Privacy Statement

Computer Patent Annuities Limited, Liberation House, Castle Street, St Helier, JE1 1BL, Jersey ("CPA") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and your right to fair and just processing of your personal information. When you choose to provide us with information about yourself, we recognise that you trust us to act in a responsible manner. It is our belief that this information should only be used to help us provide you with better products and services.

This Privacy Policy sets out the basis on which your personal data will be processed by CPA as the data controller of your personal data under the compliance requirements of the Jersey Data Protection Laws (the "Act"). Please also note that this Privacy Policy complies with the provisions of the UK Data Protection Act 1998. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how it will be treated by us.

CPA's nominated representative for the purpose of the Act is Chris Lintell.

Information we may collect from you
Our objective at CPA is to be your IP solutions provider of choice by providing you with the information and services that are most relevant to you. To achieve this goal, we need to collect information to understand what differentiates you from each of our other unique clients. We may collect and process the following data about you from the following sources:-

• Information that you provide by filling in any forms on this web site. This includes information provided at the time of registration or at the time of posting material or requesting further services
• Details of your visits to this web site and the resources that you access
• Details of transactions you carry out through our web site and of the fulfilment of your orders
• Letters, facsimile messages and emails you send to CPA

If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. CPA may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes although you do not have to respond to them.

IP Addresses and Cookies
We may collect information about your computer including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type for system administration. This is data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason we may obtain information about your general Internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our web site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:-

• to estimate our audience size and usage pattern
• to store information about your preferences and so allow us to customise this web site according to your individual interests
• to speed up your searches
• to recognise you when you return to this web site
• You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser, which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of this web site

Where we store your personal data
The data we collect from you will be transferred to and stored at a destination outside the European Economic Area. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have provided you with or where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of this web site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You must not share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. So, whilst we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot ensure the security of data transmitted by you to this web site. Any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information we will use security procedures and features to prevent unauthorised access to it.

Uses made of the information
We may use information held about you in the following ways for the purpose of internal administration and to ensure that the content on this web site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer

• to allow us to verify your username and password on login to certain restricted areas of the web site
• to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, such as important changes to this web site, new CPA services or changes to existing services and special offers we think you will find valuable
• to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service where you choose to do so
  
  

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group which means any company or partnership which is wholly or partly owned by any of CPA's general partners and any subsidiary or holding company of such company or partnership or any partnership of which such company is a partner (the "CPA Group"). We will not disclose your personal data to any company outside the CPA Group.

We will only disclose your personal information to third parties under the following conditions:-

• if we are required to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions or any other agreement; or protect the rights, property, or safety of CPA, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for protection against credit risk and fraud
• in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets in which case we may disclose your personal data to the seller or buyer of such business or assets
• if CPA or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will of course be one of the transferred assets
• with your specific consent either at the time you register with this web site, or subsequently

Your rights
If you would rather not receive any further information from us please contact us at and ask to be removed from our mailing lists. If possible, please include a copy of the communication you received to help facilitate a timely and accurate removal.

This web site may from time to time contain links to and from partner and/or affiliate web sites. If you follow a link to their web sites, please note that these web sites will be covered by their own privacy policy statement (PPS) and/or personal information collection statement (PICS). CPA does not accept any responsibility or liability for protection of personal data which you may submit to a third party's web site. We recommend that you check the wording of the relevant privacy policies before you submit any personal data to those web sites.

Access to information
The Act gives you various rights including the right to access information held about you. We welcome any questions or comments about this privacy policy; please direct them to .

It is very important to us that your experience using cpaglobal.com is positive. We respect your rights to privacy and the fair and just processing of your personal information.

Computer Patent Annuities Limited acknowledges the assistance provided by the Registrar at the Jersey States Office of Data Protection Laws in the preparation and implementation of this Privacy Policy.