Privacy Policy

This version dated April 17, 2008

At Promethean Limited (”Promethean”) we recognise that privacy is important. We are concious of our responsibilities as a “data controller” under the Data Protection Act 1998 and we shall endeavor to ensure that the personal information we obtain and use will always be held, used, transfered and otherwise processed in accordance with that Act and all other applicable data protection laws and regulations.

This Policy applies to all of the products, services and websites offered by Promethean Ltd. or its subsidiaries or affiliated companies (collectively, Promethean’s “services”). By using this site, you are agreeing to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to our privacy policy, then please do not use this site.

If you have any questions about this Policy, please feel free to contact us through our website or via email to webmaster@prometheanworld.com or you can write to us at Promethean Limited, Promethean House, Lower Philips Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB15TH UK.
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Information we collect and how we use it:
We offer a number of services that do not require you to register for an account or provide any personal information to us. In order to provide our full range of services, we may collect the following types of information:

Information you provide - When you sign up for a Promethean Account or other Promethean service or promotion that requires registration, we ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). For certain services, such as our online shop, we also request credit card or other payment account information which are maintained in encrypted form on secure servers owned by our Merchant Vendor Protx. We may combine the information you submit under your account with information from other Promethean services or third parties in order to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services.

Promethean cookies - When you visit Promethean, we send one or more cookies - a small file containing a string of characters - to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service by storing user preferences and tracking user trends, such as how people search for resources. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some Promethean features and services may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. The website www.allaboutcookies.org contains step-by-step guidance on how cookies can be switched off by users.

Log information - When you use Promethean services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.

User communications - When you send email or other communication to Promethean, we may retain those communications for as long as necessary in order to process your enquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

Links - Promethean may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of our customised content and advertising.

Other sites - This Privacy Policy applies to web sites and services that are owned and operated by Promethean Ltd. We do not exercise control over the sites displayed as search results or links from within our various services. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.

We may wish on occasion to use and transfer your information to our group companies and agents for the following purposes: (a) to administer your membership and process your requests for our services and provide them to you including by providing customised content and advertising; (b) for business development; (c) market research, audit and analysis; (d) to provide you with details of promotions, prodicts, offers and services; (e) to ensure the technical functioning of our network; or (f) to share it between us and the parties mentioned above for direct marketing purposes.

We may wish to send you the information mentioned above by e-mail. If you do not wish to recieve direct marketing by e-mail, please tick the relevant boc below or let us know by writing to us at the address given below. In addition each time we send you marketing information by e-mail, we will provide an opportunity for you to unsubscribe from receiving further information from us.

Promethean and the parties listed above process personal information on our servers in Canada and in other countries. We cannot provide our services to you without this transfer of information and by submitting it to us, you are consenting to it being used in this way. We only process personal information for the puposes listed in this policy and unless otherwise specified, this information is never disclosed to a third party unless required by a regulator, court, law enforcement agency of government agency with jurisdiction to require the same. We may also provide your information to third parties for the prevention or detection of crime.
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Information sharing
Promethean may transfer the personal data it holds as part of a transfer of all or the relevant part of its business or assets.

We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal information, such as the number of users who searched for a particular resource, for example, or how many users clicked on a particular advertisement. Such information does not identify you individually.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.
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Information security
We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorised access to or unauthorised alteration, disclosure or destruction of data. These include internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorised access to systems where we store personal data.

We restrict access to personal information to Promethean employees who need to know that information in order to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline, including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these obligations.
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Data integrity
Promethean processes personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected and in accordance with this Policy or any applicable service-specific privacy notice. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
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Accessing and updating personal information
When you use Promethean services, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may decline to process requests in accordance with out legal rights under the DPA as amended from time to time. In any case where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
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Enforcement
Promethean regularly reviews its compliance with this Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this Policy or Promethean’s treatment of personal information by contacting us through this web site or via email to webmaster@prometheanworld.com or by writing to us at Promethean Limited, Promethean House, Lower Philips Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB15TH UK.
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Changes to this policy
Please note that this Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If the Policy changes, the changes will be posted on the site and your continued use of the site will then be taken as acceptance of the change.

We will post any Policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of Policy changes). Each version of this Policy will be identified at the top of the page by its effective date.
If you have any additional questions or concerns about this Policy, please feel free to contact us any time through this web site or via email to webmaster@prometheanworld.com or you can write to Promethean Limited, Promethean House, Lower Philips Road, Blackburn, Lancashire, BB15TH UK.