We use your information in the following ways:

• to ensure that our Site’s content is presented as effectively as possible for you;
• for our internal purposes, such as quality control, site performance, system administration and to evaluate use of our site, so that we can provide you with enhanced services;
• to notify you about changes to our services;
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us, or which we feel may interest you (provided of course that you agree);
• to create reports to assist with future marketing;
• to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts with you and for billing and delivery purposes;
  to enable you to participate in the features of our site, when you choose to do so.
• We may monitor your use of our site and record your email address and/or IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical information about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
• We collect non-personal aggregated statistics data about visitors to this Site and sales and traffic patterns. Just to be clear, this information does not identify users in any personal capacity and we do not use this information to build profiles on individual users: it just contains generalized information about the users of our Site.
• We only keep your information for as long as is necessary.

We may use “cookies” to collect the information referred to and track your use of our site. Cookies are small data files which gather information about your use of our site and help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site.

If you are an existing customer, we may contact you by email with information about products and services which are similar to those we previously provided to you, unless you have indicated that you do not want to hear from us.

If you are a new customer, we may contact you by email only if you consent.

If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please tick the relevant boxes during the order process when we collect your information. You may ask us at any time not to use your information for marketing purposes by contacting us at tbotill@hotmail.com

We may share your information with other organizations:

We may also share your information with selected third parties for the purposes of credit card clearance/credit reference/order fulfillment/delivery/data analysis/customer support/ storage services.

We may pass your email address to selected third parties (as described in paragraph 4.3) provided that you have explicitly consented to this when we take your order.

If you link your account with a social media site e.g. Facebook and, to the extent that your Facebook account settings allow, to other Facebook Users.

All your information is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Any actions you perform on the site which are related to your account will be encrypted. If you have a username, password or other login details which enable you to access certain parts of our site, you must not allow any other person to use them and must treat them as confidential. If you believe or suspect that someone else knows your login details you must contact us at tbotill@hotmail.com as soon as possible. Please also see our Terms and Conditions.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will apply our normal procedures and comply with legal requirements to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

Our Site may from time to time contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of those sites, please note that those sites ought to have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those sites or for their privacy policies. Please check those privacy policies before you submit your information to those sites. Please also see our Terms and Conditions for further provisions relating to other websites.

You can access and rectify certain parts of your personal information by logging into your account.

Under the Data Protection Act you have the right to see the personal information that we hold about you, whether collected through your use of the Site or through any communications that you have had with us. You have the right to access your information and should direct any request for your information to us at jtodd@thecorcoranjournal.net. Please note that currently a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) may be payable to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

You have the right to rectify your information by sending us a written request to us at tbotill@hotmail.com

You have the right to ask us not to process your information (or pass your information to other companies or organizations) for marketing purposes. You can tick the appropriate box on the forms when we collect your information or later at any time by contacting us at tbotill@hotmail.com

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time by sending you an e-mail with the modified terms or by posting a copy of them on the Site. Any changes will take effect seven (7) days after the date of our e-mail or the date on which we post the modified terms on the Site, whichever is the earlier. Your continued use of the Site after that period expires means that you agree to be bound by the modified policy.

Questions, comments or requests concerning this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to us at tbotill@hotmail.com.

Data removal requests will be honored. Please use our data removal form located here.

This Site is owned by The Corcoran Journal, a company incorporated in Corcoran, California, USA. The registered office address is 1040 Whitley Ave., Corcoran CA 93212.