Privacy Statement
Progressive Media International - Privacy Policy & Legal Copyright Notice
Important - this is a legal agreement between the Progressive Media International and its
associated companies ("Progressive Media International ") and you. www.progressivemediaInternational.com
including any associated Progressive Media International websites (the "Website(s)")
is provided by Progressive Media International whose registered office is at John Carpenter House, John Carpenter Street, London EC4Y 0AN, UK.
Please read the following
terms carefully. By using this website you agree to this agreement whether or not
you have read it. If you do not agree to this, you may not access or otherwise use
this Website.
From time to time, the Progressive Media International may modify this agreement. Accordingly,
please continue to review this agreement whenever accessing or using the Website.
If at any time you do not wish to accept this agreement, you may not use the Website.
You may only use the Website in accordance with the terms outlined below.
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1.1 Progressive Media International either owns or is licensed to use the copyright in the
data, table, graphic, editorial or other content of its Website pages and in the
data appearing on its Websites unless another copyright holder is credited on the
relevant Website page.
1.2 We appreciate that our material may help to back-up your own research or to
augment your organisation's promotional activities. You may use the Progressive
Media International owned material on this Website for non-commercial use provided you do
all of the following:
a) act within the copyright laws of England and Wales, or of the territory in which
Progressive Media International originally published the material;
b) publish the material without any adjustment which would alter its meaning or
bring the Progressive Media International, its personnel, representatives, agents, clients
or the subject of the material or any other person or entity into disrepute;
c) meet the requirements of current Human Rights legislation and Data Protection
Law within Europe (which rights may extend to individuals and entities resident
outside the European Economic Area);
d) publish a credit to Progressive Media International or to a specific and relevant Progressive
Media International publication or website, and to any individual named author, at the foot
of the re-used material; and, if reproduced on a website, include a URL link to
the original article or the point of entry to that Website page or to the publication's
Website page as agreed in advance in writing with the Website administrator or the
International's Copyright Executive.
1.3 Progressive Media International may make available certain Content License Agreements
for the commercial re-use, translation and/or re-publishing in printed or electronic
form of design and content from its Website and pages. Only a holder of a current
Content License agreement who satisfies all requirements of that License agreement
may re-use, translate or re-publish in any form or medium design or content which
originates on a Website or webpage owned or managed by Progressive Media International for
commercial purposes.
1.4 Progressive Media International incorporates electronic "watermarking" into
published material. Web crawlers are employed to locate watermarked material and
to provide legal proof of its re-use. If the simple conditions above are not met,
Progressive Media International reserves the right to pursue any infringement in the Courts
of the country where they suffer damage or you are likely to derive benefit.
1.5 All goodwill associated with your use of the Progressive Media International trade names
or marks shall inure solely to the benefit of Progressive Media International and you shall
not assert any claim or ownership to any trade names or marks or to the goodwill
or reputation thereof. All other trade-marks, brand names, products and company
names all over which are cited on this Website are the trade-marks and/or property
of their respective owners.
1.6 If you are unsure of the legality of your re-use of material published on Websites
owned or managed by the Progressive Media International you should contact the group's Copyright
Executive on copyright@progressivemediagroup.com
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2.1 You may not transmit any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory,
obscene, pornographic, profane or otherwise objectionable material or information
of any kind including but not limited to transmission constituting or encouraging
conduct which would constitute a criminal offence, give rise to civil liability
or otherwise violate any national or international law.
2.2 You may not transmit any information, software, email or attachment which contains
in full or in part any Virus, Worm, Trojan Horse or other harmful component.
2.3 You may not restrict or inhibit use of the Websites by any other individual
or organisation.
2.4 You may not post, publish, transmit, distribute or otherwise exploit any software,
information or material obtained through the Website of Progressive Media International
and its associated companies other than for the purposes expressly permitted.
2.5 All individual articles, reports and other elements making up the Website may
be copyright works or protected by database rights. You agree to abide by all additional
copyright and database right notices or restrictions contained on the Website.
2.6 You agree to notify the Progressive Media International in writing promptly upon becoming
aware of any unauthorised access to or use of the Website by any party.
2.7 Other than the licenses granted to you under this agreement, you may not copy,
reproduce, recompile, decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, distribute, publish,
display, perform, modify, upload to create derivative works from, transmit, communicate
or in any other way exploit any part of the Website and/or the Website's material.
