General

At Equine Data Solutions, protection and respect of your privacy is of paramount importance to us. We strive to produce a safe and secure environment in which you can be assured absolute respect of your privacy. The purpose of this statement is to inform you of the information we collect about you and how that information is protected or shared. This policy relates to all our members including both individuals and companies.

Registration Data

By agreeing to the Terms of use and Privacy Statement of this site and providing the registration details for the purpose of completing the registration process you or your company provides Equine Data Solutions with personal information. This information will only be used by Equine Data Solutions for the purpose for which it was provided by you or your company. Some of this information is necessary to verify you as a valid user with a valid email address. Disclosure of parts of this information to other users of the site outside your company is controlled by you via the Subcontracting, “Link to a Company” functionality. Your email address is never wilfully disclosed by Equine Data Solutions to any other user or third party.

Usage information

Like any website, Equine Data Solutions' servers and logs collects general and non-personal information about usage of the site, identifying browsers used, originating and exit pages and pages visited. This information is used to create and analyse web traffic, statistics and usage of the website and to help Equine Data Solutions improve the way the site may be structured and navigated. It also helps Equine Data Solutions determine the number of users visiting the site, the number of pages and links they click, the originating sites and geographic locations of users. Equine Data Solutions may use this information to make improvements to the site to suit user's usage behaviours. Other details may be collected in Equine Data Solutions' servers and logs of a more identifiable nature such as individual user ip addresses and usage behaviours. Equine Data Solutions will never wilfully disclose any information of a personal nature to any third party without the user's express written permission.

Cookies

Like many other websites, Equine Data Solutions may use 'cookies' to help provide a more personalised service to individual users. 'Cookies' are small text files that are stored on the user's computer and help facilitate improved usage of the site by returning visitors to store some basic details about activity the user has previously performed, for example remembering searches done by users so they don't have to type in the details on subsequent return to the site. Users can control the use of cookies via their web browser and choose to enable/disable cookies for individual sites. Note, however, that disabling cookies for Equine Data Solutions may lead to more limited use of some features of the site.

Third Party Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use some usage information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used by these companies, please visit the advertising company website to find out more.