately.
8.2 We will not be liable for any loss or damage caused by a distributed denial-of-service attack, viruses or other technologically harmful material that may infect your computer equipment, computer programs, data or other proprietary material due to your use of our Site or due to your downloading of any material posted on it, or any website linked to it.
9. LINKING TO OUR SITE
9.1 You may link to our home page, provided you do so in a way that is fair and legal and does not damage our reputation or take advantage of it, but you must not establish a link in such a way as to suggest any form of association, approval or endorsement on our part where none exists and you must not establish a link from any website that is not owned by you.
9.2 Our Site must not be framed on any other website, nor may you create a link to any part of our Site other than the home page. We reserve the right to withdraw linking permission without notice.
10. LINKS FROM OUR SITE
10.1 Where our Site contains links to other sites and resources provided by third parties, these links are for your information only. We have no control over the contents of these sites or resources and accept no responsibility for them or for any loss or damage that may arise from your use of them.
11. LIABILITY
11.1 The Site and the Content on our Site is provided on an as is basis and without any guarantees, conditions or warranties as to its accuracy.
11.2 If and to the extent that the Site contains or includes any opinion, analysis, prediction or assessment of any facts or circumstances (“Opinions”), such Opinions represent our subjective views based on the facts or information available or circumstances known to us at the relevant time, which may not always be correct and/or may change. You will not form any reliance of or from any Opinions or Content displayed on the Site.
11.3 Nothing in these Terms of Use excludes or limits liability which cannot be excluded or limited by law.
11.4 Subject to clause 11.3, any indemnities, warranties, terms and conditions (whether express or implied) are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.
11.5 Subject to clause 11.3, we will not be liable, in contract, tort (including, without limitation, negligence), pre-contract or other representations (other than fraudulent on negligent misrepresentations) or otherwise out of or in connection with these Terms of Use for any: (i) direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage incurred by you in connection with our Site or in connection with the use, inability to use, or results of the use of our Site, any websites linked to it and any Content posted on it; or (ii) economic losses (including without limitation loss of revenues, data, profits, contracts, business or anticipated savings); or (iii) loss of goodwill or reputation; or (iv) special or indirect losses; or (v) any other loss or damage of any kind, however arising and whether caused by tort (including negligence), breach of contract or otherwise, even if foreseeably suffered or incurred by you arising out of or in connection with the Site or the Content.
12. PRIVACY AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
12.1 We process information about you in accordance with our Privacy Notice. By using our Site, you consent to such processing and you warrant that all data provided by you is accurate. You should also be aware that in addition to any profile details that you provide to us any content which you choose to upload to our Site on any discussion or communication with another third party associated with the Site, may contain information which reveals sensitive personal data such as your political opinions, ethnic origin or religion. By providing this content you are giving your informed consent to the processing by us of such sensitive data.
13. CONTACT
13.1 If you have any concerns about our Site including the Content, which appears on our Site, please contact enquiries@yourbrandspace.com
14 MISCELLANEOUS
14.1 Severability.
If any of these Terms of Use are determined by any competent authority to be invalid, unlawful or unenforceable to any extent, such term, condition or provision will to that extent be severed from the remaining terms, conditions and provisions which will continue to be valid to the fullest extent permitted by law.
14.2 Notices.
All notices given by you to us must be given to us at marketing@yourbrandspace.com. We may give notice to you at either the e-mail or postal address you provide to us when registering. Notice will be deemed received and properly served immediately when posted on our Site, 24 hours after an email is sent or three days after the posting of a letter. In proving the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove in the case of a letter that such letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an email that such email was sent to the specified email address of the addressee.
14.3 Assignment.
You may not transfer, assign or sub-licence any of your rights and obligations arising hereunder, without our prior written consent. We may transfer or assign any of our rights or obligations arising hereunder.
14.4 Entire Agreement.
These Terms of Use and any document expressly referred to in them represent the entire agreement between us in relation to the use of our Site and supersede any prior agreement relating to such matters. Each party acknowledges and agrees that in entering into this contract that, save in relation to fraudulent misrepresentations, it does not rely on and shall have no remedy in respect of any statement, representation or understanding.
14.5 Waivers.
If we fail, at any time, to insist upon strict performance of any of your obligations under any of these Terms of Use, or if we fail to exercise any of the rights or remedies to which we are entitled under these Terms of Use, this shall not constitute a waiver of such rights or remedies and shall not relieve you from compliance with such obligations. A waiver by us of any default shall not constitute a waiver of any subsequent default and no waiver by us of any of these Terms of Use shall be effective unless it is expressly stated to be a waiver and is communicated to you in writing in accordance with clause 14.2.
14.6 Governing Law.
These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in all respects in accordance with the laws of England and Wales and the Courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction over all disputes that arise out of or in connection with them.
yourbrandspace makes no warranty or guarantee that the Site or Content complies with laws other than those of England and Wales.
Content Standards
These Content Standards apply to any contributions posted by you on any discussion forum or chat room as well as to the whole of any contributions submitted by you. The Content Standards must be complied with in spirit as well as to the letter. In addition to the User’s self regulation set out in clause 5 we may in addition determine, in our discretion, whether any submission breaches the Content Standards.
Please do not:
· make multiple contributions. So that we can publish comments from as many different people as possible, participants should keep their number of contributions per discussion to a reasonable level. Multiple contributions from one individual, or small number of individuals, discourages many others who might otherwise wish to take part;
· spam by reposting the same message, or very similar messages, more than once;
· publicise or attempt to publicise anyone else’s contact details or compromise anyone else’s privacy in any way; and/ or
· use any name other than your bona fide name.
In addition, please do not make contributions which;
· are irrelevant and/or lower the value of the discussion;
· include advertisements, promotions of products or services or which include any unnecessary third party links; and/or
· are in full capital letters.
Furthermore a contribution must:
· be accurate (where it states facts);
· be genuinely held (where it states opinions); and
· comply with the laws applicable in England and Wales and in any country from which it is posted; and/ or be relevant.
A contribution must not:
· be defamatory of any person and/or otherwise be unlawful or fraudulent, or have any unlawful or fraudulent purpose or effect;
· be obscene, offensive, aggressive, hateful or inflammatory;
· promote discrimination based on race, sex, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age;
· disclose the name, address, telephone, mobile or fax number, e-mail address or any other personal data in respect of any individual other than yourself;
· infringe any copyright, database right or trade mark of any other person;
· breach any legal duty owed to a third party, such as a contractual duty or a duty of confidence;
· be in contempt of court;
· be likely to harass, upset, embarrass, alarm or annoy any other person;
· impersonate any person, or misrepresent your identity or affiliation with any person;
· give the impression that the contribution emanates from yourbrandspace if this is not the case;
· advocate, promote, incite any third party to commit, or assist any unlawful or criminal act; and/or
· contain a statement which you know or believe, or have reasonable grounds for believing, that members of the public to whom the statement is, or is to be, published are likely to understand as a direct or indirect encouragement or other inducement to the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, be unlawful or illegal.