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Legislation in the UK obliges us to provide a privacy statement outlining ways in which we capture and use data that may be able to indentify individuals who visit our website. Below we list the forms of data that are potentially obtained from you when you visit our site and the purposes to which those data may be put.

Your attention is drawn to the fact that you may have certain rights of access to any personal data held. More information about those rights is available from the official site.

Type of Data	Used For
Cookies - a mechanism whereby an individual visitor to a website can anonymously but uniquely be identified	We may choose to use cookies on this site: as a way of tracking visitors' use of the site to improve its design and usability as a way of detecting errors so that they may be corrected as a mechanism for supporting sessions which contain information such as user preferences, the state of shopping carts and similar selections, and similar purposes necessary for the smooth and effective delivery of an effective website. We will not use cookies on this site: to obtain information that would be provided to third parties for bulk-email or mass marketing purposes
Session Identifiers — a mechanism whereby an individual visitor to a website can anonymously but uniquely be identified in the absence of or in addition to the use of cookies	We may choose to use Session Identifiers on this site in the same ways as described above for cookies.
Email addresses	Where we invite visitors to provide us with their email address we may retain that address for various purposes: so that we may respond to an enquiry so that we may occasionally provide updates on our services and products so that we may contact visitors for the purposes of obtaining their opinion on our products and services for automatic confirmation of subscription to certain services we may choose to offer or where an individual is invited to submit comments, opinions or other information intended for entry into an online database or similar resource We will not use email addresses for supply to to third parties for any purpose regular mailshots, newsletters or other bulk email (spam) activities unless prior permission has been obtained.
Information automatically provided by your browser software	Every browser (the software that is used to view web sites) automatically provides a small amount of information about each page that it requests. In certain cases that information may be enough to uniquely identify an individual - see UK Dataprotection Office. Like every other website, our software keeps that information for error detection and statistical purposes. It is not disclosed to third parties. We may at our discretion keep that information for up to one year before it is deleted.

It appears to be extremely difficult to comply with this legislation in its entirety; consequently we would be extremely grateful if anyone who believes that we do not so comply would contact us with their view at the earliest possible opportunity, quoting specifics and, ideally, case history. It is our intention to comply to the greatest degree possible consistent with our understanding of the (as we see it) ambiguous and loosely worded guidance available.

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CSS/XSLT/XHTML Design at The Register

GBdirect staff recently completed an overhaul of the content management system (CMS) and website design for The Register.

Every user should notice the aesthetic improvements, but we hope that most will also experience significant improvements in usability and performance as a result of the shift to open standards compliant HTML, CSS and XSLT. A brief description of the technologies involved is available and you may be interested in this rather approving account from The Web Standards Project.

Journalists and editors are already noticing a dramatic improvement in the usability of the content management system.

If you are interested in a similarly high usability, standards compliant, website design please contact our development team at development@gbdirect.co.uk.

If you would like to learn how to do something similar yourself, take a look at our website design training course and our Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) training course.

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West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

info@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday

South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

info@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday

Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.