Giftiger Wunsch's Programming Centre

Introduction

This Privacy Policy is specifically for "Giftiger Wunsch's Programming Centre", (www.programmingcentre.com and www.programmingcentre.co.uk), but also applies to any other website owned in part or in full by myself (Giftiger Wunsch) with this privacy policy on it. "We" and "us" refers to Giftiger Wunsch and any administrators responsible for any aspect of the websites to which this privacy policy applies.

This Privacy Policy pertains to the collection of and use of sensitive and/or personal information by the site, and the actions and measures taken to ensure that your personal information is kept confidential.

Please read the privacy policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. In order to use any website containing this Privacy Policy, you must agree to it in full, and accept that the Privacy Policy may be subject to change whenever it is deemed necessary by website administrators. If you do not agree to any part of the Privacy Policy, please do not use the websites to which it applies.

Collected information

Through regular visitation to this website, no personal information is collected or stored. "Hit counters" on the site(s) may record the fact that you visited the page, but stores said information as a numerical value only. Your IP address or any other information which could identify your computer on the internet is not recorded except where specifically stated that this is the case. By visiting these pages, you are agreeing that you will allow your IP address to be logged in this manner. Your IP address will never be shared with third parties unless the information is required by law enforcement agencies and we are satisfied that it will not be misused. The information will be protected from those who may attempt to gain access to this information by storing it in private files or databases which are not available through the website except by administrators.

Personally identifiable information, such as telephone numbers, addresses, full names, email address, or any other piece of information which could be used to identify or contact you, will only been recorded where specifically submitted by yourself in a form. By submitting any such information, you agree that we have the right to record and store said information indefinitely. This information will never be disclosed to third parties without your express permission, unless it is required by law enforcement agencies for legal purposes as with computer-identifying information as stated above.

We will exercise the utmost care when handling your personally identifiable information, and measures are taken to ensure that this information is not made available to unauthorised parties. This type of data is held on our database to ensure that it cannot be accessed by unauthorised parties. Please note that when using a form to contact website administrators, your e-mail address and message information will be sent to one of the administrators, and could be stored on the e-mail account indefinitely. We will never knowingly disclose this information to other parties, but the security of the e-mail accounts and any sensitive information stored therein is not our responsibility. We will however endeavour to ensure that this information is not made available to third parties. It is important to remember never to send information regarding your username or password for any website in these forms, and that you do so at your own risk. We will never ask for information of this nature to be sent to us.

In order to comply with the Data Protection Act, any recorded information of this nature must be kept accurate and up-to-date. You may contact us to request that stored information be updated or removed from our database; we will endeavour to perform these changes within five days of the request, but this period may vary.

Submission of Material for Publication

If you contribute a tutorial or any other document, file, or resource for public display on the website, you recognise and agree that you are providing us with the non-transferrable but non-expiring right to publish and distribute said materials on any website, document, or other material created or owned by us. We will always credit you with ownership of said materials, and we will never modify or claim credit for these materials. You may submit an updated copy of any materials at any time, but we reserve the right to retain older copies of said materials and refuse to publish any version of any material as we see fit. We will only publish materials which we have explicitly been authorised to publish by the submitter.

By submitting any material(s) for publication, you confirm that you are the sole owner of said materials, except where individual permission is sent to us by all authors or owners of the materials. You accept sole responsibility for any and all legal issues which may arise if you submit material(s) of which you are not the sole owner, including but not limited to copyright infringement.

As a recognised author or owner of a tutorial, we will provide you with the opportunity to submit a page with a description of yourself, including contact/website details, to us to publish. This will be made available to any viewers of materials contributed by yourself. We reserve the right to decline any submission for any reason, and by submitting said pages, they become our exclusive property and may be modified only by contacting us; this includes all files sent with the submission, including images, sounds, or other external files. We also reserve the right to decline to modify these pages for any reason, and to retain copies of said materials prior to any modification.

Emailing lists

We will only send newletters, updates, or other forms of communication to those who have agreed that they would like to receive such e-mails. Informational/advertising e-mails regarding this website are never sent out in bulk (maximum of one every two weeks per e-mail address), and you may unsubscribe from this and all other types of e-mailing services sent out by us at any time. We will never send newletters, promotional e-mails, or other such e-mails to those who are on the e-mail block list.