Privacy policy Updated on June 4th, 2009

This policy is presented to you, along with our Terms of service, in order to help you make an informed decision about using this service and to explain to you what information we collect, how we store that information and how we may use it.

By using our website, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the European Economic Area in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

What information do we collect?

When you enter this website, we collect your browser information (which typically includes browser type, version, host operating system and browser language) and IP address. This information is gathered for all visitors. In general, you can browse this website without giving us any additional information. However, course providers who wish to participate in school search services offered on this website are requested to provide certain additional information about the school.

Information on visitors

During the course of any visit to our website, the pages you see, along with cookies, are downloaded to your computer. Most websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to ascertain whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. They make it easier for you to maintain your preferences and by seeing how you use our website; we can tailor our website around your preferences.

Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to us we may have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We will collect the information fairly, that is, we will explain how we will use it and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else (unless otherwise permitted or required by law).

The information you provide to us will be used for the following reasons, amongst others:

• to ensure that content from our site is presented to you in the most effective manner and to personalise your visit to our site;
• to enable us to continuously enhance the services we provide to you;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements that may have been entered into between you and us;
• to notify you about changes to or other information about our service; and
• to comply with our regulatory obligations.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service(s) you have requested, and remove it if you no longer wish to participate n our programme. In some circumstances it may be necessary to retain your personal information to deal with any disputes and/or our legal obligations.

We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 or other relevant local legislation.

Your personal data will be stored on our backup system, which is kept in case of loss of data. It may be that where data is lost, the personal data held on you as part of our backup system is used to restore your account to its status before the loss of data. All personal data (including communication data) stored on the backup system shall be held in accordance with applicable laws on data retention.

We may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that our service has been improved or suspended.

Disclosure of your information

We will not pass on your personal information to third parties except in accordance with this policy and our Terms and Conditions, where there is a proposed sale or restructuring of Sitekick Limited, or where we are required or permitted by law to disclose that information.

We may share account or other information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to protect our interests or property, to prevent fraud or other illegal activity perpetrated through this website, its services, unauthorised use of the Sitekick Limited name, or to prevent imminent bodily harm. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, agents or government agencies. We employ service providers and other individuals to perform functions and provide services on our behalf who may have access to your account information needed to perform their functions and also to provide you with the services that you have requested, but these third parties may not use it for any other purpose. Such service providers will be subject to appropriate contractual arrangements and security obligations as required by law.

Please be aware that, subject to our Terms of Use, we will not be responsible for any use (or misuse) your personal data may be put to by other members of this website.

Direct marketing

We would like to provide you with information via email about new services, promotions, special offers and other information which we think you may find interesting. We fully appreciate that “spam” has become a problem in recent years and this is why we make sure you have the power to choose whether or not you want to receive such mailings. You may opt out during registration or at any time afterwards by submitting relevant forms available from this site.

Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected under the Data Protection Act 1998 or other relevant local laws. There may be a small charge for such access requests as permitted by law. All such enquiries should be emailed to us.

Links to other websites

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and terms of use and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy may be updated from time to time and we would recommend that you review the terms of the policy each time you submit personal information to us. Non-material changes and clarifications will take effect immediately, and material changes will take effect within 30 days of their posting on this website. Where the changes are material, we may also choose to email all our registered users with the new details and it is within our sole discretion whether or not we choose to do so. The date of the most recent revisions will also appear on this page. Unless stated otherwise, our current privacy policy applies to all information that we have about you and your account.

Terms of service, questions and contact information

Your use of our website, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Service.

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please email us.