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We at scottishbusiness.biz takes safe guarding your privacy as a prime concern, please read the following Privacy Policy detailing the data we will gather as you use the site.

What are Cookies ?
Cookies are tiny files that are downloaded just like the pictures and text from a website. They allow Internet users to customise their experiences of many Web sites by, for example, selecting layout, news preferences, language preferences, and so on. Internet browsers place cookies in the memory of the computer being used to access the Web. A cookie contains an ID number which is sent back to the website's server on future visits. The cookies identify the computer as the one that was used to select certain preferences on a previous visit. Cookies almost always contain unintelligible letters and numbers, not personal information. Users who are worried about revealing personal information can set their browsers not to accept cookies. All modern browsers provide some sort of cookie management capability that allows users to refuse them all, decide which to accept, or block them by site.

How does scottishbusiness.biz use Cookies ?
When you enter the site your computer will automatically be issued with a Cookie. Cookies enable us to : track browsers using the site this enables us to determine the most popular / unpopular parts of the site aiding future developments. Allows us to estimate the number of people visiting spiron.net, the number of repeat visitors and to help target advertisements based on user interests and behaviour.

Use of I.P. addresses
An Internet protocol (I.P.) address is a set of numbers that is automatically assigned to your computer whenever you log onto your internet service provider or through your company's local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). Web servers, automatically identify your computer by the IP address assigned to it during your session online. We may collect I.P. addresses for some purposes (for example, to audit the use of our site). We do not link a user's I.P. address to a person's personal information, which means we will have a record of each user's session but the user remains anonymous to us.

Personal information collected
When you submit your business to us, you need to complete certain fields, consisting of personal contact information such as Title, Forename, Surname, Position, e-mail address and business details such as Business Name, Address, Town/City, Postcode, Tel, Fax, Mobile Tel No.,Web site address, Key words and a Description.

Use of personal information
Occasionally, we may inform you of other spiron.net services and products that may be of interest to you and offer you the opportunity to subscribe to them. Please note that any information you provide to spiron.net will only be used within spiron.net, and will never be supplied to third parties without first obtaining your consent. The only time we may do so is if we are obliged by law to disclose information. scottishbusiness.biz is registered under the UK Data Protection act. Our registration number is PZ5044759

Disclosure of your identity
If we receive a request to disclose the identities of our users. We do not disclose the identities of our users unless we are legally required to do so. If a government agency, or a law enforcement agency, requests information in relation to the identities of our user, we will comply with the request. If we receive a request by a third party that is not a governmental agency, we will contact the user whose identity has been requested using the contact information the user provided during the submit a business registration process.

Credit Card Transactions
scottishbusiness.biz chose NetBanx Ltd to provide on-line credit card authorisation, NetBanx Ltd, part of the NetInvest Group of Companies, developed NetBanx in 1996 for use on the World Wide Web and NetBanx is the most popular and longest standing payment solution in the UK. During payment of Premier Listings or Category Sponsorships, we transfer our users directly to NetBanx's secure credit processing system. No credit card details are entered at our site or held by Spiron.net systems. All sensitive data is held behind NetBanx's security firewall.

Contact us
If you have any queries about this privacy policy and / or site, please contact :
Riverside View
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB11 7DF

e-mail - privacy@scottishbusiness.biz