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Our Privacy Policy
We believe strongly in protecting our customers' privacy
so when we collect personal information from you when you use
our website to purchase goods or enter a website promotion or
competition we will use our best endeavours only to use it or
disclose it in the manner stated below. By using our website
services, you agree that we may do so.
1. Communicating with you: Each time you use our service,
we will send you a confirmation email verifying the order.
We also reserve the right to send all customers of our service
email communications from time to time regarding updates and
changes to our goods and services, new links to our website
and any technical, administrative or legal notices important to
our website, our products and services that we consider essential.
2. Information shared: We are the sole owners of the
information collected on this website. We will not sell, rent
or otherwise disclose your personal information to any third
party, without your consent except in the following
circumstances:
. We do share non-personal, non-individual information in
aggregate form with third parties for business purposes, for
example with advertisers on our website or we may tell our
business partners the number of customers in certain demographic
groups who purchased certain products. This does not involve
disclosing any personal information which can identify any
individual customer in any way.
3. Our records: Once payment has been processed all
information is disposed off and no financial details are kept
after payment.
4. We will disclose your personal information to any
appropriate investigative third party if we believe that you
are involved in any illegal or harmful conduct or if we are
required to do so by law or we believe that such action is
necessary to
(1) comply with the law or with legal process;
(2) protect and defend our rights and property or that of
our customers;
(3) prevent fraud;
(4) protect against abuse, misuse or unauthorized use of
our website; or
(5) protect the personal safety or property of our customers
or the public (eg. if you provide false or deceptive information
about yourself or attempt to pose as someone else, we will
disclose such information about you as we have to assist any
type of investigation into your actions).
5. We may employ other companies to provide services for us,
including for example, delivery of orders or processing of credit
card payments. These companies have access to the personal
information needed to perform their functions and not for any
other purposes. They are bound by confidentiality agreements
not to disclose any information for any other purpose.
6. We may transfer our customer database, including personal
information contained therein, to a third party who acquires
all or substantially all of the assets or stock in our company
or our website service whether by merger, acquisition,
reorganization or otherwise.
7. Links - Our website may contain links to other websites.
Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy
practices of such other websites and advise you to read the
privacy statements of each website you visit which collects
personal information.
8. Cookies - A cookie is an alphanumeric identifier which we
transfer to your hard drive through your web browser when you
visit our website. It enables our own system to recognise you
when you visit our website again and improve our service to you.
Cookies may also be used to compile aggregate information about
areas of our website that are visited most frequently. This
traffic information can be used to enhance the content of our
website and make your use of it easier. We do not track which
pages you looked at while visiting our website. If you wish to
reject our cookie, you can configure your browser to do so.
The Data Protection Act 1998
The information that you give us, including your e-mail
address, is termed "personal data" under the Data Protection
Act 1998. We must therefore follow the principles set out in
that Act when we process your personal data. All the personal
data that we obtain from you is held on our central in-house
database. Cowboys and Angels is a "data controller" for the
purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998.
Please note that clicking on to links on our website may
result in you transferring to another website, where data privacy
practices may be different to that of Cowboys and Angels.
Visitors should review the other websites' privacy policies, as
we have no control over what happens to information that is
submitted to or collected by third parties. |