From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, Guestbook, the Forum and Recommend a Friend.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the site to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal information we aim to act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to our site, the pages you see are downloaded to your computer. Normally, cookies are NOT used on this site. The only times we use a cookie is on the Guestbook pages or if you Recommend A Friend, these are time limited, expiring within a hour maximum, and are purely to hopefully limit spamming. Recent additions to our use of cookies are the new (Feb 2007) Forum which are used to allow you to say logged in and if a Poll is active, which is limited to a day, again to stop spammers flooding a Poll.

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows. We do not.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the site features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse the site anonymously.  For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

4. Use and storage of your personal information

Any information you provide to the site will only be used within the site and NO third party at all. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or required by law. Also, if you post or send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to the site or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on the site, the site can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and your behaviour.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

5. Users 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.