Privacy Policy

Summary

We are fully committed to compliance with the UK Data Protection Act 1998. The following principles are applied when we handle your personal information:

Your personal information is only used with your knowledge
Only information that we actually need is collected
Your personal information is only seen by those who need it to do their jobs
We will not pass your personal information on to any other organisation without your agreement unless required to do so by the law
Personal information is retained only for as long as it is required
We will, where necessary, keep your information up to date
Your information will be protected from unauthorised or accidental disclosure
We will provide you with a copy of your personal information on request
Inaccurate or misleading data will be corrected as soon as possible

These principles apply whether we hold your information on paper or in electronic form.

Detailed P3P-Compliant Privacy Policy

About Us

This is a privacy policy for maidsafe.net Ltd. Our homepage on the web is located at www.maidsafe.net. The full text of our privacy policy is available on the web at www.maidsafe.net/privacy. Users may go to www.maidsafe.net/privacy for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:
maidsafe.net
82a Portland Street
Troon
Ayrshire
KA10 6QU
United Kingdom

You may contact us by e-mail at privacy@maidsafe.net. You may call us on +44 (0)1292 314311.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

maidsafe Customer Service: We will remove your information from our system if requested, or correct erroneous information.

Additional Information

This policy is valid indefinitely.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 1 data group. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Full Website"

We collect the following information:

Navigation and click-stream data
Computer information
URI of requested resource
Request timestamp
Client's IP address or hostname
Other access log fields
Last URI requested by the user
User agent information
HTTP cookies
Search terms

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Anonymous user analysis.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person from whom this data was collected.

The following explanation is provided as to why this data is collected:

Statistical analysis of usage of our website.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Pseudononymous analysis

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:
CP="OTI DSP COR PSAa OUR IND ONL UNI COM NAV INT"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Compact Privacy Policy Explanation
Field	Meaning
CP=	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
OTI	Access is available to some information.
DSP	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
COR	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
PSAa	The data is used for pseudononymous analysis.
OUR	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
IND	The data will be kept indefinitely.
ONL	Online contact information is collected.
UNI	Unique identifiers are collected.
COM	Computer information is collected.
NAV	Navigation and clickstream data is collected.
INT	Interactive data is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium). In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.