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The Data Protection Act 1998 applies to personal information. This is data about living, identified or identifiable individuals and includes information such as names and addresses, bank details, and opinions expressed about an individual. In order to be able to process your order, we have to ask you for your e-mail address, your name, your shipping address and, depending on payment method, your bank sort code and account details or credit card number and expiry date. This information is also required If you take part in a competition or other promotion, UK Homegrown will need your name, address and e-mail address, so that we can advise you of any outcome of our promotional material.
UK Homegrown music store is based on e-commerce and other web applications with encrypted web space on our secure shared servers. Full 128-bit SSL encryption provides industry-standard security with a certificate from Thawte.
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 UK Homegrown will inform you of what your personal information will be used for to ensure that our use of your personal information does not break any other laws. UK Homegrown will inform you when, what and why we use your personal information, to ensure that the use of personal information does not break any other laws. When we obtain personal information. UK Homegrown will tell individuals : The name of the individual, business or organisation your information will be sent too : What your information for : If any other information needed to make use of your personal information is required : UK Homegrown will inform you of your right to access your information and have it corrected if it is factually inaccurate.
UK Homegrown would not make use of your personal information for any reason you would not expect. UK Homegrown would only send you direct marketing about our own products and services, and will not pass your personal details to another organisation. UK Homegrown will always seek to obtain your permission prior to passing on information about an individual to another business or organisation. UK Homegrown will only pass on information once we have obtained your consent. However, there are exceptions to this. which would relate to a need to know basis in accordance with UK public protection and Law Enforcement requirements.
UK Homegrown comply with the rules in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations by disclosing our identity and providing a valid email address to all recipients - as well as legal responsibilities we have as a marketer. UK Homegrown will only carry out unsolicited marketing by electronic mail once we have obtained your permission.
There are two types of procedure that can be used when signing up a new subscriber to receive your email marketing messages - single or double opt-in. Single opt-in is when a person provides their email address and simply indicates that they would like to receive future emails from your business.
UK Homegrown. tracks user traffic patterns by means of Google Analytics that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to our site However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. UK Homegrown. does break down overall usage statistics according to a user's domain name, browser type, by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user's browser.)
UK Homegrown. sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
An IP address is a number that's automatically assigned to your computer whenever you're surfing the Web. Web servers automatically identify your computer by its IP address. When a guest request pages from our site, our servers log the guest's IP address. The IP addresses are collected for the purposes of system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. We do not link IP addresses to anything personally identifiable. This means that a guest's session will be logged, but the identity of the guest remains anonymous.
We may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. UK Homegrown will use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates. (UK Homegrown does not currently use Cookies but will inform you when they are in use).
Advertising networks that serve ads onto our sites may also use cookies. We do not control these cookies, and these cookies are not subject to our policies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
By using this site, you signify your consent to our Privacy Policy and to the collection and use of this information by UK Homegrown. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use this site.
Any amendments made to our Privacy Policy, will be posted on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.