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PRIVACY POLICY
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Version 1.0 - Effective from 16/03/2006
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The privacy of our website users is important to us and we take care to safeguard it. This policy explains how we use such personal information as we may hold about you.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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other important legal information
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queries
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If you have any queries concerning your personal information or any questions on our use of the information, please contact our data protection compliance officer at info@stewart.co.uk
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changes
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Our privacy policy is regularly reviewed to make sure that we continue to serve your privacy interests. We reserve the right to modify or otherwise update this privacy policy and these changes will be posted on our website. We encourage you
to visit this page from time to time to ensure that you are aware of any changes we may have made.
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WHO WE ARE
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us
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In this Privacy Policy references to "we”, “our” and “us" are to Stewart & Company Seedsmen Limited. For more information about us, please see click on this link.
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WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW
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| information volunteered by you |
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The information we collect via this website may include any personal details you type in and submit (such as your name, address, email address, etc.)
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IP addresses
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The information we collect via this website may also include your IP address (this is your computer’s individual identification number that is assigned to your computer when connected to the Internet) which is automatically logged by our web-server.
This information is collected by our website host in the United Kingdom.
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cookies
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In order to save you re-entering information, this website collects data which allows us to recognise you, your preferences and how you use this website. This data is collected by temporary ‘session cookies’ from
your navigation around the site. They remain in the cookie file in your browser during the session but are erased when you close your browser. The cookie file does not store your personal information.
For more information about cookies (including how to set your browser to reject cookies) please visit the website set up by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (Europe) at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
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.information from credit reference agencies & fraud prevention agencies
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If you apply for a trade account with us, we may search at credit reference and fraud prevention agencies for information, including credit details, on:
• you;
• other members of your family; and
• if you have one, on your financial associate.
(A financial associate is a person, such as your spouse or partner with whom you have, or have had, joint personal financial arrangements, such as joint accounts or have made joint credit applications).
Credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies may supply to us:
• credit information such as previous applications and the conduct of the accounts in your name and of your financial associate(s) and/or your business accounts (if you have any);
• public information such as County Court Judgments (CCJs) and bankruptcies;
• Electoral Register information; and
• fraud prevention information.
We and other organisations may also access and use from other countries the information recorded by fraud prevention agencies.
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WHAT WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION
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compliance
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Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable laws.
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keeping you informed
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| You do not have to give us any personal information in order to use most of this website. However, any information which you choose to give us via this website may be added to our marketing database and may be used
by us for administration of our contacts, supporters and customers and for marketing our services and our events.
We may send you information from time to time, which we believe may be of interest to you, such as details of our products and services, news updates and invitations to our events. It is possible that these messages may contain input from
other companies or organisations with whom we are dealing.
You may ask us to cease sending marketing information at any time by emailing us at enquiries@stewartsturf.com or by writing to us at our postal address which can be found by clicking on this link.
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sharing your personal information
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| We may share personal information about you with:-
• our agents and data processors who provide a service to us and you; • any person or business (and their advisers) who might take over our rights or responsibilities under our agreement with you to allow them to prepare for taking these over (after that, we may also allow that person or business to use and
share your information on the same basis as us); and
• if you apply or hold a trade account with us, we will also share your personal information with credit reference and fraud prevention agencies.
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transfer abroad
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To provide you with the good or services you have asked for, we may share your information with organisations outside the European Economic Area (which currently comprises the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway). We will not do
this unless we are reasonably satisfied that your information will be processed as securely as if we were processing it within the European Economic Area.
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statistical analysis
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The IP addresses logged by our website host may be used:-
• by our website host to perform technical diagnosis of our website’s performance on a statistical basis; and
• by us to analyse traffic data (so as to gauge interest in our website).
Unless we suspect fraud, we do not use your IP address to identify you personally
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fraud prevention
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.If you apply for a trade account with us, we will also use the information that we obtain to verify your identity and undertake checks for the prevention and detection of fraud and/or money laundering.
If you give us false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may also pass this information to fraud prevention agencies and other organisations involved in fraud prevention.
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law enforcement
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We reserve the right to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the investigation of alleged unlawful activities of our website users or relating to our website users. We will have no legal liability for such disclosures.
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reporting to credit reference agencies
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We may give details of your trade account (if you have one) including names addresses and parties to the account, and how you manage it to credit reference agencies. If you do not repay us in full and on time, we may record this with credit reference
agencies and we may trace your whereabouts and recover payment.
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USE OF YOUR INFORMATION FOR TRADE ACCOUNTS:
CREDIT REFERENCE AND FRAUD PREVENTION AGENCIES
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details of credit searches
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| If you apply for a trade account with us, the credit reference agencies we use will add to your record details of our searches and your application, and this will be seen by other organisations that make searches.
The credit reference agencies may also link together your records and those of anyone that you have advised is your financial associate (including previous and subsequent names of you and any associates.) Links between financial associates will
remain on your and their files until such time as you or your financial associate successfully files for a disassociation with the credit reference agencies.
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use of your records
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If you apply for a trade account with us, we and other organisations may also access and use your personal information to prevent fraud and money laundering, for example, when:
• checking details on applications for credit and credit related or other facilities;
• managing credit and credit related accounts or facilities;
• recovering debt;
• checking details on proposals and claims for all types of insurance; or
• checking details of job applicants and employees.
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YOUR RIGHTS
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update/delete data
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You can ask us to update or remove your personal information by emailing enquiries@stewartsturf.comor by writing to us at our postal address, which can be found by clicking on this link. However,
please note that we may need to keep some personal data in order to carry out any services or provide any goods you may request in the future.
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access to data
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You also have the right to request a copy of any personal information we hold about you. To do this, simply write to us at our postal address which can be found by clicking on this link, enclosing a cheque for GBP10 payable to ‘Stewart & Company
Seedsmen Limited’ to cover our administration costs.
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correct & current
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Data Protection legislation states that we must ensure that personal data held by us is accurate and up-to-date. Please help us to fulfil this obligation by informing us of any changes in your personal details by contacting us at the email or
postal address which can be found by clicking on this link.
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fraud prevention agencies
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If you are applying for or hold a trade account with us and you want to receive details of the fraud prevention agencies we get information from and record information about you with, please contact us. You have a legal right to see these
details.
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more information
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Detailed information about your rights under UK Data Protection legislation can be found on the website of the United Kingdom Information Commissioner, the address of which is (as at the date of this Privacy Policy)
http://www.ico.gov.uk/eventual.aspx The telephone number of the Information Commissioner’s Office is 01625 545 700 (or (44) 1625 545 700 if phoning from outside the United Kingdom.)
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OTHER WEBSITES
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hyperlinks
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| This Privacy Policy only covers personal data collected via this website. While we carefully select the websites to which we link, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these websites.
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