Privacy Policy

The following statement explains the policy of MPS & BBI International Limited regarding the information you provide to us.

1. Statement of intent
You may be asked to submit personal business information about yourself (e.g. name, title and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable MPS & BBI International Limited to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such information, we will treat that information in accordance with our Privacy Policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive and MPS & BBI International Limited will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Information on visitors
During the course of any visit to www.bbi.co.uk or other MPS & BBI International Limited websites, the pages you see, along with a cookie (a piece of information transmitted from server to browser), are downloaded to your computer. Most websites do this, because cookies provide practical information to the website publisher such as whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you researched our search engine services, then we might find this out from your cookie and highlight this information on a second visit.

Non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site is gathered using cookies and code that is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general information. MPS & BBI International Limited uses this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help us improve our services to users.

To find and control your cookies, you can use the process set out below in point 6. To disable the embedded code, you will need to send requests directly to MPS & BBI International Limited.

3. What is a cookie?
When you enter a site your computer will automatically be issued with a cookie. Cookies are text files that identify your computer to our server. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used. Many sites do this whenever a user visits their site in order to track traffic flows.

Cookies themselves only record those areas of the site that have been visited by the computer in question, and for how long. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these options, of course, means that certain services cannot then be provided to that user.

NB: Even if you haven't set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse our site anonymously until such time as you register for MPS & BBI International Limited services.

4. Use and storage of your information
When you supply any information to MPS & BBI International Limited, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. In general, any information you provide to MPS & BBI International Limited will only be used internally. It will never be supplied to anyone outside MPS & BBI International Limited without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.

Also, if any individual or organisation posts or sends offensive or inappropriate content to MPS & BBI International Limited or its websites, or otherwise engages in any disruptive behaviour considered to be serious and/or repeated, MPS & BBI International Limited reserves the right to utilise whatever information that is available to it to stop such behaviour.

We will hold your information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. For safety reasons, however, MPS & BBI International Limited may store messaging transcript data (including message content, member names, times and dates) for a period of six months. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

If you are notified by MPS & BBI International Limited that your information may be used to allow us to contact you for "service administration purposes", this means that MPS & BBI International Limited may contact you for a number of purposes related to the service you have signed up for. For example, we may wish to provide you with password reminders or notify you that the particular service has been suspended for maintenance. We will not contact you for promotional purposes, such as notifying you of service improvements, unless you specifically agree to be contacted for such purposes at the time you submit your information on the site, or at a later time if you sign up specifically to receive such promotional information.

5. Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information that MPS & BBI International Limited holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to the Data Protection Dept, MPS & BBI International Limited, Peerland House, 207 Desborough Road, High Wycombe HP11 2QL with a cheque for £15.00 + VAT (£17.63) to cover administration costs.

6. How to find and control your cookies

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

In Internet Explorer 3.0:
You can View, Options, Advanced, then click on the button that says Warn before Accepting Cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

7. How do you know which of the sites you've visited use cookies?

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:
1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.

Internet Explorer 3.0:
On your Task Bar, click:
1. View
2. Options
3. Advanced
4. View Files.

Netscape Communicator 4.0:
Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

9. How to see your cookie code
Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.