Privacy Policy

At Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine we collect information about our users for two main reasons:

1. To help us continually improve the service we offer.
2. To use the details of our users to sell appropriate advertising space on the site, we don't want our advertisers to be putting their message in front of the wrong people and we don't want our users to be confronted with irrelevant adverts.

Our principles

We are absolutely committed to protecting your privacy. Our policy can be summarised in one sentence: we will not share your information with other companies outside of Ascent Publishing and its parent company Centaur Communications without your prior consent. We have also established the following three principles:

1. We will continue to invest in the best quality security available and do our utmost to protect user privacy.
2. We will not pass on any individual user details (including your e-mail address) unless we have your prior consent.
3. Otherwise, we will only share aggregate statistics about our users, sales and traffic patterns with our advertisers.

What information do we collect ?

We collect some basic information from all of our registered users. This includes your name, e-mail address, and post-code. We also ask some further questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. They also enable us to personalise services for our users. We collect data listing which of our pages are most frequently visited and by which types of users.

FAQ's

How does Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine protect customer information ?

We do our utmost to protect user privacy. To comply with UK Data Protection Legislation, we follow procedures in the storage and disclosure of information that you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access.

Will homebuilding.co.uk disclose the information it collects to outside parties?

Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine will not sell, trade or rent your personal information to other companies outside of Centaur Communications unless you have given us your permission. With your permission we will only share the information with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy third parties. Also, Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information. Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine follows the relevant legal requirements and uses all reasonable precautions to ensure only responsible third parties see the information, however we are not responsible for any breach of security or any actions of any third parties who receive the information.

Tell us what you think.

Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine welcomes your questions and comments.

Please e-mail us at: customerservice@centaur.co.uk