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We will treat all your personal information:
- As confidential and will only disclose the same in the circumstances set out below;
and,
- In accordance with Data Protection legislation from time to time in force in England
and Wales.
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When you shop on this Website, we will ask you to input personal details in order
for us to identify you, such as your name, e-mail address, billing and delivery
address, credit card or other payment information. We confirm that this information
will be held by us in accordance with the registration we have with the Data Commissioner's
office and collected lawfully in accordance to the Data Protection Act 1998. We
will use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Processing your orders (Including incomplete or failed orders) and conducting business
with you;
- To administer this Website;
- For statistical, market research and customer satisfaction purposes to improve this
Website and its services to you;
- If you have not objected during the registration process, to notify you of products
or special offers that may be of interest to you including the Upgrade Reminder
Service
- If you have not objected during the registration process, to disclose to other members
within our group of companies and also to other relevant third parties, who may
contact you about their products or services that may be of interest to you;
Subject to your rights of objection, you agree that personal information may be
disclosed to other businesses within our group of companies and to reputable third
parties who will help process your order or whose products or services may be of
interest to you. In addition, you do not object to us, our group companies or third
parties contacting you for the purposes set out above, whether this be by fax, telephone,
e-mail, SMS or other electronic means or in writing and you consent to this activity
for the purposes of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations
2003.
You should be aware that if the police requests us or any other regulatory authority
investigating suspected illegal activities to provide your personal information,
we are entitled to do so.
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If you have not objected during the registration process, but do not want us to:
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Subject to your rights of objection, you agree that personal information may be
disclosed to other businesses within our group of companies and to reputable third
parties who will help process your order. In addition, you do not object to us,
our group companies or third parties contacting you for the purposes set out above,
whether this be by fax, telephone, e-mail, SMS or in writing and you do not consider
any of the above as being a breach of any of your rights under the Telecommunications
(Data Protection and Privacy) Regulations 1999.
You should be aware that if the police requests us or any other regulatory authority
investigating suspected illegal activities to provide your personal information,
we are entitled to do so.
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Cookies
Like many other web sites we use Cookies on our site. Cookies can help a website
to personalise your visit. 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, among other things, 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. Three types
of electronic access, storage and/or tracing devices are used on this website:-
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Session Cookies:
which are temporary Cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until
you leave the site. This information is not stored after you have left the site.
We use Session Cookies to allow you to carry information across pages of our site
and avoid having to re-enter information, during that particular visit. This information
will not be available next time you visit our website.
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Persistent cookies:
which remain in the Cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long
will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie but this may be indefinitely
or until deleted).
We use Persistent Cookies to help us recognise you as a unique visitor when you
next visit our website. The information stored may be recognised and used by our
web-site next time you visit and we may use this information to personalise your
visits and specifically tailor advertising and/or information directed toward you.
This information may also be used to assist in the efficiency of the sign up process
and to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how
users use our website and to help us improve the structure of our website. Unless
specifically deleted this information may be stored and accessed for an indefinite
period of time.
We cannot identify you personally in this way and we do not collect or monitor your
customer information in conjunction with your Cookie information][although we may
collect and monitor your customer information in conjunction with your Cookie information.
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Web Beacons:
which are electronic images known as Web Beacons (also called "clear gifs") that
allow us to count the number of users who have visited these Web pages.
We use Web Beacons to collect only limited information including but not limited
to, a Cookie number, which Web page you visited, the number of times you visited
that Web page, the time and date you visited that Web page, the length of that visit
and a description of the Web page which you visited and on which the Web Beacon
resides. We use this information to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that
allow us to understand how users use our website and to help us improve the structure
of our website. We can also use this information to recognise whether you have visited
our Website before. Unless specifically deleted this information may be stored and
accessed for an indefinite period of time.
Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. However, if you are an existing
customer and you have logged onto this site and identified yourself as a customer,
we may be able to connect your personal information with your cookie information.
How we use these electronic devices on our Website and what Information we collect.
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Third party Cookies:
We use third-party advertising technology to serve our advertisements when you visit
our website and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information
about your visits to this website and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve
our advertisements to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a
unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition,
we use Web beacons, provided by our third-party ad server, to help manage and optimize
our online advertising. These Web beacons enable our ads server, on our behalf or
on behalf of our agent, to recognize a browser's cookie when a browser visits this
site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to our website. Our third-party
ad server is performing its functions on our behalf or on behalf of our agent, and
we may, directly or indirectly, instruct such ad server to enable other service
providers to receive information about our site related to our online advertising.
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Disabling Cookies:
If you do not wish to accept our Cookies or Web Beacons you can decline Cookies
and/or Web Beacons and/or refuse access to previously stored information by using
your web Browser. The facilities within your web Browser to allow you to do this
will vary from Browser to Browser but they may be found in the "Privacy" or "Cookies"
section of the "Properties" menu of your Browser. If you require assistance in disabling
Cookies you should refer to the "help" menu within your Browser. Please note however,
that you may not be able to use all of the interactive features of our Website if
Cookies and/or Web Beacons are disabled