1. General: This is a website of Future plc (“Future”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and we take our responsibilities regarding the security of information you provide to us very seriously. If you have any concerns, questions or comments please email investor.relations@futurenet.co.uk.

2. Use of Information: If you provide us with any personal information through this Website or any other Future site (“Your Information”) we will use it as set out in this policy and to: (a) provide you with any information, goods or services that you request and to monitor the provision of such information, goods and services; and (b) contact you about any information, goods or services of Future or any of its group companies which may be of interest to you. If you do not wish to receive information about the Future group or the goods and services of the Future group, please follow the unsubscribe instructions on the correspondence you receive or contact investor.relations@futurenet.co.uk.

3. Disclosure to third parties: We may pass Your Information on to our group companies and our agents, subcontractors and partners and any agents, subcontractors and partners of our group of companies. Unless expressly stated in this policy, we will not disclose any of Your Information to any other person without your consent. Please note that if you upload or post any information to a public part of any Future site, we may use it in accordance with our website terms and conditions of use and it may be viewed and used by others.

4. Our email press releases: If you subscribe to receive press releases provided via email, these emails will be provided to you free of charge, unless otherwise stated. To enable us to do this you will need to provide us with your email address. We may ask you to provide us with other information which we or our partner may require from time to time for business purposes. If at any time you wish to unsubscribe from receiving press releases by email you may do so by emailing investor.relations@futurenet.co.uk.

5. Third party sites: This Website may contain a link to third party websites. We may, on occasion, disclose non-personal aggregated information to the owners or providers of those third party websites.

6. Cookies and Web beacons:

(a)    What are they?

A cookie is a small piece of information which is sent to your computer’s hard drive by the web server so that the website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the website.  The cookie will collect information relating to your use of our sites, information about your computer such as the computer’s IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our site via a link from third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are a registered user or subscriber it may also collect your name and email address, which may be transferred to data processors for registered user or subscriber verification purposes.

A web beacon is a line of code which is used by a website or less frequently a third party ad server to measure a user’s activity, such as interaction with an advert or purchase of a product.  A web beacon is often invisible because it is only 1 x 1 pixel in size with no colour.  A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF and tracker GIF.

(b)    How does Future Publishing Limited use them?

We, together with our trusted partners, use cookies for the following purposes:

(i)    to enable certain online functionality including:

    * identify returning users, registrants and subscribers and to allow them to be presented with a personalised version of the site;

    * eliminating the need for returning users to re-enter their login details;

    * commenting on our sites;

    * operating a shopping trolley on www.myfavouritemagazines.com.

(ii)    to measure users behaviour to better develop our websites.  By using web analytics services provided by Google Analytics and Nedstat we can analyse which pages are viewed and how long for and which links are followed, we can provide more content which is of interest.  We also use this analysis to report on our performance and to sell advertising.

(iii)    to manage online advertising and revenue share arrangements.  Our approved, advertising partners, primarily Doubleclick, Audience Science and AdMeld, use cookies together with web beacons to provide advertising to you and to enable us to manage our relationship with those advertisers by, for example, tracking how many unique users have seen a particular advertisement or followed a link in an advertisement.

(iv)    to measure general user behaviour across our sites and third party sites to build a profile based on users browsing patterns so that we and third parties can target advertising to users that will be more relevant to users’ interests.  This means that if, for example, users visit a page with a review about a particular camera then the cookie will collect this information and we may target adverts for that camera to those users and, if users visit third party sites that are part of the same advertising network, those third parties may target adverts for that camera to those users.

(v)    to create profiles that trusted third parties can buy to allow them to better target their advertising with more relevant content.

We also include web beacons (also known as clear GIFs or web bugs) in our emails to track the success of our marketing campaigns. This means that if you open an email from us we can see which of the pages of our Website you have visited. Our web beacons do not store additional information on your computer but, by communicating with our cookies on your computer, they can tell us when you have opened our email.

The information generated by the cookie about your use of our sites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored on servers in the United States and/or United Kingdom.  They may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on their behalf.  By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by those service providers in the manner and for the purposes set out above.

(c)    How do you control how cookies/web beacons are used?

Cookies can be deleted from your hard drive.  You can also change the preferences/settings in your web browser to control cookies.  In some cases, you can choose to accept cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all cookies.  Deleting or blocking cookies may reduce functionality of the site.  To learn more about how to reject cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or go to the help menu within your internet browser.  If you experience any problems having deleted cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.

If you would like to disable “third party” cookies generated by advertisers or providers of targeted advertising services, you can turn them off by going to the third party’s website and getting them to generate a one-time “no thanks” cookie that will stop any further cookies being written to your machine. Here are links to the main third party advertising platforms we use, each of which have instructions on how to do this:

http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

http://www.audiencescience.com/consumers

You can find out how to decline other online behavioural advertising by visiting:

http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

If you object to web beacons in emails, we recommend that you follow the instructions for deleting existing cookies and disabling future cookies above. We will still know how many of our emails are opened and we will automatically receive your IP address, a unique identifier of your computer or other access device; but we will not identify you as an individual.

(d)    How to find out more information:

For more information about cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org and for more information about behavioural advertising in particular please visit www.youronlinechoices.co.uk.

7. Surveys: If you choose to take part in an on-line survey or poll conducted by us, we may use the information you provide for the purposes set out in Paragraph 2 above and we may disclose that information to the parties referred to in Paragraph 3 above. We may disclose non-personal, aggregated information we collect from you in this way to any other party.

8. Security: In accordance with our requirements under the Data Protection Act 1998, we shall use reasonable endeavours to implement security procedures to help prevent unauthorised access to Your Information. However, Future shall not be liable for any attempt to hack or crack or otherwise gain access to any part of this Website including any of Your Information.

9. Usage of information: We may disclose Your Information if we are required to do so by any law or other regulatory or government authority.

10. Corrections/updates: If we hold any of Your Information and that information is incorrect in any respect, you can e-mail investor.relations@futurenet.co.uk and the information will be corrected as soon as reasonably possible.

11. Policy changes: By using this Website you agree to the terms of this privacy policy and our website terms of use. We may amend this privacy policy and our website terms of use from time to time. If we do so, we will post an updated version on this Website.

12.Contact details: You are entitled to ask for a copy of the information we hold about you (for which we may charge a small fee) and to have any inaccuracies in your information corrected. If you have any general questions about the Website, you can contact us the Future New Media Team at Future Publishing Limited, Beauford Court, 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, BA1 2BW, telephone +44 (0) 1225 442244, email futurenet-webmaster@futurenet.co.uk. If you have any questions about your information including what we hold and how it is used, you can contact us at futurenet-webmaster@futurenet.co.uk.