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Privacy policy

This website is owned and maintained by The Dorset Magazine Limited whose registered office is at 3 Rempstone Barns, Rempstone, Corfe Castle, Wareham Dorset BH20 5JH. The Dorset Magazine Limited is committed to safeguarding the privacy of visitors to its websites. Please read the following policy to understand how we will treat your personal information when you use this website. This policy may vary from time to time so please check it regularly.

What happens to the information collected on this website

Whenever you visit a page of this website, certain information is automatically stored in a log file. This includes demographic data and browsing patterns, but does not include data which may identify an individual user. This information is only used for statistical purposes to help improve this site and provide accurate statistics to advertisers in the form of aggregated data.

We may use “cookies” to identify you when you visit this website. A cookie is a small file that can be placed on your computer’s hard disk or on a website server. Such cookies do not retrieve information about you stored on your hard drive and do not corrupt or damage your computer or computer files. You are not obliged to accept a cookie that we send you, and you can in fact modify a browser so that it will not accept cookies. For more information about cookies including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.

We may also collect personal information from you through enquiry and registration forms and every time you e-mail us your details or log on using your user name and password. We may use this information to personalise aspects of our services, to carry out market research surveys, to run competitions and to provide you with updates about developments on the site and information about the products and services we offer. If you do not wish to receive information about our products or services, please email us at office@dorsetlife.co.uk

We will not disclose any information we hold about you to any third party without your permission. However, please note that in order to process your data we may on occasion be required to share your information with other group companies or any suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf.

Please be aware that we cannot guarantee that third party services accessible through this website operate the same Privacy Policy.

Security

We use up-to-date storage and security techniques to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and any suppliers we engage to process your data are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.

If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy or would like us to amend or destroy your details please contact us at the email address provided above.