Privacy Policy

Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd Privacy Policy

Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd treats the privacy of our customers and visitors with the utmost of care.  This policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect, use and safeguard personal information you may choose to provide and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our website.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Chiropody Appliance Service Limited (company number 05155438) of (registered office) 1 Cornhill, Ilminster, Somerset, TA19 0AD and (main business address) Unit 5b, Colyton Business Park, Wheeler’s Yard, Colyton, Devon, EX24 6DT.  Our registration number under the Act is PZ206780X.

1.     What information do we collect?

You do not have to provide personally identifiable information to visit our website.  Visitors can choose to provide this information to Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd through our website, for example:-

a)     by registering with us

b)     by ordering goods from us

c)     by sending us an email

d)     by contacting us to ask a question, report a problem or for any other reason

Such information may include, but is not limited to the following: your name, your billing address (and a delivery address if different to your billing address), your email address, telephone number and credit card number. 

We may collect personal information using our website, over the telephone, by post or through any other means of communication that we may have with you.

2.     How we use it

When visitors supply information about themselves for a specific purpose, Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd uses the information for that purpose.  We may use the individually-identifiable information:-

a)     to register users of our website and administer their accounts;

b)     if you use our website to request information about our services;

c)     if you choose to order and purchase goods from the website you may need to provide personal information and authorization to obtain information from various credit services;

d)     to process orders, supply goods and process payments;

e)     to respond to enquiries and complaints;

f)      to monitor use of our website and detect and prevent its misuse;

g)     to carry out security checks and assist in the detection and prevention of fraud and other criminal and unlawful activity (this includes, amongst other things, conducting checks to verify purchaser identity, and credit and debit card and other payment details);

h)     to communicate with you;

i)      to contact you via email, post or telephone regarding additional products you may find useful;

j)      to maintain our own business records and accounts, and keep a record of the above matters.

We do not sell or disclose individually identifiable information obtained on-line about our visitors to anyone outside of Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd unless law requires it, or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety of customers, employees or property.

3.     Security

Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd maintains an appropriate level of physical, electronic and managerial procedures in order to protect your information collected from its website.  This includes maintaining computer equipment, networks, programs and documentation to a high standard and restricting access to equipment and information to appropriate staff.

Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd combines technical and physical safeguards and procedures to protect your information but cannot guarantee that it is 100% secure.  We work to protect your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information that you provide online at our website.  We will use commercially reasonable efforts to protect your information, continue to assess new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, upgrade our information security systems.

4.     Links to other websites

Parts of our website may contain links to third-party websites for your convenience and information.  If you use these links, you will leave the Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd website.  When you access a non-Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd website, even one that may contain the Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd logo, understand that we do not control the content and are not responsible for the privacy practices of that website.  We suggest that you carefully review the privacy policies of each website you visit.  This Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of those other websites linked to our website.  These other websites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information.

5.     Cookies and how we use them

Our website may use "cookies" to improve our level of service to visitors.  Cookies are lines of text (small files) that are transmitted to your web browser when you click on a website.  Your browser stores the information on your hard drive and when you return to that website later, the cookie is transmitted back to the server that originally sent it to you.  Cookies provide a way for a server to recall a previous request or previous registration, or to keep track of a transaction as it progresses, so that information does not have to be repeated.  You can refuse to accept cookies by activating the relevant part of your internet browser.

6.     Children’s Privacy

Our website is maintained for business purposes and is not marketed towards or intended for the use of persons under the age of 18.

7.     Changes to our Privacy Policy

As we provide more services on our websites and as privacy laws and regulations evolve, it may be necessary to revise or update our Privacy Policy without notice, however we will not change the purposes for which we process your personal information or reduce the level of our protection of your personal information without your consent.  We will post changes on our website so our visitors are aware of what information we collect, use and disclose.

8.     Enquiries

To be removed from our contact lists, or to submit an enquiry or make a complaint, please use our Contact Us page or write to Chiropody Appliance Service Ltd at the following address:

Chiropody Appliance Service Limited

Attn: Webmaster

P O Box 32

Colyton

Devon

EX24 6YR, UK

This Privacy Policy was last updated on February 02, 2010,

By using our website you consent to the collection and use of information as described above.