2.8 The Website and all the information contained therein may not be used to construct
a database of any kind nor may the Website be stored in its entirety or in any part
in databases for access by you or any third party or to distribute any database
websites containing all or part of the Website.
2.9 You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Progressive Media International from
and against any claims, actions, demands or other proceedings brought against Progressive
Media International by a third party to the extent that such claim, suit, action or other
proceedings is based on or arises in connection with your use of the Website and
any breach by you of this agreement. This section survives termination of this agreement
for any such reason.
2.10 You accept that Progressive Media International has the right to change the material,
or information of any aspect of the Website at any time at its sole discretion.
You further accept that such changes result in your being unable to access the Website.
Progressive Media International may have to suspend the Website from time to time to carry
out maintenance and to make upgrades.
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3.1 Our hyperlinks:
The Website may include links to third party websites. Such hyperlinks are included
to ease the user's path through the Internet. Their inclusion cannot be taken to
imply any endorsement or validation by us of the content of the website referred
to. Hyperlinks can become out-of-date and cease to work or they can direct users
to a website page whose contents or use have been changed by its owner. Progressive
Media International has no control over, and can therefore accept no responsibility or liabilities
for any losses or penalties that may be incurred or for the accuracy of hyperlinks
to third party web sites, or the content of such third party websites.
3.2 Your hyperlinks:
You may provide hyperlinks to the Website and pages owned and/or managed by the
Progressive Media International and its associated companies without the prior written consent
from Progressive Media International. Such hyperlinks may only direct users to the home
page of the relevant website, and must display the relevant page in the same form
as this Website, without amendment or framing.
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4.1 The material and information published on this Website and on all other Websites
of Progressive Media International are provided on an "as is" basis without warranty
of any kind, either expressed or implied. Progressive Media International do not guarantee
the accuracy or integrity of the material or information nor its suitability for
any particular purpose. To the extent permitted by law, Progressive Media International
excludes any liability whether in contract, tort (negligence) or otherwise for any
incorrect or misleading information on the Website.
4.2 Errors can occur and Progressive Media International offer no assurance that they will
be corrected. No liability will be accepted in respect of service interruptions,
nor in the event of any Viruses, Worms, Trojan Horses and other harmful components
being present in or transmitted by Progressive Media International systems and networks.
4.3 Progressive Media International do not accept any liability for any loss of data or
software, revenue, business, profits cost or expense, or any direct, indirect, incidental
or consequential loss or damage arising out of or in connection with the use of,
or the lack of availability of the Website or their content and/or in connection
with any permission, right or license to use the material given under clause 1.2
or otherwise.
4.4 It is your responsibility to assess the value of the information and material
on the Websites in the light of your own business and personal circumstances. Website
content remains journalistic opinion and does not constitute legal, financial or
professional advice, and may not represent the views of the Progressive Media International,
its directors, employees or agents. Progressive Media International attribute any non- Progressive
Media International material in good faith; however, it is your responsibility to check
the attribution and rights in respect of Progressive Media International and non Progressive
Media International material and obtain any necessary rights in respect of reproduction
of any non Progressive Media International material.
4.5 Subject to Clause 4.6, in the event that the Progressive Media International is held
liable, the total liability of Progressive Media International (whether in contract, tort,
negligence or otherwise) in respect of any loss or damage arising out of or in connection
with the Website shall be limited to £1000 for any one incident or series of incidents.
This clause does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer. This section survives
termination of this agreement for any reason.
4.6 Nothing in this clause 4 shall exclude Progressive Media International‘s liability to
you for fraudulent misrepresentation by Progressive Media International or the death or
personal injury resulting from its negligence or that of its employees.
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5.1 No waiver by Progressive Media International of any breach of any obligation arising
under this agreement shall constitute a waiver of any other breach and no failure
to exercise or partial exercise by Progressive Media International of any remedy shall constitute
a waiver of the right subsequently to exercise that or any other remedy.
5.2 If any provision of this agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction
to be invalid unlawful or unenforceable for any reason then such part will be severed
from the remainder of this agreement, which will continue to be valid and enforceable
to the fullest extent permitted by law.
