This privacy policy sets out how The Digital Insurer uses and protects any information that you give The Digital Insurer when you use this website.
The Digital Insurer is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
The following policies are only in effect for the Web pages, newsletters, and opt-in announcement lists owned and operated by The Digital Insurer.
The Digital Insurer may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1st December 2015.
1. Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our sites, and which may be amended from time to time. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your instruction.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
- Information you provide if you choose to join The Digital Insurer LinkedIn group, Hugh Terry’s personal LinkedIn and /or Twitter account.
2. IP Addressses
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
3. Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
4. Use Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information, 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 allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by email or other social media.
If you do not want to be contacted then the options below are available to remove the personal data we hold – see clause 6, ‘Your Rights’.
5. Disclosure of your Information
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If The Digital Insurer or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation.
6. Your Rights
If you do not want to be contacted then the following options are available to remove the personal data we hold:
- You can unsubscribe from emails using the unsubscribe link available on every email
- You can remove yourself from LinkedIn Groups, Linkedin Accounts and Twitter accounts
- You can request The Digital Insurer to delete your login account. We will do this within 7 days of receiving the request vial email
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and sponsors. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please send any questions about The Digital Insurer’s Privacy Policy to: [email protected]