Privacy Statement

OutingsTogether recognises the confidentiality of information that may be disclosed by members in registering or advertising through our website and we are firmly committed to protecting your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for this site.

Overview

The personal, private or corporate information that is provided to OutingsTogether.co.uk is not provided to unrelated third parties except in rare cases involving possible violations of our usage policies or legal statutes. We do collect some data, always with your knowledge and consent, that is used to enhance content to better meet your needs.

Information submitted by you online (such as your name, address, e-mail address) may be shared with companies with which OutingsTogether has a commercial relationship and through which you reached this site, for marketing purposes. In such circumstances you will be considered their customer as well. If you object to such use, you may opt-out by e-mail request. Under no circumstances will OutingsTogether share your password with any other party.

Demographic information collected through on-site user surveys may be used in aggregate statistical form to attract potential sponsors.

The specifics of our Privacy Policy are best described in the answers to the following Frequently Asked Questions.

Does OutingsTogether ask for personal information?

Yes. OutingsTogether asks for your name, e-mail address, and other limited personal information when you sign up and use certain features. Most of this information may be entered at your discretion.

How Does OutingsTogether use my personal information?

Our goal is to provide you with the most personalised, relevant, user-friendly Web experience possible. The primary use of all your personal information is to efficiently provide you with relevant information.

OutingsTogether will also use registration information to let you know about new features and/or other offers of interest from us, or to address customer service needs and requests.

In distributing advertiser or sponsor messages, the advertiser never has access to individual account information. OutingsTogether does not sell, rent or otherwise distribute the personal information you provide to us to these advertisers. Advertisers simply provide an insertion order for the advertising message and OutingsTogether then displays the advertisement to appropriate users based on the criteria we hold again, with a view to improving the best experience possible.

Does OutingsTogether request or require any personal financial information?

No, no part of the visitor experience requires entry of Credit/Debit card information. As a matter of principle you should be very cautious about handing out this information over the Internet

For commercial interests we use a seperate, secure third party for handling financial transactions in order to guarantee the inetgrity of the information captured.

Will OutingsTogether disclose any of my personal information to third parties?

OutingsTogether will not disclose any of your personal information, except with your knowledge and consent as described in this policy or as may be required by law, or to protect the rights or property of OutingsTogether.

Circumstances where limited personal information may be disclosed are specifically described when the data is collected, such as in the User Agreement, or in the rules of certain promotions. So in all cases you control what, if any, information you disclose.

OutingsTogether reserves the right to disclose aggregated user statistics, such as "45% of our customers are female" in order to describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties. Under protection of confidentiality agreements, OutingsTogether may match common user information, such as name, address and phone number with third party data to avoid duplication and prevent errors.

Additionally, if you click away from OutingsTogether to visit the site of any third party advertiser or sponsor, you may be asked for your credit card or other personal information in order to purchase or use products and services they offer. These companies have their own privacy and data collection practices. OutingsTogether has no responsibility or liability for these independent policies. You should therefore review their privacy policies carefully if you have concerns about how your information may be used.

Will OutingsTogether use my information for direct mailings?

Only at your option. OutingsTogether will occasionally send e-mail messages to advise members when new information has been posted to the Web site or to announce special product and service offerings that we feel may be of interest to you. If you do not want to receive such mailings, you may opt out at any time.

May I refuse to provide personal information or to accept advertising?

Yes and No. Visitors may access OutingsTogether’s free services without providing any personal information. To gain full access to the members-only areas, a username and e-mail address are required. Because the OutingsTogether site is partially advertiser supported, you may not "turn off" the advertising that appears on OutingsTogether pages, but you may opt to be excluded from any e-mail advertising.

Does OutingsTogether use "IP Addresses" and cookies?

IP Addresses:

We do use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is also used to gather broad demographic information such as geographic distribution of our members.

OutingsTogether Cookies:

Contrary to popular myth, cookies cannot extract private or personal information from your computer’s memory, but rather, record only information you volunteer to us upon registering or visiting the site. Cookies are tiny files placed onto the hard drive of your computer when you register at our Web site that enable our server to recognise or "remember" who you are each time you return. OutingsTogether may make limited use of cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. For instance they may be used to retain your personal preferences, hold session information for a "shopping basket" of interests or save your password so it does not have to be re-entered each time you login.

Advertiser Cookies:

OutingsTogether does post third party advertising banners on other Web sites and on OutingsTogether general use pages. These advertisements may contain cookies used primarily to provide data to the advertiser about where visitors are coming from. While we do use cookies in other parts of our Web site as explained above, cookies received with banner ads may or may not be collected by our company or be under our control.

Are chat room dialogues recorded and saved?

Chat is not currently offered at OutingsTogether but may be in the future. Dialogues will NOT be collected, stored, or used by the company or others.

What else should I know about privacy?

The following encapsulates a few key issues mentioned in context above.

Member Profiles:

Demographic data is collected at our site at the users’ option. This information may include age and gender and other personal preferences that can be viewed and tabulated for use in marketing OutingsTogether to advertisers and others. In no case is personal information given or sold to third parties. OutingsTogether controls the distribution of ALL information at the site.

Contests & Promotions:

OutingsTogether may occasionally run contests or other special promotions on our site in which we ask members or visitors for contact information (like an e-mail address) or demographic information (like a postcode code, age, or income level). We use this data to send users promotional material about our company or our partners. The customer's contact information is also used to contact the visitor when necessary and may be shared with other companies for promotional purposes, but only with your prior permission and under the terms and conditions specified when you take part in the promotion. At any time, users may opt-out of receiving future mailings of this kind, or simply decline to take part in the promotions.

Contacting the Website:

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Website, you should contact: CustomerServices@OutingsTogether.co.uk