Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how David Bonham-Carter, the owner of this website, www.davidbonham-carter.com, uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website. If you are asked to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

David Bonham-Carter may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 January 2007.

Types of information that may be requested

Via this website or in personal communication with you or by email correspondence you may be requested to provide one or more of the following items - you never have to provide any information unless you wish to:

• your name
• your contact information including email address
• demographic information such as post code, preferences and interests
• other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
• information to enable David Bonham-Carter to provide a better service to you and other visitors to the website.

What information may be used for

Information collected can be helpful to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• Internal record keeping.
• To use the information to improve products and services for you and others.
• Where you have provided an email address, you may be sent information that could be of use to you and/or promotional email about new products, special offers or other information which may be of interest to you, using the email address which you have provided. 
• From time to time, David may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes by email, phone, fax or mail where those details have been supplied.
• Information you and others supply may be used to help improve the website and the services provided.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Traffic log cookies may be used to identify which pages are being used. This faciliates the analysis of data about web page traffic to improve the website in order to tailor it to visitors' needs. This information is only gathered for statistical analysis purposes or to faciliate the smooth running of the service and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies enable a better website to be provided, by enabling the evaluation of pages clients or visitors find useful and those which are less useful to you. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

This website contains links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, you should note that David Bonham-Carter has no control over other websites to which the site has links except where they are owned by him. Therefore, he cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your Personal Information & Confidentiality

David Bonham-Carter will not sell, distribute or otherwise provide your personal information to third parties unless he has your permission or is required by law or unless doing so might help to prevent harm to yourself or someone else.