1st February 2008

Properties.co.uk is part of a network of sites owned by SalarO.com. At SalarO we recognise the importance of your privacy. This policy outlines the information we collect, how we use it and how we safeguard your information.

Properties.co.uk may be required to revise this Privacy Policy in the future to comply with any applicable European regulations, in order to utilise new technologies or to improve your Properties.co.uk experience, so please check back periodically.

When you access Properties.co.uk

Properties.co.uk uses cookies to store and collect information about your usage of the site in order to enhance your online experience and to help us improve the quality of our services.

• When you access Properties.co.uk, your computer automatically sends us information such as the URL on our site you have visited, your IP address, your browser type and language, and the date and time of your request.
• If you perform a search on Properties.co.uk, your searches are logged and may be used internally, so as to better personalise our service to you.

When you Subscribe to Properties.co.uk

• Your personal details will never be passed onto any other companies or third parties including affiliates and will never be added to any third party mailing lists or databases.
• Properties.co.uk collects personal information when you register on the site. Your information will be stored confidentially by us and only used by Properties.co.uk and sites owned by SalarO.com in order to provide you with access to our products, services and information that we believe will interest you.
• SalarO Limited (trading as Properties.co.uk) may also use information about our users in statistical aggregate form. This is non personal information but simply refers to information such as number of registrations, traffic patterns and site user trends.
• If you register for our email alert service, your preferences, for example the post codes you are interested in, are logged so that we are able to update you with the most relevant information.

When you Contact Us

• If you contact us via email, your details and a history of the communication will be stored by us in order for us to deal with enquiries adequately and improve our customer support services.

Your Preferences and the SalarO Passport

• SalarO Limited, the company behind Properties.co.uk and various other popular web sites operates a central login system called the SalarO Passport. This system is a database of the users who can access our web sites and also contains a set of preferences for each subscriber.
• When you sign up to a SalarO web site a SalarO Passport account is opened for you and you can use this to access the content on any of our web sites.
• As we are usually providing expensive data sets to consumers free of charge, our aim has been to establish a database of subscribers who we communicate with when we add new features to our current web sites or when we launch a new web site that we think our subscribers may be interested in.
• The data we hold in the SalarO Passport system is not available for sale to any third parties and will only ever be used by us with your consent.
• If you would prefer not to receive alerts about house prices and other data that we email to our subscribers free of charge on a regular basis then you can manage your alerts with us on the My Alerts page.
• If you remove all your alerts then we will no longer send you any automatic update emails. However you will still remain a subscriber to our web sites via the SalarO Passport system and will therefore still have access to our web sites when you choose to search for information.
• As a subscriber of the SalarO Passport we will occasionally still email you with news and information about our company, our new web site features and new web sites we develop. If you do not wish to receive any email from us at all, you must then cancel your subscription to our SalarO Passport login system which you can do on this page.(requires login)
• Please note once you have done this you will no longer be able to log in to any of our web sites without re-subscribing.
• You can use the SalarO Passport(requires login) page to easily join or leave any of our other web sites that are currently supported by the system. By leaving just one site you will continue to receive emails about other sites if you remain a member of those.

Links and Affiliated sites

• Properties.co.uk contains hypertext links to other sites, advertisers and other third parties. By clicking on any of these links, you are leaving the Properties.co.uk website. Properties.co.uk has no control over the information collected by any third party after you have left the Properties.co.uk website. Properties.co.uk encourages you to read their privacy policies.
• The data collection and usage practices of any third party linked to Properties.co.uk are not covered by this Privacy Policy. Properties.co.uk assumes no liability and is not responsible for any practices of such third party web sites, including their privacy practices or content.

Protecting your Information

• We use a secure server cluster situated in a secure data centre to protect all the information you provide us with. We have invested heavily in equipment and highly qualified staff to ensure all information you enter is protected from access by any third party and only necessary and restricted access is available internally. We also protect all our connections to the Internet using various security measures including firewalls and regular security audits on all our servers.
• As required by law we are registered on the public register of data controllers and store and process all data in accordance with all UK legislation. We are registered with the following number: Z5193400

Contacting Properties.co.uk

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this website, you may contact us.