Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

When you place an order on www.tdlonline.co.uk, we collect and process personal data about you. This document helps you understand what personal information we collect about you, how we collect it, what we use it for, and what rights you have regarding your personal data.

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation etc).

b) information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us (including name, address and contact details)

(c) information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services (including your name, address and contact details).

Your details are not given or sold to third parties and sensitive information such as credit card details is not stored or even seen by our staff.

(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters (including email address, name and area or interest);

(e) any other information that you choose to send to us either by letter, email, fax or other form of communication

Cookies

www.tdlonline.co.uk uses cookies.

More details of the specific cookies and their use are listed here. A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser. We use "session" cookies and "persistent" cookies on our website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website and we will use the persistent cookies to enable our website to recognise you when you visit if you choose to register, or use the functionality to load a saved basket for example. Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser. Persistent cookies will remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach a specified expiry date.

Using your personal information

Personal information submitted to us via www.tdlonline.co.uk will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

•  administer the website;
•  improve your browsing experience by personalising the website;
•  enable your use of the services available on the website;
•  send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website;
•  send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
•  send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
•  send you email notifications which you have specifically requested;
•  send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications) ;
• provide third parties with statistical information about our users - but this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
• deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website; Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

TDL will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing. All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services providers and we will share information with them only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments.

Security of your personal information

TDL will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure password and firewall protected servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology. Data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet. You are responsible for keeping your password and user details confidential.

Disclosures

TDL may disclose information about you to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

• to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
• in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
• to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling;
• to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information. Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information will be subject to:

• the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address)

We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by email at any time.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal information, please write to us by email to matt@tdlonline.co.uk 

This privacy policy sets out how TDL Online uses and protects any information that you give TDL Online when you use this website.

TDL Online is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

TDL Online may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 11/11/10

What we collect

We may collect the following information:

·          name and job title
·          contact information including email address
·          demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
·          other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

What we do with the information we gather

We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

·          Internal record keeping.
·          We may use the information to improve our products and services.
·          We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided. 
·          From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

·          whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes

·          if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at matt@tdlonline.co.uk or malcolm@tdlonline.co.uk

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen. You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to matt@tdlonline.co.uk or malcolm@tdlonline.co.uk

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.