This is a legal document which sets out how Part of Life handles data which identifies you. You should read it in conjunction with the Part of Life Terms and Conditions, of which this Privacy Policy forms part.

At Part of Life, we believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our users? personal information. This statement describes the privacy practices we apply for the Part of Life Service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws which apply in the United Kingdom. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the Part of Life Terms and Conditions.

If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should contact Part of Life's customer service department at .

• Information gathered on registration. When you register for the Part of Life Service, you provide your name, your email address, and some optional notes about yourself ("Registration Information"). They are available to you, and capable of being changed, through the Update Your Details page.

• Cookies. We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance users? experience of the Part of Life Service as follows:

• To hold Members? login information, so that your workplace, club or street is displayed when you visit the Part of Life Service. This option can be turned off by switching the "Remember Your Password" option to "No" in Update Your Details.
• To facilitate optimal use of the Part of Life Service by Members, by means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when the Member?s browser session ends, or if the Member clicks the "logoff" text which appears on the Part of Life Service.

• The over-riding principles we apply are these:

• We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation ? thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members? email addresses to a third party; and
• the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

• Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the Part of Life Service. However, your email address is visible on the web site set up for patients (so people can contact you). You can omit this by leaving the email address field blank on the patient's web site.

• Advertising. The Part of Life Service may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.

• Newsletters.We have regular and occasional emails, which Members can decide to take or not, according to their preferences. This option is selected through Update Your Details.

• Credit Card information. There has been a lot of publicity about Credit Card security on the Internet so we decided to use Protx , who operate a secure server, to process our credit card payments. They encrypt Members? credit or debit card information and authorise payment directly. This means that Members? credit card details are never revealed to us. Protx may transfer to, process and hold your credit card information in countries either within or outside the European Economic Area in connection with performing their duties.

• Companies in the Part of Life group. We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies in our group, but only for the purposes described in this policy.

• Changes in Part of Life's business. If all of the assets which Part of Life uses to operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.

• Place of processing. The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.

We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member?s responsibility:

• to protect against unauthorised access to Update Your Details;

• to ensure against use by anyone else of the Part of Life Service through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to thePart of Life Service;

• to log off or exit from the Part of Life Service when not using it; and

• to keep his/her password secret.

• We provide Members with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving e-mailed Newsletters which they have previously opted to receive. This opt-out can be effected by making appropriate selections at Update Your Details.

We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member?s personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

6. Contacting Part of Life

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with Part of Life, you can contact us at privacy@partoflife.com. You can also use this address if you wish to request from Part of Life a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.

7. Links to third party sites

Our site contains links to other sites. Part of Life is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.

8. Data Protection Information

You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner?s website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. You can search for our Data Protection Notification there, should you so wish.