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PRIVACY POLICY

Website Privacy and Cookie Policy

 

Website Privacy Policy

 

This privacy policy is for this website www.csd-ltd.net and served by Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

 

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

 

The Website

 

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.

 

Cookie Policy

 

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

 

The cookies in use to deliver Google Analytics service are described below.

 

Cookie - __utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmv and __utmz

 

Title - Google Analytics

 

Description - These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.  They contain no personally identifiable information but they will use your computer’s IP address to know from where in the world you are accessing the Internet.

 

Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may 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.

 

Opt-out

 

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

 

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

 

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

 

Disabling Cookies

 

If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).

  • Internet Explorer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies

  • Google Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies

  • Mozilla Firefox

http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies

  • Apple Safari

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467

 

Contact & Communication

 

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

 

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

 

Email Newsletter

 

Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. operates an email newsletter program, which is used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe / unsubscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

 

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

 

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

 

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

 

External Links

 

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; www.toshiba-aircon.co.uk).  The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

 

Social Media Platforms

 

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. Neither this website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

 

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

 

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example:http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

 

Resources & Further Information

 

  • Data Protection Act 1998

  • Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003

  • Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 – The Guide

  • Twitter Privacy Policy

  • Facebook Privacy Policy

  • Google Privacy Policy

  • Mailchimp Privacy Policy

 

May 2018 - Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd.

 

Company Registration Number - 05377573 (England and Wales).

 

Registered office address:  Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. Units 9 & 10 Station Way, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 3HQ

 

CoolSol Website Privacy and Cookie Policy.pdf

 

PRIVACY POLICY

 

Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

 

This policy (together with our website privacy and cookie policy terms of use [http://www.csd-ltd.net/privacy]) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.  Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visitingwww.csd-ltd.net you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

 

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller is Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. of Units 9 & 10 Station Way, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 3HQ.

 

Information we may collect from you

 

We may collect and process the following data about you:

 

·         Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our sitewww.csd-ltd.net or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, search for a product, place an order on our site, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, company name, address, e-mail address, personal description and phone number, financial and credit card information.

 

·         Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:

 

·         technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

 

·         information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

 

·         Information we receive from other sources. We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. [In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site.] We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.

 

Cookies

 

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy [http://www.csd-ltd.net/privacy].

 

Uses made of the information

 

We use information held about you in the following ways:

 

·         Information you give to us. We will use this information:

 

·         to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us;

 

·         to provide you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about;

 

·         to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes, please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data (the [order form OR registration form]);

 

·         to notify you about changes to our service;

 

·         to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

 

·         Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

 

·         to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

 

·         to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

 

·         to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;

 

·         as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;

 

·         to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;

 

·         to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

 

·         Information we receive from other sources. We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

 

Disclosure of your information

 

We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.

 

We may share your information with selected third parties including:

 

·         Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with [them or] you.

 

·         Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.  [We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience].

 

·         Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

 

·         [Credit reference agencies for the purpose of assessing your credit score where this is a condition of us entering into a contract with you.]

 

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

 

·         In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

 

·         If Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets.

 

·         If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use [or terms and conditions of sale [[http://www.csd-ltd.net/coolsol], or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.]

 

Where we store your personal data

 

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

[All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted [using SSL technology].] Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

Your rights

 

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd, Units 9 & 10 Station Way, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 3HQ or sales@csd-ltd.net.

 

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

Access to information

 

The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with this Act.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

 

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

 

Contact

 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to sales@csd-ltd.net

 

May 2018 - Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd.

 

Company Registration Number - 05377573 (England and Wales).

 

Registered office address:  Cool Solutions Distribution Ltd. Units 9 & 10 Station Way, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 3HQ.

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