Privacy Statement

This notice describes the privacy policy of buyorkney.com. By visiting buyorkney.com, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

Controllers of Personal Information

Any personal information provided to or to be gathered by buyorkney.com is controlled primarily by buyorkney.com and the owner of the site and content, which is Orkney Limited.

Collection and Use of Personal Information about Customers

The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually improve your shopping experience at buyorkney.com. We use the information to

deal with orders, payments and to communicate with you, and

to advise you about orders, products, services and promotional offers, and

to update our records and generally maintain your accounts with us, and

to display content such as wish lists and customer reviews and recommend merchandise and services that might be of interest to you. and

to improve our site, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.

We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You provide most of such information when you search, buy, bid, post, participate in a contest or questionnaire or communicate with us. You can choose not to provide certain information.

We may receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. Information that we may gather automatically may include:

the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, and

login, and

e-mail address, and

password, and

computer and connection information such as browser type and version, and

your operating system and platform, and

purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features, and

the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), and

products you viewed or searched for, and

pages you visited, and

your auction history, and

any phone number used to call us.

We might also receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information. For example we may receive updated delivery and address information from our carriers or other third parties, which we use to correct our records.

Do We Share the Information We Receive?

Information about our customers is an important part of our business and we are not in the business of selling it to others. buyorkney.com shares customer information only as described below and with associated companies of Orkney Limited which share a similar privacy policy.

Businesses we do not control:

We share customer information with affiliated or associated businesses which provide shop or store facilities on the buyorkney.com web site and which share a privacy policy similar our own.

We may also operate stores, provide services or sell product lines with or on behalf of these businesses. You can tell when a third party is involved in your transactions and we may share customer information related to those transactions with that third party.

Agents:

We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, and processing credit card payments.

They have access to personal information needed to perform their particular functions, but may not use it for other purposes. Further, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Statement and as permitted by the UK's Data Protection Act.

Promotional offers:

We may use personal information to select a group of buyorkney.com customers to receive offers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address.

Protection of buyorkney.com:

We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate

to comply with law,

to enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements, or

to protect the rights, property or safety of buyorkney.com, our users or others.

This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in a way that is contrary to the commitments made in this Privacy Staement.

With your consent:

With the exception of the occasions outlined above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Whenever we transfer personal information to countries outside of the European Economic Area in the course of sharing information as set out above, we will ensure that the information is transferred in accordance with this Privacy Statement and as permitted by the UK's Data Protection Act.

Security of Information

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

We reveal only the last five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the appropriate credit card company during order processing.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

buyorkney.com gives you access to certain information about your account. This extent of the information will change as our website evolves.

Conditions of Use, Notices and Revisions

If you choose to visit buyorkney.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Statement and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages and application of the laws of Scotland. If you have any concern about privacy at buyorkney.com, please e-mail us and provide us with full details of the issue and of your particular concerns and we will try to resolve the issue for you.

Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Statement applies to all information that we have about you and your account.