Introduction

The purpose of this privacy statement is to make it totally clear to you what information we collect from you, why we need this and what we then use it for.

About this Web Site

This site is operated by nucleustar limited, a company registered in England and Wales, company number 05677318, registered office, Suite 72, Cariocca Business Park, 2 Sawley Road, Manchester, M40 8BB, England. ‘internationalstores.org’ is a trading name of nucleustar limited.

The purpose of this web site is to let people find and share information about the former and defunct International Tea Co Stores Limited.

Information that We Collect

All forums on our servers are run with phpBB (hereinafter ‘they’, ‘them’, ‘their’, ‘phpBB software’, ‘www.phpbb.com’, ‘phpBB Group’, ‘phpBB Teams’). The passage hereunder describes how information is collected and stored with the phpBB software.

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, by browsing a forum will cause the phpBB software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer's web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter ‘user-id’) and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter ‘session-id’), automatically assigned to you by the phpBB software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within a forum and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

We may also create cookies external to the phpBB software whilst browsing the forums, though these are outside the scope of this document which is intended to only cover the pages created by the phpBB software. The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: posting as an anonymous user (hereinafter ‘anonymous posts’), registering on a forum (hereinafter ‘your account’) and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter ‘your posts’).

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter ‘your user name’), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter ‘your password’) and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter ‘your e-mail’). Any information beyond your user name, your password and your e-mail required by the forums during the registration process are at our digression what is mandatory and what is optional. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the phpBB software.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account on forums, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with ‘internationalstores.org’, phpBB or another 3rd party, legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the ‘I forgot my password’ feature provided by the phpBB software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the phpBB software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

European Union Citizens should note that it is very likely that your personal information may be viewed by visitors from outside the European Union, where less stringent data protection requirements may apply.

Advertisers

We use Commission Junction and Google AdSense advertising companies to serve advertisements when you visit this web site. These companies and ourselves may use information (not including your name, location or email address) about your visits to this and other web sites in order to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Third party advertisers may place or recognise a unique ‘cookie’ on your browser.

Access to Your Personal Information

If you are concerned that we are holding incorrect personal data about you we will be happy to provide you with all your personal data that we hold about you We will correct or delete your personal data on your request. We may require proof of identity and a fee of up to £GBP 10 to provide you with this information. We will endeavour to respond and deal with all such enquiries within 60 days of the request.

Privacy Compliance

Our privacy statement is compliant with the European Union Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC / United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1998.

This web site is registered under the above legislation with The United Kingdom Information Commissioner.

If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at support[at]internationalstores.org.

[Last Updated 10 September 2008]