This privacy policy explains how myageingparent.com uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Any identifying information we ask you to provide will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

myageingparent.com may change this policy from time to time by updating this page, so please do check it from regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from June 1, 2013.

Your consent

• By using this site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and myageingparent.com’s Terms of Use.
• Whenever you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of that information in accordance with those Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, i.e.
  • What we collect
  • We may collect the following information:
  • your email address
  • your chosen Share/ Forum name and password
  • demographic information, such as your postcode and your IP address and, if you want to tell us,  your date of birth
  • We will use the information to understand your needs
  • provide you with a better service, and in particular:
  • For internal record keeping.
  • To improve our services, and email you responses to posts you have reported.
  • To send you emails and newsletters about related subjects to My Ageing Parent
  • To contact you, but only with your prior permission, by email for market-research purposes.
  • To offer you, on our website pages, information based on your location.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical and electronic procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

 Passive Information Collection

• As you navigate through this site, certain anonymous information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without your actively providing the information) using various technologies, such as cookies*, clicktags, beacons and other navigational data collection (such as server logs). Your internet browser automatically transmits to this site some of this anonymous information, such as the url of the website you just came from and the IP address and the browser version your computer is currently using.
• This helps us analyse data about our site traffic, so we can improve My Ageing Parent and tailor it more to our members’ need
• All information is anonymous and only used for operational purposes.

*A cookie is a small file which “asks permission” to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may, however, prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links or references to other websites, to which this Privacy Policy does not apply. If you click on these links to leave our site, you should note that we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide whilst visiting those sites. We suggest you always look at the privacy statement of any other website you visit.

Controlling your personal information

• You may choose to change or restrict the use of your personal information by changing your  registration details and subscribing/unsubscribing to our email options.
• We will not give your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are specifically required to by law.
• You may ask us to provide details of the personal information we hold about you, under the Data Protection Act 1998. To request this information, please mail us at [email protected]
• If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible. We will, of course, happily correct any information that’s found to be incorrect.