Fubra's Privacy Policy

Good Privacy Practice = TRUST

Fubra run a network of websites, and this privacy policy applies across them all. At Fubra we recognise the importance of your privacy, so this policy outlines the data we collect, how we use it and how we safeguard your information.

Fubra may be required to revise this privacy policy in the future to comply with any applicable European regulations, in order to utilise new technologies or to improve your user experience, so please check back periodically.

Our Privacy Principles

Fubra is responsible for the personal data of millions of web users, and as such we take privacy very seriously. This page outlines the principles behind our privacy policy, and explains how and why we use your information.

T.R.U.S.T is an ancronym for Transparency, Regulations, User control, Secure and Temporary. These are the five principles we adhere to so that you can be sure we are really looking after your data. We hope through good practice we can gain, and more importantly keep your trust in our services.

Tranparency

We believe transparency is where all good data retention policies start. Every piece of data we store is stored for a reason – mostly to improve our services. By being transparent about what we store we hope you will understand that we only need to store information to make our services better.

Regulations

As a company we are registered by law with the Data Protection Commissioner in the UK under number Z5193400. We also closely monitor and subscribe to other voluntary programs that help improve the delivery of our privacy policies, for example our sites all have P3P compact security policies.

User Control

Much of the data collected by online companies is gathered without your knowledge. This is done using 'cookies' and complex behavioural algorithms, both of which create secret profiles about you as you surf. At Fubra we think this is wrong.

Our policy is to make sure we only store data when you ask us to. This is important because it allows you to make the most of the services you like, and opt out of the ones you don't. We hope you find all our services useful, but if they aren't we want you to be able to contact us or control the information you receive.

Secure

Our systems administrators work hard to protect our network from attacks that might compromise your data, but good security practice goes a lot deeper at Fubra. All our web sites and applications are designed starting with security in mind, which ensures that the risk of compromise is minimised. Oh, and we also store our data in a nuclear bomb proof bunker for that extra bit of protection.

Temporary

If we have data that is no longer needed we delete it. We only keep data as long as necessary and by doing this we reduce the risks associated with holding personal information.

Our Privacy Policy

Site Access

We use cookies to store and collect information about your usage of the site in order to enhance your online experience and to help us improve the quality of our services.
When you access a site, your computer automatically sends us information such as the URL on our site you have visited, your IP address, your browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
If you perform a search on any of our sites, your searches are logged and may be used internally, so as to better personalise our service to you.

Community Site Access

Fubra operates a number of community web sites mainly comprising the TalkOn.it network of sites.
If you join these web sites we may store further information about you to allow you to make use of those web sites.
This information includes: The number of posts you have made to those sites, the friends you have added on those sites, the content of any posts you have made, the content of any private messages you have sent to other users of our sites, the content of any extended profile information you supply us with.

Subscription

When you sign up to one of our sites, a Fubra Passport account is opened for you – please see below for an explanation of the Fubra Passport
We collect a small amount of personal information when you sign up to any of our the sites. Your information will be stored confidentially by us and will only be used in order to provide you with access to our products, services and information that we believe will interest you.
Your personal details will never be passed onto any other companies or third parties, including affiliates, and will never be added to any third party mailing lists or databases unless you specifically opt for this to happen.
We may use information about our users in statistical aggregate form. This is non-personal information and simply refers to information such as number of registrations, traffic patterns and site user trends.
If you register for our alerts service on any of our sites, your preferences, for example your location, are logged in order to update you with the most relevant information.

Contacting Us

If you contact us via email or phone, your details and a history of the communication will be stored by us in order for us to deal with inquiries adequately and improve our customer support services. We record all of the phone calls to our company for training and security purposes

Fubra Passport

We operate a central login system called the Fubra Passport. This system is a database of the users who can access our web sites and also contains a set of preferences for each subscriber. The Fubra Passport allows you to access any of our sites with a single set of login details.
The data we hold in the Fubra Passport system is not available for sale to any third parties and will only ever be used by us with your consent.
If you would prefer not to receive alert emails or other data that we email to our subscribers free of charge then you can change or remove alerts on the Alerts pages of the relevant site.
If you remove all your alerts then we will no longer send you any automatic update emails. However, you will still remain a subscriber to our web sites via the Fubra Passport system and will therefore still have access to our web sites when you choose to search for information.

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You can use the Fubra Passport page to easily join or leave any of our other web sites that are currently supported by the system. By leaving just one site you will continue to receive emails about other sites if you remain a member of those.

Links and Affiliated Sites

All Fubra websites contain hypertext links to external websites, both affiliated and non-affiliated. By clicking on one of these links you will leave the Fubra website that you are using. Fubra has no control over the information collected by any third party after you have left one of our sites. Fubra encourages you to read the privacy policy of external sites.
The data collection and usage practices of any third party linked to Fubra are not covered by this privacy policy. Fubra assumes no liability, and is not responsible for any practices of such third party web sites, including their privacy practices and content.

Security

We use a secure server cluster situated in a secure data centre to protect all the information you provide us with. We have invested heavily in equipment and highly qualified staff to ensure all information you enter is protected from access by any third party and only necessary and restricted access is available internally. We also protect all our connections to the internet using various security measures, including firewalls and regular security audits on all our servers.
As required by law we are registered on the public register of data controllers and store and process all data in accordance with all UK legislation. We are registered with the following number: Z5193400

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices or your dealings with any Fubra site, you may contact us.