Last Updated: July 2006
Introduction
OK-mail takes your privacy seriously and takes every reasonable precaution to safeguard
the personal information you supply to it
OK-mail recognizes that your privacy and the protection of your personal information
is important to you, this statement discloses how OK-mail helps to protect your
personal information while using the OK-mail website
http://www.ok-mail.co.uk.
OK-mail is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998 under registration number
Z4684959. The information you provide is safeguarded under the terms of that Act.
To find out more information about the data protection act please visit
http://www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk
Collection of your personal information
In order to use this Web site, you must first choose the subjects that you are interested
in and then complete the registration form and choose a password. During registration
you are required to give contact information (such as name and email address). We
use this information to contact you about the services on our site in which you
have expressed interest.
You have the option to provide demographic information (such as income level and
gender) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you
a more personalized experience on our site.
Once you register with OK-mail you will receive a welcome email, and a weekly or
monthly newsletter packed with great offers, information and prizes for you to win.
OK-mail is the sole owner of the information collected on
http://www.ok-mail.co.uk. OK-mail collects personally identifiable information
from our users at several different points on our Web site.
OK-mail collects demographic (information about you, such as name, age and address)
and lifestyle (information about your interests and purchasing habits). OK-mail
collects data about you, including answers to specific questions such as the main
and sub topics that you are interested in. This information is used to allow OK-mail
and third parties in sending you by, email, sms, voice, post or other appropriate
means, communications about their products and services that are relevant to you.
Use of your personal information
OK-mail will not use or share your personal information in a manner that differs
from what is described within this Privacy Statement and within the registration
opt-in statement without your prior consent. The following statement is prominently
displayed before you can join OK-mail
By registering and entering your details you consent to OK-mail and its clients
sending you information about products and/or services that have been selected based
on your stated interests.
You also agree to the terms and conditions of the privacy statement that govern
how your information will be processed.
Your data together with that of other subscribers to OK-mail may be aggregated at
Postcode or other levels for the building of statistical and analytical tables.
At no time will your data be individually identifiable in such tables.
General Disclosure of Personal Information
Aggregate Information (non-personally identifiable) - We do not link aggregate user
data with personally identifiable information.
Personally identifiable information - We Share Personally Identifiable Information
with Third Parties, we share the information that you have answered within the questionnaires
with the relevant client. The clients use this to profile you, this enables them
to send you targeted communications.
Once you register with OK-mail you consent to OK-mail and it's clients being able
to send you relevant communications based on your chosen interests.
The collection of data by OK-mail through registration on third party sites may
lead to your data also being held by that third party site.
The data that you provide to OK-mail, is held by both OK-mail and the sponsors,
of the questionnaires that you answer. OK-mail holds your data in a central database
and this database is only accessed by reference to interest or demographic categories
in order to provide you with information about those interests you have selected.
The process of supplying you with this information is at all times under the control
of OK-mail although specialist third party suppliers may carry out the dispatch.
Sponsored Questionnaires and Co-branded sites
Every user must agree and opt-in to the following statement before completing their
OK-mail registration:
By registering and entering your details you consent to OK-mail and its clients
sending you information about products and/or services that have been selected based
on your stated interests. You also agree to the terms and conditions of the privacy
policy that govern how your information will be processed.
Completion of the registration page allows you to select the topics about which
you would like to receive information and offers. The completion of in-depth questions
on specific topics of interest allows us to refine our selections and ensure that
you only receive information and offers appropriate to you.
OK-mail practices 'permission marketing'. This means that when you submit your registration
details you do so on the understanding that you will receive offers (only from OK-mail,
its sponsors or its clients) based on the information you have provided. OK-mail,
its clients and sponsors may also use the address details on the registration page
to send you offers or information in the post. If you prefer not to receive such
offers please logon and amend your details. You can amend your login details or
de-register at any time via 'Amend Details', at the top left of the page.
At times it may be appropriate for OK-mail, its clients or sponsors to contact you
with offers and information in respect of your interests or to inform you about
subjects upon which you have requested information through your mobile phone or
other PDA devices. Before doing so OK-mail will always ask you for your specific
consent. If having given consent previously, you wish to withdraw this consent you
may do so by logging on and amending your details on the site.
