The Bear Wood (“The Bear Wood“) operates thebearwood.co.uk and may operate other websites. It is The Bear Wood’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Bear Wood collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Bear Wood’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Bear Wood’s visitors use its website. From time to time, The Bear Wood may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Bear Wood also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on thebearwood.co.uk blogs/sites. The Bear Wood only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Bear Wood’s websites choose to interact with The Bear Wood in ways that require The Bear Wood to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Bear Wood gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at thebearwood.co.uk to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Bear Wood are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Bear Wood collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with The Bear Wood. The Bear Wood does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Bear Wood may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Bear Wood may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Bear Wood does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Bear Wood discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Bear Wood’s behalf or to provide services available at The Bear Wood’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Bear Wood’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Bear Wood will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Bear Wood discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Bear Wood believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Bear Wood, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Bear Wood website and have supplied your email address, The Bear Wood may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with The Bear Wood and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Bear Wood takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
Business Transfers
If The Bear Wood, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Bear Wood goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Bear Wood may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Bear Wood may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Bear Wood’s sole discretion. The Bear Wood encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a thebearwood.co.uk account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.