The Balloon Shop - Online Suppliers of Balloons and Party Goods

The information below outlines our policy regarding any personal information we collect about you.

Statement of Intent

Occasionally you may be asked to submit information about yourself (eg. name or your email address) in order to use some of the services on the Chorley Bottle Gas website. Such services include subscription to newsletters, emailing presenters and entering competitions.
By entering these details in the fields requested, you enable Chorley Bottle Gas and it's service partners to provide you with service which you have selected. It is the intent of Chorley Bottle Gas to treat this information in accordance with this policy which acts in accordance with relevent legislation and aims to meet standard Internet Practices.

Visitor Information

Statistics about visitors to the Chorley Bottle Gas website are collected by a software program which registers visitor numbers, visitor locations, referral sites, search engine strings, countries from which users are accessing the website and ISP's used to access the site.

Your Personal Information -
It's use & storage

Whenever you supply any personal information to Chorley Bottle Gas we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. The 1998 Data Protection Act legislates that we must collect this information fairly. In doing this we will always inform you of how we will use this information (please see notices on particular pages which inform you why we are collecting particular information). We will not pass your information onto other parties unless we have your permission.

In general, any information you provide to Chorley Bottle Gas will only be used within Chorley Bottle Gas and it's service providers. Consent will be saught before disclosing this information to anyone else, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it.

If you post or send offensive language anywhere or to Chorley Bottle Gas and Chorley Bottle Gas or it's moderator (Martin Heywood) considers this behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, we may be able to use whatever information that is available to us about you to stop such behaviour.
Your information will be held on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested and we will remove it if that the service has expired, the purpose of the service been met or you no longer wish to continue participating in the requested service.

We will ensure that all personal data supplied is held securely in accordance with the 1998 data protection act.

Access to your personal information
You have the right to request a copy of personal information held about you by Chorley Bottle Gas or it's service providers and to have any inaccuracies corrected. (A charge of £5 will be made for infromation requests). Please address these requests to Martin Heywood, theWebmonkey Ltd., 3 Leicester Road, Blackpool, Lancs. FY1 4HL (email: marty@thewebmonkey.eu).

Users aged 16 and under

If you are aged 16 or under please ensure that you obtain your parent or guardian's permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the Chorley Bottle Gas website.

If you do not have this consent you are not allowed to provide us with this personal information.