Protection of Information

We do not collect personally identifiable information about you except when you specifically provide such information on a voluntary basis. Such personally identifiable information may be gathered for  competitions, comments or subscription to the Hotclicks.co.uk newsletter. All information is confidential and all employees of Hotclicks.co.uk handle your information with utmost care. We may get information about you only when there is a good reason to do so. We take steps to make our databases secure and to safeguard the information we have about you. We may use anything we know about you to help us serve you better. We will not disclose your information to any third party save for the following exceptions:

·       To help process questions you may have about our service.
·         To confirm or correct what we know about you
·         To help us or any recognised law enforcement agencies prevent fraud, money laundering, terrorism or other crimes
·         To allow for verification of what we know about you
·         Data processing requirements
·         Assisting an agency perform research for us
·         Compliance with the law or request of a government agency for example, complying with a search warrant.
·         Compliance with an audit for our business
·         If we sell all or any part of our business or merge with another company
·         Generally, we will disclose only the information we consider reasonably necessary to disclose.

Your Right To Opt Out

At any points of data collection, you have the opportunity to indicate whether you would like to receive the Hotclicks.co.uk newsletter which may inform you about other products, services and offerings from group companies and/or third parties on whose behalf we may send out information. Further, notwithstanding any opt out of promotional information by the user, we reserve the right to contact you regarding changes to our service agreement and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. You can request to "opt out" of further promotional contacts at any time and all promotional emails we send you allow you this facility. Also, upon request, we will use commercially reasonable efforts functionally to delete you and your personal information from our database; however, it may be impossible to delete your entry without some residual information due to backups and records of deletions. We may monitor and keep records of email communications which you send to us and other communications with you in accordance with this policy and our other business interests.

Correction of Information

We will let you review what we know about you if you email us. If you tell us that what we know about you is incorrect, we will review it. If we agree with you, we will correct our records.

IP Addresses

We may use your IP address to help diagnose any problems with our servers or to help with administering our websites. Your IP address may be used to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information that helps us understand our users requirements. This specific information will only be used within our organisation and we will only share or use this information on an aggregate basis.

Cookies

We collect non-personal information and data through the standard operation of our servers or through the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files a web site used to recognise repeat users, facilitate your ongoing access to and use of the site, track usage, follow site behaviour and compile aggregate data that will allow content improvements and targeted advertising. Cookies are not programs that come onto  your system and damage files. Generally, cookies work by assigning a unique number to the user that has no meaning outside the assigning site. Cookies can help you for example by delivering content specific to your interests. Users should be aware that we couldn’t control the use of cookies or the resulting information by advertisers or third parties hosting data for us. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to deny or accept the cookie feature; however, you should note that cookies may be necessary to provide the user with certain features (e.g. customised delivery of information) available on our web sites.

Safeguards and Security 

No data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure, and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information and/or use of our sites. However we use our reasonable endeavours to protect the security of your personal information from unauthorised access or use.

In addition to our safeguards your personal information is protected in the UK by the Data Protection Act. This provides that the information which we hold about you should be processed fairly and lawfully and should be accurate, relevant and not excessive. The information should, where necessary, be kept up to date and not retained for longer than is necessary. Please help us by updating your email address if it has changed and you have subscribed to our newsletter.

Links To Exterior Sites

This policy applies only to Hotclicks.co.uk and not to other websites to which we provide links. These websites are not subject to the Hotclicks.co.uk privacy policy. You are advised to read the privacy policy of such other websites.

This privacy policy is effective as of August 2005 and we reserve the right to change this policy at any time without notification and you should regularly check back here to read it if need be. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

By browsing and using Hotclicks.co.uk you agree to this privacy policy governing your use of Hotclicks.co.uk. Thank you for reading our privacy policy and for choosing Hotclicks.co.uk as your reliable source of shopping, entertainment.