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We collect only the domain name or IP to identify spammers, hacks, people posting hate/extremist content, and people who are doing other illegal activity to aid in law enforcement, the IP addresses are only viewed as part of such an investigation and are not stored long term.

Data we hold and process may include: The e-mail addresses of those who post messages to our forums, the e-mail addresses of those who communicate with us via e-mail, aggregate information on what pages consumers access or visit, user-specific information on what pages consumers access or visit, information volunteered by the consumer, such as survey information and/or site registrations.

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I am very grateful for their design, programming and site optimisation services and would be unable to run such a successful site without their help and assistance.

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Upon request we provide site visitors with access to unique identifier information (e.g., customer number or password) that we maintain about them, a description of information that we maintain about them.

You will need to verify your details before we send them to you, so we can only accept requests about an IP address if made from that IP address, and email details must match that which the request comes from.

Consumers can access this information by e-mail us at the above address. Upon request we offer visitors the ability to have inaccuracies corrected in contact information, unique identifiers, communications that the consumer/visitor has directed to the site.

Consumers can have this information corrected by sending us e-mail at the above address. With respect to security: When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors through a pop-up screen on our site.

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