franchise.comparecentral.co.uk is an online service provided by Compare Central Limited. Compare Central Limited has created this privacy policy statement in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to the privacy of Compare Central users. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.
Information Automatically Logged
Information including but not limited to a user's IP address, browser information, operating system, pages visited, and referring pages are logged for internal statistical use, to help diagnose problems, provide user support, prevent and address abuse, and to improve the overall quality of our website.
Information Volunteered
You must be at least 13-years-old to sign up for an account at Compare Central or to submit personal information to Compare Central.
We collect the e-mail addresses of user who communicate with us via e-mail. We collect information volunteered by users such as the account information they provide as a member, the profile they create, materials they submit for publication on Compare Central including but not limited to text and images, comments, reviews, and information involved in purchasing services from Compare Central Limited through Compare Central.
Information including but not limited to profile information and material submitted for publication are publicly displayed on franchise.comparecentral.co.uk. The name and profile information a user provides may be publicly associated with other material the user submitted. Dates of submission, publication and editing of material by a user may be displayed publicly. Sensitive information such as a user's e-mail address and password are not made public. If a user wishes not to have information that they have submitted shown to other users, they can request removal of submitted materials and/or their account. A user can do this by logging into their account and taking appropriate actions and/or by contacting us.
We have a no-spam policy and will not provide the e-mail addresses of users to another party unless required by law. Various announcements related to Compare Central and specific user accounts (such as responses to requests to add, edit or delete a user's submitted material) are sent to the e-mail address provided by the user. A user can opt-out of regular mailings at any time or cancel their account and cease to use franchise.comparecentral.co.uk if they wish to never receive mailings of any kind from Compare Central.
The information we collect is used to improve the content of our website, used to customize the content and/or layout for each individual visitor, used to contact users and is not shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. We do not sell or trade any e-mail addresses that we have collected.
Cookies and Advertisers
We use cookies to record session information that keeps members logged in and to record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit.
We use one or more outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies. Cookies received with advertisements are collected by the advertising companies, and we do not have access to this information.
External Links
franchise.comparecentral.co.uk contains links to other sites. Compare Central Limited is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Users should access all external sites at their own risk.
Security
We use industry-standard encryption technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged with our website. There are appropriate security measures in place in the physical facilities which host and manage this site in order to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of information that we have collected from users at franchise.comparecentral.co.uk.
Data Access/Quality
Upon request, we provide users of this website with access to all information that we maintain about them, transaction information, communications that the user has directed to our site (e.g., e-mails, inquiries), and contact information (e.g., e-mail address, name, etc.) that we maintain about them. Persons can access this information by contacting us via our contact form at http://franchise.comparecentral.co.uk/contact/. Upon request, we offer everyone the ability to have inaccuracies in their information corrected or removed.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy statement, the practices of this website, your dealings with this website, or if you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact us by sending an e-mail via our contact form at http://franchise.comparecentral.co.uk/contact/.
