Thank you for visiting AskGuides and reviewing our privacy and cookie policies.

Please be assured that AskGuides is dedicated to protecting our users´ personal data at all times and this internet site and our business abides by and exceeds UK, European Union and US regulations in the field.

1. Introduction

This policy was constituted to establish AskGuides´s dedication to privacy and security, also equally disclose all processes related to data collecting and dissemination practices.

The following discloses data gathering and dissemination practices for the AskGuides internet site and related media.

For the purposes of this policy, “us”, “we”, and “our” relates to AskGuides, and/or AskGuides’s employees, both as symbolising the aforesaid site handled by this policy; “you” and “your” refers to you as an individual user of such a site.

2. Data AskGuides Accumulates and Utilises

The majority of public data and services on our internet site are provided without the gathering of any personally recognisable information from you.

3. Information Provided by You Directly to Us

Occasionally, you may be asked to supply personally identifiable data. This information will be utilised to facilitate your use of AskGuides´s services.

Events wherever you’ll be required to state personally identifiable data may include submitting an online form for registration, application, or related activities.

Please note: you’ll always be well aware whilst we’re collecting your personally identifiable information, as you’ll be entering and/or submitting that data through an online form and/or similar process.

4. If You Send Us Personal data

In certain cases, personally identifiable data that you supply and/or have rendered to certain divisions of AskGuides, for other activities such as submitting a enquiry form, registering for our blog, etc., Perhaps used by us to best serve you.

In all such instances, personally recognisable data is provided and used within appropriate guidelines, and only to the extent to which it’s necessary in your power to use our websites, and/or for us to provide you with data and services.

No data, including your e-mail address, will be traded or dispensed to any other organization.

4.1. Your Right to Request a Copy of Information Held by AskGuides About You

Under the UK Data Protection Act you’ve the right to call for a copy of the personal data AskGuides holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected.

We will exercise all reasonable efforts to provide, rectify or erase personal data about you on our files.

Please contact us stating your request to receiving such information.

5. Information Gathered from You Passively by Us

AskGuides’s websites passively accumulate data about its users.

Such passive gathering may not be readily noticeable, and may include, but isn’t be limited to: IP Address, domain from which a person accessed the web, individual pages accessed within AskGuides’s website, access and session times, environmental variables such as web browser, platform, and operating system, the URL from which you came, the URL you visit when leaving.

This data is accumulated and analysed to enhance our websites, detect problems, determine trends, observe security, and overall, to assist us in improving the offering of data and services.

This information is typically non-personally identifiable, however, may be aggregated with personally identifiable data to better provide information and services to our users.

6. Links to Other Sites

AskGuides has links to other sites. We ascertain that none of these are of an ‘adult’ nature. Once you link to a different site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the new web site which AskGuides advises you to review.

AskGuides does not accept any obligation or liability for the privacy customs of such third party sites and your use of such websites is at your own peril.

7. Children

The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) protects the online privacy and personal information of children younger than 13. In compliance with this act, AskGuides requires permission from a parent or guardian before responding to mailed or emailed requests from children younger than 13. The parent or guardian must provide his or her name and phone number as part of the child’s message to us. We then confirm permission over the phone before responding to the child’s question or comment.

8. Cookies

Cookies are data a website can send to your browser and that might be stored on your hard drive. They are used to keep track of passwords, preferences, and various aspects of a user’s “session” with a website, and can be used to direct advertisements and prepare customized Web pages.

We do not send or make use of cookies, other than to enhance your user experience by ensuring you are not, for instance, presented with the same banner advertisement repeatedly.

9. Security

To protect the loss, abuse, theft, or otherwise unauthorised accesses of personally identifiable information, as well as the overall integrity of all data and services offered, our websites and associated systems maintain stringent security measures.

We take technical, contractual, administrative, and physical security steps to protect personally identifiable data and related systems.

We can not guarantee that this information will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this policy.

10. Platform for Privacy Preferences Initiative (P3P)

AskGuides is supporting the development of technologies that will provide you to manage and moderate the release of your personal information whenever you go on the Internet.

AskGuides’s website is compliant with the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium in their current P3P specification.