Privacy Statement and Cookie Policy

www.carter-history.com has created this statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. This page explains how we protect and respect any information we may collect from you (including Cookies), and discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for the www.carter-history.com website.

Contacting us

If you have any requests concerning any personal information that we may hold of yours or any queries with regard to our data processing practices, or with www.carter-history.com generally, please contact us by completing our feedback form.

The Data Protection Act

Under the UK Data Protection Act, we have a legal duty to process any information we collect from you in a fair and lawful manner. We use leading technologies and encryption software to safeguard your data, and keep strict security standards to prevent any unauthorised access to it. We do not pass on your details to any third party unless you give us permission to do so.

Feedback

Our feedback form requires you to give us some contact information, such as your name and E-mail address. This information is used by us in order to respond to your feedback. It may also be used by us to inform you about changes to our website, new services and other offers that you might find interesting. If you do not wish to receive this information, please contact us. The www.carter-history.com website is secured to protect your name and other personal information from unauthorised access.

External Links

This site contains links to other sites. www.carter-history.com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other websites.

Security & Access Rights

The www.carter-history.com website has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control including a firewall. You have the right to access the personal data held about you. To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please contact us.

How we use 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.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

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.

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