This is a legal document which sets out how TopContacts handles data which identifies you. You should read it in conjunction with the TopContacts User Agreement, of which this Privacy Policy forms part.

At TopContacts, we believe strongly in protecting the privacy of our users' personal information. This statement describes the privacy practices we apply for the TopContacts Service. As part of that, it also expresses our approach to complying with the data protection laws which apply in the United Kingdom. If we change this Privacy Policy, we will notify you of the changed document in the same way as we notify changes to the TopContacts Terms and Conditions.

1.The information we gather and track.

· Information gathered on registration. When you register for the TopContacts Service, you provide your name, your email address, and some optional notes about yourself. They are available to you, and capable of being changed, through the My Profile page.

· Cookies. We use small files known as "cookies" to enhance users' experience of the TopContacts Service as follows:

- To hold Members' login information, so that your home page is displayed when you visit the TopContacts Service.

- To facilitate optimal use of the TopContacts Service by Members, by means of a temporary "session" cookie. These cookies disappear when the Member's browser session ends, or if the Member clicks the "logoff" text which appears on the TopContacts Service.

- Third party cookies are used on some parts of the site. They are used for tracking the success of advertising campaigns. These cookies are normally permanent. Blocking of third party cookies by users will not affect the functionality of the website.

2. Sharing and use of information.

· The over-riding principles we apply are these:

- We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation - thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members' email addresses to a third party; and

- the only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party for non-commercial purposes are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

· Profile Information. Once a Member has created a Profile, all of information contained in the profile, except for the e-mail address, may be viewed by any other TopContacts Member. It is the responsibility of the Full Member to consider the information they wish to be available on the TopContacts Service.

· Email addresses. We do not directly make your email address available to anyone on any screen of the TopContacts Service. The only legitimate way of making contact by e-mail with a Member found on the TopContacts Service is for a Member to enter a message which we will send on the Member's behalf. The email sent will include the sending Member's email address so that the recipient can respond to the sender directly. This means by sending a contact message, the sending Member is disclosing his/her email address. Members may change their email address at any time through Account Settings. If your email system automatically responds to a contact email, your email address will be revealed.

· Advertising. The TopContacts Service may include interactive advertising for other businesses. We may use, and provide to third parties, anonymised demographic data provided by Members to target this advertising more appropriately.

· Newsletters. We have regular and occasional emails, which Members can decide to take or not, according to their preferences. This option is selected through Account Settings.

· Credit Card information. There has been a lot of publicity about Credit Card security on the Internet so we decided to use Worldpay plc, who operate a secure server, to process our credit card payments. They encrypt Members' credit or debit card information and authorise payment directly. This means that Members' credit card details are never revealed to us. Worldpay plc may transfer to, process and hold your credit card information in countries either within or outside the European Economic Area in connection with performing their duties.

· Companies in the TopContacts Limited group. We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with our subsidiaries and other companies in our group, but only for the purposes described in this policy.

· Changes in TopContacts Limited business. If all of the assets which TopContacts Limited uses to operate its business (or substantially all of them) are acquired by a third party, we may transfer personal data we then hold to that party.

· Place of processing. The personal information held by us is held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.

3. Security

We have security measures in place to protect our customer database and access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member's responsibility:

· to protect against unauthorised access to your TopContacts Account;

· to ensure against use by anyone else of the TopContacts Service through the machine that Member uses while they are "logged on" to theTopContacts Service;

· to log off or exit from the TopContacts Service when not using it; and

· to keep his/her password secret.

4. Opt-out policy

· You may have your details removed from the TopContacts Service at any time. This opt-out can be effected by making appropriate selections at the Remove Me section.

· We provide Members with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving e-mailed Newsletters which they have previously opted to receive. This opt-out can be effected by making appropriate selections at the Remove Me section.

5. Disclosure for legal reasons

We reserve the right to communicate such of a Member's personal information as we hold to third parties which seek the disclosure of it, and which make a legally-compliant request for its disclosure.

6. Contacting TopContacts

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with TopContacts, you can contact us here. You can also contact us if you wish to request from TopContacts a copy of the personal data we hold about you or a description of that data. Please note that by English law we are entitled to charge you a small sum for providing this information.

7. Links to third party sites

Our site contains links to other sites. TopContacts is not responsible for the privacy practices, or the content, of those web sites.

8. Data Protection Information

You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner's website at www.dataprotection.gov.uk. You can search for our Data Protection Notification there, should you so wish.