This Policy has been developed so that you can feel confident about the privacy and security of any personal information that you provide to us.

‘The House Centre’ complies with the Data Protection Act 1998 in the United Kingdom and takes all responsible care to prevent any unauthorised access to and use of your personal details.

Our staff, and any outside contractors that we use, maintain a responsibility to keep your information confidential and will only use data that is relevant to your enquiry.

Any personal details that we use will not be passed to any third party organisation for marketing purposes without your permission and will not be used by us for any purpose other than that which you have requested.

The Internet is not a secure medium. However, to protect your data, we put in place various security procedures, such as firewalls and back-up measures. We limit access to personal information and password protect all machinery holding personal data.

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You do not have to register your details with us, however, we want to assist you as best we can with your specific requirements. So, we do encourage you to register. When you register you consent to us using your personal data in the manner described in this Policy. If
you do not register the personal data we collect from you will be limited to any one single enquiry you have made and ‘The House Centre’ will use tha data for no other purpose than to aid that particular search.

Once you have logged your details with us we would appreciate contact from you if there are any changes, such as your address, telephone number(s), email address etc.

COOKIES

A ‘cookie’ is a piece of information that is held on your PC, which enables our website to recognise you on subsequent visits and allows us to tailor your search. As the cookie is based on your PC we are unable to recognise you if you visit our website from a different PC, unless you register with us. If you do register then you will be able to log in from any PC using your passcode.

If you do not want cookies to be created on your PC, web browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer provide the option to disable them. However, disabling cookies may affect some personalised services we offer on our website.

EMAIL

‘The House Centre’ complies with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 in the United Kingdom. We respect the privacy of personal email accounts and we store your email address as securely as any other information we hold. We will not send you any unwanted email and your details will not be passed to any other organisation without your explicit permission.

Third party sites that you can link through to, from our website, are not covered by our Privacy Policy, so we accept no responsibility or liability for those sites.