Privacy Policy Statement

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as once you use our website and/or our services you will be regarded as having read and accepted this Privacy Policy. You must not use our website or our services if you do not accept this Privacy Policy.

ecompare recognises the importance of safeguarding your personal information and we are committed to protecting your privacy in the online environment.

1. Purposes we use information about you

   We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

   • To enable you to access and use the services; and/or
   • To personalise aspects of our overall service to you; and/or
   • To communicate with you; and/or
   • To process a transaction between you and a third party; and/or
   • Inform you of additional services that you have indicated an interest in.
     
     

2. Passing on information about you

   Please be aware that once you use our website or our services, you will be regarded as having given your consent to us disclosing your personal information to the following parties:

   • Third party providers whose products or services are listed on our website, for the purposes of obtaining a quotation for you or comparing different products and services as requested by you;
   • Regulatory/governing bodies for the purposes of compliance monitoring;
   • Other third parties either where necessary for those third parties to provide additional products or services requested by you or with your prior consent.

   ecompare will not sell your information to third parties.

   We may in the future contact you to inform you of new services and products available from ecompare or the ecompare group of companies. If you do not wish to receive these offers kindly contact us through our contact us page.
   
   

3. Third party providers and data privacy

   If you decide to enter into a contract with a third party provider through our website, the information you have provided to us together with any further information requested by, and supplied by you to, the third party provider will be held by the provider for the purposes set out in that provider's privacy policy. Therefore, you are strongly advised to read your chosen provider's privacy policy and satisfy yourself as to the purposes for which the provider will use your personal information before entering into the contract. We have no responsibility for the uses to which a provider puts your personal information once you have contracted with that provider.

   Please note that while the ecompare website hyperlinks to various other websites, ecompare is not responsible for the privacy practice of those websites and/or the reliability of the information published on those websites.
   
   

4. Membership Registration

   Our registration form requires you to provide us contact information. We may use your contact information from the registration form to send you information about our company and promotional material from some of our affiliated partners. Your contact information is also used to contact you when necessary.

   We will provide you with ways in which you can alter your personal data, including changing your email address and password.

   You are responsible for all actions taken with your user name, email address and password. Do not disclose your ecompare password to any third parties.

   If you wish to have your registration removed from our directory for any reason, simply send us an email requesting this to be removed.
   
   

5. Cookies

   A cookie is a very small text file placed on your computer by a web browser, which has been sent by a web server. It is essentially an "identification card" relating to you. The main purpose of our cookies is to identify you when you visit our website. Each time your browser requests a web page from our server, the browser sends the information in the text file back to the server and lets the server know that you have returned to that web page. We use cookies to provide you with a better service tailored to suit you.

   It is also important that you know that to transact with ecompare you do not necessarily need to enable your browser to accept the cookies. Please note some information and/or services may not be available if you disable your browser not to accept cookies.
   
   

6. Advertisements

   The advertisements that you see displayed on this website are delivered on our behalf by a third party advertising company. No personal data for example your name, or email address are used during the course of serving our advertising, but, on our behalf, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie" on your browser.
   
   

7. Security

   No data transmission over the internet can be guaranteed to be totally secure. As a result, whilst we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information which you send to us, and you do so at your own risk.
   
   

8. Privacy Policy Updates

   From time to time, we make changes to our information practices or alter the functionality of our Web site. We always update this statement accordingly, so we encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on privacy practices at ecompare.