| easypixs.net, considers protection of your privacy to be of utmost importance and we are committed to providing you with a personalised service that meets your requirements in a way that safeguards your privacy. This policy explains how we may collect information about you and then use it in order to satisfy your particular requirements. It also outlines some of the security measures that we take in order to protect your privacy and gives certain assurances on things that we will not do.
Some of the personal information we hold about you may be sensitive personal data within the meaning of the Data Protection Act 1998. We will not use sensitive personal data about you other than for the specific purpose for which you provide it.
Collection of Information
1. We may collect personal information about you from a number of sources, including:
from you when you agree to take a purchase from us in which case this may include your contact details, date of birth, payment method and possibly bank details;
from you when you contact us with an enquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case this may tell us something about your preferences;
Use of Information
2. We may use personal information about you for a number of purposes, including:
to help to identify you when you telephone us to make an enquiry – for example, by asking you for your date of birth or telephone number so that we can avoid disclosing information to a person who is not authorised by you to receive it;
carrying out marketing analysis and profiling and create statistical and testing information to contact you by any means (including mail, email, telephone or text messages) about other services or products offered by us or by our carefully selected partners. We will only contact you in this way if you have previously indicated your consent to help administer and contact you about improved administration of any accounts, services and products provided by us previously, now or in the future to help prevent or detect fraud or loss to respond to enquiries from you.
3. Whether or not you have opted out in relation to use of your information for direct marketing, it is our practice to search the mailing, telephone, fax and email preference services (as applicable) so that if you have registered your details with those services you will not receive any direct marketing material from us via that channel.
4. In some circumstances, we may do certain credit checks with licensed credit reference agencies when you apply to take a service or product. If this is applicable, then it will be stated in our terms and conditions of business.
Disclosure of Information
5. WE WILL NOT disclose ANY information we hold about you to third parties for ANY purpose.
Protection of Information
9. We maintain strict security measures in order to protect personal information. This includes following certain procedures, for example to check your identity when you telephone us, encrypting data on our websites.
The Internet
10. If you communicate with us via the internet then we may occasionally use email to contact you about our services and products. When you first provide personal information to our website we will normally give you the opportunity to indicate whether you would prefer us not to contact you in this way. However, you can always send us an email at any time to change your preferences.
Please be aware that communications over the Internet, such as emails/webmails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered – this is the nature of the World Wide Web/Internet. We cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
11. We may use 'cookies' to monitor website user traffic patterns and site usage. This helps us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our websites so that we can develop and improve the design, layout and functionality of the sites. A cookie is a piece of information that is stored on your computer's hard drive and which records your navigation of a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options to you based upon the stored information about your last visit. You can normally alter the settings of your browser to prevent acceptance of cookies.
If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you can set your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a web site tries to put a cookie on your computer. However, rejecting cookies may affect your ability to use some of the products and/or services at our Web site.
Turning Off Cookies in Different Browsers
Internet Explorer 5.0
From your browser menu, select 'Tools'.
Then select 'Internet Options'. This will bring up the 'Internet Options' Dialogue Box.
On the top of the dialogue box, select 'Security', then 'Custom Level'. This will bring up the 'Security Settings' box.
Scroll down using the scroll bar on the right hand side of the box, until you come to the section carrying the title 'allow cookies to be stored on your computer'.
Of the options available, select 'Disable', and then select the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
Internet Explorer 6.0
From your browser menu, select 'Tools', and then 'Internet Options'. This will bring up the 'Internet Options' Dialogue Box.
On the top of the dialogue box, select 'Privacy'. This will bring up the 'Privacy Settings' box.
On the Privacy tab, move the slider up for a higher level of privacy or down for a lower level of privacy.
Move the slider to the top to block cookies from all web sites.
Following these instructions will stop your computer from accepting cookies in future. You may reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again by following these instructions, but by selecting 'Enable', and the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box (Internet Explorer 5.0); or by selecting the 'Default' button (Internet Explorer 6.0).
Netscape 4.7
First, on your top menu, select 'Edit', and then 'Preferences'. This will bring up the 'Preferences' menu box.
From the options on the left-hand side, select 'Advanced' which will bring up another menu.
Halfway down, you will see a section on cookies, and if you wish to turn cookies off, you should select 'Disable', and then the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
You may reconfigure your computer to accept cookies again by following these instructions, but by selecting 'Accept All Cookies', and then selecting the 'OK' button on the bottom of the menu box.
Netscape 6.0
First, on your top menu, select 'Tasks', and then 'Privacy & Security'.
From here you have the option to 'block cookies from this site', 'unblock cookies from this site' or view and remove and prevent cookies from being reaccepted from selected sites.
Links
12. Websites operated by companies within the easypixs Group may contain links to other sites. Please be aware that neither easypixs nor its subsidiaries are responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by websites operated by companies within the easypixs Group.
Monitoring of Calls
13. We may monitor communications we receive. This may be done to improve the service which we provide, to ensure compliance with our practices and procedures and where, for example, a contract is entered into by that means, to provide evidence of the transaction.
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