Tesco-Tyres.com Privacy Policy
- Tesco-Tyres.com Privacy Policy
Tesco-Tyres.com (the “Site”) is owned and operated by Blackcircles.com Limited (a company incorporated in Scotland under the Companies Acts with company number SC224310 and having its registered office at Unit 3 Rowan Court, Kingsmeadows Road, Peebles, Scotland, EH45 9BU (or such other address as may be our registered office from time to time)) (“Blackcircles”). References to “Tesco-Tyres.com”, “we”, “us” and “our” in this Privacy Policy are to Blackcircles. References to “you” or “your” are to users of the Site.
Tesco-Tyres.com is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains our data processing practices and your options regarding the ways in which your personal data is used. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to our processing please contact us at customerservice@tesco-tyres.com. - Information Collected and Held
Tesco-Tyres.com collects and holds the personal information provided by you while using the Site (including your, postal addresses, vehicle registration details and e-mail addresses). We may collect additional information in connection with your use of the Site and when giving us feedback (including information obtained by us from third parties and information obtained by us through users visiting the Site). We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site use which enables us to improve the services we provide. - Use of your information and your preferences
Tesco-Tyres.com will hold and use your information to provide and personalise our services and the Site and to detect and prevent fraud.
We will also hold and use personal information which you provide to us for our own administrative, sales, marketing and product development purposes.
We will use your contact details to communicate with you. We may use your information to send you offers and news about Tesco group products and services or those of other carefully selected companies which we think may be of interest to you. Depending on the information which you have provided to us, we may contact you by post, email, telephone, fax or SMS for these purposes. If you would rather not be contacted by us, please contact us at customerservice@tesco-tyres.com.
Otherwise you consent to our use of such information as set out in this Privacy Policy.
We may use your information to verify your identity and prevent or detect fraud. In performing these checks your information may be disclosed to credit reference agencies, who may keep a record of that information. This is not a credit check and your credit rating will be unaffected.
Please note that there may be instances where it may be necessary for us to communicate with you, in any event, for administrative or operational reasons relating to our service. - Disclosures of your information
Tesco-Tyres.com may pass your information to all Tesco companies. We will never pass your personal information to anyone else without your consent, except where we are required or permitted to do so by law, for any successors in title to our business and suppliers that process information on our behalf both in the UK and abroad.
We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individual customers are identified) for marketing and strategic development purposes, transmit credit/debit card information to the appropriate credit card company when we process payment for sales, disclose personal information to our legal, accounting, marketing or other professional advisers, our website hosts and our courier, postal or transport providers (names and addresses only in the latter case) and/or pass on contact details to our fitting partners and / or delivery agents in order to complete your order. - For how long do we hold personal information?
We will not hold on to any personal information for any longer than is reasonably necessary for the purposes noted above. - Other web sites
The Site may contain links to other web sites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy, which may differ from ours. - What Procedures Do We Use to Protect Your Privacy?
We undertake to process the personal information which we collect in accordance with the applicable laws on data protection.
We have strict security procedures covering the storage and disclosure of your information (although we do not warrant that this is the case) in order to prevent unauthorised access. This means that we may ask for proof of identity before disclosing personal information to you.
All personal information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. We also hold tangible (or 'hard copy') personal information at the address noted below. From time to time, certain CD-Roms or tangible (or 'hard copy') personal information may be transported by us to or from the address noted below.
We will also, on written request from you, amend any personal information which we hold about you. Where we amend the personal information which we hold about you, we will generally retain a copy of the previous version for our records. However, as noted above, we will not hold on to any personal information for any longer than is necessary for the purposes noted above.
You can contact us at the following address:
Blackcircles.com
Unit 3 Rowan Court,
Kingsmeadows Road,
Peebles,
Scotland,
EH45 9BU - Cookies
In order to comply with new rules, we use a system of classifying the different types of cookies which we use on the Website, or which may be dropped by third parties through our websites. The classification was developed by the International Chamber of Commerce UK and explains more about which cookies we use, why we use them, and the functionality you will lose if you decide you don't want to have them on your device. Please be reassured that we are working on other privacy and cookie-related improvements to the Website.
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
Persistent cookies - these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
Session cookies - these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Cookies used on the Website
A list of all the cookies used on the Website by category is set out below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies enable services you have specifically asked for. For those types of cookies that are strictly necessary, no consent is required.
These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Website. Without these cookies services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information on the pages visited. By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
These cookies collect information about how visitors use the Website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Website works.
Functionality cookies
These cookies remember choices you make to improve your experience. By using the Website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
Using browser settings to manage cookies
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on's settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of the Website’s essential features, we recommend you leave them turned on. For example, if you block or otherwise reject cookies you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Basket, proceed to Checkout, or use any of our products and services that require you to Sign in. If you leave cookies turned on, remember to sign off when you finish using a shared computer. - Access rights
To obtain a copy of the personal information Tesco-Tyres.com holds about you, please write with full details to us at the address noted above enclosing your cheque or postal order for £10 payable to Blackcircles.com Limited. - Further Important Points
By entering the Site, you are accepting the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If we change this Privacy Policy while the Site remains active, we will post the new Privacy Policy on the Site. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 15 November 2010.
We welcome your views about the Site and our Privacy Policy. If you would like to contact us with your views, please write to us at the address noted above or at customerservice@tesco-tyres.com.