document: title: privacy & cookies
text: ##  Privacy & cookies 

Your privacy and peace of mind are important to us. You can read the articles on the site without registration; however to safeguard the integrity of the site we ask you to register if you want to comment on articles or post on the message board.

The minimum requirements for registration are your name, your email address, a username and a password. You can update your personal information at any time on the Profile page when you are logged in. 

We do not share any information with third parties. We respect your email privacy - you will not receive email from WSC or from third parties unless you have specifically agreed to this. We may, however, need to email you with information about your registration or any orders placed with us. 

Like many other websites, wsc.co.uk makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyse trends, administer the site, track user movement around the site and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Cookies  
Cookies are files stored by your web browser (for example Firefox or Safari) on your computer or smartphone. They allow websites to store such things as user preferences. We use cookies on wsc.co.uk for various purposes. We track how many users we have and how often they visit and collect information on which pages are most visited and by users from which location. The WSC online shop uses cookies to manage your orders. Advertisers will generate statistical cookies to monitor advertising on the website – placing cookies on your computer means we can serve you adverts that you might be more interested in which helps us to keep the site free.

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include Google Adsense. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to supply the advertisements and links that appear on wsc.co.uk and sent are directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript or Web Beacons) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and/or to personalise the advertising content that you see – WSC has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers. Specifically Google uses the Double Click DART cookie to enable it to serve ads based on your visit to wsc.co.uk and other sites on the internet. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy page. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Our privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Your online choices - a guide to online behavioural advertising.

You can stop your browser accepting all cookies or cookies from a particular website. The latest versions of web browsers allow you to change your cookie settings which will usually be found in the Options or Preferences menu of your browser, or you could use the browser's Help function. Here's some more information about cookies on Wikipedia.

By using the site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as described.

Legal information under the Data Protection Act  
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act of 1998, the Data Controller for wsc.co.uk is When Saturday Comes Ltd, The Old Fire Station, 140 Tabernacle Street, London EC2A 4SD, UK.