Micro-Business Maintenance Ltd Privacy Policy is
committed to protecting your privacy in handling
personally identifiable information relating to you
and your transactions with us including any other
Services you use from us. This Privacy Statement
describes the personally identifiable information we
gather about you, what we do with it, the safeguards
we have in place to protect it and how you can
control our use of it.
Personal identifiable information
Micro-Business Maintenance collects personally
identifiable information that you voluntarily
provide to us when you register on our Website,
complete an order to purchase, sign up for a user
name and password or to use one of our services,
call us by telephone or send us a letter or email.
This personally identifiable information may include
your name, mailing address, email address, telephone
number, fax number, credit card number and
expiration date, and other optional demographic
information. In addition, when you choose to
purchase our services via our Website, this
information is used to verify your credit card
information. You may browse our Website without
supplying any personally identifiable information,
but we will need to collect personally identifiable
information to process your orders or to send you
offers or information that you request.
Cookies
In order for you to use our Website, your computer
must accept the use of cookies. A cookie is a small
data file that is stored on your computer's hard
drive. Cookies do not contain personally
identifiable information and do not give us control
over your computer. We use cookies to identify you
when you return to our Website so we can make the
user experience more enjoyable, and to track your
activity on our Website. We also use cookie data
when you have expressly requested to use our "Auto
Login" feature, which automatically accesses user ID
and password information and automatically logs you
into our products and services.
Personnel information about you
The personal information that you voluntarily
provide to us will be used to process orders and may
be used to identify you within our systems. We may
use your email address to contact you if we have any
questions about the order or service you have
requested. We may also use your email address to
notify you about new services or special promotional
programs or to send you offers or information. We
will not disclose personally identifiable
information about you to anybody else except as
disclosed in this Privacy Statement or as
specifically authorised by you at the time the
information is collected, when we may contract with
third parties to provide specific products or
services for you. For example, we use a credit card
company to process credit card applications, issue
credit, verify, bill, and collect payments when you
make a purchase with a credit card, an outside
shipping company to ship orders if applicable,
outside direct mail and catalogue vendors to provide
customers with products and sales information or to
send emails to customers and prospective customers.
These service providers are provided with only the
information that they need to perform their
functions and are required to agree not to use or
disclose your personally identifiable information
for other purposes without your authorisation. We
may also share your personally identifiable
information within any sister companies of
Micro-Business Maintenance Ltd or if we enter into
marketing any relationships with advertisers or
other companies that provide products or services
that we believe may be of interest to our customers.
We may share non-identifiable aggregated information
with these companies and in addition we may provide
them with mailing address information so that they
may extend offers to you. However, we will not
disclose your email address, telephone number, or
credit card account information without your
consent. To make online shopping more convenient for
you our Website may provide access to other
companies' Websites or co-branded Websites that may
be designed to look similar to our Website; these
sites are fully operated by the other company. If
you request additional information or order products
or services from one of the companies featured on
our Website, that company may provide us with the
information you have given to them (except in the
case of credit application information, financial
background or health information, which we do not
receive from such featured companies). We are not
responsible for the content appearing on these
companies' Websites or for the privacy practices of
these companies. We encourage you to read the
privacy policy on the other company's Website if you
have any concerns about how information may be
collected or used. If you make a purchase or request
a service from a featured company that you access
through a frame on our Website, information relating
to that transaction will be available to us as well
as the featured company. We may use third-party
advertising technology to serve ads when you visit
our site and sites upon which we advertise. This
technology uses information about your visits to the
Micro-Business Maintenance Website and the sites
upon which we advertise, (not including your name,
address, or other personal information), to serve
our ads to you. In the course of serving our
advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie
may be placed or recognised on your browser. In
addition, we may use Web beacons, provided by our ad
serving partner, to help manage our online
advertising. These Web beacons enable our ad server
to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser
visits this site and to learn which banner ads bring
users to our site. This information we collect and
share through this technology is not personally
identifiable. We may share personally identifiable
information with law enforcement or other entities
as required by law or as we reasonably determine to
be necessary to protect our rights or the rights of
others, to prevent harm to persons or property, to
fight fraud, or to enforce our Website terms and
conditions. Personally identifiable information may
be transferred as an asset in connection with a
merger or sale (including any transfers made as part
of an insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding) involving
all or part of our businesses.
Online
Backup Personal InformationWe will not
(and cannot) view the files that you backup
using the backup service.
We may view your
file system information (file extensions, sizes, etc
but not your file contents) to provide technical
support.
You acknowledge and agree that
Micro-Business Maintenance Ltd may occasionally send
you administrative communications regarding your
account or the backup service via Email.
Surveys and Marketing
We may occasionally conduct surveys, contests, or
other promotional programmes that involves the
collection of personally identifiable information
and we may send promotional emails to such
participants from time to time. However
participation in these programmes is completely
voluntary so that you have a choice whether to
disclose the requested information without limiting
your ability to place orders for products and
services. The information requested may include
contact information such as name and shipping
address and any demographic information such as
gender, postal/zip code, or age. Contact information
will be used to notify participants of the outcome
of such promotions. Survey information may be used
or disclosed for purposes of monitoring or improving
the performance of our Website operations. We
generally do not collect information through our
Website from children under age 18. If we conduct a
special online programme that is open to children,
children under age 18 will be permitted to
participate only with the consent of a parent or
guardian or will otherwise be given the opportunity
to participate without the need to provide
personally identifying information.
Protection of personal information
We have numerous safeguards designed to protect
personally identifiable information, however no
system of security is impenetrable. Our databases
are protected by physical, technical and procedural
measures that restrict information access to any
authorised persons in accordance with this Privacy
Statement. Our information systems are maintained
behind a secure firewall to isolate them from access
by other networks connected to the Internet. Only
employees who need the information to perform a
specific job are granted access to personally
identifiable information. When personally
identifiable information is collected through our
Website, the transmission is encrypted using
industry-standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
technology and sensitive information such as credit
card numbers or account information is encrypted for
further protection. You also play a valuable part in
security, your password, user ID and data encryption
keys to access our Website and/or our Services
should never be shared with anyone and should be
changed frequently. After you have finished using
our Website you should log out and exit your browser
to prevent unauthorised users from returning. If you
believe that someone has improperly used personally
identifiable information about you or has made
purchases that you did not authorise, please contact
us immediately on 01902 324494.
Credit card
details are not stored on our systems. We receive
your card details as part of the check-out process,
once the transaction has been completed by our
payment partner,
PayPal, the card details are securely discarded.
Some of our services are paid for using monthly
recurring credit card transactions. These are
handled internally within
PayPal so that we are not storing your card
details.
Limitation of Use
You may decline to receive promotional email from
us. Every promotional email we send contains
instructions and an Internet link to opt out of
future email promotions. You may also opt-out of
promotional emails by sending an email request to
support@mbmltd.co.uk or by calling us on 01902
324494. We reserve the right to change our data
practices from time to time and the current Privacy
Policy will always be posted online at our Website.
If we revise our Privacy Statement you may decline
to permit us to use your personally identifiable
information under the new policy by notifying us as
described above.
Your Consent
By using our Website, the user agrees to the terms
and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy
Statement and the Site Terms of Use including all
limitations of damages provisions which are an
integral part hereof and the user consents to the
collection and use of this information by
Micro-Business Maintenance Ltd as disclosed in this
Privacy Statement.
Effective From: 10th
November 2009