Scothorse Privacy Statement

Scothorse Internet Marketing has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for those websites: www.sport-horses.org, www.horses-sales.com, www.stallions-online.net

Scothorse records your IP address and domain name, the type of Web Browser you use, and all referrals coming into, and going out from, our web sites to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer our Web site and to keep a track of your session within Scothorse to provide better experience to the visitor of this web site. Scothorse uses Cookies in the Public Forum, the Scothorse Classified and the Stallions Directory. Those applications use persistent sessions cookies, that retain your password and userid. A "Cookie" is a piece of coded text that can be stored on your computer disk.

Our site's registration form requires users to give us contact information (their email address) and/or unique identifiers (an arbitrary identification code or "ID"). The customer's contact information is used to contact the visitor when necessary. Unique identifiers are collected to verify the user's identity and for use as account numbers in our record system. Scothorse does require anyone who want to place an Advert or place a Stallion listing, to register prior. It is the responsibility of the user of Scothorse to decide which information he is prepared to provide. If you find offensive adverts that Scothorse has not already discovered, please send us an e-mail to

This site contains links to other sites. www.sport-horses.org and affiliated web site part of the Scothorse Network is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.

The Scothorse network is maintained by Scothorse, this network is hosted on dedicated servers located in the USA , We do not Share any informations with third parties and your details are deleted after 12 month of inactivity.

Public Forums

This site makes chat rooms, forums and message boards available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.

Security

This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. If you are a registered customer your details are stored in a database which resides on the Scothorse Web Site. No one can access this database excepted the administrators of the Scothorse Web Site and the ISP hosting the site. We backup this database on a daily basis, we also keep a weekly archive in case of matters arising from fraud or other illegal activities. The purpose of having your details stored in our database is to facilitate the publication of your advert.

By having these details stored with Scothorse you do not need to fill your details everytime you place an advert. You also get many benefits in being a registered member. We constantly work to ameliorate these advantages.

We do not store Credit and Debit Cards on our servers, these are handled by either Worldpay (www.worldpay.com) or Paypal (www.paypal.com) depending on the choice made when payment is required.

We may also take the following steps:-

We may from time to time send news or other important or interesting information regarding our service to our REGISTERED customers.

We will never give your name, email address, or any other personal details to any other individual or organisation outside of Scothorse. (UNLESS you specifically publish them into your advert (outwith the appropriate fields) or on the Bulletin Board, they are therefore made public)

We forbid other individuals or organisations from taking email addresses from this site for bulk email. We will take appropriate action if this is detected. However if you publish you email on the site (outwidth the appropriate fields) we cannot guarantee your protection against mail spiders.

Choice/Opt-Out

This site gives users the following options for removing their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service.

1. You can send email to

2. You can send mail to the following postal address:
   Scothorse
   Dabbs Equestrian Centre
   Giffodtown KY15 7UW
   United Kingdom

Correct/Update

This site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

1. To edit your Forum Profile, visit: http://www.stallions-online.net/forums/
2. To edit your Classifieds Profile, visit:
http://www.horses-sales.com/cgi-bin/scothorse.pl
3. To edit your Stallions Directory Profile (which is the same as the Classified's), visit: http://www.stallions-online.net/cgi-bin/stallions/shads.pl
4. To remove yourself from our mailing list, use the Form on the left hand side of this page.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact

Please see also our Disclaimer

Last update: Feb. 26^rd 2007