INTRODUCTION
Thank you for visiting www.blacktomato.co.uk. This Site is owned and operated by Black Tomato.
For purposes of the policy, references to "we," "our," and "us" mean Black Tomato.
This Site provides a wide range of information to our Site's visitors. Like many web
sites, we also collect information from our visitors, including personally
identifiable information (your full name, e-mail address, phone number)and
non-personally identifiable information (e.g., aggregate statistics about what
parts of our Site are most popular). This privacy policy is designed to tell
you about our information collection practices at this Site - that is, the ways
we collect information; what kinds of information we collect; why we collect
information; how we use information we collect; with whom we share information
we collect; how you can access, amend, and delete information we collect from
you; and what kinds of security we use to protect information you provide.
Before using this Site - and particularly before submitting personally
identifiable information via this Site - you should read this entire policy.
Use of this Site constitutes your agreement to the terms of this policy. If the
terms and conditions of the policy are not acceptable to you, do not submit any
personally identifiable information via this Site.
2. SCOPE OF POLICY
Please be aware that this policy applies only to this Site. Within this Site,
you may see links or references to other web sites which are not covered by
this policy and are likely to have different information practices. We
therefore encourage you to read the privacy policy of each web site you visit.
We provide these references and links for your convenience; they should not be
construed as an endorsement of such sites, their content, or their information
practices. You are solely responsible for any interactions you may have with
such web sites.
3. ACTIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION
This Site collects information from its visitors in two ways: actively and
passively. Active information collection refers to instances in which we gather
information from you when you fill it in and send it to us, such as by
completing a registration form, signing up for an electronic newsletter, or
sending us a message via an e-mail reply mechanism provided by this Site.
Active information collection can include both personally identifiable
information (e.g., your full name or information that is unique to you) and
non-personally identifiable information (e.g., if we were to ask for your first
name and a list of the top three things you like about our Site). Passive
information collection refers to instances in which we collect information from
you that you have not actively provided (please see the next section of this
policy for a summary of our passive information collection practices).
Registration Information
If you are interested in receiving electronic updates, alerts, and other
information from us regarding this Site and our products and services, you must
provide us with an e-mail address. In completing your registration, we may also ask for optional information, such as
how you found us, to help us better serve you in the future.
Feedback Information
We welcome your comments and feedback regarding this Site and our products,
services and programs. This Site provides an e-mail address that
permits you to send us your own e-mail address, comments, and any other
information you choose to include. E-mail is not secure. As a
result, you should carefully consider what information you wish to send to us
via e-mail.
4. PASSIVE INFORMATION COLLECTION
We may use special technologies to passively collect information while you are
visiting www.blacktomato.co.uk (that is, you do not actively provide
this information). These technologies allow us to collect certain kinds of
non-personally identifiable information, including your Internet domain name,
the type of web browser you use, the operating system you use, the date and
time of your visit www.blacktomato.co.uk, the specific pages you visit, and
the address of the web site you visited prior to entering
www.blacktomato.co.uk. We do not link this passively collected non-personally
identifiable information with personally identifiable information you have
actively provided elsewhere on this Site. We reserve the right to share with
third parties, including our business partners and advertisers, the anonymous
aggregated information that we have passively collected via this Site.
Below we have summarized the primary means of passive information collection at
our Site.
Cookies
This Site uses cookies, which are small text files that store non-personally
identifiable information about you, either temporarily in connection with your
Internet Protocol (IP) address (known as a temporary or session cookie, and
deleted once you close your browser window) or more permanently on the hard
drive of your computer (known as a permanent or persistent cookie). This Site
uses session cookies so that you do not have to fill in the same information
from page to page within www.blacktomato.co.uk. If you elect not to
receive cookies, you may be able to view some, but not all, of the content on
this Site.
Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
This Site uses Internet protocol (IP) addresses. IP addresses are unique
identifiers automatically assigned to each computer when logging onto the
Internet. IP addresses allow us to collect much of the same information we
collect through cookies, including browser type, what pages you visit, and how
long you stay on the Site. In general, IP addresses allow us to identify
problems with our servers, prepare aggregate demographic information and other
information regarding this use of this Site, and improve the functions of this
Site.
5. WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION
The personally identifiable information we collect from you will only be used
and disclosed in accordance with this policy or as specifically disclosed to
you at the time you provide the information. We will not sell, lease, transfer,
share, or otherwise permit access to your personally identifiable information
with any third parties other than as described in this policy. We reserve the
right to sell, lease, transfer, or otherwise share without restriction
aggregated, de-identified, and other non-personally identifiable information
regarding site usage, sales, traffic patterns, demographics, and other
statistics about our Site or those from whom we collect information via
www.blacktomato.co.uk. We reserve the right to use or disclose personal
information provided via this Site as necessary to respond to your requests,
comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, and law enforcement
inquiries, as required by litigation, to take precautions against liability,
and protect the security and integrity of the Site and the safety of its users.
6. OPTING OUT
We do not seek to collect personally identifiable information from you that you
do not want collected. Toward that end, we indicate at all active information
collection points whether requested information is required or optional. We
also attempt to tell you at the point of collection and in this policy what the
consequences will be (e.g., inability to access important functions of the
Site, less tailoring of information to match your interests, etc.) if you do
not provide the required or optional information. When you submit personally
identifiable information via this Site, whether such information is required or
optional, you consent to its disclosure and use in accordance with this privacy
policy. If you ever decide that you do not wish to receive information from us
regarding our products and services, you may opt out of receiving this
information by contacting us by e-mail at info@BlackTomato.co.uk or by post at Black Tomato, 1 Putney Bridge Approach, Putney, London, SW6 3JD, United Kingdom.
7. INFORMATION ACCESS
We take reasonable steps to ensure that personally identifiable information that
you send us via this Site is accurate, current, and complete. Toward that end,
we provide you with reasonable access to your personal information to correct
errors or delete the information you have provided. If you wish to correct or
delete your personally identifiable information, please contact us by e-mail at info@BlackTomato.co.uk or by post at Black Tomato, 1 Putney Bridge Approach, Putney, London, SW6 3JD, United Kingdom.
To respond to your request or inquiry, we may require follow-up or contact
information to allow us to verify that you are the person authorized to view
the information you are requesting. We may, at our discretion, refuse to allow
you access to certain information if, in our view, to provide such access would
jeopardize another person's privacy; would violate any applicable federal,
state, or foreign law, regulation, or directive; or would unreasonably burden
this Site.
8. DATA SECURITY
Although we take reasonable steps to protect the personally identifiable
information that you provide via this Site, no system is 100% secure or
error-free. Therefore, we do not, and cannot, guarantee the security or
accuracy of the information we gather.
One way we protect your personally identifiable information is through usernames
and passwords. This safety measure is only effective if you protect the secrecy
of both your username and password. If you ever suspect your username or
password may have been compromised or subject to unauthorized use, contact us
immediately at contacting us by e-mail at info@BlackTomato.co.uk.
9. THIS SITE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE BY CHILDREN
This Site is not directed to, and does not seek to collect personally
identifiable information from, children under the age of 13. Nevertheless, if
we are informed that we have collected information from someone in this age
category, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
10. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We reserve the right to change this Policy at any time and in our sole
discretion. If we do change the Policy, the new Policy will be posted here,
along with its revision date, and all information collected following the
posting of such changes will be subject to the new Policy. We want you to know,
however, that before we use or disclose your previously collected personally
identifiable information in a materially different manner from that to which
you agreed, we will first secure your affirmative consent for such use or
disclosure. Absent such consent, we will use your personally identifiable
information in accordance with the Policy in effect at the time we collected
the information. We encourage you to check this Policy periodically and - at a
minimum - before each instance in which you provide personally identifiable
information via this Site.
This policy was last revised on April 1, 2005.
