At Asian Circuit, we believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our Members' personal information. This is a legal document that sets out how Asian Circuit handles data which identifies you. You should read it in conjunction with the Asian Circuit Terms and Conditions, of which this Privacy Policy forms part.

1. Emails from Asian Circuit

You are probably most interested in how we will use your email address to communicate with you, so here's our email promise, in plain English:

Service Emails The team at Asian Circuit hate spam and will never ever send you unsolicited emails. However, there will be instances when Asian Circuit will send you emails in accordance with the services we provide . These instances could include notifications that you have a message from another member, reminders about your membership expiring and guides on how to use the site. A full list of the types of emails you will receive to help you use the service most effectively (called Service Emails) are shown below:

• Validation email – the email we use to verify your email address when you first register
• Welcome emails - emails which explain how to use the site when you first join
• Payment receipt – this is sent if you upgrade to Full Membership
• Renewal notices – these remind you to renew your Full Membership
• Key service messages – if we need to notify you about changes to the service
• Notes/profile and photo approval notification
• Service suspension notices – if you break the house rules

As well as these Service Emails, you will also receive our occasional newsletters (which you will have the option to opt out of). These emails genuinely help you make the most of the website and let you know when there's new fun and interesting stuff to do. Here's a bit more about them…

Newsletters We use this to notify you about new features on the site, ask your opinion, and tell you about services you might not be using yet.

We only send a newsletter when there is something worthwhile to tell you about, so your inbox will never be overflowing with guff from us. Generally you'll get a newsletter about once every six weeks.

2. The information we gather and track

Information gathered on registration When you register for the Asian Circuit Service, you provide your name, your email address, your background, pastimes and some optional notes about yourself ("Registration Information"). This information is always available to you, and capable of being changed, through the “My details/profile” page.

Cookies We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance Members' experience of the Asian Circuit Service as follows:

• To hold Members' login information, so that your category listings are displayed when you visit the Asian Circuit Service. This option can be turned off by switching the "Remember Your Password" option to "No" in “My details/profile”
• To facilitate optimal use of the Asian Circuit Service by Members, by means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when the Member's browser session ends, or if the Member clicks the "logoff" text, which appears on the Asian Circuit Service.

Third party cookies including those from DoubleClick , TheSearchWorksand Googleare used on some parts of the site. They are used for tracking the success of advertising campaigns. These cookies are normally permanent.

 3. Sharing and use of information

The over-riding principles we apply are these:
 i. We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation - thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members' email addresses to a third party; and
ii. the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

Registration InformationOnce a Member enters their profile details , the Registration Information held for that Member, except for the email address, will be available to, and searchable by, users of the Asian Circuit Service.

Emailing through the Asian Circuit ServiceWe do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the Asian Circuit Service. The only legitimate way of making contact with a friend found on the Asian Circuit Service is for a Full Member to enter a message that we will send to the member’s inbox on the Asian Circuit website, and the Member can collect the email when logged in to the Asian Circuit Service. Members may check and (if required) change the email address we hold for them at any time through “My details/profile”. Members' personal notes must notinclude their email address. Sent and received email may appear in a Member's Inbox on the Asian Circuit Service for an indefinite period - we do not delete it after any specific period. However, this does not mean that we will retain your email forever; there may come a time when we will need to delete some or all of it, for technical or other reasons. In this event, we will endeavour to give you advance warning that we are going to do so.

AdvertisingThe Asian Circuit Service may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymous demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.

Credit Card informationWe use PayPal as our payment provider. They operate a secure server, to process our credit card payments. They encrypt Members' credit or debit card information and authorise payment directly.

This means that Members' full credit card details are never revealed to us. PayPal may transfer, process and hold your credit card information in countries either within or outside the European Economic Area in connection with performing their duties.

Changes in Asian Circuit's business.If all of the assets which Asian Circuit uses to operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party so that the acquirer can continue to provide the Asian Circuit Service.

Place of processing.The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.

4. Security

We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member's responsibility:

• to protect against unauthorised access to Your Details as stated in the T&C’s;
• to ensure no-one else uses the Asian Circuit Service on that Member's machine while it is "logged on" to the Asian Circuit Service;
• to log off or exit from the Asian Circuit Service when not using it; and
• to keep his/her password secret.

 5. Removing yourself from the Asian Circuit Service

You may have your registration details removed at any time by contacting us directly. To remove yourself please click here and we will remove all Your Details.

6. Disclosure for legal reasons

We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member's personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it with a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

7. Data Retention Period

We will retain your personal data only as long as is necessary for the purposes to which you consent under the Asian Circuit Terms and Conditions and this Privacy Policy, or as is required by applicable law, and then we will delete it.

8. Contacting Asian Circuit

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Asian Circuit Service, or your dealings with Asian Circuit, you can contact us. You can also use this address if you wish to request from Asian Circuit a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.

9. Links to third party sites

The Asian Circuit Service contains links to other sites. Asian Circuit is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.

10. Data Protection Information

You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner's website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk.

11.Changes to this Privacy Policy

If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the Asian Circuit Terms and Conditions.