The Serpent Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in the-serpent.co.uk. We hope that your stay here be an enjoyable one, and that you visit back soon! To help you better understand how we deal with any data that is submitted to this site, we have written this document for you.

The Serpent collects data from you in the following ways:

• When you submit news online to us, or any other submission including downloads, web links, reviews and forum entries
• Information collected by our web server used purely for statistics. This includes basic information that many websites collect, including IP address, browser version and Operating System version.

What we do and don't collect:

The Serpent does not collect any of this information to be used for 3rd party market and research purposes. The Serpent will not sell or exchange your details or any information that is collected.

Please remember, while this information is accessible to us, we will not edit, read, or delete any of your information without your permission. There are exceptions however:

• If you have violated the terms of usage agreement
• If one of our staff members has a good reason to do so

Although The Serpent is a free, non-profit site, we hold the right to remove and ban users from the system should we feel it necessary and without warning.

Cookies:

The Serpent uses cookies to log visits to the site (so we can see how popular we are!). We place one cookie with the simple value of 'Hi' onto your computer. This cookie is deleted once you close your browser.

Policy involving Minors:

The Serpent is viewed by all ages groups, however, there is minimal content that may be unsuitable for under 18's. This will only be in the form of offending language, views or postings made by our visitors.

- John Payne, Webmaster.