Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

(1) What information do we collect?

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

information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views;
information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering as a supplier with us (including your first name, surname, business name, street address, town/city, country/state, postcode, country, email address, phone number, fax number and web address);
information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website newsletters (including your email address); and
any other information that you choose to send to us.

We do not collect or store your bank or other payment details. All payments are handled by our payment services provider, Paypal. Details of Paypal's privacy policies can be found at http://www.paypal.com.

(2) Cookies

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 will send you “session” cookies. We will use the information we obtain from the cookies to improve the website’s usability. The session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your web browser.

We do not use “persistent” cookies on this website.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking “Tools”, “Internet Options”, “Privacy”, and selecting “Block all cookies” using the sliding selector.) This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

(3) Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website 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 product listing and other services available on the website;
send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you;
send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties 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 to be sent by emailing us at admin@eco-designer.co.uk);
provide third parties with statistical information about our users – but this information will not be used to identify any individual user; and
deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.

(4) Other disclosures

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

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); and
to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

(5) International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Personal information contained in listings that you place on the website will be published on the internet, and may therefore be accessible anywhere in the world.

Our website – including our database containing your personal information – will be hosted in the USA by ServInt Internet Services. (ServInt subscribes to the Safe Harbor scheme for the protection of personal data agreed between the European Commission and the US Department of Commerce.)

If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), personal information which you provide may be transferred to other countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the EEA.

You expressly agree to such transfers.

(6) Security of your personal data

We 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 (firewall- and password-protected) servers.

Of course, 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.

(7) Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

(8) Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email (to admin@eco-designer.co.uk) at any time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.)

(9) Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

(10) Updating information

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

(11) Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to admin@eco-designer.co.uk or by post to Eco-Designer.co.uk, 33 Hawkesworth Drive, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 5QY.

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