Our Commitment to Privacy
Our Privacy Policy was developed as an extension
of our commitment to combine the highest-quality products and services with
the highest level of integrity in dealing with our clients and partners. The
Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard
the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed
decisions when using our site and our products and services. This statement
will be continuously assessed against new technologies, business practices and
our customers' needs.
What Information Do We Collect?
When you visit our Web site you may provide us
with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to
disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information
collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.
1. Personal Information You Choose
to Provide
Credit Card Information
If you choose to purchase products or services
from us or our partners, you may need to give personal information and authorization
to obtain information from various credit services. For example, you may need
to provide the following information:
- Name
- Mailing address
- Email address
- Credit card number
- Home and business phone number
Email Information
If you choose to correspond
further with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages
together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections
for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information
received by mail and telephone.
2. Web Site Use Information
Similar to other commercial Web sites, our Web
site utilizes a standard technology called "cookies" (see explanation below,
"What Are Cookies?") and Web server logs to collect information about how our
Web site is used. Information gathered through cookies and Web server logs may
include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our Web
site, and the Web sites visited just before and just after our Web site. This
information is collected on an aggregate basis. None of this information is
associated with you as an individual.
How Do We Use the Information
That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information
for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service
and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective
customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to
notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special
offers we think you will find valuable. The lists used to send you product and
service offers are developed and managed under our traditional corporate standards
designed to safeguard the security and privacy of our customers’ personal information.
As a customer, you will be given the opportunity, at least once annually, to
notify us of your desire not to receive these offers.
What Are Cookies?
Cookies are a feature of Web browser software
that allows Web servers to recognize the computer used to access a Web site.
Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored by a user’s Web browser on
the user’s hard drive. Cookies can remember what information a user accesses
on one Web page to simplify subsequent interactions with that Web site by the
same user or to use the information to streamline the user’s transactions on
related Web pages. This makes it easier for a user to move from Web page to
Web page and to complete commercial transactions over the Internet. Cookies
should make your online experience easier and more personalized.
How Do We Use Information We Collect
from Cookies?
We use Web site browser software tools such as
cookies and Web server logs to gather information about our Web site users’
browsing activities, in order to constantly improve our Web site and better
serve our customers. This information assists us to design and arrange our Web
pages in the most user-friendly manner and to continually improve our Web site
to better meet the needs of our customers and prospective customers.
Cookies help us collect important business and
technical statistics. The information in the cookies lets us trace the paths
followed by users to our Web site as they move from one page to another. Web
server logs allow us to count how many people visit our Web site and evaluate
our Web site’s visitor capacity. We do not use these technologies to capture
your individual email address or any personally identifying information about
you although they do permit us to send focused online banner advertisements
or other such responses to you.
Note of
New Services and Changes
Occasionally, we may also
use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our
Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As
our client, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not
to receive these offers by clicking on a response box when you receive such
an offer or by sending us an email request at
info@bigredwarehouse.co.uk
How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?
When you send confidential personal credit card
information to us on our Web site, secure server software which we have licensed
encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us. The information
is scrambled en route and decoded once it reaches our Web site. Please see our
Secure Trust Logo at the bottom right hand corner of this page. Place your mouse
over the Logo Triangle to see the pop up security window, validating our site.
Other email that you may send to us may not be
secure unless we advise you that security measures will be in place prior to
your transmitting the information. For that reason, we ask that you do not send
confidential information such as Social Security or account numbers to us through
an unsecured email.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Information Security.
We utilize encryption/security software to
safeguard the confidentiality of personal information we collect from unauthorized
access or disclosure and accidental loss, alteration or destruction.
Evaluation of Information Protection
Practices.
Periodically, our operations and business practices
are reviewed for compliance with policies and procedures governing the security,
confidentiality and quality of our information.
Employee Access, Training and
Expectations. Our values, ethical standards,
policies and practices are committed to the protection of customer information.
In general, our business practices limit employee access to confidential information,
and limit the use and disclosure of such information to authorized persons,
processes and transactions.
How Can You Access and Correct
Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally
identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database
by emailing
info@bigredwarehouse.co.uk
Do We Disclose Information
to Outside Parties?
We may provide aggregate information about our
customers, sales, Web site traffic patterns and related Web site information
to our affiliates or reputable third parties, but this information will not
include personally identifying data, except as otherwise provided in this Privacy
Policy.
What About Legally Compelled Disclosure
of Information?
We may disclose information when legally compelled
to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires
it or for the protection of our legal rights.
What About Other Web Sites Linked
to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed
by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained
therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information
on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.
Note: Our Web Site is designed
for adults who make purchases for children. Big Red Warehouse does not knowingly
solicit or collect information from children who are 12 or younger.