Sugarscape Privacy Policy

Please read the following Privacy Policy carefully before using this Sugarscape website. If you do not agree with the Hachette Filipacchi (UK) Limited Privacy Policy, you should not submit your personal details on this website. Registration as a User and use of the website implies an acceptance of both this Privacy Policy and the Sugarscape Terms and Conditions.

IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 13 PLEASE ENSURE THAT YOUR MOTHER, FATHER OR OTHER RESPONSIBLE ADULT READS THIS AND AGREES TO YOUR USE OF THE SUGARSCAPE SITE. THIS DOCUMENT IS ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL DETAILS AND PRIVATE INFORMATION WHICH IS IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE.

DATA PROTECTION NOTICE

For the purpose of UK law Hachette Fillipacchi (UK) Limited (hereinafter "Hachette") is the publisher of this website. This notice explains how we will process your personal information when you provide details via the publications and associated websites listed here. Should you require further information as to what your data protection rights are, the various issues involved, as well as access to the relevant legislation, please go to http://www.ico.gov.uk/. Hachette publishes the following magazines and related websites: Sugar, Elle, Elle Decoration, Red, Psychologies, Real Homes, All about Soap and Inside Soap magazine. Hachette is registered as the data controller under the Data Protection Act 1988. Hachette's principal place of business is: 64 North Row, London W1K 7LL.

DATA INFORMATION

Subject to your consent (see below), we would like to share your information with our partners whom we have selected in order to provide you with additional offers, products and services that may be of interest to you. They or we may contact you by mail, telephone, SMS (text messaging), e-mail or fax.

We, as the data controller, may use your details, for administration (including the provision of any goods, services or information that you have requested), marketing, customer services and the profiling of your purchasing preferences. When we have your permission, we may disclose this information to others for similar purposes. If another company is the data controller, this will be made clear when you provide your personal information. We may keep your information for a reasonable period.

We may employ external companies to act on our behalf as processors. Data processors will not disclose personal details to any other organisations or use data other than for purposes required by us. This use is stipulated under contract with us.

DATA CONSENT

PLEASE NOTE THAT IF YOU PROVIDE US WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION, WE, AND OTHER SELECTED COMPANIES, WILL ONLY USE THIS INFORMATION FOR MARKETING PURPOSES IF YOU PERMIT US OR THEM TO DO SO.

When providing us with your personal details, you have at this point the opportunity to opt to receive information by post, SMS or email. If you do not opt to do so, you will not receive information concerning any of our special offers or promotions in the future. By supplying your email address, address and mobile number, you have the option to allow Hachette to contact you with these offers, products and/or services by email, post or SMS. You will also have the option to opt to receive similar information from our marketing partners and agents.

If you give us information about another person, (for example if you ask us to invite your friends to join the Sugarscape service) you confirm that they have appointed you to act for them, and that they consent to the processing of their personal data, including personal data, to the transfer of their information abroad and to the receipt on their behalf, of any relevant data protection notices.

By using this website you consent to the arrangements in place for the use and protection of your personal data.

COOKIES

Hachette websites use cookies (not the edible kind). A 'cookie' is a piece of information that our websites send to your browser, which then stores this information on your system. If a cookie is used, our website will be able to remember 'information' about you and your preferences either until you exit your current browser window (if the cookie is temporary) or until you disable or delete the cookie (see below). We use information from cookies for purposes which may include:

• identifying returning users, registrants and subscribers and to allow subscribers to be presented with a personalised version of the site;
• enabling you to move more easily around our site;
• tracking your use of the Sugarscape site to better develop it in accordance with your requirements; and
• building up a profile of all our users

You should be aware that cookies contain no more information than you volunteer, and they are not able to 'invade' your hard drive and return to the sender with personal or other information from your computer.

The Hachette website also makes use of ad-serving cookies. These assure that when you visit a website, you do not see the same ad over and over again. They are also used to sequence ads in a series, and to measure the number of unique visitors that have viewed a particular ad or visited a particular Web page. Cookies, set or read with clear GIFs, are also used by advertisers for ad reporting functions such as to learn which of their ads are bringing users to their website to purchase or register.

You can utilise our websites without cookies since these can be deleted from your hard drive at any time. However, if you use our websites without cookies, you will lose your stored username and password (and these will have to be reset). You can also set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your computer. This may reduce functionality of the site, prevent access to subscriber-only areas of the site and mean that certain features or content will not be available to you. If you require further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer we recommend the following website: http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the "manage cookies" section.

If you are worried in particular about ad-serving cookies, these have to be turned off by going to the third party's website, http://www.emediate.no/privacy.htm. This gives details of their usage of cookies. They should be contacted in the event you require details of how to disable these ad-serving cookies.