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Excel Publishing Company Ltd regards the security and privacy of its online customers with the highest level of sincerity.

When you engage in certain specific activities on this site, Excel Publishing Company Ltd may ask you to provide certain information about yourself by filling out and submitting an online form. It is completely optional for you to engage in these activities. If you choose to use any of these online facilities we may ask for a certain amount of personal information. Depending upon the activity, some of the information that we ask you to provide is identified as mandatory and some as voluntary. If you do not wish to provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular activity, you will not be able to complete that activity.

This site makes use of the Mollom web service for preventing comment spam. By posting a message on this site, you accept that your message and other personal details about you will be analyzed and stored for anti-spam and quality monitoring purposes, in accordance with Mollom's privacy policy: http://mollom.com/web-service-privacy-policy

When ordering products or services on the site, you may be asked to provide credit card details. Any online purchase you make from Excel Publishing Company Ltd takes place within a secure environment.

Any personal data you submit to Excel Publishing Company Ltd via any of its websites is kept in a secure environment behind a tested and proven firewall system in compliance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We only know, and only wish to know, as much about you as in the public domain. We will not pass any of your details on to other companies without your prior permission.

We monitor onsite activity to enable us to enhance our sites. We do this with standard website statistics analysis software. We use anonymous details about our users to sell appropriate advertising on the site. Occasionally we may also use cookies to track users as they travel through the site. This information is never shared with a third party, except as noted elsewhere in this statement, and is only used to make our systems more efficient. However, Excel Publishing Company Ltd cannot guarantee that advertisers on the websites follow the same rules.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

By using any of the Excel Publishing Company Ltd websites you do accept that we will collect and use data as outlined in this policy.
If you have any questions concerning any element of this policy please contact online@excelpublishing.co.uk

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