Hammer Studios Privacy and Cookie Policy

Hammer Studio (“us”, “we” or “our”) operates the hammerstudio.co.uk website (the “service”)

This statement relates to the privacy practices of Hammer Studios in connection with the studio’s website. Hammer Studios fully respects your right to privacy and actively seeks to preserve the privacy rights of those who share personal information with the studio. Any questions regarding our Privacy Policy should be directed to info@hammerstudio.co.uk

Your Acceptance of these Privacy Statement Terms. By using any of the sites within our web site network or our Services, you unconditionally agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Hammer Studio does not collect any personal information about you on these websites apart from information that you volunteer (for example by using our enquiry form). Any personal information which you volunteer to Hammer Studios in connection with these websites will be treated in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1988 and Data Protection (Amendment) Act 2003. Accordingly, Hammer Studios shall only process such information in line with the purpose for which you provided it to the extent necessary to provide you with the information or service you require. Hammer Studios shall not disclose your information to third parties unless you are specifically informed otherwise or we require a third party to process the information on our behalf (in which case Hammer Studios requires these third parties to comply with its instructions and we require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes, unless you have explicitly consented to the use of your personal information in this way). You are under no obligation to provide this information, but if you don’t then we may not be able to provide you with certain services or personalise your experience and tailor our Services for you.

Non-Personal Information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about you such as the type of internet browsers you use or the site from which you linked to our Web Sites. You cannot be identified from this information and it is only used to assist us in providing an effective service on our Websites. We may from time to time supply the owners or operators of third-party sites from which it is possible to link to our Web Sites with information relating to the number of users linking to our Websites from their sites. You cannot be identified from this information.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are pieces of information that a Website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about your web activity and browsing preferences on a specific Web Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of a Web Site if you do so. Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user’s computer, cookies do not personally identify customers or passwords. Credit card information is not stored in cookies. The two different types of cookies used are as follows:

• Hammer Studios uses Google Analytics (a tool which uses cookies) to collect traffic data to these websites to help us analyse how users use the site. They are used to collect anonymous data on user behavior and are not used to personally identify a visitor. The information stored in the cookie is transmitted to Google and then used to evaluate visitors’ use of these websites and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Hammer Studios. Technical details in connection with visits to these websites may be logged by Hammer Studios Internet service provider for accounting and auditing purposes. It is the policy of Hammer Studios not to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party (apart from Hammer Studios internet service provider, which records such data on Hammer Studios behalf and which is bound by confidentiality provisions in this regard, and Google as outlined above), unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. For further information on the privacy of Google Analytics data, including details of how to opt-out, please visit: http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

• When you first visit these website’s you will see a message informing you about cookies. If you continue to use the website, the website script will set a cookie which records your preference thereby generally improving your user experience. For more information on how to manage cookies, including how to opt-out of this “functional” cookie please visit: http://www.aboutcookies.org/Default.aspx?page=1

Links

Our Web Site contains links to the sites of third parties. When you visit these sites, we suggest that you read their privacy policies. Hammer Studios is not responsible for the privacy policies or the content of such sites.

File Downloads

We may make available files for you to download to your computer. While we endeavor to check that these files are free of spyware, viruses, worms, or other malicious code, we cannot absolutely guarantee this, and so we must strongly recommend that you install an anti-virus software package on your computer and check any files you download for the possible presence of harmful or malicious code. We cannot accept responsibility for any malicious software that may be copied to your computer.

Revisions to Privacy Statement

Hammer Studios may revise this privacy statement from time to time. Changes to this privacy statement will be posted here so you should periodically check this page to review the most recent statement. If you have any questions about this privacy statement or the practices of Hammer Studios website, they should be referred to the Administrator at the address set out above.

Comments

Please e-mail any questions, concerns or comments you have about our Privacy & Cookies Policy to info@hammerstudio.co.uk