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Privacy Policy

Last updated on 06/09/2012.

MacStrategy is a trading name of Burning Helix Limited. Burning Helix has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Burning Helix website www.macstrategy.com.

We may make use of your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server or to know which country you are potentially browsing from (e.g. the UK) to help tailor country specific information/news for you. This website uses GeoIP Javascript from MaxMind.

We may make use of your basic browser information (type, platform, capabilities) to help diagnose problems with our server or to help tailor web pages for you so they render correctly.

MacStrategy does not currently have a user area and you are not able to store personal information on the site. If we have a user area in the future this page will be updated to reflect this change and you will need to agree to any Terms & Conditions to register on the site.

If you use our online contact form, your personal information is sent directly via email to a colleague at Burning Helix. It is not stored anywhere online, and is not accessible to anyone outside Burning Helix. If you contact us your email address may be stored by Burning Helix to email you in the future about MacStrategy updates only (you will be able to unsubscribe from this email list by following the unsubscribe instructions on the first email your receive). If and when a MacStrategy user area is made available you will be able to subscribe/unsubscribe to any MacStrategy email list online and/or change your email address. Your email address will only be used by Burning Helix and will not be passed and/or sold to any other company outside of Burning Helix.

This site may contain links to other sites. Burning Helix is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such web sites. Links to external sites will usually look like this:

External Web Site or www.google.com

If you are under the age of 16 you should obtain the consent of your parents or legal guardians for submitting any personal information to this web site. Children under the age of 13 should not submit any personal information to us.

Burning Helix may make changes to this privacy policy from time to time but will not change the way we use your information provided previously without your express consent.

Cookies

MacStrategy uses cookies for the following:

• Google Analytics
• Acceptance of cookies from this web site

What Are Cookies?

A "cookie" is a text file containing small amounts of information which a server downloads to your web browser when you visit a website and it is stored/saved on your computer/mobile device. Your computer/mobile device then sends this cookie information back to the originating website each time you subsequently visit it. There are different types of cookies which are used to do different things e.g. enabling you to browse the website more efficiently or remembering your personal preferences that you have given to the website. Others could be used to provide you with advertising which is more tailored to your interests or to measure the number of website visits (analytics). Some cookies are stored on your computer/mobile device only for the duration of your visit to a website which automatically expire when you close your web browser. Another type of cookie can remain on your computer/mobile device for a period of time e.g. 24 hours, one month or more.

Controlling Cookies

You can control what cookies are allowed on your computer. Settings for Mac OS X browsers can be found here and settings for Microsoft Windows browsers here.

MacStrategy Legal Compliance

To comply with European Union law your continued use of this website gives your consent to allow this website to create a cookie on your computer for site analytics. This website also uses cookies to make your browsing experience easier and more secure but you must give your explicit consent for this to happen (click the "Accept Cookies" button at the bottom of your browser window in the orange box). By accepting cookies you give your consent for this website to store cookies on your computer/mobile device. Cookies must be enabled and accepted to be able to register on this website and use it properly.