Compare Shop Online is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets out our privacy policy and explains what we do with the personal information that we collect from our clients and customers. We want you to know that how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. By visiting ww.compareshoponline.co.uk, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice. This statement discloses the current privacy practices for our Website. If we make any substantive changes to this policy, we will announce these on our site. We collect certain information about visitors to our website, which we use to help provide a website and service that is useful for you
What kind of customer information do we collect and store?
When completing our online forms, you will be asked to provide your name, your email address and other personal information, but we do not release your Personal Data to any company outside of Compare Shop Online for mailing or marketing purposes.
We don’t store Credit/Debit Card or any other kind of financial information in our database.
Compare Shop Online takes steps to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
What do we do with your information?
Personal information about visitors to our website may be used for one or more of the following purposes:
- to improve the content of our web pages
- to customize the content and/or layout of our web pages for an individual visitor
- to notify visitors about updates to our website
- and to enhance our mutual relationship
Sometimes we send offers to selected groups of Compare Shop Online customers. If you do not want to receive such offers, please unsubscribe from the newsletter/promotions/marketing emails or ask us to do the above for you.
Your Personal Information may be disclosed to other reputable third parties who are involved in processing your order; for example, the payment processing partners like PayPal. Compare Shop Online expects all such third parties to treat your personal information as fully confidential and to fully comply with all applicable UK Data Protection and consumer legislation from time to time in place.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Our Limitation
While we take all reasonable steps to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access, you should recognize that e-mail and other electronic transmissions are insecure. Accordingly, Compare Shop Online cannot warrant, guarantee or undertake that any transmission will not be intercepted and/or read by an unauthorized person.
Our Liability
You should be aware that if we are requested by the police or any other regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal activities to provide your Personal Information and /or User Information, we are entitled do so.
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to the Director at support@compareshoponline.co.uk.