Privacy Policy

This website is owned and operated by Travel Weekly Group Ltd.


Information we collect from our customers and users of our websites may be used in the following ways.


Collection of your personal information


Personal information provided as part of the registration process for any publication, product or service is used to manage your subscription and to enable us to provide a better service. On this site as part of this registration process we collect and store your email address, first name, second name, company and job title. thecaterer.com automatically receives and records in our server logs information from your browser, including your IP address, browser type, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp.


Payment details


Any information provided by you in connection with any transaction regarding your credit or debit card numbers, expiry date and billing or delivery address will be used by us to process the transaction. These details will be stored on a secure server and may be used by us to facilitate and personalise future transactions with you. If you do not wish us to store and use the information for future transactions, please contact us. Personal information that you provide is stored on secure servers in the UK. Your Data Privacy


We will keep you informed of products and services from Travel Weekly Group Ltd. If you do not want to receive such information please email newsletter@thecaterer.com or write to Group Marketing Manager.


Group Marketing Manager, The Caterer, Travel Weekly Group Ltd, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0AU


Access to Data


Under the Data Protection Act 1988, you have the right to be told what personal information we hold about you on our databases.


Contact


The Caterer, Travel Weekly Group Ltd, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W 0AU


Use of cookies


A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. Different websites can each send their own cookies to your browser if your preferences allow it. Your browser only allows a site to access the cookies it sent to you, not the cookies sent by other sites. You can configure your browser to accept or reject cookies. All browsers are different, so go to the help section of your browser to find out how to do this. A beacon is used in connection with cookies to gain an understanding of how a websites’ users navigate through and process the content contained in the site.


To better understand your use of the thecaterer.com site we work with third-party cookie providers, Google Analytics and Omniture, who place cookies and beacons on your computer to collect information on our behalf. When you sign in to thecaterer.com, a cookie containing a value that uniquely identifies you to thecaterer.com is sent to your browser and stored on your computer’s hard drive. None of your secure information, such as credit card and payment details or password, is collected by these cookies. However, we use the cookies and beacons to collect the following information: visits, page views, average time on site, referrals. All information collected by these cookies is sent to thecaterer.com by secure connection. These third party providers are prohibited from using our data for any other purposes. All information will be retained as long as necessary.


Click here to read Omniture’s Privacy Policy:


http://www.omniture.com/en/privacy


Click here to read Google Analytics Privacy Policy:


http://www.google.com/analytics/tos.html


Use and disclosure of personal information


As stated above, we collect information from you via registration, server logs, and cookies. You may also choose to post information to other areas of the site. thecaterer.com retains user-posted content (such as messages or other information you post to the site) as long as it deems necessary. We may link user-posted information to the other information we collect and use this data to analyze trends, administer the site, track users’ movements around the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base. We do this in order to improve our service and build a better site for you to use. thecaterer.com works with partners. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of partner or other sites. We encourage you to be aware and to read the privacy policies of each and every site that collects personally identifiable information. Disqus.com is a partner of thecaterer.com. Any user information including registration information and site usage data) collected through the partnership maybe shared with Discqus.com . Click this link to read Disqus.com’s privacy policy: http://docs.disqus.com/help/30/ This privacy policy applies only to information collected on thecaterer.com. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of partner or other sites.


Third Party Advertisers and Cookies


thecaterer.com works with a number of advertisers that use cookies. You can find out more about advertising here: use http://www.adtech.info/cookie opt out


Opting out will not ensure all cookies are turned off. You can configure your browser to accept or reject cookies. All browsers are different, so go to the help section of your browser to find out how to do this. Aggregate statistical information provided by us to our advertisers or others regarding sales or website usage will not include personally identifying information.


Voluntary Information We may ask for further information about you as part of online surveys or if you enter any competition or other promotional feature. This information will be used to enable us to improve the relevant publication, product or service and may also be disclosed to other companies as specified in the relevant promotion.