Last amended on 03 October 2009

We value your privacy!

At Tawny Lion, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This online privacy policy explains the use of information collected via the Tawny Lion website and services. Please read it carefully and contact us if you have any questions.

What User Data do we collect from you?

We may collect data from you by our use of cookies (see below), when you register for membership, and when you use the Tawny Lion website.

We will communicate with you via email. Your email address is personal information and could be used to directly identify you.

How do we use User Data?

We will use the User Data we collect from you only to provide and improve this website. This includes responding to queries you may have, notifying you of changes to the site, and informing you of any actions you may need to complete.

Should Tawny Lion merge with another service, or cease to exist, we shall use reasonable endeavours to contact you in advance of us disclosing your data to a third party. However, you acknowledge that this might not be technically or commercially feasible in all the circumstances.

Your consent
By continuing to use this website and by providing any personal data to us via this website or e-mail addresses provided on this website, you are consenting to our use of your personal data as set out in this privacy policy. Please do not send us any personal data if you do not want that information to be used by us in this manner.

Legal requirements

While it is unlikely, we may be required to disclose your User Data by a court order or to comply with other legal or regulatory requirements. We will use reasonable endeavours to notify you before we do so, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.

Changes to the Policy

This privacy policy may be amended by us at any time. Please check this website periodically to inform yourself of any changes.

Email privacy

Although we welcome your queries, please note that any electronic communication through this website between you and Tawny Lion may not be secure and will not be treated as privileged or confidential. For this reason, please do not send us any email that contains confidential or sensitive information.

Disclosing personal information whilst using Tawny Lion

If you choose to disclose personal information to other users of Tawny Lion whilst using this service we would like to remind you that such information is public information. You should not expect privacy or confidentiality in these settings. Please consult our Terms and Conditions of use for specific guidelines and policies for the Tawny Lion services.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a tiny element of data that a website can send to your computer’s browser so that this computer will be recognised by the site on your return. Cookies allow our web server to recognise your computer on connection to our website, which inturn allows the server to make downloading of pages faster than on first viewing. In addition, cookies may also be used by us to establish statistics about the use of this website by Internet users by gathering and analysing data such as: most visited pages, time spent by users on each page, site performance, etc. By collecting and using such data, we hope to improve the quality of the site.

The data collected by our servers and/or through cookies that may be placed on your computer will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfil the purposes mentioned above. In any event, such information may not be kept for longer than one year.

Navigation data about site viewers is automatically collected by our servers. If you do not wish to have this navigation data collected, we recommend that you do not use this website.

You can also set your browser to block the recording of cookies on your hard drive to minimise the amount of data that may be collected about your navigating on this site. The browser on your computer can be set to notify you when a cookie is being recorded on your computer’s hard drive. Most browsers can also be set to keep cookies from being recorded on your computer. However, for optimal use of this website, we recommend that you do not block the recording of cookies on your computer.

The tawnylion.com servers and computer systems are protected from outside intrusions. As a result, all data that may be collected about site viewers through the use of cookies will be protected from unauthorised access.

As an anonymous user of Tawny Lion any cookies used on this site are only active for the duration of your visit. Cookies used on this site are not stored on your computer once you have closed your web browser. Information generated by the use of cookies may be compiled into an aggregate form so that no individual can be identified.

As an active member of Tawny Lion, cookies may be kept on the hard drive of your computer following closure of the web browser. These cookies enable personalised versions of this website and enables us to build up a profile of our users.

For more information about cookies, please see the Information Commissioner’s website home page or the Interactive Advertising Bureau.

You may choose to not receive a cookie file by enabling your web browser to refuse cookies. The procedure for refusal of cookies may vary for different software products. Please check with your internet browser software help or your software supplier if you wish to refuse cookies.

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