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Last updated: 2nd November 2004

Offerzoo.co.uk is a UK based website operated by Advertising.com International Limited, the UK subsidiary of Advertising.com, Inc, Baltimore, a Maryland, USA corporation. Registered in England No. 03979468.

Offerzoo.co.uk is a trading name utilised by Advertising.com International Limited which is the Data Controller for this site.

Please read this policy carefully in order to understand what information we collect, when we collect it, what we do with it and how you may correct or alter your information as well as the parties with whom you share your data and what you need to do to unsubscribe.

References in this policy to Offerzoo.co.uk are to Advertising.com International Limited.

Data protection
Contact
Collection of your personal information
What happens to your personal information?
How do we use cookies?
Other websites
Providing your data to third parties
Updating and changing your data
Security
Updating this policy
Your consent
SMS Services

Data protection

Advertising.com International Limited is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. We comply with the Data Protection Act in operating this website.

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Contact

If you have any queries regarding privacy or if you would like to raise any issues regarding our privacy policy, please e-mail us at privacy@offerzoo.co.uk.

Alternatively, you can write to us. Our postal address is:

Advertising.com International Limited
Shropshire House
11-20 Capper Street
London
WC1E 6JA

The address of Advertising.com, Inc. is:

Advertising.com, Inc.
1020 Hull Street
The Ivory Building
Baltimore
Maryland 21230
USA

We take your privacy seriously and we take precautions to safeguard the personal information you supply to us.

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Collection of your personal information

When you register, you are asked to provide information to enable us to identify you, such as your name, address and other identifying information as well as information about your interests. This information enables you to become a member of Offerzoo.co.uk’s website and for us to provide offers that will be of interest to you.

The personal information and your chosen interest categories enable us to select products or services which may be of interest you and to send you relevant details of offers and opportunities.

From time to time you will be given an opportunity to participate in further prize competitions or offers. When doing so, you will normally be asked for additional information.

Whenever we ask for information, we will identify the information which is mandatory and the fields which are optional. You are not required to provide us with any information which is optional, but you may of course do so as this may assist us in providing you with more personalised offers and a better service.

When you provide your mobile number to Offerzoo.co.uk in order to enter a mobile competition this information will be hosted and stored on the servers maintained by Txtnation

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What happens to your personal information?

Information about yourself or data you provide to this website will be controlled and managed by Advertising.com International Limited. The information will be hosted and stored on servers maintained by Advertising.com, Inc which are held in the USA. Advertising.com, Inc is the Data Processor under the Data Protection Act. If you wish to view Advertising.com, Inc.’s privacy policy, please visit www.advertising.com

The information you supply us is used to identify offers, products and services which will be of interest to you. We may share this information with our Partners, but only where you have expressed interest in our Partners’ products, services or offers. Our Partners are third party advertisers, whose products or services we may think may be of interest to you.

We use your personal information:

to ensure our site is relevant and interesting to you;
to contact you if you win a prize;
to deliver services such as newsletters, e-mail updates, product news and advertisements for our own and our Partners products and services to you;
to help us identify and create content which is of most interest to you; and
to alert you to special offers and new opportunities.

We do not transfer your data to our Partners unless you express interest in their products. For example, if you apply to participate in an offer provided by one of the Partners on this website, we will share information we hold on you with that Partner.

By becoming a member you consent to receive offers from us by e-mail. This will include our newsletter, solus e-mails (which are e-mails containing only advertisements from us or our Partners) and details of the offers which we think may be of interest to you.

By subscribing to our SMS services, you consent to receive offers from us by SMS. We aim to select offers that are of interest to you.

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How do we use cookies?

A cookie is a text only file which is entered into the memory of your browser. Cookies are used on the Offerzoo.co.uk website to record user specific information on what pages you access and for the purpose of identifying you when you return to our site.

If you disable your resident cookies, you will still be able to use the site, but you will not have the benefit of automatic recognition.

Cookies, called session cookies, are used to store data on the server that are individually identifiable. A session cookie will be stored on your machine and will expire once your visit to the site has ended. The functionality of the site depends on your browser accepting session cookies.

Visitors are attracted to the Offerzoo.co.uk website by using referrer tracking. Click thru and open mail tracking are used when sending e-mails. This tracking enables Offerzoo.co.uk to profile the recipients of our communications, which means that you will be sent products, services and offers which are of most interest to you.

