We respect your privacy and want to protect your personal
information. To learn more, please read this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and (under
certain conditions) disclose your personal information. This Privacy Policy
also explains the steps we have taken to secure your personal information.
Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options regarding the collection,
use and disclosure of your personal information. By visiting the Site directly
or through another site, you accept the practices described in this Policy.
Data protection is a matter of trust and your privacy is
important to us. We shall therefore only use your name and other information
which relates to you in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy. We will only
collect information where it is necessary for us to do so and we will only
collect information if it is relevant to our dealings with you.
We will only keep your information for as long as we are
either required to by law or as is relevant for the purposes for which it was
collected. You can visit the Site and browse without having to provide personal
details. During your visit to the Site you remain anonymous and at no time can
we identify you unless you have an account on the Site and log on with your
user name and password.
1. Data that we collect
We may collect various
pieces of information if you seek to place an order for a product with us on
the Site. We collect, store and process your data for processing your purchase
on the Site and any possible later claims, and to provide you with our
services. We may collect personal information including, but not limited to,
your title, name, gender, email address, postal address, telephone number,
mobile number, payment details, payment card details or bank account details.
We will use the information
you provide to enable us to process your orders and to provide you with the
services and information offered through our website and which you request.
Further, we will use the information you provide to administer your account
with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments
you make online; audit the downloading of data from our website; improve the
layout and/or content of the pages of our website and customize them for users;
identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our users'
demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which you
have requested from us, including information about our services, provided you
have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for these
purposes. Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email with
details of other products and services.
If you prefer not to
receive any marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
Payments that you make through the Site will be processed by our payment
agents. You must only submit to us or our Agent or the Site information which
is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to date and inform us of
changes.
Your actual order details
may be stored with us but for security reasons cannot be retrieved directly by
us. However, you may access this information by logging into your account on
the Site. Here you can view the details of your orders that have been
completed, those which are open and administer your address details, bank
details and any newsletter to which you may have subscribed. You undertake to
treat the personal access data confidentially and not make it available to
unauthorized third parties. We cannot assume any liability for misuse of
passwords unless this misuse is our fault.
Other uses of your Personal Information
We may use your personal
information for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and
will only be used for statistical purposes. You can choose to opt out of this
at any time. Any answers to surveys or opinion polls we may ask you to complete
will not be forwarded on to third parties. Disclosing your email address is
only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions. We save the
answers to our surveys separately from your email address.
We may also send you other information about us, the Site, our other websites,
our products, sales promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other
companies in our group or our business partners. If you would prefer not to
receive any of this additional information as detailed in this paragraph (or
any part of it) please click the 'unsubscribe' link in any email that we send to
you. Within 7 working days of receipt of your instruction we will cease to send
you information as requested. If your instruction is unclear we will contact
you for clarification.
We may further anonymize data about users of the Site generally and use it for
various purposes, including ascertaining the general location of the users and
usage of certain aspects of the Site or a link contained in an email to those
registered to receive them, and supplying that anonymized data to third parties
such as publishers. However, that anonymized data will not be capable of
identifying you personally.
Third Parties and Links
We may pass your details to other companies in our group. We
may also pass your details to our agents and subcontractors to help us with any
of our uses of your data set out in our Privacy Policy. For example, we may use
third parties to assist us to collect payments from you, to analyze data and to
provide us with marketing or customer service assistance.
We may exchange information with third parties for the
purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction. We may transfer our
databases containing your personal information if we sell our business or part
of it. Other than as set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or
disclose your personal data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent
unless this is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or
unless we are required to do so by law. The Site may contain advertising of
third parties and links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be
aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those
third parties or other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your
data in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
2. Cookies
The
acceptance of cookies is not a requirement for visiting the projectshelve.com.
However we would like to point out that the use of the 'basket' functionality
on the Site and ordering is only possible with the activation of cookies.
Cookies are tiny text files which identify your computer to our server as a
unique user when you visit certain pages on the Site and they are stored by
your Internet browser on your computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to
recognize your Internet Protocol address, saving you time while you are on, or
want to enter, the Site. We only use cookies for your convenience in using the
Site (for example to remember who you are when you want to amend your shopping
cart without having to re-enter your email address) and not for obtaining or
using any other information about you (for example targeted advertising). Your
browser can be set to not accept cookies, but this would restrict your use of
the Site. Please accept our assurance that our use of cookies does not contain
any personal or private details and are free from viruses. If you want to find
out more information about cookies, go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org or to
find out about removing them from your browser, go to
http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google,
Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files
placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website
(including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on
servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose
of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity
for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity
and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties
where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information
on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other
data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the
appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this
you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using
this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the
manner and for the purposes set out above.
3. Security
We have in place appropriate technical and security measures
to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to or accidental loss of or
destruction or damage to your information. When we collect data through the
Site, we collect your personal details on a secure server. We use firewalls on
our servers. When we collect payment card details electronically, we use
encryption by using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) coding. While we are unable to
guarantee 100% security, this makes it hard for a hacker to decrypt your
details.
You are strongly recommended not to send full credit or
debit card details in unencrypted electronic communications with us. We
maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the
collection, storage and disclosure of your information. Our security procedures
mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose
personal information to you. You are responsible for protecting against
unauthorized access to your password and to your computer.
4. Your rights
If you are concerned about your data you have the right to
request access to the personal data which we may hold or process about you. You
have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your data free of
charge. At any stage you also have the right to ask us to stop using your
personal data for direct marketing purposes.
