Privacy Policy
Positive Publications Limited ('We') are committed to protecting and respecting
your privacy. This policy (together with our website terms of use www.packagingeurope.com/diretcory/termsofuse
and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal
data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please
read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your
personal data and how we will treat it. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act
1998 (the Act), the data controller is Positive Publications Ltd of Alkmaar House,
Alkmaar Way, Norwich NR6 6BF, UK.
INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you: Information that you provide
by filling in forms on our site www.packagingeurope.com/directory (our site). This
includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing
to our service, posting material or requesting further services. If you contact
us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. Positive Publications may also
ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not
have to respond to them. Details of transactions you carry out through our site
and of the fulfilment of your orders. Details of your visits to our site including,
but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication
data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the
resources that you access.
IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP
address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report
aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users'
browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. For the same
reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie
file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information
that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our site
and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us: To estimate
our audience size and usage pattern. To store information about your preferences,
and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests. To
speed up your searches. To recognise you when you return to our site. You may refuse
to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to
refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable
to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting
so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to
our site.
WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination
outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). By submitting your personal data, you
agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Positive Publications will take all
steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance
with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us will be processed on
our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted. Where we have given
you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts
of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask
you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information
via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect
your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to
our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information,
we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised
access.
USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways: To ensure that content
from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or
which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such
purposes. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between
you and us. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service,
when you choose to do so. To notify you about changes to our service. If you consent
or request to add your details to the European Packaging Directory We may also use
your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with
information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they
may contact you about these by post or telephone. If you are an existing customer,
we will only contact you by electronic means with information about goods and services
similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you. If you are a
new customer, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented
to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details
on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated
on the form on which we collect your data We do not disclose information about identifiable
individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information
about our users. We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers
reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal
data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes
by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means
our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined
in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985. We may disclose your personal information
to third parties: In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which
case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such
business or assets. If Positive Publications or substantially all of its assets
are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its
customers will be one of the transferred assets. If we are under a duty to disclose
or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in
order to enforce or apply our terms of use www.packagingeurope.com/directory/termsofuse
and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Positive
Publications, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with
other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit
risk reduction.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal
data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your
data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose
your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right
to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect
your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at directory@packagingeurope.com.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites,
please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not
accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies
before you submit any personal data to these websites.
ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of
access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject
to a fee of 10 GBP to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information
we hold about you.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this
page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and
should be addressed to directory@packagingeurope.com.