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Privacy and Data Protection Act

twentysix London Ltd (twentysix), the owner of Real World Investor operates a privacy policy for all customers and other people we do business with. This part of our site sets out our Privacy Policy, and describes how we will handle the personal information that you provide when subscribing to our Real World Investor survey service.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, as enrolment as a survey participant and/or use of our Real World Investor website section is conditional upon you agreeing to be bound by it.

twentysix needs to collect personal information in order to provide our services to our end customers. Personal information is any information or opinion about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be determined from the information or opinion. Personal information is information or an opinion which can identify you.

By clicking the 'Register' button at the end of the registration process you give permission to twentysix to utilise the data you have supplied for marketing purposes, either by us, or by selected third parties we may choose to allow to have access to your information for marketing purposes.

twentysix is registered under the Act, number Z9138450

Copyright

© 2006 Real World Investor is a trading name of twentysix. All rights reserved. No part of this site may be copied in any material form (whether physical or electronic) without the written permission of twentysix. twentysix reserves the right to withdraw access to this site to any individual or organisation at any time. For permission to reproduce any contents of this site, please e-mail Ian Anderson at ian.anderson@twentysixlondon.com

If you have any general questions or queries relating to this site, please e-mail ian.anderson@twentysixlondon.com

Panellist Terms and Conditions

As a Panellist of Real World Investor you are bound by a number of Terms and Conditions. Please read these carefully. If you have any difficulties or issues regarding them please either unsubscribe, or submit your queries to info@realworldinvestor.com.

These Terms and Conditions (Agreement) are between you (User) and Real World Investor (RWI), which is a service run and wholly owned by twentysix via a world wide website (Site) for the purpose of carrying out online surveys (Surveys) in return for payment (Fee). By agreeing to become a member of the RWI Panellist team you as the User agree to bound by them.

RWI reserves the right to change or modify any parts of this Agreement or alter operational parts of the Site at any time and at its sole discretion. RWI will post alerts on the RWI Site telling Users that the Agreement has been altered. Your continued use of this Site following changes or modifications to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of such changes or modifications.

The RWI Service Overview

RWI consists of an Internet browser interface, a range of software applications, data storage,. transmission, and access for the purpose of carrying out Surveys. RWI makes no guarantees as to the continuous availability of RWI or of any specific feature(s) of the Site. RWI may at any time make changes to the Site with all changes being subject to this Agreement. Except as set forth herein, no rights of any kind are granted with respect to the Site.

Registration

To become a User you must complete the registration form. Only one registration is permitted per User. RWI reserves the right to refuse registration or cancel accounts it deems inappropriate at any time and without provision of a reason. Any User which RWI discovers has activated more than one account will have all accounts suspended and all outstanding Fees revoked.

You warrant that the information you provide at registration is true, fair and accurate. As part of the registration process you will provide a current email address, user name and password. As the User you are responsible for maintaining the security of your account.

All panellists are deemed to be independent contracts to Real World Investor in return for fees outlined at the time of survey participation.

Surveys

Surveys vary in length and nature and will warrant a payment of a Fee from RWI to the User on completion, subject to the terms set out under Payment.

You warrant that the information you provide in response to the Survey(s) is a true, fair and accurate reflection of your opinions. RWI operates a series of automated and manual checking procedures on opinions supplied by Users to ascertain that they are accurate. RWI reserves the right to withhold or cancel Fees to any User if in the opinion of RWI the User has not supplied true, fair or accurate data. RWI reserves the right to amend, delete or alter in anyway the data provided by the User.

In order to prevent misleading, inaccurate, malicious or defamatory Survey data provided by the User, as the User you agree to indemnify RWI, its employees, officers, agents, and other partners and their employees, from all costs, claims, demands, or expenses (including reasonable legal fees) whatsoever and howsoever arising, made and/or claimed by any third party

License for User content

With respect to all User provided content you supply to the Site, you grant RWI the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sub licensable right and licence to either use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, sell to a third party and display such content (in whole or in parts) worldwide as RWI sees fit.

Payments

Each survey undertaken by a User will result in a Fee. The amount of the Fee is dependent on the Survey being undertaken. Payments against Fees will only be made to members who accrual a balance in excess of £75. No money is owed by RWI to any User prior to reaching this sum. Payments will be made when a request is submitted by the User to RWI and will be paid by cheque to the User at the address supplied at registration or later amended by the User.

Payments are not authorised until the preceding survey in which you participated in has been completed. Surveys normally take 7-10 days to close. For legal reasons all RWI survey data is checked to ensure Panellists have not supplied any misleading, inaccurate, malicious or defamatory information. This process takes a further three days. Payments to Panellists are then authorised to the accounts department.

Payment cheque runs are carried out on the last business day of each month, and are usually dispatched by first class post the same day.

Confidentiality

You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes, any portion of the Site or content therein. You agree to keep confidential the details of all RWI client companies and the particulars of all Surveys you participate in or are invited to participate in.

Use of Cookies on our site

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.

A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.

Session cookies are used on this website.

Session Cookies are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site.

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect

To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.

Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.

Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.

Disabling/Enabling Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.

There are a number of ways to manage cookies. If you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

Some modern browsers have a feature that will analyse website privacy policies and allow a user to control their privacy needs. These are known as "P3P" features (Privacy Preferences Platform).

You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:

Open 'Windows Explorer'

Click on the 'Search' button on the tool bar

Type "cookie" into the search box for 'Folders and Files'

Select 'My Computer' in the 'Look In' box

Click 'Search Now'

Double click on the folders that are found

'Select' any cookie file

Hit the 'Delete' button on your keyboard

If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select "cookies" in the "Help" function for information on where to find your cookie folder.

Real World Investor is operated and owned by twentysix. twentysix provides all information on the website realworldinvestor.com (referred to as 'We' below). Every attempt is made to keep the information on realworldinvestor.com up to date, accurate and reliable through quality information procedures. However, we do not guarantee the accuracy or completeness of any information, nor accept liability for any errors or omissions in the information. The information should therefore not be relied upon as a substitute for direct advice from twentysix.

THE COMPANY DOES NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE OR INTERRUPTION OF YOUR USE.

While every care is taken in the compilation of this information, twentysix, its employees, contractors, partners and agents will not be held responsible for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused as a result of any inaccuracy or error within these pages. In addition, by its nature to ensure content is accurate, realworldinvestor.com information is subject to change without notice.

Links to other sites from these pages are for information only, we have no responsibility or liability for access to them, the content, accuracy or opinions on any website which is linked from, or to realworldinvestor.com. However, we do make every attempt to ensure the hypertext links to other websites are relevant, appropriate, accurate and provide useful additional information to the our own information and services. We cannot guarantee that links to external sites will work all of the time.

We regularly review web links to ensure that sites can be accessed. If you have had difficulties accessing a site we would like to know. Please contact the us at info@realworldinvestor.com

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROTECTING THE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY OF YOUR SYSTEM AND DATA. THE COMPANY MAKES NO CLAIM THAT THIS WEBSITE IS FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER COMPUTER OR DATA CORRUPTING OR DAMAGING MATERIAL.