Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Information We Collect
- In operating our website we may collect and
process the following data about you:
- Details of your
visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but
not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other
communication data.
- Information that you
provide by filling in forms on our website, such as when you registered
for information or make a purchase.
- Information provided
to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
Information Collected by
Third Parties
- In addition to information collected by
ourselves then we may also receive data that has been collected by third
parties, which would be added to the previous information held by
ourselves.
Why we collect personal
information about you
- To provide you with our online services
which are detailed on our website.
Use of Cookies
- On occasion, we may gather information
about your computer for our services and to provide statistical
information regarding the use of our website to our advertisers.
- Such information will not identify you
personally it is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our
site. This statistical data does not identify any personal details
whatsoever.
- Similarly to the above, we may gather
information about your general internet use by using a cookie file. Where
used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This
cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer as cookies
contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.
They help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to
you.
- All computers have the ability to decline
cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which
enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to
decline cookies, you may be unable to access particular parts of our
website.
- Our advertisers may also use cookies, over
which we have no control. Such cookies (if used) would be downloaded once
you click on advertisements on our website.
- We may use the cookies for the following
purposes:
- To show relevant
advertisements on sites on the internet
- To show
relevant advertisements based on your prior visit to our
website
- To use Google
Analytic data to serve advertisements based on your prior visit to our
website
- You can opt out of Google's use of cookies
by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page google.com/privacy/ads. In addition for all our other third party
vendors you can opt out by visiting networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.
Use of Your Information
- The information that we collect and store
relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to
you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with
information requested from us, relating to our products or services. To
provide information on other products which we feel may be of interest to
you, where you have consented to receive such information.
- To meet our
contractual commitments to you.
- To notify you about
any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product
changes, that may affect our service.
- If you are an existing customer, we may
contact you with information about goods and services similar to those
which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
- Further, we may use your data, or permit
selected third parties to use your data, so that you can be provided with
information about unrelated goods and services which we consider may be of
interest to you. We or they may contact you about these goods and services
by any of the methods that you consented at the time your information was
collected.
- If you are a new customer, we will only
contact you or allow third parties to contact you only when you have
provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for.
- If you do not want us to use your data for
our or third parties you will have the opportunity to withhold your
consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which
we collect your data.
- Please be advised that we do not reveal
information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers but we may,
on occasion, provide them with aggregate statistical information about our
visitors.
Storing Your Personal Data
- We may transfer data that we collect from
you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and
storing. Also, it may be processed by staff operating outside the European
Economic Area who work for us or for one of our suppliers. For example,
such staff maybe engaged in the processing and concluding of your order,
the processing of your payment details and the provision of support
services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure that
your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
- Data that is provided to us is stored on
our secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on
our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.
- The transmission of information via the
internet is not completely secure and therefore we can not guarantee the
security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data
is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you
have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site,
you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
Disclosing Your Information
- Where applicable, we may disclose your
personal information to any member of our group. This includes, where
applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other
subsidiaries (if any).
- We may also disclose your personal
information to third parties:
- Where we sell any or
all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
- Where we are legally
required to disclose your information.
- To assist fraud
protection and minimise credit risk.
Third Party Links
- You may find links to third party websites
on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies
which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability
for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
How you can help keep your
personal information secure
- As you would expect of us, we will take all
reasonable measures to ensure that the personal information you provide
through our website is held and managed securely. However, there is not a
lot that you can do to help keep your personal information safe – not just
on our website, but whenever you provide information online.
- Here are some simple ways you can improve
the security of you information:
- Use a secure browser
- Encryption is the process through which
sensitive information is scrambled before it is transmitted so that it
remains private even if it is intercepted. 128-bit versions support it.
- Two popular browsers that support 128 – bit
encryption are:
- Microsoft Internet
Explorer version 5.5 and later versions
- Netscape Navigator
version 6 and later versions
- Security upgrades for some older browser
versions are available. We recommend that you contact your preferred
browser provider for further information.
Access To Information
- The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the
right to access the information that we hold about you. Please note that
any demand for access may be subject to payment of a fee of £10 which
covers our costs in providing you with the information requested.