e-Hardware Privacy Policy

e-Hardware are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. When you place an order in store, online or via telephone, you trust us with your information. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.e-hardware.co.uk (the “Site”).

 

What we collect

When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using cookies, log files and web beacons.

Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org

Log files track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

Web beacons (“tags” and “pixels”) are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

 

What we do with the information we collect

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties.

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site, including arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations. Additionally, we use this Order Information to communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud,in particular, your IP address and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We only share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above.

For example, we use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site, you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We also use TrustPilot to assist us with collecting feedback about your buying or service experience to generally improve our service to you and future customers, you can view TrustPilot's privacy policy here https://uk.legal.trustpilot.com/end-user-privacy-terms.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

 

Your rights

If you are a European resident, under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

 

Data retention

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

 

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect.

We do not store or have access to any personal card payment details for security purposes. All online payments are handled by SagePay. You can view SagePay's privacy policy here, https://www.sagepay.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy.

 

Links to other 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 policy applicable to the website in question.

 

Contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:

e-Hardware Limited
Unit 1A Tey Brook Centre
Brook Road
Great Tey
Colchester
ESSEX
CO6 1JE

e-Hardware Limited may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 22/09/2020.

 

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