Privacy Policy

The following Privacy Policy should be read in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions of Web Site use. As individuals, we are concerned about the way that our own personal data is used. So we understand that you may have similar concerns about what we, as business people, do with your personal data. This Privacy Policy tells you what we do with the information which we collect about you.

Ownership

This web site is owned and operated by RL Publishing Ltd ("us", "we", "our", etc. on this page).

Introduction

We strive to offer to our site the many advantages of internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalised experience. Our aim is to do so within the requirements of the data protection legislation in the UK, where the company is based. As part of that commitment, we have produced this Privacy Policy which sets out how we use and protect any information that you give us when you use this website. Should we ask you to provide Personally Identifiable Information by which you can be identified when using this website (e.g. your name and e-mail address), then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change this policy by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from: May 2013.

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie.

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. As such, this is more or less essential to the operation of this web site.

We do not use cookies to:

Permission to use cookies

As explained, we sometimes design function and features of the web site that require the setting of cookies. If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Advertising Cookies

Cookies are widely used in online advertising. None of the advertisers on our sites, our advertising partners or indeed ourselves can gain personally identifiable information from these cookies.

"Remarketing" Cookies

Separately from cookies used for the correct function of the site, we sometimes use so called "remarketing" or "retargetting" cookies as well. What are these ?

You may notice that sometimes after visiting a site, you see increased numbers of adverts for that site on other sites that you visit. This is because advertisers (including ourselves) pay for these adverts. The technology to do this is made possible by cookies and as such we may place a so called "remarketing" or "retargetting" cookie during your visit. We use these adverts to make offers to you on various web sites - usually owned and operated by us, sometimes belonging to third parties. If the latter, if you buy a product or service from them, we may receive compensation - see our disclaimer. Don't worry, we are unable to proactively reach out to you as the whole process is entirely anonymised.

You can learn more about online advertising at youronlinechoices.com. In the UK (where our company is based) you can opt-out of almost all advertising cookies at youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices although we would prefer that you didn't as ultimately adverts help keep much of the internet free. It is also worth noting that opting out of advertising cookies will not mean you won't see adverts, just simply that they won't be tailored to you any longer.

Turning Cookies Off

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our and a large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called "spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn more about managing cookies with antispyware software.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing attacat.co.uk, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.

Web/Local/DOM Storage
If you use a modern web browser to access this site (technically, one that makes sense of HTML5), our web server may get your browser to use "web storage" (aka "local storage" or "DOM Storage") ... this basically does the same kind of thing that cookies do, but more so ! From a technical standpoint, this can be desirable in terms of, for example, presenting web pages more efficiently. Find out more here.

Links to other websites

Our web site may contain links to web sites that are also controlled by us which allow us to record certain events taking place on this site e.g. a page being loaded, a link being clicked, etc. This process is also used when routing users to "external sites" which are not under our control. (An example would be a link to a product from a third party that is being recommended on this site.) No personally identifiable information about our users is kept by us on this or other any of our own sites as part of this recording process. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other web site. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

General

We will not distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to our Registered Office at First Floor, 29 St. Augustine's Parade, Bristol, BS1 4UL. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.