The Shipping Digest is committed to protecting the privacy of Shipping Digest subscribers. This statement outlines our privacy and data protection policy.

Collection and Use of User Details

Personal details of users of Shipping Digest will be collected and processed upon registration to our website. All personal information is collected with the knowledge of users of Shipping Digest via the website's order and registration forms only. This information is collected for the following purposes:

• order fulfillment
• to notify users of relevant new products
• to notify users of promotional activities both within Shipping Digest and across Commonwealth Business Media of companies.

If you do not wish to receive information about our products or services or information from other organisations about products or services offered by them, please check the appropriate box on the registration form. However, we may disclose your information to business partners and third party suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf.

User information is retained for in-house research to:

• improve our understanding of customer needs and product development
• build marketing profiles
• aid strategic development
• manage our relationship with advertisers

All results of such research and analysis will be anonymised or aggregated information and will not reveal any personal facts about individual customers.

The Shipping Digest is part of Commonwealth Business Media, which operates from offices worldwide. Steps have been taken to ensure that consistently high standards of data protection are adhered to in all our offices for all the forms of processing mentioned above.

User Choices

All registration and order forms provide users with a series of choices as regards further promotional activity, forms of communication and third party processing. When filling out order or registration forms on Shipping Digest, users should indicate whether they are receptive to the use of e-mail to inform them of further Shipping Digest promotional literature. If you are keen to be kept informed about other Shipping Digest products as well as technical/functional developments related to our website and on-line services then you should check the appropriate box. You may also indicate whether you wish to receive such information from other Commonwealth Business Media businesses. We may occasionally allow other similar but reputable organisations which may be of interest to contact you. If you don't wish to hear from these companies, please check the appropriate box on the order/registration form to opt out of such activity.

Cookies

A cookie is small file, which is placed on the user's hard drive following a Shipping Digest visit. This file subsequently allows the user to move quickly and easily around our site by keeping a record of your previous visit(s). We do not link this information to users' personal details, Cookies can be deleted from a PC's hard drive at any time by the user.

Security Policy or Security Guarantee

The Shipping Digest aims to maintain appropriate measures to ensure that users' personal details are not misused, accidentally destroyed, lost or altered within The Shipping Digest server environment. All credit card details are encrypted for transmission over the Internet to our server(s). Occasions will arise when customer information is passed outside The Shipping Digest to other data processors (e.g., fulfilment bureaux and database consultants) but these will only be authorised to act upon instruction from The Shipping Digest in order to perform the services required.

Transfer of Personal Data Overseas

Given that the Internet is a global environment, using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing Shipping Digest and communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.

It is important to us that we have your correct contact information so that you don't miss out on further correspondence or experience problems with the delivery of products. To notify us of any changes simply send your new details, along with your old details to customersvs@joc.com.