1. ONLINE PRIVACY PRACTICES1.1 We at bCreative Ltd. (“bCreative”) and our affiliated companies and subsidiaries (“we, us, our”) are keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from the internet and other products and services we may be able to offer to you. The
www.bCreativelimited.com website (“the Website”) may links to many different sites, some of which may have their own terms and conditions and privacy policies of which you should be aware and accept prior to accessing and using the relevant site.
1.2 We request that all users read and accept the Terms and Conditions found
here and this bCreative Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”). If you do not agree to the terms and conditions or the Privacy Policy applicable to this Website or any website managed by us that links from the Website you must cease using the Website or the one linked from it that is within our control immediately.
1.3 We follow the mandates of Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”), and to ensure we comply with all protection the Act affords to you we have set out below how we intend to utilise the information provided by you when you register via the Website homepage. Further information on the Act is on the internet at
www.dataprotection.gov.uk.
1.4 When you access the Website, we will ask you to give us your name, email address and other personal information that will be needed to supply the services to you. You can ‘unsubscribe’ at any time. We may use your personal data for contacting you via the phone or e-mail for correspondence related to your subscription, support, notification of new products or new versions, general correspondence regarding the Website and correspondence which may relate you. If you would rather not receive future marketing emails from us once you have registered please inform us by e-mail at
_________@bCreativelimited.com.1.5 The information you provide will be kept confidential and will only be passed on to external companies if you have opted in to permit bCreative to give your contact information to selected companies, business partners, sponsors and advertisers. If you opt out of permitting bCreative to pass on your information, it will be used only to support your customer relationship with us (i.e. e-mails or telephone calls only from bCreative) and to provide the specified service. We do not disclose or sell your information outside our corporate group except if we sell the whole or part of our business.
1.6 Our Website may not always be available and the material on it may not necessarily reflect our views, in particular the material in any message rooms, bulletin boards or user submissions which may be accessible via the Website or those accessible from it. Any material found in any Website message rooms, bulletin boards or user submissions are not private and all users are responsible for content submitted by them. All users must also agree not to tamper with the Website and respect our intellectual property rights and those of our licensors. The Website may also have links to other websites over which we have no control.
1.7 In accordance with statutory obligations we only collect personal information from you which is necessary for us to supply the services to you. You have the option at any time to request that we:
1.7.1 remove details from our database;
1.7.2 update the information we hold about you;
1.7.3 request a copy of the information that we hold subject to the payment of a request fee; or
1.7.4 stop receiving data.
1.8 All you need to do is write to the address below quoting “bCreative Website” and in each case quote your name and leave a telephone number so that we may contact you. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity.
2. TRADING FROM OUR WEBSITE
2.1 You will have the opportunity to buy goods and services on line from our Website. Making sure you can buy safely on line is a priority for us. We have made strenuous efforts to ensure that security is one of our highest priorities, and we have devoted a great deal of effort to ensure that our online security measures help to safeguard your information. Where possible we use industry-standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of:
2.1.1 potentially sensitive information such as your name and address; and
2.1.2 critically-sensitive information like your credit card number.
2.2 If you are concerned only about the privacy of your credit card information, we encourage you to use an alternative payment method if available.
2.3 We hope that once you understand the measures we take to help ensure secure transactions and privacy, and the steps you can take yourself, you will be as happy about the safety of your online transaction and order information as we are.
3. COOKIES
3.1 A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are.
3.2 A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number.
3.3 Two types of cookies are used on the Website:
3.3.1 Session Cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site; and
3.3.2 Persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).
3.4 Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.
4. HOW WE USE COOKIES ON OUR WEBSITE AND WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT.
4.1 Session Cookies
4.1.1 To allow you to carry information across pages of our Website and avoid having to re-enter information.
4.1.2 To allow you to maintain a shopping basket.
4.1.3 Within registration to allow you to access stored information.
4.2 Persistent Cookies
4.2.1 To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our Website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
4.2.2 To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our Website and to help us improve the structure of our Website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
