Privacy Policy
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website
visitors this policy sets out how we will treat your personal
information.
(1) What information do we collect?
We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal
data:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and
use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical
location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number
of page views
(b) information relating to any transactions carried out between
you and us on or in relation to this website, including information
relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services
(c) information that you provide to us for the purpose of
registering with us
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of
subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or
newsletters
(2) Cookies
We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by
a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text
file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests
a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and
track the web browser.
We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on
your computer's hard drive. We may use the information we obtain
from the cookie in the administration of this website, to improve
the website's usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use
that information to recognise your computer when you visit our
website, and to personalise our website for you
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies. (For
example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by
clicking " Tools" , " Internet Options" , " Privacy" , and
selecting " Block all cookies" using the sliding selector.) This
will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many
websites [, including this one].
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website.
Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about
website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users'
computers. The information generated relating to our website is
used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will
store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.
Cookies In Use on This Site
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help
provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text
files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you
browse websites
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you'd expect
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like
Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to
offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this
website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this,
and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine
with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our
site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will
likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- Showing you which pages you have recently visited
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
- Remembering your preferences such as colours, text size and
layout
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to
not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by
third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Our
site includes the following which use cookies:
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered
by these third parties
Social Website Cookies
So you can easily “Like†or share our content on the likes of
Facebook and Twitter we have included sharing buttons on our
site.
Cookies are set by:
The privacy implications on this will vary from social network
to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you
have chosen on these networks.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many
people have visited our website, what type of technology they are
using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site
isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long
they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us
to continuously improve our website. These so called “analyticsâ€
programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people
reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have
been here before helping us to put more money into developing our
services for you instead of marketing spend.
We use:
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser
settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here).
Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our's and a
large proportion of the world's websites as cookies are a standard
part of most modern websites
It may be that you concerns around cookies relate to so called
"spyware". Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you
may find that anti-spyware software achieves the same objective by
automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive. Learn
more about
managing cookies with antispyware software.
The cookie information text on this site was derived from
content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a
marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar
information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit
tool.
(3) Using your personal data
Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the
purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of
the website.
We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer the bestcarfinder.co.uk
(b) improve your browsing experience by personalising the
website
(c) enable your use of the services available on the website
(d) send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to
you services purchased via the website
(e) send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments
from you
(f) send you general (non-marketing) commercial
communications
(g) send you email notifications which you have specifically
requested
(h) deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you
relating to the website
We will not without your express consent provide your personal
information to any third parties for the purpose of direct
marketing.
(4) Other disclosures
In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the
purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may
disclose information about you:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law
(b) in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective
legal proceedings
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights
(including providing information to others for the purposes of
fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
[(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business
or asset which we are (or are contemplating) selling.
Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide
your information to third parties.
(5) International data transfers
Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and
transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in
order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this
privacy policy.
(6) Security of your personal data
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions
to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal
information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our
secure servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive
from us will be encrypted [using SSL technology]
Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently
insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over
the internet.
You are responsible for keeping your password and user details
confidential. We will not ask you for your password.
(7) Policy amendments
We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a
new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally
to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may also notify you of
changes to our privacy policy by email.
(8) Your rights
You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information
we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to
the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £ 10.00).
You may instruct us not to process your personal data for
marketing purposes by email (to sales@bestcarfinder.co.uk) at any
time. (In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in
advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or
we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of
your personal data for marketing purposes.)
(9) Third party websites
The website contains links to other websites. We are not
responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party
websites.
(10) Updating information
Please let us know if the personal information which we hold
about you needs to be corrected or updated.
(11) Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our
treatment of your personal data, please contact us