• What personal information we collect about you;
• How this personal information is used;
• With whom the personal information may be shared;
• Our policy regarding personal information you supply to third parties on or via this site;
• What choices are available to you regarding use of your personal information;
• The information security procedures we employ to protect your personal information; How you can correct any inaccuracies in your personal information.

1. Definitions
2. What personal information do we collect about you?
3. How is your personal information used?
4. With whom is your personal information shared?
5. Information you supply to third parties on or via the Local Channel Sites
6. What rights do you have about how your personal information is collected and used?
7. Security
8. How can you correct any inaccuracies in your personal information?
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
10. Framing

If you feel we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should first contact The Local Channel by e-mail @ webmaster@thelocalchannel.ltd.uk

The Local Channel is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998.

All use of this site is subject to The Local Channel Terms and Conditions and you should read these carefully before using this site.

In order to protect Us and Our other users there are a number of rules and restrictions relating to what You can include in Your Content. In order to make these Terms and Conditions more short and simple and to avoid repetition, certain defined terms are used.

These Terms and Conditions are structured as follows

1.1 To make the privacy policy more short and simple and to avoid repetition, certain defined terms are used. These are listed below:

2.1 So that we can provide a personalised service, we may, upon registration or at other points on The Local Channel Sites, ask you to submit personal information such as your name, e-mail address, postal address, telephone number. You are under no obligation to provide any personal information. However, if you should choose to withhold requested information, we may not be able to provide you with certain services.

From time-to-time we may run promotions surveys or competitions entry to which requires you to supply certain personal information. Participation in these is completely voluntary and any personal information supplied will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We may use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you. Although they do identify a user's computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords, credit card information are not stored in cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a website if you do so.

To the extent that this site include chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups, any information you provide in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information on such platforms

3.1 The Local Channel will use the personal information you provide to us to:-
identify you when you visit The Local Channel Site; improve the content of The Local Channel Sites; customise the content and/or layout of The Local Channel Sites for each individual customer; provide advertisements that are relevant to you based on your activity on The Local Channel Sites; carry out research on our customers' demographics, interests and behaviour; to the extent you have agreed, to send you updates and newsletters; to the extent you have agreed, to send you information by email and in the post that we think you may find useful, including information about new products and services of ours or of our business partners and sponsors; be included in your listing available from The Local Channel search engine; provide services to you that you request, such as the provision of a Site, Links and Advertisements; be provided to a purchaser or acquirer of our business under any sale or restructuring.

Additionally, we may use cookies to access your account information, estimate our audience size and patterns, ensure that you are not asked to register twice, control how often visitors see similar ads, track preferences, improve and update our website and track the progress and number of entries in some of our surveys promotions and competitions. Also, we use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user's movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

4.1 The Local Channel is the sole owner of the personal information you provide to us on The Local Channel Sites. Unless we tell you otherwise before or at the point at which we collect some personal information about you, we will not sell, share, or rent that personal information to others other than in accordance with this privacy policy.

The Local Channel may disclose aggregate statistics about our site visitors, customers and sales in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

Sometimes we will partner with other parties to provide specific services to our users. If you choose to sign up for these services, we will share parts of your personal information to the extent necessary for the third party to provide these services, but we will tell you about this before or at the point you sign up. Unless we tell you otherwise, these third parties will only use your personal information we share with them for providing the relevant service.

We may disclose personal information about you if required to do so by law or if we believe that such action is necessary to protect and defend the rights, property or personal safety of The Local Channel Group other users of The Local Channel Sites.

We may share your personal information with other companies in The Local Channel Group who will use it in accordance with this privacy policy.

In the event that we undergo any restructuring of The Local Channel or The Local Channel (or part of it) is sold, We may transfer your personal information to the new owner of The Local Channel.

5.1 The Local Channel is not responsible for use of personal information that you supply to third parties including our business partners (for example our Internet Service Provider), advertisers and sponsors. Some of our business partners use cookies on Local Channel Sites (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies. This privacy statement applies solely to personal information collected by The Local Channel on The Local Channel Sites.

The Local Channel Sites contain links to other sites. The Local Channel is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave The Local Channel Sites and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information.

6.1 You do not have to provide us with any personal information. However, certain services available on Local Channel Sites are dependent on some personal information and also the more personal information you provide to us the better we can make our service for you.

You can tell us either at registration or later when updating your details that you do not wish us to use your personal information to send you any newsletters or updates or to contact you about our products and services that may interest you. Also, where we tell you that we may share your personal information with our business partners and sponsors so that they can contact you about products or services that may interest you, you may also tell us that you do not want this to happen. You may email us at Webmaster@thelocalchannel.ltd.uk at any time to tell us that you do not wish us to use your personal information in these ways.

Sometimes, entry to certain surveys promotions or competitions may be dependent on you allowing us or our sponsors to contact you for these reasons, however entry to these promotions and competitions will be optional.

7.1 The Local Channel places great importance on the security of all personal information supplied to us by our users. We have security measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of such personal information. Your personal information is protected both online and off-line.

We also protect your personal information off-line. All of our users' personal information is subject to restricted access in our offices and only employees who need the personal information to perform a specific job (for example, our customer service representatives) are granted access. Furthermore, our employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. The servers that we store your personal information on are kept in a secure environment.

If you have any questions about the security at our website, please email webmaster@thelocalchannel.ltd.uk

8.1 If the personal information we hold about you changes or if you no longer wish us to hold that personal information, we will provide a way to correct, update or remove your personal information online or by emailing our Customer Support. community.support@thelocalchannel.ltd.uk

9.1 We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will endeavour to notify You of any major changes by posting a message on the Local Channel Sites. All use of this site is subject to The Local Channel General terms and conditions and changes to this privacy policy will be made in accordance with those terms and conditions.

10.1 The contents of the Local Channel Frame shall be at the entire discretion of The Local Channel save that it shall not include any branding of, reference to, or promotional material of, any person other than any member of The Local Channel Group.