Privacy Policy

This privacy policy was updated on Feb 26th 2010

Home Technology Services (HTS) is a trading name of Mediaholix Ltd, a registered company in England and Wales with registration 6917955. As any data collected by Home Technology Services will reside under the protection of Mediaholix Ltd, this privacy document clearly defines the responsibility of the company itself and not the trading name. Consequently, this document refers to Mediaholix Ltd rather than the Home Technology Services brand name.

MEDIAHOLIX LTD has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you (the customer) online.

  1. Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure

Your use of the Home Technology Services (HTS) site and/or your registration for HTS products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use sites owned by MEDIAHOLIX LTD.

MEDIAHOLIX LTD may occasionally update this Privacy Policy and will post the changes at this or another specified location.

A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time. Please note that, if you do, MEDIAHOLIX LTD may suspend its provision of products and services to you. When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any MEDIAHOLIX LTD product and you request a refund, the guarantee will be honoured.

  1. Accountability

MEDIAHOLIX LTD collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies you) including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).

MEDIAHOLIX LTD has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect personal information received from its customers, and to respond to any inquiries. The Privacy Policy also provides that MEDIAHOLIX LTD will use appropriate contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal information which is sent for processing by third parties on MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s behalf.

  1. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

MEDIAHOLIX LTD collects and uses personal information for the following Identified Purposes:

    1. to understand customer needs regarding MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s services;
    2. to understand customer needs regarding MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s services;
    3. to fulfill your requests for products, services or information;
    4. to communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from MEDIAHOLIX LTD, its affiliates and third parties;
    5. to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s sites;
    6. to personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from MEDIAHOLIX LTD and third parties;
    7. to bill accounts and maintain payment records;
    8. to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;
    9. to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use of the MEDIAHOLIX LTD sites or any MEDIAHOLIX LTD product or service;
    10. to protect the services, products or rights of MEDIAHOLIX LTD, including but not limited to the security or integrity of MEDIAHOLIX LTD sites; and
    11. to identify and resolve technical problems concerning MEDIAHOLIX LTD?s site, products and services.

If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.

  1. Limiting the Collection of Personal Information

MEDIAHOLIX LTD limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. MEDIAHOLIX LTD does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

When you visit a MEDIAHOLIX LTD web site, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the MEDIAHOLIX LTD site previously. MEDIAHOLIX LTD uses cookies to allow MEDIAHOLIX LTD to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that MEDIAHOLIX LTD does not provide redundant information to you, and, if you are an MEDIAHOLIX LTD affiliate, to track MEDIAHOLIX LTD sales made to customers referred by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from a MEDIAHOLIX LTD web site, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the MEDIAHOLIX LTD site.

  1. Disclosure, Processing and Retention

MEDIAHOLIX LTD does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, except:

    1. to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
    2. a very limited amount, and in very few cases, to MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on MEDIAHOLIX LTD?s behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
    3. as necessary if MEDIAHOLIX LTD has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s rights or property, other users of MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s web site, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and
    4. to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.

In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that MEDIAHOLIX LTD or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.

Your information may be stored and processed in the United Kingdom, or in any other country in which MEDIAHOLIX LTD or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this web site, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), MEDIAHOLIX LTD will keep your personal information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove MEDIAHOLIX LTD’s compliance with any applicable law.

  1. Accuracy of Personal Information

MEDIAHOLIX LTD will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the Identified Purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information. Customers are responsible for informing MEDIAHOLIX LTD about changes to their personal information. MEDIAHOLIX LTD will use new or updated personal information it receives from customers to update its own records.

  1. Security Safeguards

MEDIAHOLIX LTD will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.

  1. Access to Personal Information

MEDIAHOLIX LTD will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal information in your file, if you so request by writing to:

18 Coopers meadow, Redbourn
St Albans, Hertfordshire, AL3 7EY, UK

If MEDIAHOLIX LTD is not able to provide access to some aspect of a customer’s personal information, it will provide reasons for denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial information or attorney’client privileged communications, or that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.

Customers have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be amended as appropriate, by contacting MEDIAHOLIX LTD as described above. MEDIAHOLIX LTD will promptly correct such personal information.

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