Express & Star

We would encourage all our users to read the following text carefully. It has been designed to be clear, to the point and free of legal jargon.

a) Basic principles

Express & Star Ltd and expressandstar.com are firmly committed to protecting your privacy. As a matter of policy we will not disclose, sell, trade or rent ANY of our users’ individual, personal details to any third party. The Express & Star is a private company which has been in the same family for more than a century. As such, we offer a very strong assurance of continuity in the privacy policy set down here.

b) Gathering information

From time to time, Expressandstar.com may gather information for four main reasons:

i) To help us improve the services we offer to our users (Example: Tailoring news coverage for certain audiences).

ii) To provide personalised services unique to individual users (Example: Our discussion forums).

iii) To enable certain aspects of e-commerce on the site (Example: Placing a classified advertisement online).

iv) To use aggregated, anonymous details about users to help us sell advertising space on the web site (Example: A prospective advertiser may wish to know what proportion of our audience is female).

c) Your e-mail privacy

As stated above, neither Express & Star Ltd nor expressandstar.com will disclose your individual, personal details to any third party. This includes your e-mail address.

d) Cookies

‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard disk drive. They make it possible for us to identify, for example, bulletin board users as registered without requiring them to log on each time, making the web site more convenient to use.

The cookies set by expressandstar.com consist of a random text string. This does not directly include any information you may have supplied to us. Any cookie set by us can only be read by expressandstar.com and its associated web sites.

If you are concerned about cookies, you can use your browser’s settings to turn them off and to delete those already present. However, please be aware that not accepting cookies will mean that some parts of the web site may not function correctly, or at all.

e) Security of your information

Express & Star Ltd and expressandstar.com invest in high-quality security and takes all reasonable and practicable precautions to keep your personal information secure. However, we cannot be held responsible for any breach of security as a result of a deliberate, malicious or criminal attack on our systems, as covered by the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and similar legislation. Please note that we also reserve the right to disclose individually identifiable information at the request of the police or other authorised government agencies, in order to comply with UK law.