1. Introduction
This policy covers the Read Latest News's use of personal information that the Read
Latest News collects when you use Read Latest News. The policy also gives you information
about cookies; Read Latest News and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may
reject such cookies.
From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself
(e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website.
Such services include newsletters, competitions, live chats, message boards and
Read Latest News membership.
By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the Read Latest News
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. When using your personal information the Read Latest News will
act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best
practice.
2. Visitor Information
During the course of any visit to Read Latest News, the pages you see, along with
a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites
do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find
out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before.
This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left
there on the last visit.
Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online
user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example:
if on a previous visit you went to our education pages, we might find this out from
your cookie and highlight educational information on your second and subsequent
visits.
Nielsen//Netratings and SageMetrics, two independent measurement and research companies,
gather non-personal information regarding the visitors to our website on our behalf
using cookies, log file data and code which is embedded on our website. The Read
Latest News uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies
used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users. If you wish to reject
Nielsen//Netratings' cookie and SageMetrics' cookie, you can use the process set
out below in point 7. To Totally Opt-Out of Nielsen//Netratings collecting any data
regarding your interaction on Read Latest News, use the Opt-Out in their Privacy
and Cookie Policy at http://www.netratings.com/privacy.jsp?section=leg_scs. To Totally
Opt-Out of SageMetrics collecting any data regarding your interaction on Read Latest
News, use the Opt-Out in their Privacy Statements and Policies at http://www.sagemetrics.com/
popup-dynamic.asp?pagename=privacy_main.
3. What is a cookie?
A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier
that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's
hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's
preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a
web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent
to you by other sites.
Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online
traffic flows.
Cookies record information about your online preferences. 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 personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly
you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the Read Latest News features.
Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how
to change your cookie preferences.
If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse Read Latest
News anonymously until such time as you wish to register for Read Latest News services.
For further information on cookies please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org.
4. Use and storage of your personal information
When you supply any personal information to Read Latest News (e.g. for competitions,
Read Latest News Community services or Read Latest News membership) we have legal
obligations towards you in the way we use those 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 the Read Latest News will only be used
within the Read Latest News and by its agents and service providers. Your information
will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law. Also, if you post or
send offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on or to Read Latest
News or otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on Read Latest News, the Read
Latest News can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop
such behaviour. This may involve informing relevant third parties such as your employer,
school e-mail/Internet provider and law enforcement agencies about the content and
your behaviour.
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 Read Latest News membership you no longer wish to continue
your registration as a Read Latest News member. For safety reasons, however, the
Read Latest News may store messaging transcript data (including message content,
member names, times and dates) arising from the use of Read Latest News 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 Read
Latest News services (e.g. competitions), that information will be held as long
as is 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 Read Latest News site that your information may be used
to allow the Read Latest News to contact you for "service administration purposes",
this means that the Read Latest News 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 Read Latest News 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 the Read Latest
News holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge £10 for
information requests.)
Please address requests to the Data Protection Officer, MC3 D1, Media Village, 201
Wood Lane, London, W12 7TQ (Email: dpa.officer@Read Latest News).
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 Read Latest News'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 Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or
Prompt for action as appropriate.
If you're using Firefox 2.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Options
3. Click the Privacy icon
If you're using Firefox 1.0 or 1.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Options
3. Click the Privacy icon
4. Click the Cookies tab
If you're using Opera 8.0 or 9.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Preferences
3. Advanced
4. Cookies
If you're using Opera 7.0:
1. Choose File, then
2. Preferences
3. Privacy
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
1. Choose Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. 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:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the
three options to regulate your use of cookies.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Options
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
1. Choose Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. 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 Internet Explorer 5.0, 6.0 or 7.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files
If you're using Firefox 2.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Options
3. Click the Privacy icon
4. Show Cookies
If you're using Firefox 1.0 or 1.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Options
3. Click the Privacy icon
4. Click the Cookies tab
5. View Cookies
If you're using Opera 8.0 or 9.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Advanced
3. Cookies
If you're using Opera 7.0:
1. Choose File, then
2. Preferences
3. Privacy
4. Click on Manage Cookies
If you're using Netscape 6.0:
1. Choose Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button
If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.
If you're using Internet Explorer 3.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Options
3. Advanced
4. View Files.
If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
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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 server that
gave you the cookie.
10. List of Read Latest News cookies
This is a list of the main cookies that Read Latest News sets, and what each is
used for:
Read Latest News-UID cookie
A unique identifier given to each computer to allow log analysis to determine the
number of unique users for various parts of Read Latest News. Data is only used
in aggregate.
Read Latest NewsMediaselector cookie
Used to store your user preferences for Audio-Video content from Read Latest News
- format (Real player or Windows Media player) and quality (narrowband or broadband).
mstouch cookie
Used if we have needed to reset your Read Latest NewsMediaSelector cookie which
stores your preference for the Audio-Video content from Read Latest News.
Read Latest NewsPostcoder cookie
Used to store your user preferences for geographic specific content on Read Latest
News - allows pages to present information for your local area, primarily on the
homepage, but also in other areas like Read Latest News/arts.
Read Latest NewsWEACITY cookie
Used to store your user preferences for home city - allows the the weather site
to present information for your local area.
Read Latest NewsNewsAudience cookie
Used to store your user preferences for which edition (domestic UK or International)
of the Read Latest News homepage, Radio, TV and Weather homepages, News site and
Sport site you wish to view when visiting www.Read Latest News.
Read Latest NewsNewsAudcWght cookie
Used to record the degree of certainty of the domestic UK or International edition
preference ascribed to you. If you make an express preference (see above) then we
can be certain of which edition of the domestic UK or International site to serve
to you. If you do not express a preference we will make a guess of varying degrees
of certainty as to which edition of the domestic UK or International site is most
appropriate for you based on your IP.
Read Latest NewsNewsAudcWghtUpd cookie
Used to keep track of when your Read Latest NewsNewsAudcWght cookie (if any) was
last updated. This ensures that, where we have guessed which edition of the domestic
UK or International site is most appropriate for you, we continue to review our
assumptions.
SSO2-UID cookie
Used to allow you to be automatically signed in to a Read Latest News service which
you have previously registered for.
Read Latest News-H2-User cookie
Used for user authentication for the Read Latest News messageboard system.
rmRpDetectReal cookie
Used to store a preference to prevent 'You don't have Real player installed ...'
alerts coming up if you really don't want to install it and don't want to be pestered
with requests to do so.
*votename* cookie
Some voting systems on Read Latest News may set a cookie to discourage voters voting
more than once. In each case the cookie's name will reflect the vote in question.
Survey cookie - "Read Latest Newssurvey"
Used to ensure that once you have taken a Read Latest News survey, or said that
you don't want to be surveyed, that you are not offered the same survey again.
Read Latest NewsComSurvey
Used to ensure that once you have taken a Read Latest News survey, or said that
you don't want to be surveyed, that you are not offered the same survey again. This
cookie is used when there are two concurrent surveys being run.
myway
Used to store your user preference for which colours to use (for example, high contrast
colour scheme) on Read Latest News/accessibility.
Read Latest NewsLiveStatsClick
Used to capture the co-ordinates of clicks made on the Read Latest News News pages.
The cookie expires after 8 seconds and the information is used to inform editorial
decisions about page layout and promotion.
Read Latest NewsHomeOpt
Used to store user preferences for customisable elements, where available, on the
Read Latest News homepage.
Read Latest NewsNewsCustomisation
Used to store user preferences for customisable elements, where available, within
Read Latest News.