Privacy Policy

Shop For A Gift  is committed to your privacy rights. Since we gather and compiles certain types of information about our users, we want you to fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the use of that information.

This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it. This policy only applies to the collection of information at this site. Different policies may apply to other websites owned by the registered owners of Shop For A Gift, or information that we get offline.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, contact us by email at jim@(at)shopforagift.co.uk

We can also be reached by phone at +44 (0)20 3239 1090 or by mail at Shop For A Gift, 6 Heritage Close, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, TW16 6PY, United Kingdom

This policy will notify you of the following:

Information Shop For A Gift gathers and tracks

Shop For A Gift gathers personally identifiable and other information about users (such as name, postal address, email address, gender, date of birth, interests, other demographic information, etc.). This information is obtained in connection with a user’s registration on our site. Shop For A Gift receives information about who has registered on the Shop For A Gift website to receive newsletters and offers from third party marketers and Shop For A Gift affiliates.

This Privacy Policy applies to consumers that have signed up directly on the www.shopforagift.co.uk website or through the web sites of our media partners, either on their own behalf or on behalf of a friend or family member.

We may use the personal information that you supply to us and work with other third party businesses to bring selected retail opportunities to our users via direct mail, email and telemarketing. These businesses may include providers of direct marketing services and applications, including lookup and reference services, data enhancement, suppression and validation, and email marketing.

Cookies & Computer-Related Information

Shop For A Gift does not enable “cookies” on our website with one exception. Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive and are used in website system administration to keep track of movement of an individual from one screen to another. This information may be used by our staff to detect and resolve website problems and to assist with customer support concerns.

We do not collect any personally identifiable information about site visitors in this process. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent this. Please be assured that accepting a cookie does not give us access to your computer or personal information under any circumstances. If you disable cookies, you may be unable to order or use other features of our sites. If you experience any problems, please contact us via our enquiry form for help.

Our web server automatically collects information from your computer and navigation patterns when you visit our site, including your Internet Protocol (IP) address, the computer’s operating system, the type of browser you use, and the specific web pages visited during your connection. We may also track data such as the total number of visits to our website and the number of visitors to each page of our website.

We may use this information, in aggregate form, for system maintenance and to better understand how our visitors use our site and services so that we can make them better. Shop For A Gift may also share statistical or demographic information in aggregate form with third parties for marketing or research purposes. This aggregate data will not contain any information that personally identifies you.

Use of Information

Shop For A Gift uses information voluntarily given by the web site users, and/or their friends or family members, in order to provide such individuals with information on products and/or services that may be of interest to them.

We and/or our marketing partners may enhance and/or merge personally identifiable information about users with data collected from other sources to use in direct and/or online marketing and, to the extent permitted by law, individual reference and look-up service programs. In the event we enhance and/or merge such personally identifiable information with data collected from other sources, we will take reasonable steps to maintain the integrity and quality of that information.

In addition, users may receive postal mailings from our marketing partners as well as periodic postal mailings from us with information on products and services or upcoming events. Users may also be contacted via email or telephone by us or our marketing partners. In accordance with CAN-Spam regulations, all emails received will have relevant unsubscribe mechanisms.

Sharing of Information

Shop For A Gift shares or uses the information described above to help advertisers and third party marketers better understand the demographics of our registrants and for their marketing purposes. Shop For A Gift shares personally identifiable information (including information that has been enhanced with information from other sources) with advertisers, third party marketers, and our affiliates for their direct and/or online marketing efforts and, to the extent permitted by law, for individual reference and look-up service programs. While Shop For A Gift seeks to contractually obligate our partners to treat information in accordance with accepted marketing practices, Shop For A Gift does not control the practices of its advertisers or third party marketers.

If users indicate that they do not want to have their email address shared with third parties for general email marketing solicitations, Shop For A Gift will limit the use of their data to certain direct marketing services.

These services currently include the provision of personally identifiable information to third parties to validate and enhance existing information held by marketers about their customers. For example, a marketer may use personally identifiable data provided by Shop For A Gift to add information about the user to its own file for use by that marketer in its own marketing efforts. Similarly, a marketer may use such data merely to verify or validate the accuracy of data about such user that the marketer already possesses; to suppress further marketing messages being sent by such marketer to a user; or in connection with individual reference and look-up service programs (i.e., services used primarily to identify, locate, or verify the identity of an individual).

Users’ requests to unsubscribe from Shop For A Gift email solicitations will be processed promptly, but in any event within 10 days. In the event that technical difficulties prevent the immediate processing of unsubscribe requests, such requests will be processed as soon as technically feasible. In addition, Shop For A Gift will not knowingly share information that supports pornographic promotions or sites.

At all times, Shop For A Gift reserves the right to disclose information where required by law or to comply with valid legal process (such as a search warrant, subpoena or court order), to protect the company’s rights or property (including without limitation in the event of a transfer of control of Shop For A Gift or substantially all of its assets), or during emergencies when safety is at risk. Nonetheless, users will have the opportunity to choose whether or not they want to receive further information and offers from Shop For A Gift following a change of ownership or control.

Opt-out/Unsubscribe Policy

By submitting personal information on Shop For A Gift users allow Shop For A Gift and its affiliates to make that personally identifiable information available to third parties that are making offers in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

Shop For A Gift provides users the option to opt-out from receiving information sent via electronic mailings by Shop For A Gift or their affiliates on behalf of third party advertisers who are clients, or to opt-out from Shop For A Gift sharing information with advertisers or third party marketers for promotional purposes. Users may unsubscribe to emails sent via our Shop For A Gift site at any time by following the instructions contained at the end of every Shop For A Gift newsletter or emailing. Users may also opt-out of receiving such emails and other Shop For A Gift marketing efforts, as well as opt-out of permitting Shop For A Gift to share their personally identifiable information with advertisers or third party marketers for online and offline promotional purposes by contacting us by email at jim@(at)shopforagift.co.uk; by phone at +44 (0)20 3239 1090 or by mail at Shop For A Gift, 6 Heritage Close, Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey, TW16 6PY, United Kingdom

Information sent on behalf of third party advertisers by Shop For A Gift is prepared days in advance, so users may continue to receive email from Shop For A Gift for up to 72 hours after following the unsubscribe procedures detailed above.

We want to be sure that we keep only the most accurate and up to date information about you in our records.

Therefore, whenever you believe that your contact information needs to be updated, you can email us at jim@(at)shopforagift.co.uk to correct or update your contact information.

Security Policy

Shop For A Gift has created security guidelines to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of user information. Access to personally identifiable information is only provided to authorized Shop For A Gift employees via a password. Shop For A Gift employees are made aware of our security guidelines during our employee orientation process. Our security guidelines are reviewed quarterly based on our fiscal calendar.

Notification of Changes

Users will be notified of any changes to this privacy policy statement via our electronic mailings or a notice posting on the Shop For A Gift home page.

Last updated, 01/06/2010