Website Terms and Conditions

Disclaimer.
Last updated. January 2008

General and Standard terms and conditions of use: If you do not agree with these standard conditions and practices for website useage, please do not use the website.

While the Astoria Magazine has taken care in the preparation of the contents of this website, this website and the information, names, images, pictures, logos, icons regarding or relating to the Astoria Magazine and/or the Astor Media Group of companies, or the products and services of the same (or to third party products and services), are provided on an 'as is' basis without any representation or endorsement being made and without any warranty of any kind, whether express or implied, including but not limited to, any implied warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement, compatibility, security and accuracy. To the extent permitted by law, all such terms and warranties are hereby excluded. In no event will the Astoria Magazine or any Astor Media Group company be liable (whether in contract or tort (including negligence or breach of statutory duty) or otherwise) for any losses sustained and arising out of or in connection with use of this website including, without limitation, loss of profits, loss of data or loss of goodwill (in all these cases whether direct or indirect) nor any indirect, economic, consequential or special loss.
Astoria Magazine does not represent that the information contained in this website is accurate, comprehensive, verified or complete, and shall accept no liability for the accuracy or completeness of the information contained in this website or for any reliance placed by any person on the information. We accept no liability whatsoever for content contained in this website or for information on any other site that may be linked to or from Astoria Magazine or any Astor Media Group of companies.
Astoria Magazine does not warrant that the functions or materials accessible from or contained in this website will be uninterrupted or error free, that defects will be corrected or that this website or the server that makes it available are virus or bug free or represent the full functionality, accuracy, reliability of the materials.
If any of these Terms and Conditions (or any terms and conditions relating to a product or service referred to in this website) should be determined to be illegal, invalid or otherwise unenforceable by reason of the laws of any state or country in which such terms and conditions are intended to be effective, then to the extent of such illegality, invalidity or unenforceability, and in relation to such state or country only, such terms or condition shall be deleted and severed from the rest of the relevant terms and conditions and the remaining terms and conditions shall survive, remain in full force and effect and continue to be binding and enforceable. Nothing in these terms and conditions shall exclude the Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies liability for death or personal injury resulting from the Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies negligence.
Privacy Policy
Protecting your personal details on Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies.
www.astoriamagazine.com is brought to you by the Astor Media Group. Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies believes it is important to protect your privacy and we are committed to giving you a personalized service that meets your needs in a way that also protects your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect information about you and then use it to meet your needs. It also explains some of the security measures we take to protect your privacy.
When we first obtain personal information from you, or when you take a new service or product from us, we will give you the opportunity to tell us if you do or do not want to receive information from us about other services or products (as applicable). You can normally do this by ticking a box on an application form or contract. You may change your mind at any time by emailing us.

1. Collecting information
We may collect personal information about you from a number of sources, including the following:
• from you when you agree to take a service or product from us, in which case this may include your contact details, date of birth, how you will pay for the product or service.
• from you when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case this may tell us something about how you use our services
• from documents that are available to the public.
2 Using your personal information
2.1 Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies ('we') will use your personal information for the following purposes:
1. to identify you when you contact us;
2. To help identify accounts, services and/or products which you could have from us or selected partners from time to time in order to process your orders or provide you with accurate services. Your information is not shared with a third party for any reason.
3. to help administer, and contact you about improved administration of, any accounts, services and products we have provided before, or provide now or in the future;
4. to carry out marketing analysis and customer profiling (including with transactional information), conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information;
5. to help to prevent and detect fraud or loss;
6. to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, text or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us and/or selected partners unless you have previously asked us not to do so;
7. to keep you up to date with our Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies member benefits under which, as part of your membership benefits, we will give you membership information and details of discounts and offers we negotiate from time to time on behalf of our members.
2.2 We may allow other people and organizations to use information we hold about you for the purpose of providing services you have asked for, as part of the process of selling one or more of our businesses. We will, however, always use every reasonable effort to ensure sufficient protections are in place to safeguard your personal information.
2.3 We may monitor and record communications with you (including phone conversations and emails) for quality assurance and compliance reasons.
1. 2.4 We may check your details with fraud prevention agencies. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
2.5 Where you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that you have provided them with the information set out in these provisions and that they have not objected to such use of their personal information. Where you give us sensitive data about yourself or another person you agree (and confirm that the other person has agreed) to our processing such information in the manner set out in these provisions.
2.6 If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may share it with other people and organizations.
2.7 If you need details of those credit agencies and fraud prevention agencies from which we may obtain and with which we may record information about you or the List of Companies forming the Astoria Magazine or Astor Media Group of companies, please email.
3. Protecting information
We have strict security measures to protect personal information.
4. The internet
4.1 If you communicate with us using the Internet, we may occasionally email you about our services and products. When you first give us personal information through our website, we will normally give you the opportunity to say whether you would prefer us not to keep you informed of other products and services by email. However, you can always send us an email at any time if you change your mind.
4.2 Please remember that communications over the Internet, such as emails and webmails (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may go through a number of countries before they are delivered – this is the nature of the Internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorized access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
4.3 We may use 'cookies' to monitor how people use our site. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout and function of the sites. We collect non-personal information regarding customer usage of our site. Astoria Magazine does not use cookies at present. About cookies in general.
A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive, which records how you have used a website. This means that when you go back to that website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent it from accepting cookies.
4.4 If you do not want us to use cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. However, you may not be able to use some of the products or services on our website without cookies.
5. Turning off cookies in different browsers
5.1 Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0
1. From your browser menu select Tools, and then Internet Options. This will bring up the Internet Options dialogue box.
2. On the top of the dialogue box, select the Privacy tab.
3. On the Privacy tab, move the slider up for a higher level of privacy or down for a lower level of privacy.
4. Move the slider to the top to block cookies from all websites.
You can reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again by returning to the Privacy tab and selecting the Default button, followed by the OK button.
5.3 Firefox 1.5
1. From your browser menu select Tools, and then Options. This will bring up the Options dialogue box.
2. Select Privacy followed by the Cookies tab. To block all cookies deselect Allow sites to set cookies and then click OK.
5.4 Firefox 2.0
1. From your browser menu select Tools, and then Options. This will bring up the Options dialogue box.
2. Select the Privacy option to view settings for Cookies. To block all cookies deselect Accept cookies from sites and then click OK.
You can reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again in Firefox by returning to Cookies and selecting Accept cookies from sites and then clicking OK.
6. Links
This website may contain links to other sites or recommended suppliers. Please remember that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. This privacy policy applies only to information collected on this website.
7. Further information
If you would like any more information or you have any comments about our privacy policy, please email.
We may amend this policy from time to time, in which case we will publish the amended version on our website.
This policy applies to personal information we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organizations.