NorthSeaWeather Privacy and Cookies Policy

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Northseaweather are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Use, sets out the basis on which any personal data that we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us relating to your use of the Northseaweather website.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Northseaweather, Mayfield House, Commerce St, Insch, AB52 6JB. David Paterson is the nominated representative.
We collect information about you when you register with us or use the site. When you access the Northseaweather Subscription Services, we ask you to register and set up a user name and password, and to enter other personal information. E-mail addresses are required in order to register for some features of the site. You confirm that all information you supply is accurate.
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address in order to improve this site.
In order to provide personalised services to and analyse site traffic, we may use a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Some of the cookies we use are essential for the site to operate. When you select a local weather location, we make a record of your choice and put a cookie on your computer to ensure that you receive content which is designated to suit your requirements.
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or part of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site.
We store and use information you provide as follows:
to present content effectively;
to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which may interest you, tailored to your specific interests, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts between you and us;
to enable you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
to notify you about changes to our service;
We may also send you emails to provide information and keep you up to date with developments on our site and notify you of any planned maintenance or outages. It is our policy to have instructions on how to unsubscribe so that you will not receive any future e-mails. You can change your e-mail address at any time and unsubscribe from emails from your account page settings.
In order to provide support on the usage of the site, our support team need access to all information provided in relation to your subscription.
We will not disclose your name, email address or postal address or any data that could identify you to any third party unless required to do so by law.
We want to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information that is inaccurate.
You have the right under data protection legislation to access information held about you. If you wish to receive a copy of any personal information we hold, please contact us via the contact page HERE.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data not in accordance with the law you can complain to the Information Commissioners Office.
The data that we collect from you is processed by our staff on our servers based within the UK. For the purpose of IT hosting and maintenance this information is located on servers within a secure Date Centre within the UK. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary, including the use of encryption, to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. You will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless we have been negligent or in wilful default.
We are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details) for a minimum of 6 years after which time it will be destroyed. Your information we use for your subscription will be kept with us until you notify us that you no longer wish to renew your subscription.
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail..
Our site contains links to other websites. We display Online Behavioral Advertisements to non registered users from Google, Click HERE to read their policy. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice visit the NAI. To opt-out of this type of advertising, click HERE
If you want more information or have any questions or comments relating to our privacy policy please click here.