Privacy Policy

To be constantly improving our funky site, we need to understand who is visiting and viewing our site to provide the most appropriate content and to also match advertisers and advertising from appropriate companies. We will also use your profile and feedback to improve your online experience at ShiftMetal.co.uk with plans to introduce new and exciting customised features and new facilities to improve your viewing pleasure and online experience.

ShiftMetal respects your right of privacy. Therefore we will not disclose any of your personal information you provide us as part of your membership registration except when we have your permission to do so, or under special circumstances, for example if forced to by law. ShiftMetal does not sell or rent user information to anyone without explicit permission which is asked for when you register your account with us.

ShiftMetal's advertising and marketing research is carried out by the online marketing guru's at AdMain. VIM carries out research based on the information you put forward and we may share this aggregated information with advertisers or partners. As part of our commitment to you, in constantly working on improving this original service, we have to disclose aggregated statistics (for example, 95% of our users are male) in order to describe our services to prospective partners and advertisers and for other lawful purposes.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored on your computer. It is set by us when you visit our site and can only be accessed and used by us. Each cookie has an expiration date, or resets itself everytime you you visit us, and the frequency of your visits form date to date determines how long the cookie lasts. Cookies do not contain any personally identifying information, however, when you register for the Service, the cookie may be combined with personal information that you have given us as a part of registration. We use cookies in several ways to improve our services. Please be aware that we only use cookies when they are absolutely necessary and always ensure that they last only for as long as they are useful.

We, like most other websites, use cookies for the following purposes:
* Remembering your preferences - Certain web pages provide you with the option to customise pages and/or settings within a web page. A cookie is used to store that information so that the site can remember what settings were changed the next time you return to that page.
* Signing In - When you sign in a cookie is used so that you do not have to sign in to every page that you go to. * Advertisements - We use cookies to ensure that you do not have to see the same popup advertisements repeated over and over again within a short period of time.
How to disable cookies:

Follow the instructions below if you would like to disable or delete your cookies. Please be advised, that this can make the use of this site, slow and uneasy. If you use a browser which is not featured below you should be able to access information on how to disable cookies by going to the "Help" section of that browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer v.6 - In your browser click on "Tools" then choose "Internet options". Click on the "Privacy" tab. On the privacy tab, click on the "Advanced" button. A window will pop open where you can modify the settings that your browser uses to handle cookies. Check the box next to "Override automatic cookie handling". This will activate the options below where you can manually change the cookie handling settings.

Microsoft Internet Explorer v.5 and v.5.5 - In your browser window click on "Tools" then choose "Internet options". Click the "Security" button. A window will pop up and then you should choose "Custom level". Scroll down the list of options until you find options under the "Cookies" heading. Here you can change the settings of how your browser should handle cookies.

Netscape Navigator v.4.75 - In the browser window, click "Edit" and choose "Preferences". A window will pop open where you can modify many of the browser settings. Click on the "Advanced" option to highlight it. The advanced option screen will appear on the right where you can modify the way the browser should handle cookies.

FireFox - all versions - Click "Tools", click "Clear private Data", click "Cookies" and then click clear private data. Please be advised if you use FirFox to remember passwords, make sure you UNCHECK the "Clear passwords" tab.