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THE-ASCOTT.COM PRIVACY STATEMENT
Revised and posted as of 27th May 2003.
The-Ascott.com is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. Please read the
following statement to understand how your personal information will be treated
as you make full use of the The-Ascott.com Web site. The The-Ascott.com Web
site is owned and operated by The Ascott Ltd.
Cookies
A cookie is a data file that certain Web sites write to your computer's
hard drive when you visit such sites. A cookie can contain information, such as
a user identification code, that the site uses to track the pages you have
visited. The-Ascott.com uses cookies solely to track user traffic patterns
throughout the The-Ascott.com Web site. We use this data on an anonymous basis
and we do not correlate this information with personal data of any user.
Most Web site browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can change
your browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, or to
refuse all cookies. However, if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies
from our Web site, you may not be able to use certain features of the site.
What Information Do We Collect?
The-Ascott.com does not collect personally identifying information about
any individual user except when knowingly provided by such individual. For
example, we may ask you for information when you register as an online member,
for a contest or survey or to receive a newsletter etc. You always have the
option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide
the information we request, you can still visit most of the The-Ascott.com Web
site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services.
The-Ascott.com Web servers automatically notes and saves information about a
site user's IP address, browser type and referrer from the user's browser
(information provided by every user's browser). This information is collected
in a database and used - in an aggregated, anonymous manner - in our internal
analysis of traffic patterns within our Web site. This information is
automatically logged by most Web sites.
Use of Information
Our primary goal in collecting user information is to enhance your
experience on our Web site. We achieve this goal by, among other things,
providing interactive communications such as our electronic newsletters to the
e-mail address that you provide to us, and developing future editorial content
based on your interests. To develop content targeted to your interests, we use
aggregated user information to determine which areas of our Web site users
prefer based upon traffic to those areas.
The-Ascott.com keeps all such information strictly confidential and does not
reuse, resell or redistribute it for trade in any way. The-Ascott.com may
disclose information about our users if we are required to do so in order to
comply with any valid legal process.
When you are on an area of The-Ascott.com and are asked for personal
information, you are sharing that information with The-Ascott.com as well as
business partners and vendors providing hosting and other services for
The-Ascott.com. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can
choose not to allow the transfer of your information by not using that
particular service. These parties, as well as advertisers who contract directly
with a third-party service providers to serve their advertisements, may set
their own cookies.
Your consent and changes to the Privacy Policy
By using The-Ascott.com web site, you consent to the collection and use of
your information as we have outlined in this policy and to that in our
Terms of Use statement. The Ascott Limited may decide to change this
Privacy Policy from time to time and those changes will be posted on this page.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free
to contact us by email at webmaster@the-ascott.com.
This statement may change from time to time, so please check back periodically.
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