Last updated 07 July 2007

Mothergoose.uk.com is committed to providing quality online information... While we encourage the interactive nature of online media, we strive to ensure the online safety and privacy of our users.

Mothergoose.uk.com is intended for domestic visitors and, consequently, is specifically directed towards residents of the United Kingdom. This policy, like the online medium itself, is subject to change.

Mothergoose.uk.com collects the information you provide at registration including your name, e-mail address and your children's details. We may use this information to, for example:

• provide you with personalised information such as event listings.
• understand how you have been using the site and tailor the information we provide to you accordingly.
• automatically complete forms on the Website with your name and address.
• allow independent auditors to verify Website usage statistics.
• mail or e-mail you with information about the Website or other Mother goose products and services.

Our site, the design, content and language, as well as our activities, are targeted to a grown-up audience. If we were to discover that a child submitted personally identifiable information in any area of the site (i.e. Registration), Mothergoose.uk.com would delete the information immediately.

You should be aware that if we are requested by the police or any regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal activities to access and disclose individually identifiable information concerning your activities whilst using our web site, we shall do so. We also reserve the right to disclose individually identifiable information to third parties where a complaint arises concerning your use of our web site, and that use is deemed by us inconsistent with these conditions.

You agree that you do not object to us contacting you for any of the above purposes whether by telephone, e-mail or in writing and you confirm that you do not and will not consider any of the above as being a breach of any of your rights under the Telecommunications (Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999.

Mothergoose.uk.com provides registered membership for adults only.In order to participate in our registered member activities, we ask adult users to submit personal information (e.g. full name, e-mail address, home town). Adult users may also submit details of their children for the sole purpose of being entered in the monthly birthday competition.
At any time after the registration process, registered members can choose to unregister by electing to unsubscribe, which option can be found in the Registration section and at the end of each mothergoose.uk.com correspondence sent to users.
Mothergoose.uk.com will not knowingly collect any information from children under 16 other than that submitted by adults for use in the birthday competition.

Business Transfers
In the event that all or substantially all of the assets relating to mothergoose.uk.com are transferred or sold to another entity, personally identifiable information may be transferred to the acquiring entity.

Special Cases
We may also disclose personally identifiable information to third parties when required by law or is pertinent to judicial or government investigations or proceedings, or otherwise necessary to protect our Web site or the safety of its users.
Other than as set forth above, we do not at present intend to use your personal information for other purposes. However, in the future we may disclose personal information you have provided to third parties for additional purposes and in the event we do, we will provide notices of such use to our users.

Mothergoose.uk.com provides adults the opportunity to send e-mail to us. We request no personally identifiable information from the parent except his/her first name and e-mail address, which we use solely for the purpose of responding to questions. The adult’s first name and e-mail address are deleted from our system periodically.

Use of e-commerce applications on mothergoose.uk.com is also subject to the policies and terms and conditions of such applications (if there are any), including those with respect to collection of personal information necessary to process any orders. The policies and terms of use of such applications can be reached from such applications. While a child may use these applications to browse through products, making an actual purchase on these applications is intended for adults and a credit card is required in order to complete the ordering process.

Mothergoose.uk.com e-Commerce Applications - We use outside contractors to process and fulfil orders made from certain e-commerce applications on the mothergoose.uk.com web site. Your personal information is provided to them under an agreement of confidentiality and they, in turn, may provide it to their subcontractors, including warehouses and shipping companies, in order to process your order. We are not responsible for these outside contractors. In order to protect your privacy, we make sure that any mothergoose.uk.com e-commerce application does not save any personal information unless and until the order is completed using a verified credit/debit card during the check out process.
Third Party e-Commerce Sites - We may also feature links to other third party e-commerce sites which collect and use personal information and credit information to process your order subject to their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for those other sites and advise you to check their policies and terms of use since these may vary.

Mothergoose.uk.com does not hold Credit Card information, but must store address information for delivery purposes.
Photographs supplied for the downloadable Birthday Executable will be deleted as soon as the transaction is successfully completed.

Cookies are information files that your web browser places on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a Web site. Cookies cannot damage user files, nor can they read information from a user's hard drive. Cookies allow Web sites to "remember" users activities on a Web site as well as users visits to a site. We do not store any personal information into cookies nor do we link or combine information collected through cookies to any personal information submitted by users when participating in our activities. Log data collected on web servers within mothergoose.uk.com’s control supplies Mothergoose.uk.com with aggregate information about the number of visits to different pages on our site. Mothergoose.uk.com uses such aggregate information to improve access to our content based on our visitors' browsers and operating system types to make our content available to as many users as possible. We do not link the "log data" collected to personally identifiable information submitted by users when participating in our activities.

Mothergoose.uk.com has taken steps to ensure that personally identifiable information collected is secure.
We have strict security procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information in order to prevent unauthorised access to comply with the UK Data Protection Act of 1998. This means that sometimes we may ask for proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.

We welcome your questions and comments about privacy issues and the design of our web site. Should you have such comments or have a complaint about how we are using your personal data, please send an email to info@mothergoose.uk.com.

Mothergoose.uk.com reserves the right to change the information, features, products, policies, promotions, disclosures and disclaimers at any time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on the Mothergoose.uk.com site. Please check these terms periodically for changes. At the top of the policy we indicate the date of the last update. The continued use of the Mothergoose.uk.com web site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept such changes, and be deemed to apply to the revised policies and new or modified features. However, in the event there is a material change in our data collection, use or disclosure practices, we will obtain a new consent.
By using this site, we assume that you have read this document carefully and understand and have followed its advice. If you do not agree with this policy or with the advice we give, please do not use our sites.

Thank you for being concerned with privacy and safety issues and for taking the time to read this Privacy Policy. We hope that you the Mothergoose.uk.com web site. If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policies or practices, we would like to know what they are so we can address them.