Privacy Policy

Your privacy is extremely important to us. At FuneralHelper we have a couple of fundamental principles:

• We will never ask you for personal information unless we really do need it.
• We will never share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or to protect our rights.
• In our commenting, forum and other interactive software we try to make it as simple as possible for you to control every aspect of your interaction.

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:

It is FuneralHelper's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

FuneralHelper is also associated with, solely through the use of its commenting system, a company called Automattic (IntenseDebate).

Automattic adheres to the same privacy policy in respect of their commenting software IntenseDebate, as Funeral Helper.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, FuneralHelper collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. FuneralHelper's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how FuneralHelper's visitors use its website.
FuneralHelper and Automattic also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. FuneralHelper and Automattic does not use such information to identify its visitors however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to FuneralHelper's website choose to interact with FuneralHelper in ways that require FuneralHelper and/or Automattic to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that FuneralHelper and Automattic gathers depends on the nature of the interaction, for example, we ask visitors who sign up for an IntenseDebate account or those that wish to access FuneralHelper's forum to provide a username and email address. FuneralHelper and Automattic collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor's interaction with FuneralHelper or Automattic. FuneralHelper and Automattic do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics - Automattic

Automattic may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors who interact with IntenseDebate. For instance, Automattic may monitor the most popular comments on FuneralHelper or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Automattic may display this information publicly or provide it to others.

FuneralHelper does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

FuneralHelper will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. FuneralHelper will disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when FuneralHelper believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of FuneralHelper, third parties or the public at large. FuneralHelper takes all measures reasonably practicable to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. FuneralHelper uses cookies to help FuneralHelper identify and track visitors, their usage of FuneralHelper's website, and their website access preferences.

There are two main kinds of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.
FuneralHelper visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using FuneralHelper's website, with the drawback that certain features of FuneralHelper's website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Refusing cookies

In Internet Explorer, you can refuse all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy", and selecting "Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.
In Firefox, you can adjust your cookies settings by clicking "Tools", "Options" and "Privacy".
Blocking cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of some websites.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, funeral helper may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in FuneralHelper's sole discretion. FuneralHelper encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Visit Automattic's Website

WEBSITE DISCLAIMER

No warranties

This website is provided "as is" without any representations or warranties, express or implied. FuneralHelper makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the information and materials provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, FuneralHelper does not warrant that:

• this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or
• the information on this website is complete, true, accurate or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind. If you require advice in relation to any legal, financial or medical matter you should consult the appropriate professional.

Limitations of liability

FuneralHelper will not be liable to you in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

• to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;
• for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or
• for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if FuneralHelper has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

Nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit any warranty implied by law that it would be unlawful to exclude or limit; and nothing in this website disclaimer will exclude or limit FuneralHelper's liability in respect of any:

• death or personal injury caused by FuneralHelper's negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation on the part of FuneralHelper; or
• matter which it would be illegal or unlawful for FuneralHelper to exclude or limit, or to attempt or purport to exclude or limit, its liability.

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.
If you do not think they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Unenforceable provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

This website disclaimer

This website disclaimer is based on a precedent created by template-contracts.co.uk and published by freenetlaw.com

Copyright

FuneralHelper is dedicated to helping anyone and everyone who accesses our website, we do this by providing a wide variety of resources that may be useful to anyone who is in the position of being involved in any way with another persons, or their own, funeral arrangements.

FuneralHelper is an Amazon affiliate and uses the small revenue generated by the affiliation to fund the continued administration of the FuneralHelper website

Apart from the few pages containing the following text

© 2010 The text presented on this page represents the ® registered © copyright material of funeralhelper.org

FuneralHelper does not hold, nor claim to hold the copyright on any video, audio and images in any form presented on this website.

Much of the material presented on this website is within the Public Domain, other material is freely available elsewhere on the World Wide Web, the very few exceptions from this are one or two of FuneralHelper's audio files which are held on our server and are presented as examples of suitable funeral music, in order to discourage the copying of these audio files they are incomplete and recorded in very poor quality mp3 @ 48kbs and streamed to funeralhelper's website when requested by the user, we also provide a suitable link to give our visitor the opportunity to purchase the relevant MP3 file.

If any of our visitors decide to use our suggested audio recommendations then the related CD or music download should be purchased from the appropriate retailer such as Amazon Music and Amazon Music Downloads or any other retailer that the visitor wishes to use.

Thank you for taking the time to read our legal and privacy policy, if you think we may be able to help you in any other way - then just ask.

Do take care out there & sincere regards to all.

Martin Cole - Funeral Helper.