(1) What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits
to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical
location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of
page views)
(b) information relating to any transactions carried out
between you and us on or in relation to this website, including
information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or
services.
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of
subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or
newsletters
(e) any other information that you choose to send to us
(2) Cookies
A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a
web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent
back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the
server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web
browser.
We may use both“session” cookies and “persistent” cookies
on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you
whilst you navigate the website; We will use the persistent cookies to:
enable our website to recognise you when you visit.
Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when
you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your
computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website.
Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about
website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers.
The information generated relating to our website is used to create
reports about the use of the website. Google will store this
information. Google's privacy policy is available at:
http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Our advertisers/payment services providers. may also send you cookies.
We publish Google Adsense interest-based advertisements on
our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests.
To determine your interests, Google will track your behaviour across
the web using cookies. You can view, delete or add interest categories
associated with your browser using Google's Ads Preference Manager,
available at: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/. You can opt-out
of the Adsense partner network cookie at:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. However, this opt-out mechanism
uses a cookie, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your
opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is
maintained in respect of a particular browser, you should use the
Google browser plug-in available at:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin.
Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some
browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example,
in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”,
“Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using
the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a
negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this
one.
(3) Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for
the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of
the website.
We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the website;
(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
(c) enable your use of the services available on the website;
(d) send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
(e) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
(f) send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
(g) send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
(h) send to you [our newsletter and other] marketing
communications relating to our business [or the businesses of
carefully-selected third parties] which we think may be of interest to
you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email
or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer
require marketing communications);
(i) provide third parties with statistical information
about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any
individual user;
(j) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.
Where you submit personal information for publication on
our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in
accordance with the license you grant to us.
We will not without your express consent provide your
personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct
marketing.
All our website financial transactions are handled through
our payment services provider, sagepay. You should only provide your
personal information to sagepay after reviewing the sagepay privacy policy. We will share information with sagepay
only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments
you make via our website.
(4) Disclosures
We may disclose information about you to [any of our
employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors] insofar as
reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy
policy.
In addition, we may disclose information about you:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal
rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of
fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any
business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.
(5) International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in
and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in
order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this
privacy policy.
Information which you provide may be transferred to
countries (including the united States, Japan which do not have data
protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic
Areas (EEA).
In addition, personal information that you submit for
publication on the website will be published on the internet and may
be available, via the internet, around the world.
You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.
(6) Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational
precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal
information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on
our secure (password- and firewall- protected) servers. All electronic
transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL
technology
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently
insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the
internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user
details confidential. We will not ask you for your password.
(7) Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by
posting a new version on our website. You should check this page
occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.
We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.
(8) Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal
information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be
subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).
You may instruct us not to process your personal data for
marketing purposes by email at any time. (In practice, you will
usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal
data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity
to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)
(9) Third party websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
(10) Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
(11) Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our
treatment of your personal data, please contact us or by post to 4sg Ltd, Unit 15A, Freemans Parc, Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF11 8TU
(12) Data controller
The data controller responsible for our website is 4sg Ltd, Unit 15A, Freemans Parc, Penarth Road, Cardiff, CF11 8TU.
