(1 a) information about your visits to and use of this website; We may collect information about you computer and your visits to this website such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. We may use this information in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability, and for marketing purposes. We may use cookies on some pages in this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer's hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve the website's usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our website, and to personalise our website for you. Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

(1b) Information that you provide to us by completing forms on this website.

(1b1) Promotions, marketing campaigns, competitions Personal details that you submit to us for any of these purposes may be used for marketing purposes on behalf of The Fifth Business only.

(1b2) Personal details that you submit to us when applying for vacancies through The Fifth Business website are held and used by us for the purpose of recruitment. Information that you provide may be stored and processed in, and transferred between, any of the countries in which we operate, both inside and outside the European Economic Area, as necessary for the purpose of recruitment. We will only share your information with relevant personnel within the Fifth Business group of companies, both inside and outside the European Economic Area. Except as provided above, we will not disclose your information to third parties.

2. Other disclosures
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

(2a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(2b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;

(2c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and

3. Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

4. Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

5. Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00). You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email to webmaster@fifthbusiness.com

6. Third party websites
The website may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third party websites.

7. Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to webmaster@fifthbusiness.com