Collection of Your Personal Information
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In order to register as a Customer and/or Member (In the following Member); you will be required at all times to sign in with a username and password. By signing in through one Company website, you may be automatically signed into other Company sites. As part of this registration process, you may also be requested to provide questions and secret answers, which we use to help verify your identity and assist in resetting your password etc.
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We ask you, when registering, to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your postcode, age, gender etc. If you choose to make a purchase through Company Web shops, we may ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address, which is used to create a billing account.
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We may collect information about your visit, including the pages you view, the links you click and other actions taken in connection with the Company. We also collect certain standard information that your browser sends to every Website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring Web site addresses.
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When you receive sales aids, newsletters or promotional e-mails from the Company, they could contain customized links, or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click, you accept these in order to provide you with more focused e-mail communications or other information in the future.
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In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with the Company, information collected through one of the Company Websites may be combined with information obtained through other Company Member Websites.
Sharing of Your Personal Information
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Except as described in this statement, we will not disclose your personal information outside of the Company and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent.
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We may access and/or disclose your personal information if we believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law or legal process served on the Company; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Company (including the enforcement of our agreements); or (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Company websites or members of the public. (d) The completion of all necessities concerning your contractual Member-relationship with the Company.
Use and transfer of Your Personal Information
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The Company collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and carry out the transactions you have requested.
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We also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders and information on technical issues.
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Personal information collected on the Company sites may be stored and processed and transferred in the UK or any other countries inside or outside the European Community in which the Company or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. The Company guarantees that the transfer of private information to other affiliates will comply with this Privacy Policy and The Company will guarantee the highest level of data protection.
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By using any Company site you consent to any such transfer of information outside your country. You explicitly agree with the transfer of private information like name, home-address, e-mail address to the Company.
Cookies
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The Company websites use "cookies" to enable you to register as a Member of our Website i.e. as an Member or Independent Associate and to help personalize your Membership online experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.
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The Company Websites use cookies to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to enter the same information repeatedly and to display your personalized content and appropriate advertising on your later visits to these sites.
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When you sign in to a site using your username and password, the Company system stores your unique username, and the time you signed in at, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page on the site without having to sign in again on each page. When you sign out, these cookies are deleted from your computer. The system also uses cookies to improve your sign-in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. This cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be stored, you can select the appropriate radio button on the sign-in page, and this cookie will not be used.
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You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to sign in or use other interactive features of the Company websites.
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For more information about cookies and how to manage them, please visit this page.
The Data Protection Principles
We fully comply with the Data Protection Principles in relation to the personal data we hold. Broadly they state that personal data shall:
Be obtained and processed fairly and lawfully.
Be processed only for limited purposes which are described in the register entry.
Be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose for which they are held.
Be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
Be held no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which they are held.
Be processed in accordance with the data subjects' rights.
Be surrounded by proper security.
Not be transferred to countries outside the EEA without adequate protection
