The Specialists is committed to protecting you and your family's personal information when you are using The Specialists services. We want our services to be safe and enjoyable environments for our clients. This Privacy Policy relates to our use of any personal information you provide to us through the The Specialists website.

In order to provide you with the full range of The Specialists services, we are sometimes required to collect information about you.

This privacy policy explains the following:
 

As set out above, The Specialists is committed to safeguarding your personal information. Whenever you provide such information, we are legally obliged to use your information in line with all laws concerning the protection of personal information.

The websites contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties. These third party websites have their own privacy policies, including cookies, and we urge you to review them. They will govern the use of personal information you submit or are collected by cookies whilst visiting these websites. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party websites and your use of such websites is at your own risk.

When you sign up to participate in or receive a service from any The Specialists website, such as newsletters, competitions, etc. We may ask for personal information about you. This can consist of information such as your name, e mail address, postal address, telephone or mobile number or date of birth. Different web pages may ask for different personal information.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the The Specialists and its service providers to provide you with the services you select.

Please note that sometimes on particular web pages we will require you to provide additional personal information, and sometimes sensitive personal information. When we do this we will specify further on these web pages why we are collecting your information and how we will use it.

The The Specialists also uses cookies and collects IP addresses (an IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet). We use analysis software to look at IP addresses and cookies for the purpose of enhancing your user experience. This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you and the log files are regularly purged.

The Specialists may contact you:

Local pages will give you detailed information about how the The Specialists will contact you in relation to specific services.

We will keep your information confidential except where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies). Generally, we will only use your information within The Specialists. However, sometimes The Specialists uses third parties to process your information. The Specialists will require these third parties to comply strictly with its instructions and the The Specialists will require that they do not use your personal information for their own business purposes.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant service, or as long as is set out in any relevant contract you hold with The Specialists corporate retention schedule (this is a database that defines which documents should be kept and for how long).

Where you contribute to the The Specialists web site. The Specialists will generally only keep your content for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.