Privacy Policy
This is the web site of Salspot Limited a
subsidiary of Penguin Books Limited ("Penguin"). The web site
is owned and operated by Penguin.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about this web
site or our privacy policy, please contact us by writing to us
at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL or telephoning on 020 7010 3000
or emailing at funwithspot@penguin.co.uk.
Our approach to privacy on the site
We want people who visit our web site to be
able to take part fully in the activities and offers we provide.
We also want to make sure that when we collect information from
you we do so in a way that does not infringe your right to privacy.
This Privacy Policy is designed to give you useful information
about your rights and the way we collect and use personal information.
We do not ask users to disclose any more information
than is reasonably necessary to enable them to participate in
an activity on our web site and to improve the web site.
We do not generally disclose personal information
we have collected through this web site to third parties. We may
do so sometimes, in which case we will say so when the information
is collected and you will be able to inform us that you do not
want us to do this. This will not stop you enjoying the site,
you can simply tell us that you are happy for us to have the information
so you can take part in the activities we offer, but that you
do not want us to pass that information on.
Besides what we describe in this Privacy Policy,
we do not maintain any personal information obtained from users
through this web site in a retrievable form.
The information we collect and how we use
it
ADULTS
When you want to participate in activities
on our web site, this is the sort of information we ask for and
how we use it:
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If you enter competitions, we ask you
for your name, email and residential address. This is so that
we can let you know if you have won anything, send you your
prize and let other people (such as other users of our web
site, the public and our own employees) know about our competitions
and their winners.
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If you send e-postcards, we will ask
you for your name and email address so we can let whoever
receives the postcard know who sent it and so we can make
sure you get a copy (by email) too.
We only keep the personal information you
submit for these purposes until we have made use of it in these
ways.
CHILDREN
When children want to participate in activities
on our web site, this is the sort of information we ask for and
how we use it:
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When a child enters a competition, we
ask his or her parents to fill in the entry form and provide
the child's name, email and residential addresses and date
of birth. This is so that we can confirm your child's eligibility
to participate, then let them know if they have won anything,
send them their prize and also tell others (such as other
users of our web site, the public and our own employees) about
our competitions and their winners.
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When children send wish to send e-postcards,
we will ask for their names and email addresses (and the names
and email addresses of the recipients). This is so we can
let whoever receives the postcard know who sent it and so
we can make sure the child who sent it gets a copy (by email)
too.
We only keep the personal information children
submit for these purposes until we have made use of it in these
ways.
Parents on the Spot web site
We encourage parents and guardians to spend
time online with their children and to participate in the activities
offered on this site. If your child is younger than 13, we ask
you to play an active role in safeguarding his or her privacy
when using our site.
Children under 13 years of age
We make it a condition of using this site
that no information is submitted to or posted at the site by children
under 13 unless we have the consent of their parent or guardian.
Parents, if you have children who are under
13, we ask you to complete their entry forms for competitions
run on this site. We will notify you if your child wins a competition
and send any prize to you. We also ask you to help your children
when they are sending e-postcards
Older children
If a child is older than 13, we will ask him
or her to give consent personally if we plan to keep or use his
or her information for anything (we will also say what we plan
to do with it). Parents, please help your children with this.
Cookies
We use cookies on this web site. Cookies are
alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard
drive through your web browser. They enable us to recognize your
web browser. In effect, cookies tell us when you have visited
our site and where you have been, but they do not identify you
personally Ð just the presence of your browser. We use cookies
to see how often people visit our site and what they look at.
This helps us to know what parts of the site are popular - what
people are interested in - so we can make sure we have more interesting
material on the site in future. If you don't want us to be able
to do this, your browser's help section should be able to tell
you how you can disable or filter cookies and how to arrange for
your browser to tell you when you've been sent a new cookie.
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