Privacy Policy
Please read carefully.
Information Collection and Use
"We", "our", "us", "it's"; refers to LandlordExpert who is the same as D4 Media "the Website"; refers to landlord Expert.co.uk
LandlordExpert requires site users to register as members to view the free information on the website. We also collect information from our users at several different points on the website. This is so that we can customise the website according to individual and collective usage and to provide an accurately functioning website and ensure that content is acquired and developed appropriately. This also gives us an overall picture of our user/members, which in turn shows our editors the type of person they are reaching and the articles that should be posted on Landlord Expert - entirely free and accessible content for registered users.
We do not sell or rent personal information of any kind to 3rd parties but work ongoing with many services which will be made aware to you through various methods. The free membership that you will enjoy is paid for by advertisers placing advertisements on the website or via email. Seeing and receiving these emails is the payment for your free service and is a prerequisite for your continued membership. If you do not wish us to inform you of useful information or services we wish to relay to you which may include 3rd party promotions please feel free to inform us via webmaster@landlordexpert.co.uk requesting your membership removal. We recommend you do choose and continue to choose to receive our information and emails however as many of our partners offer reduced rates to LandlordExpert members and it ensures that you can enjoy the services we supply, always free of charge. We and partner organisations may only contact you via email or other means if you allow us to do so. If at any time you wish to stop receiving these emails inform us via webmaster@landlordexpert.co.uk requesting your membership removal.
Landlord Expert News Alerts
We will send regular news emails which will contain the latest landlord and investment related news articles. These news emails will only be sent by us and never supplied or sold as a list to third parties. These emails may contain promotions which we wish to include. Similarly, any emails solely promoting the services of one company is controlled and distributed by us. No editorial content is dictated or sold to third parties and is strictly sourced to keep our user/members more well informed. If at any time you wish to stop receiving these emails inform us via webmaster@landlordexpert.co.uk requesting your membership removal.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file written to a user's hard drive that contains an identifying user number. The cookies do not contain any personal information about users. We use the cookie so users do not have to log in every time they use the service and the cookie will automatically expire if you do not visit the Landlord Expert website for 12 months. As the Landlord Expert sites are fully personalised and cookies are essential to its core technology the site will function unpredictably with browsers that do not support cookies - or where cookies are disabled (in these circumstances we advise you to attempt to locate the information you require elsewhere on the web). However if you are concerned about the presence of a Landlord Expert cookie on your machine you can also choose to expire the cookie immediately (remove it) by selecting the 'Log Off' menu option as the last thing you do when you use the site.
Some of our business partners may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies and we are not aware of any at present that do so.
Log Files
We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.
Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Landlord Expert are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site through an external leading link that they read the privacy statements of these 3rd party sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.
Surveys & Competitions
From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or competitions. Participation in these surveys or competitions is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose any information requested. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and delivery address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the functionality of the site. None of this information nor any information we collect from our users will be supplied directly to a 3rd party and is solely for our own use.
Mail-A-Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend's name and email address. Landlord Expert stores this information and may contact the friend to invite them to register with Landlord Expert. The friend has the same rights as any normal member/subscriber/user to request the removal of this information from our database and the discontinuation of any services provided as noted in Information Collection and Use.
Security
This website takes every reasonable precaution to protect it's users' information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected using firewalls and other security technology. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to webmaster@landlordexpert.co.uk.
Correcting/Updating Personal Information
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as postcode), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavour to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user's personal data provided to us. This can usually be done at the "Update Profile" facility when logged into the site or by sending an email to webmaster@landlordexpert.co.uk.
Notification of Changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we will notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will always use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.
How to contact Landlord Expert
You can contact us with comments or queries via various methods within the 'Contact Us' link on the homepage.