Business Women’s Cafe        
Privacy Policy

We are extremely concerned to protect your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all users of our site are quite rightly concerned to know that their data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not fall into the hands of a third party. Our policy is both specific and strict. If you think our policy falls short of your expectations or that we are failing to abide by our policy, do please tell us.

We are constantly vigilant for credit card or other fraud.  We report all charge backs to a credit reference agency.  If you have any reason to seek the return of money paid, please contact us rather than your credit card issuer.

Information may be unlawfully available to hackers and snoopers. We take no responsibility for this. The risk is no different from a similar risk in a bricks and mortar establishment. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any personally identifiable information collected at this site. If this policy should change in the future (most unlikely), then we shall provide notification in advance, and the opportunity for all users to indicate whether or not they would prefer that we do not provide the information to third parties as proposed.

You must be eighteen or over to join the Business Women’s Café website.

We use the information collected from you to improve the service we offer to our members. This may involve working with partners, but the information we share with them will be about our collective membership and not your individual details.

We also provide links to third party web sits, promotions, competitions, goods and services. We cannot guarantee that they will with your private and personal information in the same way that we will, so you should make sure you are happy with their privacy policy before disclosing any private and personal information to them.
 
Here is a list of the information we collect, and why it is necessary to collect it:


Basic identification and contact information, such as your name and contact details.
This information is used:

to provide you with the services which you request;

to maintain our accounts;

for billing;

to enable us to answer your enquiries;

for verifying your identity for security purposes;

for marketing our services and products;

to help make our web site as useful to you as possible;

information which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.


Your domain name and e‑mail address
are recognised by our servers and the pages that you visit are recorded. This information is used:

in a collective way not referable to any particular individual, for the purpose of quality control and improvement of our site;

to send you news about the services to which you have signed up;

to tell you about other of our services.


Financial information, including credit card details
This information is used to obtain payment for goods and services you have ordered from us. This information is never actually received by us. The page where this information is given by you is controlled by our contract merchant service provider, Paypal.  Such information is automatically encrypted, and later decrypted for use. It never touches our system.
OR


Your Business Women’s Cafe personal profile

Is available to be seen by members throughout the world. No contact details whatever are given out with it. This information is not used for marketing purposes of any sort.  Information, which does not identify any individual may be used in a general way by us or third parties, to provide class information, for example relating to demographics or usage of a particular page or service.  Some of this information is classified as sensitive information by the UK Data Protection Act 1998.  We make the assumption that in giving this information to us, you consent to our holding it for the duration of your membership and for a period of twelve months after that.


Information volunteered by you

As a member of Business Women’s Café you will be interacting with other members and therefore you should carefully consider what information you chose to disclose. On our part we will endeavor only to disclose such information to third parties for the purposes for which you have provided it.


Business Information

This is information given to us in the course of your business and ours such as in relation to your application to partner with us or advertise with us. Such information s retained for business use only. We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of the information and of the terms of our relationship. It is not used for any other purpose. We expect you and any partner to reciprocate this policy.



Change of Ownership

We reserve the right to transfer your information to any purchaser of our business so that they can continue to offer services to you.


Disclosure to Government

and their agencies. We are subject to the law like everyone else. We may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorization such as a search warrant or court order.
 

Information request

At any time you may review or update the personally identifiable information that we hold about you, by contacting us at the address below. To better safeguard your information, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections to your information.
 
This confidentiality policy has been compiled so as to comply with current UK, US and EU legislation, so far as we are aware.  If you have any question regarding the confidentiality policy, please contact us at:

Business Women’s Café
23 – 25 High Street
Burnham SL1 9JD