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Other websites

This privacy policy applies to the collection and processing of information through the www.offerzoo.co.uk website. From time to time you will be offered the opportunity of clicking on links which will take you to websites or landing pages which are operated by our Partners or advertisers. When you click on those links, you may be taken to another website which is not part of Offerzoo.co.uk and which is not under our control. You must ensure that when you do so, you recognise that the terms and conditions of this policy cease to apply and you should review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the organisations who operate those websites.

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Providing your data to third parties

We select our Partners carefully and we believe that the products and services they offer will be of interest to Offerzoo.co.uk members. Your data will only be shared with Partners whose products and services that you have selected as being of interest to you. These Partners may be based in countries outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection for your personal data than that provided under English or European law.

Your data may also be provided to Partners where they already have information about you but where we have additional information which may assist them in providing their service to you. This is referred to as appending information to that which they already hold. When first contacting you, these Partners will seek your appropriate consent.

Although the information on this website will at all times be under the control of Offerzoo.co.uk (Advertising.com International Limited), we may on occasions rely on specialist third party suppliers to carry out certain processes for us. We also use the services of our parent company, Advertising.com, Inc. Maryland, USA, to host our website and maintain it for us.

We only supply these processors with such of your personal information as is necessary to enable them to provide the relevant service to us. Outside service providers such as Advertising.com, Inc., Maryland, USA, may be based in countries outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection for your personal data than that provided under English or European law. In those circumstances, we have put in place contractual arrangements to keep your information secure.

Your data, together with that of other subscribers to this website, may be aggregated in a format where your personal information not readily identifiable, in order to build statistical and analytical tables. Your data will not be individually identifiable in those tables.

In addition to the above, there is also the possibility that the Advertising.com Group of companies, or part(s) of it, may one day be purchased by, or merged with, another company. If Advertising.com International Ltd or its business is sold or merged, the acquiring (or merging) companies will have access to your information.

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Updating and changing your data

You may review the contact data we hold on you at any stage by logging in and clicking on “Update your details”.

You will then be taken to a page where you can review the contact information you provided when registering. Here you are able to change that information and change your mailing preferences.

Should you wish to see all information that Offerzoo.co.uk holds on you, including answers to any sponsored questionnaires - please send an email to support@offerzoo.co.uk

When you register on this site, you are agreeing to Offerzoo.co.uk contacting you via any of the contact details you have provided. Should you wish to change any of your contact preferences, simply login and visit ‘Update your details’. This page enables you to remove yourself from any or all of these contact methods.

You can edit your contact preferences for:

Postal contact
Telephone contact

You can also opt out from receiving certain Offerzoo.co.uk emails or if you wish, completely unsubscribe.

An unsubscribe option is provided at the bottom of all Offerzoo.co.uk emails and on the 'Update your details' page. You can also unsubscribe by writing to us at Advertising.com International Limited, 85 Frampton Street, London NW8 8NQ.

The consequences of choosing to unsubscribe are that your details will be placed in a suppression file and you will not receive any further e-mail communications from us. You will also no longer be eligible to win any Offerzoo.co.uk sponsored competitions you may have previously entered – see prize draw rules for further information regarding eligibility.

Any data provided to our Partners prior to your request to unsubscribe will not be affected by this request as it will have already been passed over to them. If you wish to unsubscribe from partner contact you will need to contact them directly.

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Security

We are committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We make significant efforts to achieve this. We use various technologies, including in certain instances, encryption to ensure the high security standards. Any data that is stored on the Advertising.com, Inc., Maryland, USA, server is treated as confidential and is not generally available to the public. Advertising.com, Inc. and Advertising.com International Limited have an internal security policy with respect to the confidentiality of customer and other data, limiting access only to those employees who we reasonably believe need to know such information for the purpose of performing their jobs. Please keep in mind, however, that the Internet is not a 100% secure medium. Therefore, although we make significant efforts to protect your information, the possibility of somebody defeating our security measures does exist.

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Updating this policy

This policy is updated and reviewed from time to time as we upgrade our privacy arrangements. When we do this, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of the privacy statement. We would therefore encourage you to review this privacy statement from time to time even if you have previously visited this website.

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By entering your personal information and registering as a member of Offerzoo.co.uk, you are consenting to the collection, use and transfer of your data as described in this policy.

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