Privacy Policy

Jive Pony is committed to safeguarding the privacy of our web site visitors; this policy sets out how Jive Pony will treat your personal information.

What information does Jive Pony collect?
Jive Pony may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

• Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this web site including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views
• Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this web site, including information relating to any donation you make to Jive Pony
• Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to receive our email newsletters
• Any other information that you choose to send to us.

Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

Jive Pony use "session" cookies on the web site to keep track of you whilst you navigate the web site. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.

Jive Pony use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this web site. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about web site use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our web site is used to create reports about the use of the web site. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: www.google.com

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector. This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability and accessibility of many web sites including the Jive Pony web site.

Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this web site will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the web site.

Jive Pony may use your personal information to:

• Administer the web site
• Improve your browsing experience by personalising the web site
• Enable your use of the services available on the web site
• To supply to you services requested via the web site
• Collect payments from you
• Send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications
• Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested
• Send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business which Jive Pony think may be of interest to you where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications)
• Provide third parties with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user
• Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the web site
• Where you submit personal information for publication on our web site, Jive Pony will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us
• Jive Pony will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing
• All our web site financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Paypal. You should only provide your personal information to Paypal after reviewing the Paypal privacy policy available at www.paypal.com. Jive Pony will share information with Paypal only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing donations you make via our web site.

Disclosures
Jive Pony may disclose information about you to any one of the Jive Pony display team insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, Jive Pony may disclose information about you:

• To the extent that Jive Pony are required to do so by law
• In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
• Except as provided in this privacy policy, Jive Pony will not provide your information to third parties.

Security of your personal data
Jive Pony will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. Jive Pony will store all the personal information you provide on our secure password and firewall protected servers.

All electronic donations you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology.

You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential. Jive Pony will not ask you for your password.

Policy amendments
Jive Pony may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our web site. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. Jive Pony may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information Jive Pony hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or Jive Pony will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

Third party web sites
The web site contains links to other web sites. Jive Pony is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party web sites.

Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which Jive Pony holds about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us using our online contact form.

If you require further information about privacy online, details can be obtained from www.website-law.co.uk.