Privacy Policy

INFORMATION COLLECTED

Online Advertisements
In order to place an advertisement on the Horsequestrian web site, you will need to register. We will require you to supply your name, e-mail address, postal address and postcode. You will also be required to supply payment details. Credit Card information is collected over a secure connection.

Horse Searches
In order to conduct a search on the Horsequestrian web site, we will require you to supply a postcode and a selection of identifying criteria matching your chosen horse, for example breed, colour and price.

USE OF INFORMATION

General
When you register with our site, we ask you whether you would like to receive our newsletters detailing changes to the site and special offers that we feel may be of interest to you via email. You have the ability to opt-out of receiving all or any of these offers during registration.

We have taken measures to ensure that information supplied to us is held securely. As a consequence - we may occasionally request proof of identity before allowing access to your personal information.

You have the right to access all personal information supplied to Horsequestrian and rectify any inaccuracies on the information held (a charge of £10 may be administered). Further enquiries should be made via email or sent to, Horsequestrian, The Stables, Higher Ninis, Redruth, Cornwall, TR165EP.

If you wish to access your personal details as held by Horsequestrian, a charge of £10 will be made.

Amendments and Updates to this policy may be made from time to time. Any revisions will be posted on this page so you will always be aware of what information we collect.

Online Advertisements
Telephone numbers and email addresses supplied as part of any advertisement will be published within the relevant advertisement for the duration of the booking, to enable a potential buyer to contact the seller. The postcode is collected in order to provide a positioning on each vehicle within our database, thereby enabling potential buyers to locate horses and other items for sale within a set radius of their chosen location.

Credit card information is used solely for the purpose of payment processing. Horsequestrian retains no record of credit card details.

All details supplied Horsequestrian with your on-line advertisement will be safeguarded both by our privacy policy and also by the 1998 Data Protection Act. We will only ever pass your personal details to third parties to enable fulfilment of the advertising package which you have selected. Where advertising packages include additional benefits your agreement to these terms and conditions includes consent for your data to be used by others to provide those benefits, subject always to your being offered the opportunity to opt out of those benefits upon receipt.

Horse and Item Searches
Postcodes and horse information are collected in order to provide a relevant match against a specified search. The inclusion of the postcode enables us to provide the potential buyer with a range of items within a chosen locality, rather than randomly spread throughout the country.

Registration
Email addresses are collected in order to confirm registrants chosen password, providing them with online access to their registration details. The user can access this information at any time in order to update their details or change the option on whether they would like to receive communication from Horsequestrian.

Other registration information is collected in order:

1. To generate an overall audience profile of visitors using the Horsequestrian web site. This information is then used to assist in developing relevant content on the site.
2. To provide our web site visitors with the option to receive the Horsequestrian email bulletin, as well as the option to receive email and postal offers from selected third party companies that Horsequestrian believes may be of interest to them.
3. To support our E-alerts functionality (when installed)- whereby visitors to our site can store settings on horse searches and/or set up alerts to be notified (by email) - when a specified horse appears for sale on the Horsequestrian web site. Unless a visitor supplies their email address, we are unable to send such alerts.

• USE OF COOKIES
  
  When you visit our web site we issue a "cookie" or unique identification code that enables us to recognize your computer and store settings to help facilitate your use of our site.
  
  If your computer is configured to accept cookies we will be able to provide time saving functionality.

For further information on cookies or for details on how to delete them or refuse their installation on your computer, please visit http://www.aboutcookies.org/

Why we use cookies
Horsequestrian uses cookies for 3 purposes:

1. To enable the delivery of functionality that improves the ease and speed of using the Horsequestrian web site (see above).
2. To enable us to track the relative demand for different types of horses and items on the site. Such information enables us to better target advertising at users searching for specific horses.
3. To enable us to track the relative popularity of disparate parts of our site. This in turn enables us to concentrate our efforts on developing those parts of the site that are generating the greatest consumer demand.