Privacy Policy
The following
statement explains our policy regarding the personal
information we collect about you.
- Statement of intent
- Information on visitors
- What is a cookie?
- Submitting personal information
- Access to your personal information
- Users 16 and under
- How to find and control your
cookies
- How do you know which sites use
cookies?
- How to see your cookie code
1.
Statement of intent
From time to time, you
may be asked to submit personal information about
yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to
receive or use services on our website. Such services
include newsletters, competitions, "Alert Email",live
chats, message boards and 202.fm membership.
By entering your
details in the fields requested, you enable 202.fm and
its service providers to provide you with the services
you select. Whenever you provide such personal
information, we will treat that information in
accordance with this policy. Our services are designed
to give you the information that you want to receive.
202.fm will act in accordance with current legislation
and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
2.
Information on visitors
During the course of
any visit to 202.fm, the pages you see, along
with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your
computer (see point 3 for more on this). Most, if not
all, websites do this, because cookies allow the
website publisher to do useful things like find out
whether the computer (and probably its user) has
visited the site before. This is done on a repeat
visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left
there on the last visit.
We also allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or
collect certain anonymous information when you visit our
web site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable
information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time
and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over)
during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide
advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater
interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party
web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this
behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising,
you can visit networkadvertising.org.
Any information that
is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with
a better service and assists us to analyze the profile
of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit
you went to, say, the education pages, then we might
find this out from your cookie and highlight
educational information on a second visit.
3.
What is a cookie?
When you enter a site
your computer will automatically be issued with a
cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your
computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not
identify the individual user, just the computer used.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site
in order to track traffic flows.
Cookies themselves
only record those areas of the site that have been
visited by the computer in question, and for how long.
Users have the opportunity to set their computers to
accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is
issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The
last of these, of course, means that certain
personalized services cannot then be provided to that
user.
NB: Even if you
haven't set your computer to reject cookies you can
still browse our site anonymously until such time as
you register for 202.fm services.
4.
Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any
personal information to 202.fm (e.g. for
competitions, 202.fm Community services or
202.fm membership) we have legal obligations
towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must
collect the information fairly, that is, we must
explain how we will use it (see the notices on
particular WebPages that let you know why we are
requesting the information) and tell you if we want to
pass the information on to anyone else. In general,
any information you provide to 202.fm will only be
used within 202.fm and by its service providers. It
will never be supplied to anyone outside 202.fm
without first obtaining your consent, unless we are
obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if
you post or send offensive or inappropriate content
anywhere on or to 202.fm or otherwise engage
in any disruptive behavior on 202.fm, and
202.fm considers such behavior to be serious and/or
repeated, 202.fm can use whatever information that is
available to it about you to stop such behavior. This
may include informing relevant third parties such as
your employer, school or e-mail provider about the
content and your behavior.
We will hold your
personal information on our systems for as long as you
use the service you have requested, and remove it in
the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the
case of 202.fm membership you no longer wish
to continue your registration as a 202.fm
member. For safety reasons, however, 202.fm may store
messaging transcript data (including message content,
member names, times and dates) arising from the use of
202.fm Community services such as Connector
for a period of six months. Where personal information
is held for people who are not yet registered but have
taken part in other 202.fm services (eg
competitions), that information will be held only as
long as necessary to ensure that the service is run
smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information
supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data
Protection Act 1998.
If you are notified on
a 202.fm site that your information may be
used to allow 202.fm to contact you for "service
administration purposes", this means that 202.fm may
contact you for a number of purposes related to the
service you have signed up for. For example, we may
wish to provide you with password reminders or notify
you that the particular service has been suspended for
maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional
purposes, such as notifying you of improvements to the
service or new services on 202.fm unless you
specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes
at the time you submit your information on the site,
or at a later time if you sign up specifically to
receive such promotional information.
5.
Access to your personal information
You have the right to
request a copy of the personal information 202.fm
holds about you and to have any inaccuracies
corrected. We only
collect information that you as a user have signed up
for (such as screen names, passwords used in the Chat
Room, Message Forums, and/or 128k VIP audio streams.)
6.
Users 16 and under
If you are aged 16 or
under, please get your parent/guardian's permission
beforehand whenever you provide personal information
to the 202.fm's website. Users without this consent
are not allowed to provide us with personal
information.
7.
How to find and control your cookies
If you're using
Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer
6.0:
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Privacy Tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Click on the 'Advanced' button
- Check the 'override automatic cookie handing'
box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as
appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer
5.0 or 5.5:
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Security tab
- Click on Custom Level
- Scroll down to the sixth option to see how
cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept,
Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Internet Explorer
4.0:
- Choose View, then
- Internet Options
- Click the Advanced tab
- Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under
Security and choose one of the three options to
regulate your use of cookies.
In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the
button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape
Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Set your options in the box that says Cookies.
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8. How do you know which of the sites
you've visited use cookies?
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- Edit, then
- Preferences
- Click on Advanced
- Click on Cookies
- Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer
5.0 or 6.0:
- Choose Tools, then
- Internet Options
- Click the General tab
- Click Settings
- View Files
If you're using Internet Explorer
4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- View, then
- Internet Options
- Under the tab General (the default tab) click
- Settings
- View Files.
Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
- View
- Options
- Advanced
- View Files.
Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your
hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it
calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.
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9.
How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short
string of text and numbers. The numbers are your
identification card, which can only be seen by the
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