Data Controller
Personal data and its uses
Data Processors
Security
Cookies etc
Unilever Group
Your rights
Contact points
Data Controller
The data controller of personal data collected through this website is
POS Direct Limited
Registered in England & Wales No 2579623
Registered office: Unit E, 99 Boston Road, Gorse Hill Industrial Park, Beaumont
Leys, Leicester, LE4 1AW
www.posdirect.co.uk
We are committed to protecting your personal data and complying with the Data Protection
Act 1998 and associated legislation. This Privacy Page outlines the type of information
that is collected by us on this website, and how we use and protect it. This Statement
also outlines your rights regarding data protection, and tells you how to contact
us. This Statement applies only to this web site. For example, it does not apply
to banners, advertisements or promotions we may sponsor or participate in on websites
owned by third parties.
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Personal data and its uses
(a) What we collect and why
When referring to "personal data", we mean information we collect from you, from
which you may be personally identified. Typically, this may include your name, address,
telephone number (including mobile number), screen name, email address and gender
but may also include other information such as shopping habits and preferences Please
be assured that we will not collect any personal data from your visits to our site
unless you provide this information voluntarily.
When you supply personal data to us through this website, it will be clear what
we plan to use the data for and we will seek your consent to such use. We will then
use it only for such purposes. Typical purposes are as follows:
(i) Answering your queries
Where you send us personal data in the context of asking us a question or query
(for example, about the company, or its products or services or their quality or
availability), we shall use the data you provide in order to respond to your question.
In some cases, it may be necessary to share your details with other members of POS
Direct, or with other third party data processors.
(ii) Entering a promotion
We may use personal data submitted in an entry form for a promotion for the purpose
of administering the promotion in accordance with its stated rules. Such rules may
require the publication of abbreviated winners' identity details, and may require
winners to participate in future publicity. The promotion may be administered by
third party agencies on our behalf, who may have access to the data you submit (see
data processors).
(iii) Fulfilling a contract/order
We may use personal data you submit to us when ordering goods or services from us
for the purpose of fulfilling that order, and it may be necessary for us to share
such data with third parties such as the card payment services provider or carrier
of goods.
(iv) Future direct marketing
Where you elect to receive such material, we will from time to time send you information
and/or offers about our goods and/or services which we believe may be of interest
to you. We will never share your data with or pass it to companies other than POS
Direct. At any time, however, you may unsubscribe from ("opt out" of) such future
contact.
(b) Processing outside the EEA
This website is hosted in the United Kngdom by a hosting organisation. The hosting
organisation is contractually bound to implement measures to help protect your personal
data and not to process such data except in accordance with our instructions. Any
future hosting organisation used in relation to this site will be similarly bound.
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Security
We take reasonable precautions to keep your personal data secure. All personally
identifiable information is subject to restricted access to prevent unauthorised
access, modification or misuse. Please be aware that no system is completely secure
and we offer no guarentee of security. Please note, however, that we may release
your personal data if required to do so by law, or by search warrant, subpoena or
court order.
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Cookies etc
(a) Use of cookies
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie
file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember
who you are.
A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has
come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique
number.
When you visit our website we send you a cookie. Cookies may be used in the following
ways:
To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to
our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred
interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly. To compile anonymous,
aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to
help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally
in this way.
Two types of cookies may be used on this website; "session cookies", which are temporary
cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site,
and "persistent cookies", which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much
longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
(d) Disabling/enabling cookies
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your
browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our
site if cookies are disabled.
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Your rights
Under UK data protection law, your rights include:
(a) a right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data to
which you have previously consented;
(b) a right to obtain a copy of the personal data which we hold about you (we reserve
the right to charge a small fee for the exercise of this right);
(c) a right to object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of
direct marketing.
(d) a right to have incorrect personal data we hold about you corrected.
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Contact points
If you wish to raise any data protection issue with us, or exercise any of your
legal rights, please contact us:
Registered office: Unit E, 99 Boston Road, Gorse Hill Industrial Park, Beaumont
Leys, Leicester, LE4 1AW
Email address: itdept@posdirect.co.uk