Privacy & Cookie Policy Version 2
Needundies.com have developed this policy because we want you to feel confident about the privacy and security of your personal information
What Information is Collected and how is my Information Used?
We 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 2 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 explicit consent to allow contact either by using a contact form on our site, "opting-in" to our newsletter during order placement or requesting via a form to be added to our Newsletter.
We may use a third party company to process our Newsletters and mailing lists, any company we will ensure that any company we choose to use will adhere to the Data Protection Act 1998.
We will give you the chance to refuse any marketing email from us or from another trader in the future.
We do not send random marketing emails to personal email addresses (Spam).
When you place an order with Needundies.com, the information we will collect about you includes:
- Your name
- Your invoice/delivery address
- Your phone number
- Your email address
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 which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy and the law.
Online payments are made via either Sagepay or Google Checkout, if you make an online payment you can be assured that we (Needundies.com) will never store or have visibility of your credit card details.
When we take an Offline payment made via telephone, we will request your full credit/card information, however as soon as the payment is taken and cleared the details are destroyed in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
If we intend to transfer your information outside the EEA (European Economic Area) we will always obtain your consent first.
The Use Of Cookies
Google Analytics Tracking
We use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site, this is completely anonymous and uses a Google Analytics tracking cookies. The information collated is stored by Google and is therefore subject to their own privacy policy which you can
view here: Google Privacy Policy
Please note: The Google privacy policy is changing from 1st March 2012 and we would encourage you to view their revised policy after this date.
The Google Analytics tracking cookies will be stored on your internet browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to anonymously identify you unless you modify your browser settings.
Google Analytics Cookies are as follows: __UTMA (Unique Visitor Cookie), __UTMB & __UTMC (Session Tracking Cookies i.e what pages etc you are viewing), __UTMZ (Referall Cookie, i.e how you reached us)
Social Sharing
We utilise a company called AddThis to provide sharing features to our customers, this suite of features allows you to share, email and print content on our website. Please take a look at the AddThis Consumer Privacy guidelines for information about how our website tracks these Shares and additionally how you may opt-out of any anonymous tracking that may take place, see AddThis Consumer Privacy Guidelines
We may also enable further social sharing plug-ins for popular applications such as Twitter, Facebook and the Google +1, please take time to review the privacy policies of these companies as they will make use of specific social cookies which may be set on your computer should you decide to share Needundies.com content with you social circles.
If you wish to restrict the cookie length or perhaps even block cookies which are set by Needundies.com, or for that matter any other website you visit, this is easily achieved by adjusting your preferred browser settings. There is normally a "help" page within your browser that will assist you with this.
A good and very informative site to visit is the "aboutcookies.org" site which features browser specific information.
Privacy & Cookie Policy V2 - Valid From 24/02/2012 - Status: Current
Privacy & Cookie Policy V1 - Valid Until 23/02/2012 - Status: Archived