1. General: Future Publishing Limited (“Future”) is committed to protecting you and your family’s personal information when you are using this website (“the Website”). We take our responsibilities regarding the security of information you provide to us very seriously. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you of:
- what information Future may collect from you;
- how Future will use the information we collect about you;
- whether Future discloses your details to anyone else; and
- your choices regarding the personal information you have provided to us.
2. What information will future collect about me? If you wish to take part in the Young Photographer of the Year competition (“the Competition”), you need to register as a member on the website. In order to make sure you are eligible to enter, you will need to provide us with your date of birth and we will also need an email address to send an activation link to you.
Future also uses cookies (see paragraph 7 below). This information is not used to develop a personal profile of you.
3. How will Future use the information they collect about me? Future will use your personal information to make sure you are eligible to enter the Competition, to administer the Competition and to notify you if you have won a prize. Future may also use your information for any purpose if we are required to do so by any law or other regulatory or government authority, to enforce the rules of the Competition, the terms of use of the website or to protect the safety of others. In particular, we may collect and use personal information for the purposes of investigating and, if necessary, removing any photographs about which we receive a complaint.
4. Will I be contacted for marketing purposes? No.
5. Will Future share my personal information with anyone else? We may use third parties to help us run the Competition and may need to disclose your information to them. Don’t worry – they will not be allowed to use your information for any other purpose than to help us run the Competition.
6. How long will Future keep my personal information? We will only hold your personal information as long as is reasonably required for the purposes of the Competition (unless upon registration for the Competition, you ask us to hold the information so that you don’t need to re-register for next year’s Competition).
7. Cookies policy – information Future collects from you: The Website gathers certain information such as IP addresses (that means a number which can identify a specific computer on the internet) and the number of visitors to the Website automatically. This is collected using cookies and is used by us, for security purposes to manage and improve the Website and to ensure the Website is as appealing to visitors as possible. Cookies are pieces of information that are stored by the browser on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive or you can configure your web browser so that it rejects cookies. To learn more about cookies and how to reject them, visit
www.aboutcookies.org[We also include web beacons (also known as clean GIFs or web bugs) in our emails. This means that if you open an email from us we can see which of the pages of our Website you have visited. Our web beacons do not store additional information on your computer but, by communicating with our cookies on your computer, they can tell us when you have opened our email. If you object to beacons, we recommend that you follow the instructions for deleting cookies above. We will still know how many of our emails are opened and we will automatically receive your IP address but we will not identify you as an individual.]
8. Security: In accordance with our requirements under the Data Protection Act 1998, we will adopt appropriate security procedures to help prevent unauthorised access to your information. Neither Future nor any of its group companies shall be liable for any attempt to hack or crack or otherwise gain access to any part of the Website including any of your information.
9. Policy changes: By using the Website you agree to the terms of this privacy policy and our
terms of use. We may amend this privacy policy and the terms of use from time to time. If we do so, we will post an updated version on the Website. You will be bound by the new terms upon your continued use of the Website.
10. Contact details: You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you have any general questions about the Website, you can contact the Future New Media Team at
Future Publishing Limited, Beauford Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath BA1 2BW, telephone +44 (0)1225 442244, email
futurenet-webmaster@futurenet.co.uk. If you have any questions about your information including what we hold and how it is used, you can contact us at
futurenet-webmaster@futurenet.co.uk