Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 6th April 2009.
Contents
What information we collect and how
What we do with your information
How We Protect Your Information
Compromise of Personal Information
Your Choice About Your Information
Data Protection and Privacy Statement
Who we are
Far2MuchMail.com is a trading name of Lowrie Associates Limited. Lowrie Associates Limited is a registered company of England and Wales, company number 04268300, registered at 16 Claremont Crescent, Croxley Green, Hertfordshire, WD3 3QR, England. In respect to this website, Lowrie Associates Limited is the Data Controller.
In this Privacy Policy, "We", "Us", "The Company" and "Our" means Lowrie Associates Limited. The term "Service" means the myF2MM email filtering and statistics service, our Community Mail Services as well as other services provided through the Far2MuchMail.com website.
What information we collect and how
User-Provided Information:
When you register with our
website you will be asked to voluntarily provide your email
address and other private information. If you correspond with us
by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your
email address and our responses. If you invite a friend to try
Far2MuchMail.com, we will use that friend's email address for
the sole purpose of sending your invitation.
Cookies
Information:
When you visit
Far2MuchMail.com, we may send one or more cookies - a small
text file containing a string of alphanumeric characters - to
your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. A cookie
does not collect personal information about you. We use both
session cookies and persistent cookies. A persistent cookie
remains on your hard drive after you close your browser.
Persistent cookies may be used by your browser on subsequent
visits to the site. Persistent cookies can be removed by
following your web browser's directions. A session cookie is
temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can
reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when
a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the service
may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is
disabled.
Log File Information:
Log file information is
automatically reported by your browser each time you access a
web page. When you view our site, our servers automatically
record certain information that your web browser sends whenever
you visit any website. These server logs may include information
such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address,
browser type, referring / exit pages and URLs, number of clicks,
domain names, landing pages, pages viewed, and other such
information.
Clear Gifs Information:
When you use
our service, we may employ clear gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons) which
are used to track the online usage patterns of our users
anonymously. No personally identifiable information from your account is collected using these clear gifs. In addition,
we may also use clear gifs in HTML-based emails sent to our
users to track which emails are opened by recipients. The
information is used to enable more accurate reporting, improve
the effectiveness of our marketing, and make our service better for
our users.
Email Statistics:
When you use our
Far2MuchMail.com email client plug-in, we gather email
statistics and build various Key Performance Indicators ("KPIs") based on
these statistics. These statistics are sent to our servers as
part of the normal operation of the service. This information is
available to you from our website as part of the service and is
used in creating group statistics as part of our Community Mail
Services. No personal information about you, your emails, the
content of these mails or distribution lists are transmitted to
our servers or published in any way.
What we do with your information
Automatically Recorded Information:
No
claim to any ownership of any private information, email
content, etc., is made by the us. All such content will remain your private
information. As part of our service, statistical information
about your emails is transmitted to our servers and this
information is automatically recorded. Your email statistics are
then used as part of the email filtering service we provide to
you. These statistics will also be used anonymously as part of
the Community Mail Services provided by us to our members. In
building these statistics and email KPIs, our plug-in will read
the header, body and distribution list data from your email account.
In addition, our plug-in may record various details related to
these emails. However, no private details relating to the
content of your email account is transmitted to our servers or
made available to you or other members from our website. All
such information remains private and limited to the machine
running our plug-in.
Opt-in Recorded Information:
During
the normal operation of our plug-in software, we may provide
additional opt-in services. The information recorded as a result of your opting in to an
optional service may be recorded by our servers and used to as a
part of the overall service we offer to you. You can opt in or out of
these services at any time.
User-Provided Information:
By providing
to us your email
address you consent to our using the email address to send you
service-related notices, including any notices required by law,
in lieu of communication by postal mail. You may opt out or
change the frequency of many service-related communications by
clicking an email preferences link provided at the end of every
email we send. We may
also ask your permission to use your email address to send you
other messages, such as newsletters, changes to features of the
service, or special offers. If you do not want to receive such
email messages, you may unsubscribe or change your mailing
preferences by clicking a link that will appear at the end of
all email communications. Opting out may prevent you from
receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements, or
offers.
We may use certain information about you
without identifying you as an individual to third parties. We do
this for purposes such as analyzing how the service is used,
diagnosing service or technical problems, and maintaining
security.
We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file
information to:
- Remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the site;
- Provide custom, personalized content and information;
- Monitor the effectiveness of our service;
- Monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and traffic; and
- Diagnose or fix technology problems reported by
our users or engineers that are associated with the IP addresses
controlled by a specific web company or ISP.
How We Share Your Information
Personally Identifiable Information:
We will not
rent or sell your personally identifiable information to others
and will not share it with others except as provided herein. We may share your personally identifiable information with
third parties solely for the purpose of providing services to
you. If we do this, such third parties' use of your information
will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal
information in locations outside the direct control of the
company, for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting
providers.
Your email address is used and may be
disclosed when you invite another person to try the service.
As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or
business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is
generally one of the transferred business assets in these types
of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the
course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or dissolution.
Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we
will not disclose personal information to any third party unless
required to do so by law or if we believe that such
action is necessary to
- Conform to the law, comply with legal process served on us or our affiliates, or investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities;
- To enforce our License, take precautions against liability, to investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations, to assist government enforcement agencies, or to protect the security or integrity of our site; and
- To exercise or protect the rights, property, or personal safety of the company, its staff, our users or others.
Non-Personally Identifiable
Information:
We may share non-personally identifiable
information (such as anonymous usage data, referring/exit pages
and URLs, platform types, number of clicks, etc.) with
interested third parties to help them understand the usage
patterns for our services.
How We Protect Your Information
We use commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the company and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission of information, we will make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure the security of our systems. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
Compromise of Personal Information
In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, we will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
Your Choice About Your Information
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information to us, in which case we will not be able to provide our services to you. You can review and correct the information about you that we keeps on file by contacting us directly at privacy@far2muchmail.com.
Children's Privacy
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on our website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at privacy@far2muchmail.com.
Other Websites
We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including those that have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site's own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.
Notification Procedures
It is our policy to provide notifications, whether such notifications are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, to you via email notice or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our Website page, as determined by us in our sole discretion. We reserve the right to determine the form and means of providing notifications to you, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Data Protection and Privacy Statement
Your information will be held by Far2MuchMail.com in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. It may be used for internal statistical analysis, to fulfil any requests from you for further information and services and to contact you by mail, telephone or electronic communication about other products, services or events offered by Far2MuchMail.com.
We may also transfer your details to any successor to our business, or any relevant part of it.
This Privacy Statement applies to all information that we hold about you.
If you do not wish to receive further information about our products and services, please contact privacy@far2muchmail.com , and we will assist you with your queries. You may also contact us in this way if you wish to have access to, modify, correct or object to the further processing of your information.