PRIVACY STATEMENT

We, Hardys Trading Ltd., are committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of anyone using our site and the confidentiality of any information that you provide us with. The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use any personal information that we may obtain from you.

Data Protection Act 1988 (‘the Act’)

We are registered under the Data Protection Act and comply with the Act in all our dealings with your personal data.

Use and collection of personal information

In general you can visit our website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself. If, however, you use our site you will need to register and you will be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details. We will store this data and hold it on computer or otherwise.

We may use information that you provide:

• To register you with our website and to administer it.

• For assessment and analysis, e.g. marketing, customer and product analysis, to enable us to review, develop and improve our services.

  If you do not want us to use data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

  We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

• In the event we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we might disclose your personal data to the prospective buyer or seller.

• If we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with or meet any legal obligation.

  Cookies

  We collect information directly from you in a number of ways. One way is through our use of ‘cookies’.Most websites use cookies in order to make them work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website. They help us to understand how our customers and potential customers use our website so we can develop and improve the design, layout, content and function of the site. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They save and retrieve pieces of information about your visit to the website – for example, how you entered the site, how you navigated through the site and what information and documentation was of interest to you. This means that when you go back to a website, it can give you tailored options based on the information it has stored about you on your last visit.

  Some of our cookies are used to simply collect information about how visitors use our website and these types of cookies collect the information in an anonymous form.

  Where there is a login process relating to buying products or services from us we also use cookies to store personal registration information so that you do not have to provide it to us again on subsequent visits.