This privacy policy sets out how The Workwear Company uses and protects any information that you provide to us.
The Workwear Company is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
We may need to update this privacy policy from time to time, and we will notify you of any significant changes.
Use of this site and our services is subject to the terms of this privacy policy and our terms and conditions.
This policy is effective from 16/05/2018.
Current data protection law sets out a number of different legal bases for which we may collect and process personal data. These include:
The Workwear Company collects data to provide order / transaction information and to improve services for our customers.
We use information that you give us when joining as a customer, as well as information that we get from your use of our services.
This information may include:
We use this information for the following reasons:
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.
Where the organisation engages third parties to process personal data on it's behalf, such parties do so on the basis of written instructions, are under a duty of confidentiality and are obliged to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of data.
We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
We may retain a ‘suppression file’. This will contain minimal data and will be used to ensure we do not market to individuals who have withdrawn their consent to being contacted or marketed to.
We will regularly screen our data to ensure that it is erased after the purposes for processing the data have concluded.
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to help safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
All requests sent to our web servers are logged with an IP address. For logged-in users this IP address is also recorded for the applicable online user profile. This security procedure is undertaken solely as a security and fraud-prevention measure and the information obtained is not used for any purpose other than helping to keep our customer's personal and commercial data secure and ensure the availability of our internet services.
The Workwear Company endeavours to keep our website secure at all times. However, you recognise when providing your information to us through our website or when you send us or ask us to send you any of your confidential information by email, that the internet and email communications over the internet may not be secure. The Workwear Company cannot be held responsible for any loss or unauthorised interception of information transmitted via the internet which is beyond our control.
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. Once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy, you should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
You have certain rights under existing data protection legislation pertaining to the processing of your personal data.
A "cookie" is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's device e.g. a computer, tablet or mobile phone. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a website. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tell a website when the user has returned.
They are used by most websites including The Workwear Company's online store. To make the best use of our website, on any device, users need to make sure that the web browser is set to accept cookies.
The Workwear Company use cookies for online business-to-business transaction processing and in order to:
Cookies that are stored in the computer's memory only during a user's browsing session and are automatically deleted from the user's computer when the browser is closed.
These cookies usually store a session ID that is not personally identifiable to users, allowing the user to move from page to page without having to login repeatedly. They are widely used by commercial websites (for example, to keep track of items that a consumer has added to an online shopping basket).
Session cookies do not collect any information from the user's computer.
Session cookies expire at the end of the user's browser session and may no longer be accessible after the session has been inactive for a specified length of time, usually 20 minutes.
The Workwear Company use session cookies within our website.
Cookies that are stored on the user's computer and are not deleted when the browser is closed. Persistent cookies can retain user preferences for a particular website, allowing those preferences to be used in future browsing sessions.
Persistent cookies can be used to analyse users' surfing behaviour within the website. These cookies can also be used to provide information about numbers of visitors, the average time spent on a particular page and generally the performance of the website. They are usually configured to keep track of users for a prolonged period of time, in some cases many years into the future.
