PRIVACY STATEMENT

UK Astronomy Buy & Sell does not collect personal data of any kind for the purpose of re-distributing it or re-selling it.

However, keep in mind that all personal information you reveal by posting an advert on this web page is visible to anyone (akin to placing an advert in the classified section of a newspaper), therefore anyone could collect names, email addresses and phone numbers from the ad postings. There also are automated email harvesting engines that scour the Internet and “harvest” email addresses – there is no way of stopping these questionable practices by unscrupulous mass-email marketers.

This web site does record the following information about each user that visits this web site:
Date & Time
IP & Host
Browser used

The primary purpose for recording this information is for maintaining a counter (ie counting the number of visitors). By recording the IP address, the counter will not roll up with each page re-load. This provides a much more realistic count of the number of visitors.

The secondary purpose for recording this information is for protecting the web site against malicious attacks and junk ads.

This web site does not place cookies on your system. However it was noticed that if you are placing an advert, cookies on your computer must be enabled (the cookie is sent back to itself, not to your computer, which is required for verification while placing an advert –.The important thing is that no cookies are placed on your system.

Security:
The information on this web site is password protected, however it probably is not immune to advanced hacker attacks, therefore we urge every registered user to use a password for logging into this web site that is unique to this web site. Please do not use the same password that you use for accessing other on-line systems. This will ensure that if this web site is “hacked” your password will be useless anywhere else. You can change and update your password from the “Post / Update Ads” link at the top of any page. In the event UK Astronomy Buy & Sell is hacked and passwords are stolen, you agree not to hold UK Astronomy Buy & Sell and its owners and operators responsible for any losses or damages.