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Scope
This privacy policy sets out how Higgins Wood Floors uses and protects any information that you give it when you use or visit www.higginswoodfloors.com .
Higgins Wood Floors 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, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Higgins Wood Floors may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 01- July-2007.
Collecting and storing of information:
At www.higginswoodfloors.com, which is an e-store, your browsing and transactions related information is collected and stored securely. NONE of this information is passed on to third parties except for PAYMENT PROCESSING and THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE providers in normal course of fulfilling your transaction. To the best of our knowledge, all these agencies have their own privacy statements and they DO NOT pass on your information to anyone, and simply use it for executing transaction or generation reports on how our website was browsed through.
All the information collected is stored and passed through as securely as possible. Much of the sensitive items like payment related information is passed through 128 Bit secure encryption. www.higginswoodfloors.com collects information related to financial processing through third party 128 bit encrypted payment processing provider. Under our agreement with the payment processor ,NEITHER we , nor THEY store information of financial processing WHICH ALLOWS any sort of Automatic Payouts etc from your side. However should you need to enter into agreement with payment processing provider such as Paypal, Worldpay (when and if you use it in course of transaction), you may be governed by terms and condition and privacy policy agreed between you and the provider in additon to this privacy policy.
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.
• Reviewing Efficacy of Our website
• Order fulfillment related mails (Not related to promotions, newsletters etc. unless specifically agreed by you. These are to inform you of status of your order, delivery and any other such activity in normal course of fulfillment of your order.)
• From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for feedback or research. Kindly bear with us as this shall be occasional, if at all.
• All information required to run the www.higginswoodfloors.com e-store.
• Payment related information to fulfill your ecommerce transaction
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we are using ecommerce application which is secure and allows for user rights management as well.
How we use cookies / session variables
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 cookies or sessions to maintain your identity and for your security when accessing payment or other user specific pages of www.higginswoodfloors.com . We may also use them to track how you use the system and where you originate into or out of the website.
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 enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site i.e. www.higginswoodfloors.com , you should note that we do not have any control over that other website where you land up. 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 supportAThigginswoodfloors.com .
• If there is no such option at the end of such a form, you may safely assume we have no intention of sharing information gathered by us in that form with a third party ( entity apart from Higgins Wood Floors or its payment processing provider) .
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law. 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 as explained above.
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 supportAThigginswoodfloors.com. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
What else governs your usage of www.higginswoodfloors.com
A combination of our terms and condition (available on www.higginswoodfloors.com.) and this privacy document governs your information usage. The Privacy document in specific talks of information usage and declarations from our side regarding how your information is treated. However terms and condition and Terms and Conditions statement covers specific legal agreement between us and a user who browses and / or uses www.higginswoodfloors.com respectively. In case of any contradiction, the Terms and Conditions statement shall hold over the Privacy Policy.
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