5.3 This agreement constitutes the entire agreement between Progressive Media International
and you. All prior agreements understandings and negotiations and representations
(save for fraudulent misrepresentation) whether oral or in writing are cancelled
in their entirety. The terms of any other electronic communications will not form
part of this agreement.
5.4 This agreement is governed by the laws of England and Wales and the parties
submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English Courts.
The Progressive Media International is committed to safeguarding your privacy online. It
is very important to us that you should be able to use and enjoy our web sites without
having to compromise your privacy in any way. This policy will help you understand
how your personal information will be treated. This policy may change from time
to time so please check back regularly.
The Progressive Media International includes companies which are members of the Direct Marketing
Association, the Directory & Database Publishers' Association, the Audit Bureau
of Circulations and BPA International. Where you see the symbols of these organisations
on any of our websites you have the further assurance of our commitment to the standards
set by the relevant body.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information
online - for example on message boards, through email, or in chat areas - that information
can be collected and used by others. In short, if you post personal information
online that is accessible to the public, you may receive unsolicited messages from
other parties in return.
Ultimately, you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your passwords.
Progressive Media International staff will NEVER compromise your security by asking for
your password online. Please be careful and responsible when you are online.
Please note, your rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 are provided for on
the registration page.
What personally identifiable information does the Progressive Media International collect
from me?
The Progressive Media International collects information in several ways from different
parts of our network of websites.
Some personal information is gathered when you register for our web sites, publications
or events. During registration, the Progressive Media International will ask for your name,
email address, birth date, gender, address and post code and personal and professional
interests and responsibilities. The more accurate the information you volunteer,
the better we are able to customise your experience of our websites and newsletters.
Once you register you are no longer anonymous to The Progressive Media International - you
are given a password and are able to take full advantage of our services (subject
to payment for certain services).
In addition to registration we may ask you for personal information at other times,
for example when you enter a competition or promotion run or sponsored by The Progressive
Media International and when you report a problem with one of our sites or services. If
you contact Progressive Media Markets Limited we may keep a record of that correspondence.
Progressive Media Markets Limited also occasionally asks users to complete surveys
that we use for research purposes. Whenever the Progressive Media International collects
personal information we try to include a link to this Privacy Policy on the page
in question.
Your responses help us to sell appropriate advertising space and so minimise the
cost of our services to you - or even provide some of them at no charge at all.
They also enable us to personalise services to our readers.
The Progressive Media International uses cookies as a means of offering and providing customisable
and personalised services. However, your browser has settings that will allow you
to accept all cookies, be informed as cookies arrive or reject all cookies. The
downside of rejecting all cookies is that we are then unable to match the site content
we offer you to what we know about your preferences from your previous visits. In
addition, advertising networks that serve ads onto Progressive Media International sites
may use their own cookies.
The Progressive Media International collects IP addresses for system administration, for
independent audit and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. By this
we can see how our sites are being used, for example, what services and facilities
are popular, and how long users spend on particular pages. This is data about our
users' browsing actions and patterns and it does not identify anyone individually.
When you telephone a Progressive Media International company, or someone who is dealing
with calls on our behalf, we may record the conversation to ensure the security
of any transaction discussed, to help us to review our quality of service and to
assist in the training and development of the employees who take such calls.
How does The Progressive Media International use my information?
The Progressive Media International’s primary goal in collecting personal information concerning
subscribers is to provide them with a customised experience of our site. By knowing
a little about you, the Progressive Media International is able to deliver more relevant
advertisements and content to you, and by demonstrating the quality of our users
we are able to secure advertising funding which keeps down the costs to the users.
When delivering targeted advertisements, the Progressive Media International acts merely
as the middleman. Advertisers give us an advertisement and tell us the type of audience
they want to reach (for example, design specialists, or pump buyers in process industries).
We take the advertisement and display it to users meeting the relevant criteria.
When you join one of our email newsletter services the emails you receive may include
advertising material and links to advertisers' web sites. This does not mean that
your details have been passed to the advertiser in question. Furthermore, at the
end of each newsletter you will find either a hyperlink or a description of a route
to have yourself removed from further editions of that newsletter.
