By submitting personal data manually or in electronic form to this web site, or by using this site, you give your consent that all personal data you submit may be processed in the manner and for the purposes described below.

Use of cookies

This site uses cookies for various reasons, for example, cookies enable us to track browser information. These cookies do not track individual information. Cookies from this site can only be read by Medicare.

If you do nothing other than read pages or download information while using this web site, we will capture and store information about your visit. This information will not identify you; it relates to:

• the Internet domain (e.g. www.company.co.uk) and IP address from which you access the web site
• the type of browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) and operating system (Windows, UNIX) you use
• the date and time of your visit
• the pages you visit
• the address of the web site from which you linked to us (if applicable).

We use this information to make each visit more rewarding, and to provide us with information to help improve our service. We do not know (and do not want to know) the identities of people who visit us in this way.

Data storage in the U.K.

Any information needs to be stored and processed will be in full compliance of the Data Protection Act. The personal information we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy from time to time and will provide notice of these changes on the Privacy Policy pages of our web site. You should make sure you periodically review the Privacy Policy to make sure it meets your needs.

Information Disclosure Policy

Electronic communications
Medicare also will not, except for reasons stated below, disclose to third parties the contents of any electronic mail or other electronic communications that Medicare stores or transmits for its customers. The circumstances under which Medicare will disclose such electronic customer communications are when:

• it is necessary in order to provide service to the customer;
• it is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of Medicare and its customers