Privacy & Security

Privacy and Data Protection Act

Your Nutshell Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Statement of Privacy applies to the Your Nutshell Ltd Web site and governs data collection and usage. By using the Your Nutshell Ltd website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Your Nutshell Ltd complies fully with the requirements of the UK's Data Protection Act, 1998.

Registration: Your Nutshell Ltd is registered under the Data Protection Act with no. Z1234507.

Data Protection Policy:

Our policy is to retain personal data only for so long as it may be required to help you maintain your membership of the service, or where we believe we are required to retain data for legal purposes. We will only transfer data to other organisations in accordance with our registration and for the purposes indicated in this policy.

We can only release access to a member's files on presentation of legal documentation such as death certificate, power of attourney etc. We encourage members to lodge their access details with their Will, or share with trusted authorities such as partner, Executor, Solicitor, bank etc with instructions (if required) on how and why to access the files in case of illness or death.

Collection of your Personal Information

Your Nutshell Ltd collects personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by Your Nutshell Ltd. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses. This information is used by Your Nutshell Ltd for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Your Nutshell Ltd Web site.

In addition, Your Nutshell Ltd may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Your Nutshell Ltd, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Your Nutshell Ltd does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

General security

Your Nutshell Ltd secures your personal information from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. Your Nutshell Ltd secures the personally identifiable information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use or disclosure. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Web sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Third party payments

If you have an existing contract with a third-party online payment service, eg Paypal, or set-up a new contract in order to pay for your membership of Your Nutshell Ltd, we are not responsible for the use of any personal data provided by you to them. If you have no existing contract with such an organisation, as part of the payment process to Your Nutshell Ltd we are required to forward your e-mail address to PayPal.

Third party sharing

We will never share your data with third parties for selling purposes. However, if you follow links from the site to that of a third party with whom you register, your contract is with them and you fall under their privacy and data protection policy – we advise you always to examine the policy of any website you register with. If you suspect that data has been used by third parties for selling activities, please let us know so that we can investigate the circumstances.

Right of Access

You have the right to be supplied with a copy of the data which we hold about you, but we may make a charge for providing a copy of this data to you. Should you terminate your membership, you are advised to apply for a copy of your data; we will hold data for a further year, with reminders to you to renew or to apply for copies, after which time we will completely delete all data held under your previous membership.

Use of Cookies

The Your Nutshell Ltd Web site use "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Your Nutshell Ltd services or Web sites you visit.

Changes to this Statement

Your Nutshell Ltd will occasionally update this Statement of Privacy to reflect company and customer feedback. Your Nutshell Ltd encourages you to review this Statement periodically to be informed of how Your Nutshell Ltd is protecting your information.

Contact Information

Your Nutshell Ltd welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Your Nutshell Ltd has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Your Nutshell Ltd at info@yournutshell.com. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly determine and remedy the problem. 

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