Privacy Policy

This policy explains how TV Forum (hereinafter "TV Forum", "us", "we", "our") use any information collected during any visit by you (hereinafter "your", "visitor", "user").

Automatically collected information
Our web server automatically logs information when you visit the TV Forum website. This information includes, but is not limited to: Your IP, Hostname, Browser and Operating system information, Plug-in information, referrer and the pages you visit. None of the information we automatically collect identifies you personally.

Cookies
Cookies are small text files on your computer set by our web server. TV Forum use statistics software, Google Analytics, to count and track visitors. These cookies are used to identify repeat and unique visitors. Cookies are also used to keep visitors logged into their accounts (see Forum Software section below).

Personal information
All personal information we collect is kept securely and is not shared, sold or otherwise passed on to any person or company.

Forum software
The passage hereunder describes how information is collected and stored with the forum software.

Your information is collected via two ways. Firstly, browsing a forum will cause the forum software to create a number of cookies, which are small text files that are downloaded on to your computer's web browser temporary files. The first two cookies just contain a user identifier (hereinafter "user-id") and an anonymous session identifier (hereinafter "session-id"), automatically assigned to you by the forum software. A third cookie will be created once you have browsed topics within a forum and is used to store which topics have been read, thereby improving your user experience.

The second way in which we collect your information is by what you submit to us. This can be, and is not limited to: registering on the website (hereinafter "your account") and posts submitted by you after registration and whilst logged in (hereinafter "your posts").

Your account will at a bare minimum contain a uniquely identifiable name (hereinafter "your user name"), a personal password used for logging into your account (hereinafter "your password") and a personal, valid e-mail address (hereinafter "your e-mail"). Your information for your account on forums is protected by data-protection laws applicable in the country that hosts us. Any information beyond your user name, your password and your e-mail required by the forums during the registration process are at our digression what is mandatory and what is optional. In all cases, you have the option of what information in your account is publicly displayed. Furthermore, within your account, you have the option to opt-in or opt-out of automatically generated e-mails from the forum software.

Your password is ciphered (a one-way hash) so that it is secure. However, it is recommended that you do not reuse the same password across a number of different websites. Your password is the means of accessing your account on forums, so please guard it carefully and under no circumstance will anyone affiliated with TV Forum or another 3rd party legitimately ask you for your password. Should you forget your password for your account, you can use the "Forgot your password?" feature provided by the forum software. This process will ask you to submit your user name and your e-mail, then the forum software will generate a new password to reclaim your account.

Advertisers
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used by these companies, visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy. TV Forum accepts no responsibility for any third party advertisements that may appear on our website.

Policy changes
TV Forum reserves the right to revise and make changes to this policy at any time. The up to date version will be available from http://www.tvforum.co.uk. This policy was last updated on 20th March 2009.