Your privacy is important to us

At Approved Index Ltd we value your right to privacy. However, in order to run an efficient and effective service, there is certain information about our users that we need to collect and use.

What information do we collect and why?

In general, you can browse the Approved Index website without disclosing any information about yourself at all. Submitting personal information on our site is optional.

When you submit an enquiry we ask for information such as your name, email address, phone number and criteria specific to your enquiry. This information will only be released to a small number of our registered suppliers to contact you regarding the project in question.

If you register your company as a supplier we ask for information such as your name, phone number, email address, address, company details, brand details and testimonials. This information may be made available to the public as a listing in our indexes. Additionally, this information may be made available to a user to whom you send a reply to an enquiry.

Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy.

How do we use your personal information?

Approved Index Ltd may disclose and use personal information collected about you within its own organisation for the purpose of internal business administration and analysis.

We will respect your email privacy. You will not receive unsolicited mail from Approved Index Ltd and/or from third parties. We may, however, mail you occasionally with information about Approved Index Ltd or important changes to our service.

We monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage in order to help develop the design and layout of our websystem.

For these purposes we may send your information internationally, including to countries outside the European Economic Association. Other countries offer differing levels of protection for personal information, not all of which will be as high as the levels of protection offered in the UK.

How do we protect your personal details?

We have strict procedures governing the storage and disclosure of personal details to prevent unauthorised access and misuse.

In addition, all the enquirer's personal information is password-protected: only Approved Index Ltd and the suppliers selected to receive the enquiry have access to an enquirer's personal information.

Access to your personal information

You have the right to request a copy of the personal information Approved Index Ltd holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (We charge 10 for information requests.) Please address any requests to personalinfo@approvedindex.co.uk.

Use of cookies

Approved Index Ltd collects information about your preferences in relation to this site by analysing site traffic and for suppliers to login, which includes the use of cookies. Cookies are pieces of computer code which are stored on your computer and which allow us to recognise the fact that you have visited our site previously. Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site will not work properly.

Information on visitors

During the course of any visit to Approved Index Ltd, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

To enable cookies for Internet Explorer version 6, do the following:

1. From the menu at the top of your web browser, select 'Tools' and then 'Internet Options'
2. From the screen that appears next, select the 'Security' tab
3. From the next screen that appears, you should select the 'Custom Level' button
4. Locate the Cookies options - about a quarter of the way down the list.
5. Make sure the 'Allow cookies that are stored on your computer' and 'Allow per- session Cookies' buttons are checked
6. Click OK

To enable cookies for Internet Explorer version 5 or earlier, do the following:

1. From the menu at the top of your web browser, select 'Tools' and then 'Internet Options'
2. From the screen that appears next, select the 'Privacy' tab
3. On the Privacy tab, move the slider to 'Medium'.
4. Click OK

To enable cookies for Netscape Navigator, do the following:

1. From the menu at the top of your web browser, select 'Edit' and then choose 'Preferences'.
2. A new screen will appear. Click on the 'Advanced' tab, then look under the 'Cookies' area to make sure you have 'Accept all Cookies' checked
3. Click OK

How to see your cookie code

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers.

Your consent

By disclosing your personal information to Approved Index Ltd , you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

Do you have any other questions about privacy? We want you to feel happy about any information you give us and know that you have control over the way it is used. If you have any questions about our Privacy policy, please email them to us feedback@approvedindex.co.uk.