Privacy and Data Protection

Data Protection Policy
Direct UK is strongly committed to preserving the privacy of its customers. This Data Protection and Security Policy lets you know about our policy for the collection and use of information about you and your transactions with us.

Summary
Put Simply, we do not disclose your details to anyone outside the Dirtect Uk Marketing Network

Email
We will only send you emails relating to the service you have joined and for no other purpose.

How we collect personal information
By the use of "cookies" on our website - cookies are small text files or variables which enable a website to "remember" certain settings required for the running of the sites and for storing your browsing requirements. Most browsers are automatically set to accept cookies certain facilitis may not function coprectly if you configure your browser to restrict cookies.

We use session cookies (which are temporary cookies) to maintain your session with the server in the areas of our site that are available to registered users. Our session cookies store a unique identifier to allow the server to distinguish between individual users' sessions. Session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

We sometimes use persistent cookies to enable pop-up advertisements including googles DoubleClick Dart cookie process to manage the google ads on each page. Persistent cookies remain on your hard disk until you delete them. No cookies on our site are served or used by third parties.

Through web site statistics - We do keep a record of traffic data which is logged automatically by our server, such as your IP address, the URL you visited before ours, the URL you visit after leaving our site and which pages you visit. We also collect some site statistics such as page hits and page views. We are not readily able to identify any individual from traffic data or site statistics.

By you contacting us or by other methods other than the website - The website provides various telephone and fax numbers and email addresses for you to contact us. We will collect information from you through any of these methods. We may also collect other information you supply to us after your initial contact with us.

What personal information we collect, and why
The information we collect about you will depend on the nature of your enquiry with us. Here is a brief description of the information we collect and how we use it.

Direct marketing preferences - When you give us your contact details, we may ask you whether or not you would like to receive further information from us campaigns in which you opted in to receive information about. We may send this information to you by email. If you do agree, you can change your mind at any time and ask us not to send you further information (see your rights under data protection legislation below).

Research statistics - We anonymise the information we collect and then use it to produce and publish regional statistics. We will always ensure the statutory safeguards for statistical research are in place. So we will never use personal information in the course of this research to support measures or decisions with respect to particular individuals or in such a way that is likely to cause substantial damage or substantial distress to any individual. Any resulting research statistics will not be made available in a form which identifies individuals, unless those individuals have agreed to be identified.

If you agree but then change your mind, you will need to contact these organisations direct to ask to be removed from their lists.

How we safeguard personal information
We recognise that you retain rights in the personal information we hold about you. We will keep that information secure, and use it only for specific legitimate purposes.

We have obligations to keep personal information secure, which we take seriously - We will keep personal information secure by taking appropriate technical and staff measures against the unauthorised or unlawful processing of that information and against its accidental loss, destruction or damage.