PRIVACY POLICY for www.sequoiaonsustainability.com
Updated on 27th May 2010.
At Sequoia we value your privacy, and we are dedicated to safeguarding it when you visit our site or communicate electronically with us. This Privacy Policy, together with our terms of use, provides an explanation as to what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you.
We update this Policy from time to time so please review it regularly.
Information We Collect
In operating our website, we collect certain different types of information about you. This is used to help us communicate with you and to improve the way we run the site, to update our records and to maintain your account with us. We may also use it to help us prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website, and to enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide to us by filling in forms on our website, such as when you register for information or make a purchase.
- Data that is provided to us automaticaily, such as details of your visits to our website and the resources that you access, including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.
- Information provided to us when you communicate with us for any reason.
- Information about you from other sources, which we might add to our account information.
Use of Cookies
On occasion, we may gather information about your computer for our services. Such information will not identify you personally - it is statistical data about our visitors and their use of our site. This statistical data does not identify any personal details whatsoever.
Similarly to the above, we may gather information about your general internet use by using a cookie file. Where used, these cookies are downloaded to your computer automatically. This cookie file is stored on the hard drive of your computer as cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and the service that we provide to you.
All computers have the ability to decline cookies. This can be done by activating the setting on your browser which enables you to decline the cookies. Please note that should you choose to decline cookies, you may be unable to access particular parts of our website.
If you are using a shared computer and you leave cookies turned on, please be sure to log off when you finish using our site.
Use of Your Information
The information that we collect and store relating to you is primarily used to enable us to provide our services to you. In addition, we may use the information for the following purposes:
- To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our products or services.
- To meet our contractual commitments to you.
- To notify you about any changes to our website, such as improvements or service/product changes, that may affect our service.
- To enable you to use our services.
- To process your transaction or subscription, and correspond with you accordingly
- To stop you posting or sending offensive, inappropriate or objectionable content anywhere on our website, or where you otherwise engage in any disruptive behaviour on our website.
- For website administration, including enabling us to respond to any comments on the website or feedback you may give us.
If you are an existing customer, we may contact you with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
If you are a new customer, we will only contact you or allow third parties to contact you if and when you have provided consent and only by those means you provided consent for.
If you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data.
Storing Your Personal Data
We may transfer data that we collect from you to locations outside of the European Economic Area for processing and storing. Also, it may be processed by staff operating outside the European Economic Area who work for us or for one of our suppliers. For example, such staff maybe engaged in the processing and concluding 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. We will take all reasonable steps to make sure that your data is treated securely and in agreement with this Privacy Policy.
Data that is provided to us is stored on our secure servers. Details relating to any transactions entered into on our site will be encrypted to ensure its safety.
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent to us electronically and transmission of such data is therefore entirely at your own risk. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password so that you can access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
Disclosing Your Information
Where applicable, we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group. This includes, where applicable, our subsidiaries, our holding company and its other subsidiaries (if any).
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties:
- Where we sell any or all of our business and/or our assets to a third party.
- Where we are legally required to disclose your information.
- To assist fraud protection and minimise credit risk.
Third Party Links
You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
Access To Information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access the information that we hold about you. Should you wish to receive details that we hold about you please contact us using the contact details below.
Contacting Us
We welcome any queries, comments or requests you may have regarding this Privacy Policy. Please do not hesitate to contact us at :
The Sequoia Partnership
Berwyn House
2-4 High Street
Chalfont St Peter
Buckinghamshire
SL9 9QA
Email : contact@sequoia.uk.com
Our Privacy Policy has been provided and approved by website privacy policy provider LegalCentre.co.uk.
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