FunPunch Privacy Policy – updated March 2010

Introduction

FunPunch 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 FunPunch website (http://www.www.funpunch.com) and other websites delivering services supplied by FunPunch.

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 FunPunch 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 FunPunch 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.

Marketing Punch Ltd also collects non personally identifiable information such as IP address, aggregate user data, and browser type, from members and visitors to the site. This data is used to manage the website (http://www.FunPunch.com), track usage and improve the website services. This non-personally-identifiable information may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to users. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.

Registration Information

When you are registering with FunPunch 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. FunPunch 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 FunPunch 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

Please note that the FunPunch site is designed to allow users to post photographs and information about themselves for public review and comment. By submitting your photograph and/or any personal information, you thereby waive any privacy expectations you have with respect to our use of your likeness or personal information provided to us. If you do not wish to have your picture or information about yourself viewed or disclosed to others, do not use the FunPunch site or our service.

If you insert an image, including a photograph, into an ecard or printed card, you must have the consent of the person whose image it is and/or the owner of that image to use that image before it is inserted into the card/printed card, and to allow us to store the image for use by you in future cards/printed cards. In the case of images of children who are not capable of giving consent, you should ensure that the relevant consent is obtained from the child's parent or guardian. We do not accept any liability whatsoever for any image inserted by you into an card/printed card without the consent of the person, parent or guardian and/or owner.

General disclosure of personal information

Once you register with FunPunch you consent to Marketing Punch Ltd and it's clients being able to send you relevant communications. The collection of data by FunPunch through registration on third party sites may lead to your data also being held by that third party site.

Profiles and using third party sign on services

FunPunch users can send content to friends via our system and invite friends to join the service via third-party single sign-on services (e.g., Login via Facebook). FunPunch allows our registered members to set up unique personal profiles both directly with FunPunch and via third party sign on services (Facebook). To enrich our users’ experience, we request and display some personal information to other visitors, registered users and members, which allows our users to identify each other. FunPunch stores the email addresses that users provide so that FunPunch can send notifications authorized by users and related reminders to such email addresses.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-users

FunPunch does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides those initiated by users and invitation reminders initiated by FunPunch Recipients of emails from FunPunch may contact FunPunch to request the removal of their information from our database by sending an email to block@FunPunch.com. This email address can be found on the bottom of our notification emails.

Printed Cards

We use a third party company to pack and ship products ordered in the Printed Cards section. Our fulfillment company will request details of your full name, shipping address and recipients name to complete this transaction. Marketing Punch Ltd will retain this data, but the fulfillment company does not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any other purposes.

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.

We urge you to keep your username, password, and other account access information in a safe place and not to divulge it to anyone. Also, remember to sign off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place such as a library or an internet cafe.

Managing your personal information

FunPunch may from time to time use third party suppliers to provide all or part of a service to you. FunPunch 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, FunPunch 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.

Links

The FunPunch site contain links to third-party sites. Marketing Punch Ltd is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the FunPunch.

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. FunPunch uses cookies solely to enable us to identify you when you return to the FunPunch 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 FunPunch easier and more rewarding for you.

The use of cookies by FunPunch 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, FunPunch 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 FunPunch 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 FunPunch website but you will not have the benefit of an automatic login.

The functionality of FunPunch depends upon your browser accepting session cookies. FunPunch tracks visitors to and on the FunPunch site by using referrer tracking. FunPunch uses click through and open email tracking when sending emails. This process allows FunPunch 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.

Service Providers

We use PayPal and RBS to process payments. When you go to check out, you will be asked to enter some personal information including banking details that are necessary to complete your transaction. Marketing Punch Ltd does not store any of our users banking information in our database.

These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose other than providing the above-described contracted services. If you have any queries with regards to a payment made, please contact paypal@marketingpunch.co.uk

Deregistration

You may at any time deregister from FunPunch 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 FunPunch

Marketing Punch Ltd is committed to professional and ethical Internet practices and prohibits any e-mail spam of any kind by Marketing Punch Ltd or our Clients and any other entities or individuals associated with us. Should you ever decide that you don't want to receive further emails from FunPunch, all you need to do is click on the unsubscribe link that will appear on every email that we send.

Please note that Clients are required to provide an opt-out mechanism for Website Members to unsubscribe from future emails about the Client. Should you experience any "e-mail spam" as a result of one of our Clients, look for the opt-out mechanism to unsubscribe yourself and if necessary, contact us here.

Web Beacons

FunPunch 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.

FunPunch 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 FunPunch website to place web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to determine the effectiveness promotional campaigns.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

FunPunch 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. FunPunch 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.