UrbanHeights, www.urbanheights.com, (hereinafter referred to as "UH") is committed to ensuring that the privacy of its readers and registered members is respected and protected. This policy statement sets out how any personal information you give us for the purposes of registering as a member is dealt with. We are desirous of disclosing these procedures in order to show you that we will only use such information as you disclose in ways that are compatible with this policy statement.

First, we wish to address the question of precisely what information we collect.

Clearly the first piece of information we gather comes from a reader logging on to our site and requesting a page from UH as our servers automatically recognise the visitor's IP address and domain name. These reveal nothing personal about the visitor to the site however. This information is solely used to compile our statistics in order to examine levels of page impressions and numbers of unique users visiting our website.

The next source of information for us, and indeed every commercial website, is through the use of cookies. Cookies store the domain name resolved from the IP address of the reader and also the language setting of the browser in order to target advertising banners. Cookies are used primarily to save CPU power and in the Forum to enable a registered user to log in without having to provide login data every time he/she visits the forum. In addition, the cookie is used to store information about what messages have been read in the Forum. We only share the general information we obtain with our advertisers.

Thirdly, through the registration process for UH's Forums or Newsletter, we request your e-mail address along with some general information such as how long a visitor has been reading our website etc. We do not intend, through the collection of this information, to give your e-mail address to any third party without your prior consent. Furthermore, through registering for UH's Forums, your name or alias is recorded to enable us to maintain your account in the forum.

We may send you e-mails announcing new features of the site from time to time along with news of release of articles in an area you may have expressed a particular interest in.

Finally, if we run a promotion or contest for our registered members we may ask you for your full name and address also in order to properly operate such promotions and contests and to assist in full notification to winners.

The necessary disclosure of any of the above information to third parties will be governed by the following principles:

Where UH is required to do so by operation of law and in particular any order of court.
Where it is necessary to identify anyone who may be violating the rights of others or the law in general
Where UH intends to co-operate with the investigation of any alleged unlawful activities without being required to by virtue of any court order or other legal requirement.
Where it is necessary to protect the rights of UH.
We use all reasonable precautions to keep secure all information that is given to us by our registered members and we are not responsible for any breach of the reasonable security measures installed to protect the said information. UH is not responsible for the private policies, if any, of any site we link to, whether in our "Links" section or in individual articles or news.

We reserve the right to transfer any information accumulated by us in the manner described above in the event of the sale of part or all of UH's assets and/or stock.

By visiting our website and by registering for our forums you consent to the collection and use of information in the manner hereinbefore described.