Website Privacy Statement

Date created: 28 August 2011
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Who we are

The owner of this site is Ceros Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales under number 07475880 and having its registered office at 30 City Road, London EC1Y 2AB. 

Your privacy

This Policy discloses the privacy practices for CEROS' website and describes the information CEROS collects about you and what may happen to such information.

CEROS is committed to your privacy. It is the policy of CEROS, the owner of this site, to act in accordance with current UK legislation and to meet the current best practice on the Internet. Our aim is to be relevant, responsible and secure in all our data management, use and storage methods.

Information submitted to CEROS through forms on this website is governed by the following Electronic Personal Information Privacy Policy (the "Policy"). Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated as you make full use of CEROS' service.

How to Opt Out of Further Notifications:

From time to time, we notify our subscribers of new products, announcements, upgrades and updates. If you wish to be removed from future communications please email info@ceros.com

Information that CEROS may collect on you:

By using the website CEROS is able to and may track certain information about you in order to perform internal research on its Users' demographics, interests, and behaviour. This information may include the URL from which you arrived, the next URL you may visit, what browser you are using, and your IP address.

Cookies at CEROS:

You acknowledge and agree that CEROS may use cookies on this website. A cookie is a piece of text that can be entered into the memory of your hard drive and can store information about your use of CEROS' Materials (the "Cookies"). The Cookies will help CEROS make its services more convenient, personalized, and more secure. In addition, Cookies may allow CEROS to keep track and retrieve information about any User who acts in contradiction to this Policy or License Agreement. If you would rather not have Cookies on your computer, you can usually set your browser to deny some but not all Cookies. You can also delete Cookies from your computer at your sole discretion.

Usage of collected data:

CEROS may use the collected data about you for the following purposes:

• For our internal business purposes only in the normal course of operating this website;

• To provide you with information about products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;

• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website, when you choose to do so;

• To ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

• To improve the website and to better tailor the website to meet your needs;

• To notify you about changes to our service.

Disclosure of collected data:

CEROS will not disclose, sell or transfer any of the collected data, to any third parties (e.g., advertisers or business partners), except in the following cases:

(i) CEROS receives your permission;

(ii) if CEROS believes in good faith that the law requires such disclosure or transfer; or

(iii) if required by third party contractors and service providers who work with CEROS, to provide the website's service, but only then subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Notwithstanding the aforesaid, CEROS may also disclose collected data, in special cases when it has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating CEROS' License Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), CEROS's rights or property, other Users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. You thus authorise CEROS to disclose any collected data about you to law enforcement or other government officials if, in its sole and absolute discretion, believes that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate. Although, CEROS uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, CEROS does not ensure, and you should not expect, that your collected data or any private communications will always remain private. Since CEROS' Site may contain links to other sites, CEROS is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such linked sites.

Google:

If you have found this website through an advertisement or a search on Google, or any of Google's other affiliated websites, Google may attempt to place a cookie on your machine. This cookie enables us to track the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns. The cookie will normally exist on your machine for 30 days and then it will automatically be removed.

This cookie will not track any other search activity, browsing history and Google will not have visibility of your personal details.

Users who do not wish to participate in tracking activities can easily disable Google's conversion tracking cookie in their Internet browser's user preferences settings. Users who disable cookies will not be included in our Google conversion tracking statistics and program. For more information on Google's privacy policy, please visit: http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Security:

CEROS uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the collected data. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, CEROS cannot ensure the security of any information that you transmit to CEROS or any information that you receive from CEROS online, and you transmit such information at your own risk. Once CEROS receives your transmission, it uses its best effort to ensure security on its systems.

Updates to this privacy policy:

This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time by posting the revised Privacy Policy on our website and/or by sending an email to the last email address you have given to us.  Changes will become effective when we post them on this website and/or notify you of them, so you should review this Policy periodically.  If you do not agree to any of the changes to this Privacy Policy that we make, then please do not make any further use of this website.  You can also choose not to receive any further emails by emailing: info@ceros.com

Your rights:

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right byemailing us at info@ceros.com

Access to Information:

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Privacy Support:

For enquiries concerning your permission and privacy rights, please email:info@ceros.com

Liability:

In view of the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Human Rights Act 1998 we do not monitor all outgoing e-mails. We accept no liability for the contents of e-mails unconnected with our affairs or our clients.  Your statutory rights are unaffected.

Introduction to Ceros Website Terms of Use

Who We Are: 

The owner of this site is Ceros Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales under number 07475880 and having its registered office at 30 City Road, London EC1Y 2AB.  CEROS is a registered UK trade mark.

Purpose:

The purpose of these Terms of Use is to set forth the terms and conditions under which you are permitted to use our website Using our website indicates that you accept these Terms of Use, even if you do not subscribe to any paid services via the website.  If you do not accept these Terms of Use, you must not use this website.

Eligibility:

We require that any Member be at least eighteen (18) years of age. By using the website, you represent and warrant that you are at least eighteen (18) years of age and that your use of the website does not violate any applicable law or regulation. Your use of the website  may be terminated without warning, if we have reason to believe you are under eighteen (18) years of age.

Permitted Use: You may access the unrestricted parts of our website without registering your details with us.  Certain areas of our website are only open to you if you register with us and/or subscribe to use our paid services.

Licence

You are permitted to access, print and download extracts from our website for your own private, non-trade use on the following basis:

• no documents or related graphics on our website are modified in any way;

• no graphics on our website are used separately from the corresponding text;

• our copyright and trade mark notices appear in all copies;

• you do not use our website for any illegal or illicit purposes or in any way that might bring it into disrepute;

• you comply with any acceptable usage policies that we may determine from time to time.

Reservation of rights:

Unless otherwise stated, the copyright and other intellectual property rights in all material on this website (including without limitation photographs and graphical images) are owned by us or our licensors.  For the purposes of these Terms of Use, any use of extracts from our website other than permitted above for any purpose is prohibited. If you breach any of these Terms of Use, your permission to use our website automatically terminates and you must immediately destroy any downloaded or printed extracts from our website.  Any rights not expressly granted in these terms are reserved.

Service Access:

While we endeavour to ensure that our site is normally available 24 hours a day, we shall not be liable if for any reason our site is unavailable at any time or for any period.

Changes:

We reserve the right to change any of the terms of this Agreement by posting the revised Terms of Use on our website and/or by sending an email to the last email address you have given to us. Changes will become effective when we post them on this website and/or notify you of them, so you should review these Terms of Use periodically.  If you do not agree to any of the changes to these Terms of Use that we make, then please do not make any further use of this website.  You can also choose not to receive any further emails or updates by clicking here to unsubscribe.

Disclaimer:

While we endeavour to ensure that the information on our website is correct, we do not warrant the accuracy and completeness of the material published by us.  We may make changes to the material on our website, or to the products and prices described in it, at any time without notice. The material on our website may be out of date, and we make no commitment to update such material.   The material on our site is provided "as is", without any conditions, warranties or other terms of any kind. Accordingly, to the maximum extent permitted by law, and subject to any consumer or statutory rights applicable, we exclude all representations, warranties, conditions and other terms and liability including, without limitation, which, but for this legal notice, might have effect in relation to our website.

Jurisdiction:

Your use of our website and any services contracted via it will be governed by English law. Any dispute arising from, or related to, such use shall be subject to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.

Discolsures

This product uses software developed by Spread Concepts LLC for use in the Spread toolkit. For more information about Spread see www.spread.org