The Progressive Media International undertakes research on our users' demographics, interests
and behavior based on the information provided to us upon registration, during a
promotion, from our server log files or from surveys. We do this to better understand
and serve you, the user. This research is compiled and analysed on an aggregated
basis. The Progressive Media International may share this aggregated data with advertisers
or business partners. We will use our best endeavors to ensure, where reasonable,
that our business partners and advertising customers have effective on-line privacy
policies and are registered under the Data Protection Act (as all of our relevant
businesses are).
When you are on a Progressive Media International site and are asked for personal information,
you may not be sharing that information with the Progressive Media International alone.
Some services are offered jointly with a partner company. In order to provide this
co-branded service to you, it is necessary for us to share your personal information
with those partner companies.
Promotions and competitions that run on The Progressive Media International’s sites may
be sponsored by companies outside the Progressive Media International or may be co-sponsored
by us and another company. Some or all data collected during a promotion may be
shared with the sponsor.
Please be aware that the Progressive Media International advertisers or web sites that have
links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The
information practices of those web sites linked to the Progressive Media International are
not covered by this privacy statement.
With whom does The Progressive Media International share my information?
The Progressive Media International and its associated companies are prohibited by virtue
of the Data Protection Act 1998 from disclosing any of your personally identifiable
information except when we have your permission or under special circumstances,
such as when we believe in good faith that the law requires it or under the circumstances
described below. The following describes some of the ways that your information
may be disclosed.
We may disclose your personal information to business partners or sponsors, but
this is drawn to your attention prior to data collection. Some or all data collected
during any of the Progressive Media International’s promotions may be shared with a sponsor.
If personally identifying data about you will be shared, we will tell you when we
collect the data.
If you make a purchase from a site hosted by the Progressive Media International, the information
obtained during the purchasing transaction, and the information you give such as
your credit card number and contact information, is provided to the merchant concerned.
This is to enable transactions to take place. You agree that The Progressive Media
International and its associated companies have no responsibility or liability for any such
independent store privacy policies.
From time to time, you may be offered the opportunity to receive materials or special
offers from selected third parties. If you opt-in to receive information from these
third parties you are giving us permission to share your name and email and/or physical
address details with them.
Under confidentiality agreements, the Progressive Media International may match user information
with third party data. Also, Progressive Media International companies may disclose aggregated
user statistics (for example, 58% of users are executives in SME's) in order to
describe our services to prospective partners, advertisers, and other third parties,
and for other lawful purposes.
Finally, The Progressive Media International may also disclose account information in special
cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating
Progressive Media International's Terms, Database Rights or Copyright or may be causing
injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) the Progressive
Media International rights or property, other Progressive Media International users, or anyone else
that could be harmed by such activities.
The Progressive Media International or its sponsors or business partners may, from time
to time, contact you regarding their products and services.
On some types of The Progressive Media International’s promotions, we will ask for your
email address in order to update you on your score, entries and status. When you
participate in these types of promotions, you automatically receive promotion-related
email. Sometimes these promotion-related email messages may include targeted advertisements.
From time to time the Progressive Media International does rent or sell user information
to other reputable organisations as permitted under the Data Protection Act 1998.
If you do not wish to allow your data to be shared, you can choose not to use a
particular service, not to participate in certain promotions or contests, or you
can select to opt out of your information being shared on the registration page.
No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed entirely secure. While
we strive to protect your personal information, the Progressive Media International can
neither ensure nor warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or
from our online products or services, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive
your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Right to access personal data
Under the 1998 Data Protection Act, you have the right to access personal data relating
to you that is held by the Progressive Media International in electronic format and manual
records that form part of a 'relevant filing system' i.e. held in a structured way.
If you wish to see personal data relating to you, you should apply in writing to
the Data Protection Officer at the address below. Progressive Media International charges
an administration fee of £10.
Progressive Media International will normally respond to any request to access personal
data within 40 days (including bank-holidays and weekends) of the request and payment
of the £10 fee.
If you find any inaccuracies in the data disclosed, you should inform the Data Protection
Officer who will arrange for the necessary changes to be made.
The Progressive Media International is registered in England and has its Head Office at
John Carpenter House, John Carpenter Street, London EC4Y 0AN, UK. If you
have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard
to these practices, please contact our Data Protection Officer by e-mail : dataprotection@progressivemediagroup.com
