Fluid Network Privacy Policy
The short of it? We wont give away or sell your data, we don't write stuff to your browser we wouldn't want on our own.
The long of it - keep reading!
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Your data
If you choose to trust us with your details, we will never give away your data without your express concent. Ever. Nuh-uh.
Occasionally we'll slip in a partner offer to a newsletter or the likes that we think is relevant to the site and could be
useful to you, but you can rest assured that the partner in question don't have your name or details unless you've been asked.
All data we hold on you is accessible through your profile which you can view and modify by logging in. If you have forgotten your
password or don't think you have a password, just click on the login button on the top right of the homepage and there's a helpful
'forgot password' link you can use to have a new one sent out to your email address. If we don't have your email address, we don't
have any personal data on you. Do keep in mind that we've been around for a long time, so you may wish to consider any old addresses.
If you're still not convinced, drop us an email from the 'contact us' page and we'll look into it.
Anonymous cookies from Fluid Network Ltd
Fluid Network uses anonymous cookies (a cookie is just a small private text file) to store the current city you're looking at (which is also
stored as part of the web address, but the cookie makes it faster) and list previous venues you've looked at so we can display content we
think might be relevant based on those venues.
We don't know who you are, we don't store your IP address, and information from these cookies is never used for anything else but you.
If someone has jumped on your computer when you weren't looking and filled your browser history up with shaven monkey strip bars as a joke,
feel free to click here to delete that history and start your Fluid journey a-new.
If you'd like to continue using Fluid without that cookie, just click here and we'll write a special anonymous
cookie to tell our other cookie not to look at your history. If that's not confusing enough by itself, that seems to be the way it's done. If
someone ever comes up with a way to stop us from writing a cookie to tell our site not to write a cookie, let us know and we'll put it in place.
Named cookies from Fluid Network Ltd
If you log into Fluid Network, you can choose to click a box that says "remember me" that writes a cookie to your machine so your username
and password are saved for next time you want to log in. If you've done this on a shared machine or wish for us to , you might be being a bit silly
and may wish to remove it; just go to the login screen (if you're already logged in, you need to log out first) and click the "forget me" button.
Once you're logged in, we put a cookie on your machine that tells us who you are whilst you're logged in. It's called a session cookie. When your
browser session (clue is in the name) is finished (i.e. you close it), your browser should delete your session cookie. Even if it doesn't, once your
session finishes on the server, the cookie is useless until you log in again at which time you'll be given a new session cookie anyway.
If you don't want us to store login information, don't log in. (Like what we did there?)
Anonymous cookies from third parties
We use Google Analytics to count how mnay of you good people visit our website. They write a small cookie
that keeps track of your time here on Fluid that helps us create a better service. It's all anonymous, we pinky-promise.
Named cookies from third parties
You're kidding, right? We're pretty sure that's not even possible without resorting to some nasty tricks, and even if it was we're not going to do it.
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More
You may have noticed that Fluid Network runs ads. No, really - look closely. It's what allows us the cash to keep running this lovely website. They
all have their own cookie policies, but they're all anonymous too. Click to read about 'em.
1. Banner advertising
A banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web delivered by an ad server, which can be a graphic image, a set of animated images, or an interactive
element (usually known as rich media).This form of advertising entails embedding an advertising into a web page. Regardless of the size of the banner ad, when a
user clicks the advertisement, he or she is redirected to the advertiser's website. The technology behind these adverts is based on Cookies*.
* Cookies: A cookie is a tiny computer file used by Internet professionals to exchange a restricted amount of information with the Internet user's computer. Cookies may be used, for example, to record the browsing preferences selected by an Internet user when visiting a website, or to record the login entered on a website requiring identification, or the content of a basket when shopping online, etc. The features and information stored in each cookie vary according to the type of service and website it is associated with.
2. Hi-media privacy
Hi-media protects the privacy of its Internet users and has laid down the following privacy protection policy: Hi-media Privacy Policy
The Hi-media cookie contains no information that can be used to identify or locate an individual Internet user. It is not shared, not used by third parties and
communicates only with Hi-media Performance network systems. The Hi-media cookie contains only a number assigned to the Internet user's computer and a series of
references corresponding to websites visited. Hi-media is thus able to determine that computer no. xxxxxxxx browsed a certain website and accordingly trigger the
display of advertisements bearing a relation to the website (and hence to the Internet user's choices), without knowing where the Internet user is located and without
being able to identify him/her. Hi-media has no means of linking an Internet user to the number assigned to his/her computer. Furthermore, Hi-media cannot obtain any
information regarding the Internet user's computer from the assigned number. The Internet user's privacy is therefore protected.
In addition, we work with the following server (please find the links to opt-out of cookies for each of them:
3. Disabling these adverts
In its affinity-based ad targeting activity, Hi-media does not gather information that may breach the privacy of Internet users. Given that we use cookies in this
activity, however, we believe it to be our duty to inform Internet users of the fact, and of how the cookies operate and what information they contain. Furthermore,
we fully understand and accept that some Internet users may not consider affinity-based ad targeting as suitable or appropriate to them. Hi-media has therefore taken
steps to include in its privacy protection policy a very simple means of opting out of the process, by clicking on the following link: Opt-out Cookie
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