Privacy Policy
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This
policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from
you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read
the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding
your personal data and how we will treat it.
www.alphasonclearanceoutlet.com is the trading name of Alphason Designs Ltd. For the purpose of the
Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Alphason Designs Ltd,
Alphason House, Swan Lane, Hindley Green, WN2 4EY.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
•
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site
www.alphasonclearanceoutlet.com (our site). This includes information
provided at the time of registering to use our site or when ordering
products from our site.
• If you write to us (by letter or email), we may keep a record of that correspondence.
•
If you telephone us or we telephone you, we may keep a written record
of that conversation. We may also record the conversation for the
purposes of training and ensuring our service standards are maintained.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our site and of the fulfilment of your orders.
•
Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to,
traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data,
whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and
the resources that you access.
IP addresses and cookies
We
may collect information about your computer, including where available
your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system
administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers.
This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and
patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same
reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by
using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer.
Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard
drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and
more personalised service. They enable us:
• To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
• To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our site according to your individual interests.
• To speed up your searches.
• To recognise you when you return to our site.
You
may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser
which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you
select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our
site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Where we store your personal data
The
data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a
destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be
processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one
of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the
fulfilment 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
steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely
and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you
provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions
will be encrypted using SSL technology and held by an approved and
audited payment provider.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which
enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible
for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a
password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will
do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the
security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at
your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use
strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised
access.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
•
To provide you with information, products or services that you request
from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to
be contacted for such purposes.
• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our site, when you choose to do so.
• To notify you about changes to our site.
Use for marketing purposes
We
may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and
services which may be of interest to you, and we may contact you about
these by post, telephone or email. We will only do this if you indicate
you wish us to do so by ticking the relevant box on the registration
form or when placing an order, or by changing your preferences on your
account profile.
We may also pass your details to
carefully-selected third parties for marketing purposes, and those
third parties may contact you by post, telephone or email. We will only
do this if you indicate you wish us to do so by ticking the relevant
box on the registration form or when placing an order, or by changing
your preferences on your account profile.
You can change your
preferences regarding our use of your data for marketing purposes at
any time by logging in to your account on our site. You may also change
your preferences by contacting us at The Data Controller Alphason
Designs Ltd, Alphason House, Swan Lane, Hindley Green, WN2 4EZ or
webadmin@alphasondesigns.com.
Disclosure of your information
We
may disclose your personal information to any member of our group,
which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its
subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
•
In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case
we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer
of such business or assets.
• If Alphason Designs Limited or
substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which
case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the
transferred assets.
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share
your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in
order to enforce or apply our terms of business and other agreements;
or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Alphason Designs
Limited, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information
with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
Access to information
The
Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held
about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the
Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our
costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about
you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
Contact
Questions,
comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and
should be addressed to The Data Controller - Alphason Designs Ltd,
Alphason House, Swan Lane, Hindley Green, WN2 4EZ
webadmin@alphasondesigns.com