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The Register strongly believes in the importance of keeping readers' personal information personal. It will never use your information for any use beyond that stated or the permissions you give us.

IP Addresses and Server Logs

The Register site does record IP addresses and produces server logs - as all Web Servers do. This information is used solely for monitoring the volume of traffic the site receives and measuring the number of readers. We do not use the information for tracking the activities of specific visitors to the site.

Cookies

The Register site sets cookies in order to help with the management of its advertising. The data is used by our Advertising Server, purely to help decide which adverts to display on the page at any given time, and for no other purpose beyond this. You may of course choose to block these cookies if you wish, and the site should continue to function normally.

Advertising

We use a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you visit our Web site. This company may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visit to this Web site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to this site, our third-party advertiser may place or recognise a unique 'cookie' on your browser. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, please click here. DoubleClick also has a cookie opt-out facility here.

If you encounter any problems with advertising please email webmaster@theregister.co.uk

Email and Online Forms

Readers who choose to subscribe to our optional headlines-by-email service, or complete any of our online forms, may be asked to supply personal data. If they choose to do so, that information is recorded and used for broad demographic information. If permission is granted, this information may be used to target specific users with occasional emails informing them about commercial services provided by The Register.

If permission is granted, this information may be used to send occasional emails containing offers from our partners. This will only ever be provided to readers who have specifically given us permission to use their information in this way.

The Register will never use your data for anything beyond the reason stated and the permissions you grant us. To alter the emails which you receive from us, including unsubscribing from all email communications, please visit this page. Make sure that you enter exactly the same e-mail address as you used to sign up.

Competitions

Readers who enter The Register competitions will be asked for some personal information, but only to allow us to judge the validity of their applications and to contact them should they be declared a competition winner.

If permission is granted, this information may be used to target specific users with commercial services provided by The Register.

If permission is granted, this information may be used to send occasional emails from The Register containing offers from our partners. This will only ever be provided to readers that have specifically given us permission to use their information in this way.

The Register will never use your data for anything beyond the reason stated and the permissions you grant us.

Publishing

We reserve the right to publish emails and letters sent to The Register. If the sender asks that that we don't reveal his or her identity, that information won't be published. We never publish a private email address unless specifically asked to do so by its owner.

Cash'n'Carrion

Our online store, Cash'n'Carrion, inevitably records some personal data, including names, addresses and credit card details.

If permission is granted, this information may be used to target specific users with commercial services provided by The Register.

If permission is granted, this information may be used to send occasional emails from The Register containing offers from our partners. This will be provided solely to readers who have specifically given us permission to use their information in this way.

Third Parties

The Register has partnered with other organisations to provide you with a number of service. All have their own privacy policies, which can be found here :-

WorldPay

WorldPay provide The Register with their credit card processing facilities. Privacy Policy

Expansys

Expansys run The Register's Mobile and Wireless store. Privacy Policy

5Star Networks

5Star run The Register's Download and Software sites. Privacy Policy

Sirenic

Sirenic run The Register's Mobile Reg Service. Privacy Policy

Skinkers

Skinkers run The Register's NewsAlerts Service. Privacy Policy

Data Protection

Anyone who provides The Register with personal information is given the opportunity to manage how that information is used. This includes opting out of any services and restricting the use of that information. You can do that by visiting this address or by contacting Philip Mitchell.

Accessing your Data

Readers of The Register have certain rights under the UK's Data Protection Acts. You can, for instance, ask to be told what information we hold about you in our databases. The Register will provide you with all of the details that we hold about you, both online and offline, upon request.

The Register reserves the right to charge a £10 administration fee for this process. If you would like to request this information please use the contact details below.

Changes to this Policy

As statutory and online requirements change so this policy document may change. Any changes will be highlighted across the site to ensure that all readers have the opportunity to respond to these changes.

Contacting Situation Publishing Data Controller

If you wish to contact Situation Publishing regarding any aspect of the Privacy Policy you should use the following contact details:

By Post:

The Data Controller
Situation Publishing
67/69 Whitfield Street
London
W1T 4HF

By Email

philip.mitchell@theregister.co.uk