The Baby Directory Privacy Policy
Our roles and responsibilities
We undertake to protect your privacy with the provision of our Privacy Policy, and respecting your privacy is very important to us.
According to your rights under the Data Protection Act, this policy statement sets out why we ask for your personal information and how you are at liberty to give or refuse your consent. It also explains what information we request, why we ask for it and whether any other party might have access to it at any time.
By registering on our website, you agree to the collection and use of any following information that you choose to give us:
- Your postcode
- Your email address
- Your chosen name for use in the Forums
- Your due date or date of birth/age of your children
Why do we ask for your personal information?
Any personal information that you give us will be used strictly in accordance with current data protection legislation. This information is requested and retained by us for the purposes outlined below:
- To provide the services that you have specifically requested
- To facilitate functionality that is personalised to you, such as My Area and What's On
- For legal, administrative and security requirements
- To allow us to optimise the relevance of our content to you
- To help us improve and enhance the services we offer
How do we gather information?
The information that you choose to give us by accepting our Terms & Conditions is gathered a) at the point of registration and b) by the use of ‘cookies’, which not only enables you to access your personalised content but allows us to further enhance our content by knowing which are the most popular parts of our website.
Do we share information with other parties?
We use anonymous details about our users in order to sell appropriate advertising space on the site. This might mean showing an advertiser how many pregnant users we have on the site, but it does not mean subsequently sharing your personal details with that advertiser.
Where we collect registration information from you, we will not share that information with a third party, we will however share it when we are required to do so by relevant legislation or court orders.
We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.
We may update and change this policy at any time.
If would like to read our Terms & Conditions for using this website, please click here
Should you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, you can send us an email by clicking here
Links to other websites
There will be links to other websites via our editorial content as well as advertisers. These links are provided for your information and as a source of reference, and does not constitute any form of endorsement by us. We would advise that you review every website’s own privacy policy before giving any personal information about yourself or your family at any time.
