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We reserve the right at any time without notice to enhance, modify, alter, or suspend the website and to terminate or restrict your access to the website
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Information we collect from our customers and users of our websites may be used in the following ways.
1. Subscription Services
Personal information provided as part of the registration/subscription process for any publication, product or service is used to manage your access and to enable us to provide a better service.
2. Payment details
Any information provided by you in connection with any transaction regarding your credit or debit card numbers, expiry date and billing or delivery address will be used by World Pay to process the transaction. Hemming Group Limited does not store credit card details.
3. Contact details
We will use contact details provided by you as part of any registration process (i.e. your name, job title, telephone and fax number and your e-mail and postal addresses) to provide any product or services requested by you and also to tell you about important changes to relevant registration/subscription services and their functionality.
Contact details will be used by Hemming Group Limited to provide you with information about other services and products which may interest you and be disclosed to third party businesses and advertisers for the same purpose only if you have given us permission to do so.
4. Voluntary information
We may ask for further information about you as part of online surveys or if you enter any competition or other promotional feature. This information will be used to enable us to improve the relevant publication, product or service and may also be disclosed to other companies as specified in the relevant promotion.
5. Statistical information
Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.
6. Security
Your personal data will be held on a secure server. Our sites are equipped with security and firewall software.
7. Access to Data
Under the Data Protection Act 1988, you have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases. You should write to us, attn Company Secretary at the following address: Hemming Group Limited, 32 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 2SS. stating your full name, your address and any of our publications or services to which you know you subscribe. An administrative charge may be made for fulfilling this request.
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This website uses Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the site. The tool uses cookies which are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the site (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors' use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for the Hemming Group.
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we, nor Google, will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifiable information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.
Further information about cookies: The Interactive Advertising Bureau is the industry body that develops standards and guidelines to support online business processes. It has produced a series of web pages that explain how cookies work and how they can be managed at customer@hgluk.com.
9. Permissions Enquiries
Requests to reuse content from Hemming Media are now being processed through PLSclear. Please visit www.plsclear.com to complete your request.
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