About this statement
This privacy statement sets out how AEGON UK uses and protects any personal information that you give us when you use this website.
The information we collect
We collect the personal information you give on this website’s enquiry forms and any personal information you may provide by email.
Use of personal information
We use this information for the following purposes:
- dealing with your competition entries, publicising competition winners, ezine registration, feedback or queries
- carrying out customer and marketing research
- providing aggregate information and statistics for the purposes of monitoring website usage, in order to help us develop our website and services (these statistics won’t include information that can be used to identify any individual)
We don’t sell personal information collected through this website or use your personal information for any other purposes than those stated above. In addition, we won’t disclose your personal data to anyone outside AEGON UK or its group of companies.
Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on a user's hard drive containing information about the user. Cookies work by setting data on the visitor’s browser to anonymously track the pages they visit on a website.
We currently use cookies on our website for anonymously tracking the usage of this website. This gives us information on what pages are being used and helps us in developing the website and improving user experience. We use Google Analytics (GA), a web analytics service, to maximize the performance of our site. GA use cookies and the information generated by the cookie (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers held in the United States. Google will not associate your address with any other data held by Google. GA only provide AEGON with statistical information – no information is sent to us that we could identify you from. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Here is a link to Google’s privacy statement for your information: http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/
You can find more information about cookies, including how to block them and/or delete them, at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
Security
We’re committed to ensuring your information is protected and held securely. However, the internet is not a secure medium and we can’t accept responsibility for the security of an email during transmission or for non-delivery of that email.
There are also a few simple steps you can take to protect your computer and internet connection.
Links
This website may contain links to other websites. If you use the links to leave this website and visit a website operated by a third party, then we don’t have any control over that website. So we can’t be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such websites.
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