Privacy policy

At Europa Science Ltd, we collect different types of information about our users for three main reasons:

1. To help us to improve the services we offer.
2. To provide services personalised to individual users.
3. To use anonymous details about our users to sell appropriate advertising space on the site. This might mean showing an advertiser how many users we have on the site; it does not mean sharing an individual's details with an advertiser. Where we collect registration information from an individual, we will not share that individual's information with a third party, including an advertiser, without that user's consent.

Our principles

To protect your privacy, we have established the following four principles:

1. We will not sell, rent, or pass on your email address to any third party. Europa Science Ltd itself will, however, email you occasionally with information about your registration and/or your subscription account. If we launch a new publication, whether a print magazine or an electronic newsletter, that we think may be of interest to you then we may email you about it. However, all electronic newsletters will carry an easy-to-use 'unsubscribe' facility.
2. We will continue to invest in high-quality security and do our utmost to protect user privacy through the appropriate use of the latest security technology.
3. We will not pass on individual details unless we have your prior consent (as noted above, your email address will never be passed on).
4. Otherwise, we will only share anonymous aggregate statistics about our users, sales and traffic patterns with our advertisers. Should we elect to change our privacy policy we will post the changes here.

What information do we collect?

We collect information on our users in two ways: through cookies, and through registration. Unless stated, all registration questions are compulsory. We also ask some further, voluntary questions so we can gain a clearer understanding of our users. Your responses help us to sell appropriate advertising space and so keep the site free. They also enable us to personalise services for our users. We do not share this information with third parties unless you have specifically consented to this.

How does Europa Science Ltd protect customer information?

We invest in high-quality security and do our utmost to protect user privacy. UK Data Protection Legislation means we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access.

Will Europa Science Ltd disclose the information it collects to outside parties?

Europa Science Ltd will not sell, trade, or rent your personal information to others unless you have given us your permission. With your permission we will share the information only with carefully chosen, reputable and trustworthy third parties. Also, Europa Science Ltd 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.

Europa Science Ltd 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.

Please note that we reserve the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with applicable laws and lawful government requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect both ourselves and our users.

Legal information under the Data Protection Act

For the purposes of the Data Protection Act of 1998, the Data Controller for Europa Science Ltd is Europa Science Ltd, The Spectrum Building, The Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road, Cambridge, CB2 8PD. Any queries regarding ESL's user of data and data policies should be addressed to the Chairman.