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 Netscape privacy
policy - an overview
Netscape UK is strongly committed to protecting the privacy of users
of its interactive products and services as well as to respecting
the Data Protection Acts 1984 and 1998. Throughout the Net we want
to contribute to providing a safe and secure environment for consumers,
and in particular, to ensure that kids' information is protected.
While this privacy policy applies to netscape.co.uk and Netscape Online,
and all of the other Internet-accessible Netscape-branded services,
we will refer here only to netscape.co.uk to make reading this policy
easier. The purpose of this Netscape privacy policy is to inform you,
as a welcome visitor to netscape.co.uk, what kinds of information
we may gather about you when you visit netscape.co.uk, how we may
use that information, whether we disclose it to anyone, and the choices
you have regarding our use of, and your ability to correct, the information.
Finally, please note that this policy applies only to netscape.co.uk
and Web sites that carry the netscape.co.uk brand, and not to the
Web sites of other companies or organisations to which we may link.
Personal data will be collected, processed and used by Netscape UK
and its affiliated companies for the purpose of providing the Netscape
service and related services to you. Netscape UK is part of a global
internet business, and many of the computer systems that provide it
are currently based in the United States. Thus, your personal data
will be transferred to, processed and held in the United States and
in other countries within the European Union.
Information about all Netscape.co.uk
visitors
In general, our service automatically gathers certain usage information
like the numbers and frequency of visitors to netscape.co.uk and its
areas. This information is very much like television ratings that
tell the television networks how many people tuned in to a programme.
We only use such data in aggregate form. This collective data helps
us determine how much our customers use specific parts of our site,
so we can improve our site to assure that it is as appealing as we
can make it for as many of you as possible. For example, netscape.co.uk
uses a technology nicknamed "cookies" that tells us how and when pages
in our site are visited, and by how many people. Netscape cookies
do not collect personally identifiable information and we do not combine
information collected through cookies with other personally identifiable
information to tell us who you are or even what your screen name or
e-mail address is. We also may provide statistical "ratings" information,
but never information which could identify you personally, to our
netscape.co.uk partners about how our members, collectively, use netscape.co.uk.
We do this so they too can understand how much people use their areas
and our site in order for them to provide you with the best possible
Web experience as well.
Information about you
Sometimes, we may specifically ask you for
information about you when you sign up to use a service, like Instant
Messenger, or when you order a product. We will need certain information
-- such as your name, Internet address or screen name, billing address,
type of computer, credit card number -- in order to provide that service
or product to you. We may also use that information to let you know
of additional products and services about which you might be interested.
You can easily choose not to receive such information if you don't
want to by letting us know on the registration screen when you sign
up for the product or service. We may ask you for information about
your interests so that both you and we can take advantage of the interactivity
of the online medium, but the provision of such information is always
optional.
Disclosure
We do not use or disclose information about your individual visits
to netscape.co.uk or information that you may give us, such as your
name, address, email address or telephone number, to any outside companies.
But as we mention above, we may share with our Web site partners aggregated
statistical "ratings" information about the use of netscape.co.uk.
Special attention to kids
Netscape takes special care to protect the safety and privacy of young
people using our services. We do not specifically collect information
about children and believe that children should get their parents'
consent before giving out any personal information. We encourage you
to participate in your child's online experience and to review our
important safety tips before your child explores the Internet.
Netscape UK privacy policy changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy for Netscape.co.uk, we will
post those changes here so that you will always know what information
we gather, how we might use that information and whether we will disclose
it to anyone.
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