Privacy Policy

Belfast Telegraph Classifieds (www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/classifieds)and its associate companies respect your right to privacy.

Please visit the Belfast Telegraph Legal Terms & Conditions for further information on personal information collected, cookies and other policies applicable to the sue of INM Ltd websites.

For the purpose of signing up as a member of www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/classifieds or by placing an advertisement, announcement or notice on www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/classifieds you are required to provide Belfast Telegraph Classifieds with personal information.  This information will be used by Belfast Telegraph Classifieds for the purpose for which it was provided by you, and for verification purposes and statistical analysis. This information may also be useful to provide you with details of products, services, contests, competitions or promotions being provided or run by www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/classifieds or any other of its associated companies or any third party which we may select and which we may think may be of interest to you, unless you have otherwise specifically opted not to receive this information.

Non-personal information and data can be collected through the standard operation of the Belfast Telegraph Classifieds internet servers and logs well as "cookies". "Cookies" are small text files that a website can use in order to recognise visitors who revisit a site so as to facilitate their ongoing access to and use of the site. It enables usage behaviour to be tracked and aggregate data to be compiled that would facilitate more targeted advertising and improved content. Typically, cookies involve the assigning of a unique number to the visitor. Visitors should be aware that Belfast Telegraph Classifieds are unable to control the use of cookies or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data for the Company. One simple way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility that is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. However, you should realise that certain cookies may be necessary in order to provide you with certain features such as the customised delivery of certain information.

Visitors should be aware that each time they visit a website two general levels of information about their visit can be retained. The first level comprises statistical and other analytical information collected on an aggregate and non-individual specific basis of all browsers who visit the site, and the second is information that is personal or particular to a specific visitor who knowingly chooses to provide that information. Belfast Telegraph Classified’s policy is to respect and protect the privacy of our Customers and will never wilfully disclose individually identifiable information about its Customers to any third party without first receiving that Customer's permission.

The statistical and analytical information provided is general and not individually specific information about the number of people who visit this website; the number of people who return to this site; the pages that they visit; where they were before they came to this site and the page in the site at which they exited. This information helps Belfast Telegraph Classifieds monitor traffic on the website so that the website provides capacity and efficiency. It also helps the website to understand which parts of this site are most popular, and generally to assess user behaviour and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site.

Throughout this website you may have an opportunity to send us information relating to you such as through the "contact us" pages or any other area where you may send e-mails, request brochures, enter contests or respond to any promotions. *By choosing to participate in these, you will be providing us with some level of personal information relating to you. This information will only be used by Belfast Telegraph Classifieds for the following purposes:-

• the purposes for which it was provided by you
• verification purposes and statistical analysis
• to provide you with details of products, services, contests, competitions or promotions being provided or run by Belfast Telegraph Classifieds or any of its associated companies or any third party that the company may select and which may be deemed to be of interest to you, unless you have otherwise specifically opted not to receive this information.

You undertake to provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the website and maintain and promptly update the data / information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete.

Company and data protection information.

The data controller of data on the Website is Independent News and Media Limited, which is a company in the Independent News & Media group, registered in THE United Kingdom, Company No. 1908967, whose registered office is at 2 Derry Street, Kensington, London, W8 5HF