Privacy policy

Out of Town respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice details how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit from), your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

Out of Town has created this privacy policy in order to explain our privacy practices, including how we collect and use your personal information, for the Site and the Service. By using the Site and the Service, you consent to the collection and use of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms and Conditions.

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Information Received by Out of Town

Out of Town collects and processes the following personal information about you only if you voluntarily choose to share such information with :

• Information such as your name, address, phone number and email address, which you provide by completing forms through the Service, upload or submit any material via the Service or request any information from us; in connection with an account sign-in facility, your log-in and password details; communications you send to us, for example to report a problem or to submit queries, concerns or comments regarding the Site, Service or its content; We may also require you to provide us with your financial information, including billing name, address and credit card number (“Financial Information”) where you choose to use our Service.

• Information from surveys, promotions and competitions that we may, from time to time, run on the Site, if you choose to respond to, or participate in them;

• Video/Photos you may upload, work experience and other information we may suggest or you decide to upload to your Profile.

You are under no obligation to provide any such information to us. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of particular opportunities provided through the Service.

When you visit and interact with the Site, .co.uk and/or third parties with whom .co.uk has contracted to provide services to collection.co.uk/ collections.com , may automatically collect your Internet Protocol Address (“IP Address”), which is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider.

This number is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever you visit the Site, along with the time(s) of your visit(s) and the page(s) that you visited. We use IP Addresses to monitor the regions from which Users navigate the Site and for fraud prevention purposes.

Out of Town’s Use of Personal Information
Out of Town uses the personal information that you provide to us for the following purposes:

• To provide our products and Service to you that you have requested; for billing, identification and authentication, and fraud prevention purposes; to analyse Site usage and improve our products and the Service; to contact you and deliver administrative notices and communications relevant to your use our products and services; for internal market research, troubleshooting problems, and detecting and protecting against error, fraud or other criminal activity; with your consent, for distribution to third-party contractors that provide services to  and partners of  who are bound by privacy restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this Policy;

• Send you information we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us, including receipt of marketing communications such as our periodic newsletter, provided that you have indicated you are happy to be contacted for these purposes; to enforce our Terms and Conditions.

Although we ensure that our third-party agents (“Agents”) receiving your information are bound by privacy restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy, we are not responsible for any issues that may arise regarding the Privacy Policies of any of its affiliates or advertisers.

When you visit the Site or access any  applications,  may automatically collect additional information about you, such as the type of internet browser or mobile device you use, as well as any website from which you have come to the Site or application. You cannot be identified based on this information and we use it for analysis purposes to:

• Market the Service; Improve and enhance the Service so that it operates more effectively; Increase the likelihood that a group’s experience with the Service is relevant to its interests as a whole.

• Out of Town uses data at User level to sell products and services to Users who express an interest in these products and services, through a poll for example, or to Users who can be presumed to have an interest based on browsing habits. Out of Town may use your cell phone number to call or text you in order to facilitate the provision of the Service.

Only certain authorised  staff can access personal information, only when it is relevant to their job duties.  has staff dedicated to maintaining this Privacy Policy and other privacy initiatives, periodically reviewing security and making sure that every  employee is aware of our security practices.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, Out of Town cannot absolutely guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and would like to remind you that you are doing so at your own risk.

With whom does Out of Town share information?

When you submit information to Out of Town , it is collected, processed and maintained solely by us or by third-party agents who are bound by privacy restrictions at least as restrictive as those set forth in this policy. We may allow, with your consent, carefully selected third parties to send you information directly which you may find useful regarding their products and services. Some .com content is “sponsored by” or “presented by” other companies. Out of Town may share aggregated, anonymous data collected on the Site or via email surveys with these partners. This information is not linked to specific users. You can tell us not to share your details with third parties, by following the unsubscribe instructions included in any communications sent to you. You can exercise this right at any time by using the Contact Us details at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Out of Town may disclose Personal Information from both private and public areas of the Site at our discretion, if required by law or by a court order, or if we are given reason to believe, based on our sole discretion, that someone is causing injury to or interference with the rights of Users, the general public or Out of Town.

Finally, in the event that Out of Town undergoes a re-organisation or is sold to a third party, Out of Town reserves the right to transfer, sell and/or distribute all information collected through the Service to an affiliate, subsidiary, or third party.

How can Users edit their information?

You have a legal right under the Data Protection Act 1998 to a copy of all the personal information about you held by us. Upon request, we will provide you with a copy of this information, subject to a fee not exceeding the prescribed fee permitted by law.

Notification of changes

Out of Town’s security and privacy policy are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary. This policy might change as  updates and expands the Service.  will endeavour to notify you of these changes by email, but will not be liable for any failure to do so.  also encourages you to review this privacy policy periodically.

Data storage and international transfers

Information that you submit via the Site or application may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). For example, this may happen if one or more of our servers are from time to time located in a country outside the EEA or one of our service providers is located in a country outside the EEA. If you make contact with any User featured on the Site, your details may be transferred outside the EEA. If we transfer your details outside the EEA in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected. By submitting information via the Site or application, you agree to this storing, processing and transfer.In addition, if you use our Service whilst you are outside the EEA, your information may be transferred outside the EEA in order to provide you with the Service.

Choice/Opt-Out

You may opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners, remove your information from our database and choose to not receive future communications unrelated to the Service.

If you purchase anything through Out of Town, we may occasionally contact you with information about special events, sales, activities, promotions, contests, submission opportunities and programmes. You always have the option to ask  not to contact you with this information again.

Out of Town Cookie/Tracking Notice

When you visit websites on the Internet, your browser may automatically transmit information to the websites you visit throughout every visit. Like many websites, we may use “cookies” to collect information. A cookie is a small data file that we transfer to your computer’s hard disk for record-keeping purposes. We may utilise session ID cookies to enable certain features of the Service, to better understand how you interact with the Site and to monitor aggregate usage by our users and web traffic routing on the Service, to track the number of entries in Company promotions, sweepstakes and contests and to identify visited areas of the Site and Service. Unlike persistent cookies, session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log out from the Site and Service and then close your browser. The cookies that we use on our Site are set out below

We and our service providers may also use “pixel tags,” “web beacons,” “clear GIFs,” or similar means in connection with the Service and HTML-formatted email messages to, among other things, track the actions of Users and email recipients, to determine the success of marketing campaigns and to compile aggregate statistics about Site usage and response rates. We may also engage one or more third-party service providers to serve online advertisements on our behalf. They may use a “pixel tag” to collect anonymous information about your visits to this Site and to other websites, and they may use that information to target advertisements for goods and services.

This information is collected anonymously, in a manner that does not personally identify you.

Ads are a standard part of user experience on the Internet, and Out of Town believes that targeted advertising enhances this experience.  may use Cookies and other technologies and personal information to place ads where they believe interested parties will see them.