WE RESPECT YOUR PRIVACY Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used.  This applies to all information collected or submitted to us via the website and/or by email correspondence. Most instances of interaction with Sparkle are - applying to join our roster, making requests for professional information, making bookings for performers or commissioning design work. COOKIES & TRACKING We absolutely collect no cookies or write cookies to your machine in any way or run any sort of intrusive tracking software other than our page hit counters - used purely for our own statistical analysis. We receive and record IP addresses from our web booking forms - these are recorded in case of need to block malicious users of our booking forms.  Please also see notes re third party websites and advertisers below. HOW WE USE INFORMATION We use the information you provide about yourself when placing an order for services or making a booking only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order or as required by statute By joining our roster, all artists and suppliers agree to the disclosure of such information about themselves as the agency deems appropriate for the purposes of progressing enquiries for services or performance bookings. This includes the publishing of professional (not private) information about them and their activities in print and electronic form. DATA SECURITY To prevent unauthorized access our websites are hosted with reputable leading ISPs, we maintain proprietry firewalls on our own PC's and maintain appropriate physical and electronic safeguard to protect data within our office.  All our PC's run the latest anti-virus software, security updates, and have active virus protection and incoming and outgoing email virus scanning. PROTECTING THE YOUNG Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason no part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 16. Our own content and specific advertising is business-like and does not contain "adult" material and is not written in a manner which would should cause children or their parents concern. However, please be aware that some third party link sites and served adverts may contain inappropriate references - see note below.   THIRD PARTY LINKS & ADVERTISING This website may provide links to third-party websites. Any such links are provided solely as a convenience to our visitors. Sparkle has no control over these websites or their content and does not assume any responsibility or liability for these websites.  If you access any of the third-party websites linked to our website, you do so at your own risk - most are music or industry orientated but may occasionally contain strong language, adult humour or references to alternative cultures, including drug use.  Sparkle Agency in no way condones or encourages the sale, possession or misuse of drugs, but recognises the freedom of the individual to express their own views on third-party websites, views which some persons may find disagreeable! This website carries third party advertising - in most instances the advertisers are known to us and advertise products and services appropriate to this site, however from time to time we do use banner exchange and served advertising.  We do not knowingly feature any adult or gambling advertsing however Sparkle Agency has no direct control over remotely served advertising content or the products and services which may be offered and does not assume any responsibility or liability for these advertisments or the products and services represented thereon, although as a policy we instruct all adserver partners to disbar serving adverts for adult, gambling and similar services. It is very likely that some third party websites and remotely served advertising may use cookies when you click through to them. VIRUSES AND SPAM We hate and destest spam - we get bombarded with masses of it (about 100+ spam mails per day) so we know how it feels.  We do not use indiscriminate e-mail marketing lists, web harvesting, or purchased mailing lists.   We are a reputable commercial organisation and of course we need to market and advertise to thrive and survive, however this is conducted responsibly and manually targeted to specific individual commercial organisations such as venues, promoters, club nights and event management organisations and existing customers/organisations who have previously contacted us and shown an interest in our services, where we genuinely believe our services and artists will be of real interest.  So if we send you an email it's because either you sent us one to enquire about our services, or you are subscribed to one of the commercial industry promotion companies that we use from time to time, or you opted into our mailing list. We don't send weekly newsletters filled with inconsequential trivia for the sake of it, but hope you will benefit from our communicating an occasional refresher of our services, updated rosters or notify you of any major changes to our services, as you would expect any professional organisation to do for their valued customers. Anyone not wishing to receive future information from us can simply be removed from our mailing lists forever by replying to any e-mail with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject line. Our inbound and outbound hosted mail servers, hosted web servers, and PCs are protected by commercial standard virus checking software, firewalls, anti-phishing, and anti-malware systems.