Bridisco are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998). We collect information about you for two reasons: firstly, to process your order and second, to provide you with the best possible service. We will not e-mail you in the future unless you have given us your consent. We will give you the chance to refuse any marketing email from us in the future.

The type of information we will need from you, when you place an order via our online catalogue, includes:

• your name
• address
• phone number
• email address
• credit/debit card details (securely encrypted via HTTPS)

This information is already stored on our internal systems (except credit card information) and our website simply verifies you as a customer of Bridisco (and their associated trading brands). We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent. The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly. The personal information that we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law. We will not transfer your information outside the EEA (European Economic Area). We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. If you have any questions/comments about privacy, you should email us at info@bridisco.co.uk.

Customer Information
On certain pages of the Bridisco online catalogue we collect information about whether you choose to register to receive communications from us. The following are the types of personal information collected so that we can send you requested newsletters and emails on special promotions:

• Name
• E-mail Address

We may use the information you have submitted to occasionally inform you of important changes to the Bridisco website/s. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

When you place an order we need to know your Name, e-mail address, delivery address, credit or debit card number and the card's expiry date. This allows us to process and fulfil your orders and to notify you of the status of your order. We may also ask for your telephone number which enables us or our contractor to contact you urgently if there is a problem with your order.

Your Consent
By submitting information to Bridisco you consent to the collection and use of this information by Bridisco and its Service Provider. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.

Data Security
We have designed our site to protect the information we collect online from unauthorised access. We safeguard your private information by implementing the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures necessary to protect your privacy. To further protect your security, we also take the reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access to your personal profile or making data changes. We are committed to protecting your privacy and have security measures in place to prevent unauthorised access to and disclosure of your personal information.

Improving Our Service
Bridisco does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. To better tailor our services to our customers' needs, we use non-identifying and aggregate information to help us make decisions on how to improve Bridisco. We also share this generic information with our advertisers and other interested, reputable parties with whom we have established a formal business relationship. For example, we may tell advertisers which areas of the site have received the most customer traffic overall, or more specifically, how many customer types have visited certain pages. However, we do not disclose the identifying information of individual customers with advertisers. We also do not use or share the personally identifiable information submitted to us by any other means without providing our customers the choice to opt-out or otherwise bar such unrelated uses.

Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information left in the settings of your web browser to identify your computer to a website when you return. Whenever a website welcomes you and tailors data to your specifications, it is reading a cookie left in your browser and identifying information you may have registered during previous visits, such as your viewing preferences. The Bridisco websites do not currently use cookies but we will notify customers should this become applicable in future.

International Privacy
The above privacy statement may not be applicable in all countries of Bridisco visitors or registered community users, as security policies may vary according to the individual Internet laws in each host country.