Privacy & Cookie Policy
At Half-cut Candles we are committed to maintaining your privacy.
Our privacy policy statement is given below. If we make changes to this policy, we will notify you by updating this statement on our website.
What information do we collect?
We ask for your name, telephone number, home address, email address and age for competitions, prize draws or newsletter sign ups. When a purchase is made on our site, in addition to the above, we also ask for delivery address, and payment method details. We may obtain information about your usage of our Web site to help us develop and improve it further.
What the data will be used for?
Your data will enable us, and our processors, to fulfil your order and to notify you about important functionality changes. We comply with the standards, procedures and requirements laid down in the UK Data Protection Act to ensure that the personal information you give us is kept secure and processed fairly and lawfully.
We WILL NOT make our mailing list available to other companies.
In assessing your request for goods or services, we may use your information for the purposes of the prevention and detection of fraud. One of the purposes for which we may disclose your address and postcode details is to check against a Fraud Prevention Scheme. At all times where we disclose your information it will remain secure.
This Web site MAY use etracker technology to collect visitor behaviour data In the future. This data is collected anonymously to be used for marketing and optimisation purposes. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID to aggregate a usage profile. Cookies may be used to collect and save this data, but the data is not personally identifiable. The data will not be used to identify a visitor personally and is not aggregated with any personal data. The security of your personal information is important to us. We attempt to ensure that the transmission of your information to our server is protected by the use of encryption software. We have also put in place appropriate technical and organisational measures to prevent unauthorised access to or unauthorised or unlawful processing of your personal information. However, due to the inherent open nature of the internet, Half-cut Candles cannot guarantee that communications between you and us will be free from unauthorised access by third parties such as hackers. Your use of our Website demonstrates your acceptance of this risk.
If you have any concerns regarding the collection, use and/or retention of your personal information by Half-cut Candles please contact us at the address below:
Half-cut Candles
Louise Fernandes
32 Swift Avenue
Finberry
TN25 7GD
You may also inform Half-cut Candles at any time that you do not want to receive information from Half-cut Candles by sending an email via the info@half-cutcandles.co.uk
Cookies
Your use of Half-cut Candles is monitored through a web analytics service provided by Google known as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files placed on your computer, tablet or mobile phone to help the website analyse how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.
Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Do you agree to Cookies being installed on your computer by Google Analytics for the purposes set out above?
(If NOT then click on the link below and you will be redirected to the Google Analytics website)
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Half-cut Candles may use social bookmarking buttons on all pages to allow easy sharing of pages to websites such as Facebook and Twitter etc. A cookie is used to collect anonymous information on visitors using this tool.
Non-personally identifiable information is collected, and that information is used to deliver targeted advertising on websites you may visit.
IF you disagree to Cookies being installed on your computer for the purposes set out above?
Then Click on the link below where you will be redirected to the ADDTHIS website.
http://www.addthis.com/advertising-choices#.T5ZlmqtYurg
How to check cookies are enabled for PCs
Google Chrome
Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select Options
Click the 'Under the Hood' tab, locate the 'Privacy' section, and select the 'Content settings' button
Now select 'Allow local data to be set'
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select 'Internet options' , then click on the 'Privacy' tab
Ensure that your Privacy level is set to Medium or below, which will enable cookies in your browser
Settings above Medium will disable cookies
Mozilla Firefox
Click on 'Tools' at the top of your browser window and select Options
Then select the Privacy icon
Click on Cookies, then select 'allow sites to set cookies'
Safari
Click on the Cog icon at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
Click on 'Security', check the option that says 'Block third-party and advertising cookies'
Click 'Save'
How to check cookies are enabled for Macs
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 on OSX
Click on 'Explorer' at the top of your browser window and select 'Preferences' options
Scroll down until you see 'Cookies' under Receiving Files
Select the 'Never Ask' option
Safari on OSX
Click on 'Safari' at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
Click on 'Security' then 'Accept cookies'
Select the 'Only from site you navigate to'
Mozilla and Netscape on OSX
Click on 'Mozilla' or 'Netscape' at the top of your browser window and select the 'Preferences' option
Scroll down until you see cookies under 'Privacy & Security'
Select 'Enable cookies for the originating web site only'
Opera
Click on 'Menu' at the top of your browser window and select 'Settings'
Then select 'Preferences', select the 'Advanced' tab
Then select 'Accept cookies' option
More information about cookies available from the links below