Thank you for visiting Thestudio-online.co.uk. We realise that you may be concerned how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust. This statement describes our privacy policy. It applies only to Thestudio-online.co.uk, but does not extend to any site to which we link. Please ensure you check out their privacy statement if you visit another site. Thestudio-online.co.uk reserves the right to revise this policy at any time without notification to you, so please re-read it often.

Information Automatically Collected and Stored
For site management and statistical purposes, we collect information through standard Web logs. These Web logs contain the domain name or IP address from which you connect to our site, the date and time you access the site, search terms, and the pages visited. We make periodic checks of the types of browsers/operating systems used and of the pages from which you direct-link to our site. We regularly delete raw data logs from the system. We create summary statistics from the Web logs in order to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help make the site more useful for or members.

Cookie Disclaimer
A "cookie" is information stored on your computer by a Web server and used to customise your web service in some way. The Studio-online, including our forum, use cookies to store information about your interactions that may be needed later to perform a function. Cookies allow the Forum search and retrieval system to provide more interactive features such as Preview, Clipboard, and History. Cookies placed by The Studio-online will remain on your computer to allow the login system to remember who you are, but are used for no other purpose. You can choose not to accept cookies and still use the forum and associated databases. However, you will be unable to use the cookie-dependent features such as automatic login. Refer to the help information in your browser software for instructions on how to disable cookies.

Children and Thestudio-online.co.uk
Children may use our site by complying with our parental/guardian consent procedures found in the Terms of Use, but we don't have any intention of collecting any personally identifiable information from individuals under thirteen years of age. If you are aware that a child has provided us with personally identifiable information, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of this Privacy Statement. As children may access the site, even as guests, we ask that you post nothing, either written or images, which could be considered obscene. If any member disregards this request, we reserve the right to delete the post or image without reference to the poster.

Personally Provided Information
You do not have to give us personal information to visit our web sites .However, we do require a valid email address to register. Your email address is held in our database but can not be accessed by internet spiders or spam spiders and should therefore be considered secure.

If you choose to provide us with additional information about yourself through an e-mail message, form, survey, etc., we will only maintain the information as long as needed to respond to your question or to fulfil the stated purpose of the communication.

Disclosure
Except for authorised law enforcement investigations, no attempt is made to identify individual users or usage patterns. We do not give, share, sell or transfer any personal information to a third party. You are offered the opportunity, through your profile, to keep your email address hidden and the administrators will not disclose this email address to a third party, unless compelled to do so by an Act of Law. If for any reason you feel that your email address, or any other personal information, has been misused by the administrators or any member of the site. Please contact Barrie, either by email or private message.

Intrusion Detection
This site is maintained by Barrie Tumbridge. It is held on a secure server by Hosts Unlimited, our internet host, whose own privacy policy is available from their site.

Newsletter
We maintain our own mail system which is held on a secure server. We do not use a remote mailing service to send our newsletters. The information you supply, which is limited to an email address, is held on our own database and can not be accessed by internet spiders. The system used for subscription is automatic. If you decide to unsubscribe from our newsletter your email address is deleted from the database automatically. If you unsubscribe and you find you are still receiving newsletters, please contact us immediately.

Should you experience any difficulties on the site or need to contact us please send an email to admin@thestudio-online.co.uk