Your data may be provided to clients of OK-mail to be appended to information they
already hold about you for the purpose of contacting you with information about
their products and services. When first contacting you these clients will seek your
appropriate consent.
OK-mail may from time to time use third party suppliers to provide all or part of
a service to you. OK-mail shall only be entitled to supply such of your personal
information as is necessary to enable them to provide the relevant service to you.
You should be aware that such outside service providers might be based in countries
outside the European Union whose laws provide for a different standard of protection
for your personal data than that provided under English law. In such circumstance
OK-mail will have in place contractual arrangements which will require your data
to be processed at least to a standard compliant with the Data Protection Act 1988.
Except as provided above, OK-mail will not provide your personal information to
any third party without your prior consent, however, under certain circumstances
the force of law may require the provision of information to the legal authorities.
In order to maintain the integrity of its website and safeguard the interests of
its subscribers OK-mail will comply with any such legally binding request.
Managing your personal information
The data you provide to OK-mail will be held as you have provided it. You may at
any time amend or update your data by visiting OK-mail at http://www.ok-mail.co.uk/Account.aspx,
login and click on My Account page line. There you will find the Personal Info panel
where you can amend or update your details.
You are entitled to see the information held about you and you may ask us to make
any necessary changes to ensure that it is accurate and kept up to date. If you
wish to do this, please
contact us.
We are entitled by law to charge a maximum fee of £10 to meet our costs in
providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Deregistration and un-subscribing from emails
You may at any time deregister from OK-mail by visiting http://www.ok-mail.co.uk/Account.aspx
logging on and selecting the deregister option located within the My Account page.
The consequences of deregistration are that your account details will be placed
in a suppression file and you will not receive any further email communications
from OK-mail.
There is information on how you can un-subscribe at the bottom of every email that
OK-mail send out ether on behalf of OK-mail or its clients and sponsors.
Each email that OK-mail sends contains the following information:
This email has been sent to the following address: your@emailaddress. We respect
your privacy and only send emails to registered users.
You can unsubscribe from our promotions mailing list in three ways (please allow
five working days from receipt for us to process your request):
Online - by visiting our website, using the link below. http://
Email - by using the link below to send us an email with the word 'unsubscribe'
in the subject line (please note this must be sent from the registered email address,
your@emailaddress). mailto:
Post - by writing to the address below, including your full name, registered email
address, and the website you are unsubscribing from. To change your preferences
or to de-register please visit: http://www.ok-mail.co.uk/Account.aspx
For more information about us, or to view our privacy policy, please visit the links
below.
Privacy: http://www.ok-mail.co.uk/Privacy.aspx
About Us: http://www.ok-mail.co.uk/About.aspx
OK-mail Ltd, 46 Gillingham Street, London SW1V 1AH
We provide you the opportunity to 'opt-out' of having your personally identifiable
information used for certain purposes, when we ask for this information. For example,
if you answer questions from one of our loans clients but do to apply for a loan
you can state not applicable and you will not receive communication from the loan
client.
If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications,
you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each
newsletter or communication or by
emailing us. We offer an opportunity to opt-out of certain communications
on our
My Account section on OK-mail or you may contact us at 020 7932 4188 or
OK-mail Limited, 46 Gillingham Street, London, SW1V 1HU
You will be notified when your personal information is collected by any third party
that is not our agent/service provider, so you can make an informed choice as to
whether or not to share your information with that party.
Refer a friend
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will
ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit OK-mail. OK-mail stores this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, tracking the success
of our referral program and to make sure that the recipient only receives 1 email.
This information is held for 1 month.
Your friend may contact us at
here to request that we remove this information from our database
Security and storage of your personal information
The Internet is not a 100% secure medium for communication and, accordingly, OK-mail
cannot guarantee the security of any information you send to OK-mail via the Internet.
OK-mail is not responsible for any loss or damage you or others may suffer as a
result of the loss of confidentiality of such information.
OK-mail is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We
use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we store
the personal information you provide on computer systems with limited access, which
are located in controlled facilities.
