Gardeners Club The Gardeners Club is a free to join online club for everyone with an interest in gardening and gardens.
Terms and conditions of membership
Web-Clubs Ltd is an independent company set up in March 2000. Its business is in operating and developing a series of special interest club websites that provide a meeting place for like-minded individuals where they benefit from free membership and objectivity in delivering useful content; such as information and practical advice, new ideas and events, discounts and offers, Q&A’s, links to related sites, exclusive deals and free to enter competitions. Contact with members is maintained by regular club email newsletters. By registering free with any one or more of the clubs: Travellers; Gardeners; Homeowners; Motorists; Vino; Quiz; Prize Club you have access to the total offering of Web-Clubs, including Club Offer and Net Offers services, and its associated operations, and agree and accept these terms and conditions of being a Web-Clubs member.
The Privacy Policy is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This policy explains:
- How we use the information we collect about you
- How you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information
- The procedures we have in place to safeguard your privacy.
The information we collect and how we use it
You can visit our sites without telling us who you are or revealing any information about yourself. However, if you wish to make use of the wide range of services we offer to our members, we will need you to register. Each Club is free to join. We will need to know your first and last names, e-mail address, postal address, date of birth (to verify being 18 years or over) and in certain circumstances (e.g. if you are purchasing any goods or entering any competitions) we will also need to know further details (e.g. telephone number, and your debit/credit card details).
We gather this information to allow us to provide a better service to our membership. Where information is required for transactions (e.g. where you buy goods) the information is used by us and our suppliers to allow the transaction to proceed smoothly and to aid the ease with which transactions are conducted and to facilitate delivery of the goods.
We may use aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring website usage in order to help us develop our site and our service and may provide such aggregate information to third parties. These statistics will not include information that can be used to identify any individual.
We may use your information when you enter a competition, or other promotional activity, so we can administer the competition and notify the winners. We may also use your information to pass on to selected third parties that we feel you might be interested in, so that they can present their information to you. If you do not wish to receive this information, please e-mail us at [email protected].
We may wish to provide you with newsletters or information about special features of our website or any special service or products which we think may be of interest to you. If you would rather not receive this information, please e-mail us at [email protected]
The information provided to us may be used by Web-Clubs and/or its clients to provide you with information and offers by post, e-mail, phone or SMS. Your data, in full or part, may from time to time, be provided to clients of Web-Clubs to be appended to information they may already hold about you for the purpose of contacting you with information about their products and services. Web-Clubs may from time to time permit third party suppliers to provide all or part of a service to you. Web-Clubs shall only be entitled to supply such of your personal information as is necessary to enable them to contact you concerning the relevant service to you. If you do not wish to receive any third party contact that we might feel could be of relevance to you, again please e-mail us at [email protected].
We may also use the personal information you provide for the purposes of: identity verification, credit and risk management, revenue collection, database verification and enhancement. Again, if you would prefer your information not to be used in these specific ways, please e-mail us at [email protected].
Our use of “cookies” and other information gathering technologies.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your web browser on your computer. By using cookies, web sites can track information about visitors’ usage of the site, provide customised content, or even the use of passwords.
We may store cookies on your computer in order to better serve you upon your subsequent visits to the site, i.e. allowing you to go straight to the main site and avoiding the need to go through the registration process. And, temporally, to allow you to login to a club website once registered so that your computer can ‘recognise’ that you are a club member and allow access without the need to re-register.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but you can usually change your browser to prevent that.
Should you have any further concerns regarding cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org
We reserve the right to use other tracking technologies in the future.
Category: Personalized advertising & email marketing
Company: Criteo
The purpose of Criteo’s service is to find visitors of our advertising clients’
properties and send them personalized emails or serve them personalized ads. Criteo
uses cookies to single out users and then personalize ads based on their browsing
experience. To learn more or opt out of Criteo Display click here
How we protect your information
We have in place various security procedures to safeguard your personal information including secure server software (SSL) for encryption of your credit card information in the event that you purchase any goods via the site. All personal details are handled with the utmost security and will never be released to any other organisation.
Updating your details
If any information you have provided us changes, for example, if you change your e-mail address, residential address, or if you wish to cancel your registration, please let us know by sending an e-mail to [email protected] or by sending a letter to:
Web-Clubs Limited
The Club House
East Street
Chesham
Bucks
HP5 1DG
Your consent
By submitting your information you consent to the use of that information as set out in this policy. If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, and may place notices on other pages of the web site, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times. We will also e-mail you should we make any changes so that you may consent to our use of your information in that way. Continued use of the service will signify that you agree to any such changes.
Essentially, by agreeing to become a member of Web-Clubs (through membership of one or more of its clubs) you are granting us permission to contact you about services and offers we provide and allow others which we think are suitable to do likewise.
We reserve the right to amend the Terms and Conditions of membership to Web-Clubs.
Anti Spam Policy
This statement applies to those Web-Clubs websites and services that display or link to this notice (“Services”). Web-Clubs prohibits the use of the Services in any manner associated with the transmission, distribution or delivery of any unsolicited bulk or unsolicited commercial e-mail (“Spam”). You may not use any Services to send Spam. You also may not deliver Spam or cause Spam to be delivered to any of Web-Clubs Services or customers.
In addition, e-mail sent, or caused to be sent, to or through the Services may not:
- use or contain invalid or forged headers
- use or contain invalid or non-existent domain names
- employ any technique to otherwise misrepresent, hide or obscure any information in identifying the point of origin or the transmission path
- use other means of deceptive addressing
- use a third party’s internet domain name, or be relayed from or through a third party’s equipment, without permission of the third party
- contain false or misleading information in the subject line or otherwise contain false or misleading content
- fail to comply with additional technical standards described below; or otherwise violate the applicable Terms of Use for the Services.
- Web-Clubs does not authorize the harvesting, mining or collection of e-mail addresses or other information from or through the Services. Web-Clubs does not permit or authorize others to use the Services to collect, compile or obtain any information about Web-Clubs customers or subscribers, including but not limited to subscriber e-mail addresses, which are Web-Clubs’ confidential and proprietary information. Use of the Services is also subject to the applicable Privacy Statement and Terms of Use.
- Web-Clubs does not permit or authorize any attempt to use the Services in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair any aspect of any of the Services, or that could interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of any Service.
If Web-Clubs believe that unauthorized or improper use is being made of any Service, it may, without notice, take such action as it, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate, including blocking messages from a particular internet domain, mail server or IP address. Web-Clubs may immediately terminate any account on any Service which it determines, in its sole discretion, is transmitting or is otherwise connected with any e-mail that violates this policy.
Nothing in this policy is intended to grant any right to transmit or send e-mail to, or through, the Services. Failure to enforce this policy in every instance does not amount to a waiver of Web-Clubs rights.
Unauthorized use of the Services in connection with the transmission of unsolicited e-mail, including the transmission of e-mail in violation of this policy, may result in civil, criminal, or administrative penalties against the sender and those assisting the sender.
How to contact us
We welcome your views about our site and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with any queries or comments please send an e-mail to [email protected].
