Gurkha Stories is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This privacy policy explains how we use any personal data we collect from you through this website or otherwise and the procedures we have in place to safeguard your privacy.

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

1. Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.gurkhastories.com (“our site”). We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with our site.

2. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

3. Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

4. Information that you provide to us during the course of any work we may carry out on your behalf.

By submitting your personal information, you consent to our use of that information as set out in this privacy policy.

IP Addresses and Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. To do this we use ‘analytical’ cookies.

A “cookie” is a small text file that a website can send to your computer to be stored on the hard drive or in your device’s memory.

These cookies allow our web server to recognise your computer when you return to our site. By gathering this information we aim to improve the quality of our website and our service to our website users.

You may set up your computer to reject cookies by enabling your web browser to block them. The procedure for refusal of cookies will vary for different software. Please check with your internet browser help, or your software supplier, if you wish to block cookies.

Security

Protecting the personal data you share with us is a priority and we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access by outside parties. Please note that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore transmission is at your own risk.

Uses of information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

1. To ensure that our site’s content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

2. To provide you, by post or email, with information or services that you request from us or that we feel may interest you.

3. To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

4. To allow you to participate in interactive features of our services, when you choose to do so.

5. To notify you by post or email about changes to our service.

6. To carry out or process any instructions given by you to us.

If you do not want Gurkha Stories to use your data in this way, including for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data. We will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any other third parties:

1. If the business of Gurkha Stories or any part of it or any of its assets are sold or transferred to a third party, in which case we may disclose your personal data to such third party and your personal data may be one of the transferred assets.

2. If any business or assets are sold by or transferred by a third party to Gurkha Stories we may disclose your personal data to such third party.

3. If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use, terms and conditions of supply or other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Gurkha Stories, our clients, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to use your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such use by ticking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at mail@gurkhastories.com.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, these will have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Access for information

The Data Protection Act 1988 (“the Act”) gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.

Contact

For the purpose of the Act, the data controller is Gurkha Stories.

If you have any questions, comments or requests about this privacy policy please contact mail@gurkhastories.com.