Cymru 1 Privacy Policy

Revised: 07/03/2008 to include more interesting links on the definition of cookies and how they work

In order for us to provide our services on favourable terms, you may be required to provide information such as your name, postal address, email address and telephone number as part of the sign up process for the products and services accessible through this website.

This data, and any subsequent data gathered, will normally be used by us, our subsidiaries, affiliates or partners solely for the purposes of the management (and billing, if appropriate) of your account and the provision of Internet and related services to you. We may also use this data for the purposes of informing you of new products and features, status information, and important information regarding changes to the products and services we provide.

We may also supply the data we collect to relevant third parties in the event that you are found to be in breach of any of the terms and conditions applying to the services you use, for example to credit reference agencies in the event that you fail to pay or refuse to pay for any non-free product or service that you have subscribed to or purchased and for which we have requested payment.

But except as specified above, unless required to do so by a law enforcement agency or other authorised government agency, we will not pass on your personal details to any third party without your consent.

Please note, however, that variations on this general privacy policy may exist for certain of the products and services we offer. These will be shown in the specific Terms and Conditions for such products and services during the appropriate sign-up process.

Please also note that this privacy policy only applies to customers buying products or services directly from Cymru 1. Different privacy policies may apply if you buy products from companies advertising on this site, or from Cymru 1 affiliates or partners such as C1 Domains & More (our online Domain Name Registration services).

Cookies:
When you visit this site, a "cookie" will be stored on your PC. This does not contain any personal data - unless at some point in the past you chose to customise the appearance of our website through the Customise option (no longer available) and entered your name, in which case your name may be stored in the cookie.

Whether or not you enter your name when customising the appearance of this site, the data in the cookie is primarily used simply to store your customisation preferences. It may also be used to store the name of the website, search engine or directory through which you found our website. This latter information is used solely by us in order to determine the effectiveness of our online advertising on various websites on the Internet. Cookies may also be used to store temporary "session data" which is required for the correct functioning of the signup or e-commerce systems on this site. If you would prefer that a cookie not be stored on your PC, please consult the documentation provided with your Web Browser - most allow you to configure whether or not cookies may be stored on your PC. Please also see the "What is a cookie?" section below for additional information.

Third party cookies:
When a syndicated advert for a third party product or service appears on a page on this website (and indeed most other websites), what's known as a "third party" cookie may be saved on your PC. Such cookies might be used to store the addresses of any other websites you visit if those websites also contain adverts by the same syndicate or syndicates, and this list of websites visited, plus other data such as the date and time you visited them, might be passed back to the syndicate.

No personally identifiable information should be stored in any such cookies, and indeed the default behaviour of most Web Browsers should prevent personally identifiable information from being stored in the first place. But since Cymru 1 Limited does not have any control over any "third party" cookies, we cannot guarantee this (Please note that this is the case for all websites displaying syndicated ads, not just ours). If you would prefer that such cookies not be stored on your PC, please consult the documentation provided with your Web Browser - most allow you to configure whether or not "third party" cookies may be stored on your PC.

What is a cookie?
For more information on cookies, what they are and how they work, please visit the Webopedia.com definition of a cookie The page also has links to additional information on the subject. Alternatively why not visit www.howstuffworks.com/cookie.htm which also provides some interesting information on cookies.

You may also like to watch the following YouTube.com video, produced by Google, which explains what cookies are, how they work, and what they do: Google Privacy: A look at cookies

And for more even more information on how cookies work, along with information on how to configure Internet Explorer to reject third party cookies, try visiting: www.cookiecentral.com/faq/

IP Addresses and other data:
Each computer connected to the Internet is assigned an IP (Internet Protocol) address. Most websites, including our own, will record the IP address of all visitors for use in gathering visitor statistics. It is technically possible for us to match the IP addresses of visitors to our site with individual users of our own dial-up and Broadband Internet access accounts, but we do not do so except when investigating cases of service abuse. Other data that may be gathered from visiting this and most other websites includes your screen resolution, you browser type, you browser's language settings and other similar data which is given by your Browser when communicating with our servers when visiting this website. This data is used for statistical purposes only.