Thank you for visiting toastmasterherts.com, the website of Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies.

We are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy rights of our website users and clients. This policy describes the types of information that Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit toastmasterherts.com and our practices for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing that information. By visiting any website in the toastmasterherts.com domain, you are accepting the practices described in this policy.

In simplified form (greater detail is below), our policy can be summarized as follows:

1. We may collect some information about you, as described in this policy, but you can control how much you share about yourself.
2. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 years of age.
3. We will not sell your personal information but may share such information with third-party service providers in order to streamline functions on our behalf. If we use a third-party, they will be vetted to ensure they protect your information.
4. We may collect, use and share aggregate, anonymous information about our users.
5. In certain legal situations, we may be compelled to disclose your personal information.
6. If you are outside the United Kingdom, you understand and agree that we store your information in the United Kingdom.

What personal information do we collect?

When youcontact  Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies either through the website or by other means, we will collect personal data as necessary to provide information, quotation or a service to you. Typical information required may be your name, postal address, telephone number, email address and ceremony date in order to establish your contact details.

We may ask you to provide us with additional information including:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided to share your stories, post events, leave comments, or request further services.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out when booking our services.
• Your search queries on our website.
• There may be features that are developed in the future that may result in the collection of additional new information.

For example, you provide information when you search for a content;  communicate with us by phone, email, or otherwise; complete a questionnaire; or use other features. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name (or another person’s), address, and phone numbers; content of emails to us;  and financial information.

You can choose not to provide certain information or to have it deleted, by contacting us, but then you might not be able to take advantage of our services. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customizing your future visits to our website, improving our website, and communicating with you.

Any information we collect automatically is statistical data, and does not identify any individual. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size, browser statistics, and popularity of content and usage patterns.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our website.

A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalized experience at toastmasterherts.com if we cannot recognize you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

Why do we retain personal data?

We retain personal data to fulfil any legal or regulatory obligations and for legitimate business purposes. We may save personal data for longer periods than required by law if it is in our legitimate business interests and not prohibited by law. We will continue to use and disclose such personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

How does Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies use collected information?

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To provide you with information, products or services as part of your enquiry or booking.
• To offer and fulfil our legitimate business purposes.
• To fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our website or any products or services we offer or provide.
• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our website according to your individual interests.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information including service testimonials.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

What about cookies?

Cookies are tiny bits of information that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features such as your personalized profile.

The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, leaving cookies on will allow you to take full advantage of some of Toastmasters most entertaining and helpful features.

Does Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies share the information it receives?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others. However, we may share your information for the following purposes:

Third-Party Service Providers:

We may share information with third-party service providers to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, streamlining large emails, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing website data, providing website design assistance, conducting surveys, and processing credit card payments. Third parties may have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. All third-parties have been carefully vetted, and when necessary may have signed data protection agreements.

Do I have choices about sharing my information?

You may choose not to provide data and opt out of services and communications along the way, but certain services, may be unavailable to you as a result.

You can opt out of receiving non-essential communications via email, postal mail, or telephone. Even if you opt out of getting messages, we will still send you transactional messages such as order confirmations and receipts and communications necessary to further our legitimate business interests. To opt out of receiving any type of communication please send your request via email to info@toastmasterherts.com.

How secure is my information?

Ian Ellis – Professional Toastmaster and Master of Ceremonies is committed to protecting the security of your personal information and maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that meet industry standards to guard your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We protect your information by using firewalls and other security technology to protect our network and systems from external attacks.

We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our website. It is important for you to guard against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Effective May 25, 2018