Privacy Statement

This is to confirm The Mullet Press conforms to the Data Protection Act 1998 as laid down by the Information Commissioner.

The Mullet Press are bound by certain specific restrictions, in addition to our own good practice policy.

There are 8 main Principles which we must follow to comply with the Act.
They are as follows:

1. The information to be contained in personal data shall be obtained, and personnel data shall be processed, fairly and lawfully.

2. Personal data shall be held only for one or more specified and lawful purposes.

3. Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be used or disclosed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes.

4. Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to that purpose or those purposes.

5. Personal data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.

6. Personal data held for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer that is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

7. An individual shall be entitled -

a) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense -

i) to be informed by any Data User whether he holds personal data of which that individual is the subject;

ii) to have access to any such data held by a Data User; and

b) where appropriate, to have such data corrected or erased.

8. Appropriate security measures shall be taken against unauthorised access to, or alteration, disclosure or destruction of, personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of personal data.

If you feel that The Mullet Press is not abiding by its posted privacy policy, you should first contact John Assheton by email on info@themulletpress.co.uk or by ringing or writing to  him - please see the "Contact us" window of this website for further details.

Information Collection and Use
The Mullet Press is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in any way different from what is disclosed in this statement. The Mullet Press
may collect information from our users at several different points on our website.

Registration
You are welcome to look through this website without registering any details, however, should you wish to contact us, or place an order, we do request some details in order that we may either answer your contact questions or to confirm order details (see next paragraph for further details about ordering). Some of the details which we ask for are at your discretion, but others are required to avoid duplication and confusion in
our data records. For instance your name and email address are required for contact purposes, but unless you are ordering stationery we do not require other details, however, to give you a more personalised service, we ask that
you consider filling in as much detail as you can (for instance, how you heard of The Mullet Press, your postal/shipping address, telephone/fax/mobile, etc.)

Ordering
We do request information from the user on our order form. Here a user must provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiry date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customers' orders. If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user.

Cookies
The Mullet Press DO NOT use cookies at this time. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive containing information about the user. (Cookies are often used by companies to, for instance, save the user time by only having to log in a password once, therefore on returning to the site, the password is held in the user's computer by the cookie and is not required to be re-typed).

Counting Visitors
The Mullet Press does keep a count of the number of visitors who enter the site, but this is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information.

Sharing
The Mullet Press does not share any of the information gathered from its website with any advertisers or parties outside The Mullet Press, unless this information is required to fill an order or orders, in which case a credit cards processing company may be used to bill users for goods and outside shipping company to ship the order or orders.

Links
This website does not at present contain any links to other website. In future we may provide such links, but please be aware that The Mullet Press are NOT responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware of this when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Newsletter
The Mullet Press may produce a newsletter to be sent via email or in printed form, to users. Should you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, which would be sent from time to time, we ask for contact information such as name and
email address. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Tell-A-Friend
Up until very recently, the overwhelming majority of names on The Mullet Press database came from personal referrals. If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. The Mullet Press will send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site or a letter with a brochure or catalogue. The friend may contact The Mullet Press at security@themulletpress.co.uk to request the removal of their information from the database.

Security
This website takes every precaution to protect our users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card number), that information is encrypted and is protected. While on a secure page, such as our order form, the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomeslocked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just 'surfing'. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to security@themulletpress.co.uk.

Special Offers
Occasionally, The Mullet Press will send all customers and stationery contacts (ie people who have not ordered from The Mullet Press, but have given address/email details) an email to inform them of products, services, special deals, and a newsletter. Out of respect for the privacy of our users The Mullet Press presents the option to not receive these types of communications. Please see our choice and opt-out below.

Site and Service Updates
The Mullet Press also sends the user site and service announcement updates. The Mullet Press communicate with the user to provide requested services and in regards to issues relating to their account via email, telephone or post.

Correction/Updating Personal Information:
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as your zip code), or if a user no longer desires our service, The Mullet Press will endeavour to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the "Contact us" page or by emailing john@themulletpress.co.uk. Or you may wish to contact The Mullet Press by telephone or postal mail for updating for correcting personal information, in which case please see the "Contact Us" page for further details.

Choice/Opt-out
Our users can 'opt-out' of having their email or other details held by The Mullet Press. For example, users who buy stationery from us, but don't want any marketing material, can keep their email address off of our mailing lists by emailing us or . Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials from us may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to unsubscribe in the subject line in the email or email us at unsubscribe@themulletpress.co.uk. You are able to opt-out by telephone or post, by contacting The Mullet Press - see our "Contact Us" page.

Notification of Changes
If The Mullet Press decides to change its privacy policy, notification of those changes will be posted our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.