You must type the correct password to access your OK-mail account information. It
is your responsibility to ensure the security of your OK-mail password and not to
reveal this information to others.
Personal information collected by OK-mail may be stored and processed outside the
United Kingdom. By using OK-mail, you consent to any such transfer of information
outside of the United Kingdom.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a very small text file that a Web site saves to your computer's hard
disk to store information that you provide about yourself or to store your preferences.
OK-mail uses cookies whenever you login to OK-mail. OK-mail stores your unique ID
number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This
cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to Login
in again on each page. OK-mail uses session cookies to store data on our server
that are individually identifiable when you log out of OK-mail, these session cookies
are deleted from your computer.
OK-mail also uses cookies to improve the login experience. For example, OK-mail
may store your login details in a cookie that will remain on your computer after
you log out. This cookie allows you to be automatically logged in the next time
you visit OK-mail. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this
information to be stored, you can un-check the "remember me" tick box when you login
or register, and this cookie will not be used.
The sites or services you visited may store their own cookies on your computer.
OK-mail recommends that you read each site's privacy statement to understand their
policies and practices regarding the use of cookies. You have the ability to accept
or decline cookies using the settings on your browser. If you have cookies disabled
in your browser you are still able to use the OK-mail site but you will not have
the benefit of an automatic login.
The functionality of OK-mail depends upon your browser accepting session cookies.
OK-mail tracks visitors to and on the OK-mail site by using referrer tracking. OK-mail
uses click thru and open mail tracking when sending emails. This process allows
OK-mail and its clients the ability to profile the recipients of their communications.
Or our third party advertising partner employs a software technology called clear
gifs (a.k.a. Web Beacons/Web Bugs), that help us better manage content on our site
by informing us what content is effective. Clear gifs are tiny graphics with a unique
identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements
of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user's computer hard
drive, clear gifs are embedded invisibly on Web pages and are about the size of
the period at the end of this sentence. We do not tie the information gathered by
clear gifs to our customers' personally identifiable information.
To learn more about our advertising company's use of clear gifs, please go to http://www.fastclick.com
Some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers) use cookies on our site. We have
no access to or control over these cookies.
On this website we use Sitestat, a Nedstat product, to measure and analyse information
with respect to visits to our website. To that effect we use your IP address to
collect, among other things, Internet traffic data and data regarding your browser
type and computer.
In addition cookies are used. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer
when you visit a website. If you visit the website again, it is recognized as a
repeat visit by means of the cookie. The cookie contains merely a unique number
and therefore no personal data. The cookie cannot be used to identify you on websites
of third parties, including Nedstat.
It is possible to configure your web browser to refuse cookies or to be informed
if a cookie is set. We refer to the manual of your web browser.
We will not use the IP addresses or cookies to identify you personally.
We use the services of Nedstat in order to increase the efficiency of our websites.
This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by
http://www.ok-mail.co.uk only and does not cover the use of cookies by any
advertisers
Third Party Advertisers
The ads appearing on this Web site are delivered to users by ADservrePRO®, our
advertising partner. We share Web site usage information about users with a reputable
third ADservrePRO® for the purpose of targeting our Internet banner advertisements
on this site.
AdservrePRO® uses cookies and clear GIFs on this site, which allow it to recognize
a user's cookie when a user visits this site. The information that AdservrePRO®
collects and shares through this technology is not personally identifiable.
For more information about our third-party advertiser, or to learn more about the
choices available to you regarding this anonymous information, please go to
http://www.advertserve.com/
Changes to this Privacy Statement
OK-mail will occasionally update this Privacy Statement. When we do, we will also
revise the 'last updated' date at the top and bottom of the Privacy Statement. OK-mail
will obtain your opt-in consent for any updates to this Privacy Statement that materially
expand the sharing or use of your personal information in ways not disclosed in
this Privacy Statement at the time of collection.
If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will
ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. OK-mail stores this
information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email and tracking the
success of our referral program.
You may contact us
here to request that we remove this information from our database.
Contact information
If you have questions regarding this Privacy Statement, please contact OK-mail at:
By email:
Click here you send us your enquires
By post:
OK-mail Limited
46 Gillingham Street
London
SW1V 1AH