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Online Privacy Practices

Your right to privacy is important to us

This note describes our privacy policy and by visiting this site you accept the practices described in the note.

We are keen to strike a fair balance between your personal privacy and ensuring you obtain full value from the Internet and other products and services we may be able to market to you.

Trading from our Web Site

Making sure you can buy safely on line is a priority for us and we have made strenuous efforts to ensure that Store security is one of our highest priorities and we have devoted a great deal of effort to ensure that our online security measures help to safeguard your information.

When you order goods from us, we will also store the following information about you:

  • Your name

  • Your email address

  • Your phone number

  • Details of your order(s)

  • The delivery address(es) for your order(s)

  • Your billing address(es)

We may contact you regarding your order, but once your order has been fulfilled we will only contact you again in the future if we have your consent to do so. If you provide this consent, you will always be given the chance to withdraw it in the future.

All payments by credit card over the Internet are processed through a secure server by Netbanx on our behalf. We do not handle your credit card information.

We do not carry out any on-line transactions. Netbanx Limited ("Netbanx") carries out all credit card transactions on our behalf. Netbanx does not provide us with any customer credit card details. Transactions will be subject to any terms and conditions Netbanx may impose. If you wish to review the Privacy Policy of Netbanx you can see this at: http://www.netinvest.co.uk/ncr/netbanx/privacy.html

Information relating to the transaction, including credit card details, may be held on secure servers owned by Netbanx. For the avoidance of doubt, we do not hold any customer credit card details on any of our server or on premises that are owned or occupied by us.

Whilst we take every precaution to protect the information you supply, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, we make no warranty as to the security of any information you transmit to us. You transmit information to us at your own risk.

We have no desire to infringe your privacy while using our site and we will never provide your personal information to anyone else except if we sell our business in whole or in part.

Companies perform functions on our behalf, such as fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail etc. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions but may not use it for other purposes.

The Secretariat will release personal information where it believes such release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements, or protect the rights, property or safety of the Secretariat or users, or others.

Cookies

We do not use cookies for collecting user information from the site and we will not collect any information about you except that required for system administration of the Web server and otherwise as described above.

Further Information on Data Protection and Personal Privacy

For further information from us on data protection and privacy contact:

The Commonwealth Secretariat
Marlborough House
Pall Mall
London
SW1Y 5HX
Or email publications@commonwealth.int

Information on the Data Protection Act 1998 is also on the Information Commissioner's web site at www.dataprotection.gov.uk

Use of this Site is subject to our Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy of the Commonwealth Secretariat
Version 1 October 2003