Last updated: October 2008
Introduction
Fun Punch is wholly owned and operated by Marketing Punch Ltd.
Marketing Punch Ltd recognizes that your privacy and the protection of your personal
information is important to you. Marketing Punch Ltd takes your privacy seriously,
taking every reasonable precaution to safeguard the personal information that you
provide. Marketing Punch Ltd is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998, therefore
the information that you supply is safeguarded under the terms of this Act. If you
wish to find out more regarding the Data Protection Act please visit http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
This statement discloses how Marketing Punch Ltd helps to protect your personal
information while using the Fun Punch website (http://www.funpunch.com)
and other websites delivering services supplied by Fun Punch.
Collected Data
Marketing Punch Ltd may collect data about you and answers to specific questions
asked by sponsors. Marketing Punch Ltd and its clients or sponsors may contact you
with offers and information through mail, telephone or e-mail, which they feel will
be of interest to you.
Sponsors of Fun Punch have their own privacy policies and some have their own opt-in
statements, Marketing Punch Ltd strongly recommends that you read and understand
this information.
Your data together with that of other users of Fun Punch may be aggregated at postcode
or other levels for the building of statistical and analytical tables. At no time
will your data be individually identifiable in such tables.
Registration Information
When you are registering with Fun Punch you will be asked to confirm that you accept
the Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy. You will not be allowed to register
if you do not give confirmation. Your registration will be recorded when you click
on the Register or Send button.
Fun Punch may use other reputable partners to provide its services in connection
with the registration. However this will not affect your statutory rights under
the Data Protection Act. No other information will be gathered other than that which
you have completed on the registration.
Through providing this information Fun Punch are then able to:
- Provide a personalised service
- Conduct market research to provide improved promotions
- Provide you with information about products and services in which you may be interested
- Enable you to receive special offers and promotions tailored to your interests,
for example vie e-mail
General disclosure of personal information
Once you register with Fun Punch you consent to Marketing Punch Ltd and it's clients
being able to send you relevant communications. The collection of data by Fun Punch
through registration on third party sites may lead to your data also being held
by that third party site.
Security and storage of your personal information
Marketing Punch Ltd is committed to protecting the security of your personal information.
We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store
the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which
are located in controlled facilities.
The Internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication and, accordingly, Marketing
Punch Ltd cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to Marketing
Punch Ltd via the Internet. Marketing Punch Ltd is not responsible for any loss
or damage you or others may suffer as a result of the loss of confidentiality of
such information.
Managing your personal information
Fun Punch may from time to time use third party suppliers to provide all or part
of a service to you. Fun Punch shall only be entitled to supply such of your personal
information as is necessary to enable them to provide the relevant service to you.
You should be aware that such outside service providers might be based in countries
outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection
for your personal data than that provided under English law. In such circumstance
Marketing Punch Ltd will have in place contractual arrangements which will require
your data to be processed at least to a standard compliant with the Data Protection
Act 1988.
Except as provided above, Fun Punch will not provide your personal information to
any third party without your prior consent, however, under certain circumstances
the force of law may require the provision of information to the legal authorities.
In order to maintain the integrity of its website and safeguard the interests of
its users Marketing Punch Ltd will comply with any such legally binding request.
You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make
any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you
wish to do this, please contact us.
Cookies
A cookie is small text-only file which is stored on your computer when visiting
a site that record preference for that particular site's usage.
Fun Punch uses cookies solely to enable us to identify you when you return to the
Fun Punch website.
The cookie will not allow a website to learn any personally identifiable information
(such as your name and address) that you have not otherwise given to us. It's only
purpose is to make your visit to Fun Punch easier and more rewarding for you.
The use of cookies by Fun Punch means that you do not have to enter information
such as your log in name and password every time you visit the site, resulting in
an improved login experience.
For example, Fun Punch may store your login details in a cookie that will remain
on your computer after you log out. This cookie allows you to be automatically logged
in the next time you visit Fun Punch If you are using a public computer or do not
otherwise want this information to be stored, you should log out before leaving
the website.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using the settings on your browser.
If you have cookies disabled in your browser you are still able to use the Fun Punch
website but you will not have the benefit of an automatic login.
The functionality of Fun Punch depends upon your browser accepting session cookies.
Fun Punch tracks visitors to and on the Fun Punch site by using referrer tracking.
Fun Punch uses click through and open email tracking when sending emails. This process
allows Fun Punch and its clients the ability to profile the recipients of their
communications. Some of our business partners (e.g. advertisers) use cookies on
our site. We have no access to or control over these cookies. It is possible to
configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to be informed if a cookie is set.
We refer to the manual of your web browser.
Deregistration
You may at any time deregister from Fun Punch by using the following link:
unsubscribe. The consequences of deregistration are that your account details
will be placed in a suppression file and you will not receive any further communications
from Fun Punch
Fun Punch do not sent spam. Should you ever decide that you don't want to receive
further emails from Fun Punch, all you need to do is click on the unsubscribe link
that will appear on every email that we send.
Web Beacons
Fun Punch website pages and emails may contain electronic images known as web beacons
- sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow us to count users who have visited
those pages and to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Fun Punch may also employ web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile
aggregated statistics and determine the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns.
We prohibit web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect
or access your personal information.
Finally, we may work with other companies that advertise on the Fun Punch website
to place web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to determine the effectiveness
promotional campaigns.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Fun Punch will occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also
revise the "last updated" date at the top and bottom of the Privacy Policy. Fun
Punch will obtain your opt-in consent for any updates to this Privacy Policy that
materially expand the sharing or use of your personal information in ways not disclosed
in this Privacy Policy at the time of collection.
Contact information
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact Marketing Punch
Ltd by following this link: Contact Us
or by post:
Marketing Punch Ltd
Kestrel Court
Waterwells Drive
Gloucester
GL2 2AT
Last updated: October 2008
