1. Statement of intent
From time to
time, you will be asked to submit personal
information about yourself (e.g. name and email
address etc) in order to receive or use services
on our website. Such services include
newsletters, competitions, "Alert
Email", live chats, message boards and
WBMX.COM membership.
By entering
your details in the fields requested, you enable
WBMX.COM and its service providers to provide
you with the services you select. Whenever you
provide such personal information, we will treat
that information in accordance with this policy.
Our services are designed to give you the
information that you want to receive WBMX.COM
will act in accordance with current legislation
and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
2. Information on visitors
During the
course of any visit to WBMX.COM, the pages you
see, along with something called a cookie, are
downloaded to your computer (see point 3 for
more on this). Most, if not all, websites do
this, because cookies allow the website
publisher to do useful things like find out
whether the computer (and probably its user) has
visited the site before. This is done on a
repeat visit by checking to see, and finding,
the cookie left there on the last visit.
Any information
that is supplied by cookies can help us to
provide you with a better service and assists us
to analyze the profile of our visitors. For
example: if on a previous visit you went to,
say, the education pages, then we might find
this out from your cookie and highlight
educational information on a second visit.
3. What is a cookie?
When you enter
a site your computer will automatically be
issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files
that identify your computer to our server.
Cookies in themselves do not identify the
individual user, just the computer used. Many
sites do this whenever a user visits their site
in order to track traffic flows.
Cookies
themselves only record those areas of the site
that have been visited by the computer in
question, and for how long. Users have the
opportunity to set their computers to accept all
cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued,
or not to receive cookies at any time. The last
of these, of course, means that certain
personalized services cannot then be provided to
that user.
NB:
Even if you haven't set your computer to reject
cookies you can still browse our site
anonymously until such time as you register for
WBMX.COM services.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply
any personal information to WBMX.COM (e.g. for
competitions, WBMX.COM Community services or
WBMX.COM membership) we have legal obligations
towards you in the way we deal with that data.
We must collect the information fairly, that is,
we must explain how we will use it (see the
notices on particular WebPages that let you know
why we are requesting the information) and tell
you if we want to pass the information on to
anyone else. In general, any information you
provide to WBMX.COM will only be used within
WBMX.COM and by its service providers. It will
never be supplied to anyone outside WBMX.COM
without first obtaining your consent, unless we
are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.
Also, if you post or send offensive or
inappropriate content anywhere on or to WBMX.COM
or otherwise engage in any disruptive behavior
on WBMX.COM, and WBMX.COM considers such
behavior to be serious and/or repeated, WBMX.COM
can use whatever information that is available
to it about you to stop such behavior. This may
include informing relevant third parties such as
your employer, school or e-mail provider about
the content and your behavior.
We will hold
your personal information on our systems for as
long as you use the service you have requested,
and remove it in the event that the purpose has
been met, or, in the case of WBMX.COM membership
you no longer wish to continue your registration
as a WBMX.COM member. For safety reasons,
however, WBMX.COM may store messaging transcript
data (including message content, member names,
times and dates) arising from the use of
WBMX.COM Community services such as Connector
for a period of six months. Where personal
information is held for people who are not yet
registered but have taken part in other WBMX.COM
services (eg competitions), that information
will be held only as long as necessary to ensure
that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure
that all personal information supplied is held
securely, in accordance with the Data Protection
Act 1998.
If you are
notified on a WBMX.COM site that your
information may be used to allow WBMX.COM to
contact you for "service administration
purposes", this means that WBMX.COM may
contact you for a number of purposes related to
the service you have signed up for. For example,
we may wish to provide you with password
reminders or notify you that the particular
service has been suspended for maintenance. We
will not contact you for promotional purposes,
such as notifying you of improvements to the
service or new services on WBMX.COM unless you
specifically agree to be contacted for such
purposes at the time you submit your information
on the site, or at a later time if you sign up
specifically to receive such promotional
information.
5. Access to your personal information
You have the
right to request a copy of the personal
information WBMX.COM holds about you and to have
any inaccuracies corrected. We only collect
information that you as a user have signed up
for (such as screen names, passwords used in the
Chat Room, Message Forums, and/or 128k VIP audio
streams.)
6. Users 16 and under
If you are aged
16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's
permission beforehand whenever you provide
personal information to the WBMX.COM's website.
Users without this consent are not allowed to
provide us with personal information.
7. How to find and control your cookies
If you're using Netscape
6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
§
Edit, then
§
Preferences
§
Click on Advanced
§
Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet
Explorer 6.0:
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Choose Tools, then
§
Internet Options
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Click the Privacy Tab
§
Click on Custom Level
§
Click on the 'Advanced' button
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Check the 'override automatic
cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or
Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet
Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
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Choose Tools, then
§
Internet Options
§
Click the Security tab
§
Click on Custom Level
§
Scroll down to the sixth option to
see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to
Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as
appropriate.
If you're using Internet
Explorer 4.0:
§
Choose View, then
§
Internet Options
§
Click the Advanced tab
§
Scroll down to the yellow
exclamation icon under Security and choose one
of the three options to regulate your use of
cookies.
In Internet
Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on
the button that says Warn before Accepting
Cookies.
If you're using Netscape
Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
§
Edit, then
§
Preferences
§
Click on Advanced
§
Set your options in the box that
says Cookies.
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8. How do you know which of the sites you've
visited use cookies?
If you're using Netscape
6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
§
Edit, then
§
Preferences
§
Click on Advanced
§
Click on Cookies
§
Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet
Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
§
Choose Tools, then
§
Internet Options
§
Click the General tab
§
Click Settings
§
View Files
If you're using Internet
Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
§
View, then
§
Internet Options
§
Under the tab General (the default
tab) click
§
Settings
§
View Files.
Internet
Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
§
View
§
Options
§
Advanced
§
View Files.
Netscape
Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on
your hard drive. You'll need to find the file,
which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines. [Top]
9. How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see
a short string of text and numbers. The numbers
are your identification card, which can only be
seen by the server that gave you the cookie. [Top]
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