Privacy Statement for www.science-school.co.uk

RM has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this website: www.science-school.co.uk

We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information.

The www.science-school.co.uk website uses cookies, which are small text files on your computer. A cookie contains identifying information. The cookie is used to make the link between you and the information you have provided to the website. The creation of a cookie on your computer does not give the website any access to other information such as your email address.

The European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (the "Directive"), which came into force on 31st July 2002, recognises that cookies are a "legitimate and useful tool" for many activities, including verifying the identity of web site users. The Directive makes it compulsory for websites to inform users if cookies are being used, and to provide some information on how cookies are used.

Our site may require you to provide us with some contact information (e.g. name and email address). We sometimes use this contact information to send you information about our company and our products and services by phone, email, fax etc. This contact information is also used to contact you when necessary. If at any time you wish to stop receiving information from RM please contact us and we will update our records accordingly.

This site contains links to other sites. www.science-school.co.uk is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites.

In some cases, we work with other companies to provide products and services. In such cases we will never share your details directly with another company, except where this is required to fulfil an order for those third party products or services.

Public Forums

This site may include chat rooms, forums, message boards, and news groups. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. All instances of unauthorised attempted access to our site are logged and investigated. Where necessary RM will inform law enforcement agencies or other relevant organisations regarding misconduct.

Email

At RM we respect the privacy of email accounts and we store your email addresses just as securely as other information on www.science-school.co.uk. Your details will not be passed to ANY organisation beyond the RM plc Group of companies without your explicit permission.

However, we may use email to keep you up to date with news about products, services and offers that we think maybe are of interest to you. If you do not want to be kept informed in this way by email, please let us know.

Choice/Opt-out

Our site provides you with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us at the point where we request contact information from you.

To prevent you receiving such communications from RM in the future, you can:

1. send your request using contact us.
2. send a letter clearly identifying yourself and asking that we remove you from our contact lists.

Letters should be sent to:

Privacy - RM Database Marketing
New Mill House
183 Milton Park
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
OX14 4SE
United Kingdom

Correct/Update

To change or modify information previously provided, you can:

1. send your request using contact us and provide the correct information.
2. send a letter clearly identifying yourself and asking that we correct or update our database.

Letters should be sent to:

Privacy - RM Database Marketing
New Mill House
183 Milton Park
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
OX14 4SE
United Kingdom

Contacting the web site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you can:

1. send your request to the email address on About.
2. send a letter clearly identifying yourself and asking that we remove you from our contact lists.

Letters should be sent to:

Direct Marketing Manager
New Mill House
183 Milton Park
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
OX14 4SE
United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 (0) 8709 200200
Fax:           +44 (0) 1235 826999
webmaster@rm.com

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In this privacy statement, all references to "RM" means Research Machines plc. The RM plc Group of companies includes RM and the other subsidiary undertakings of RM plc.