Data Protection and Privacy Policy for Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings Limited's PAINT PRIZE DRAW
- About this Policy
Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings Limited, a company incorporated in England (Akzo Nobel, we, us) take the privacy of all our customers and website users seriously and we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
We respect your ability to make informed choices about the collection and use of your personal information. We are responsible for the processing of any personal information you provide to this site and is registered in the United Kingdom under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act).
The purpose of this Policy is to set out how we would use personal information that we may obtain about you. By entering your details into this website as part of the Paint Prize Draw you agree to our use of your personal information and to this Policy.
This Policy will be reviewed and enhanced from time to time and you should check this page regularly to see our most recent Policy.
- Use of your personal information
- When you register your details in order for us to send you a Fashion For Walls Colour Card (Colour Card) you will be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details. We will use the information obtained to provide our services to you and will store it and hold it on computers [and manually]. Information collected includes name, e-mail and postal addresses and telephone numbers.
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We may use information that you provide for a variety of purposes, including:
- to dispatch Colour Cards to you;
- to administer our website services generally; and/or
- to dispatch postal mail and emails to you about our products and services.
We will not provide you with such marketing information unless you consent to receiving it. If you do not consent to receiving such information you should tick the relevant boxes when registering your details on the website.
- Disclosure of your information
We may give information about you to the following:- to employees, agents and service providers of Akzo Nobel strictly for the purposes of administering the services provided to you by Akzo Nobel now or in the future;
- if we have a duty to do so under law or if the law permits us to do so.
We will only transfer information in accordance with this section 3 on the understanding that recipients keep such information confidential.
- Cookies
We use a number of new technologies including "Cookies" to provide you with, for example, customised information from our website. A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. Cookies allow us to understand how frequently particular pages are visited and to determine the most popular areas of our website. Depending on the type of cookie we use, cookies also allow us to make our website more user friendly, for example, permanent cookies allow us to save your passwords so that you do not have to re-enter it every time you visit our website.
If you wish you can [usually] adjust your browser so that your computer does not accept cookies. If you do this, you will still be able to browse around the site but some of our services will not be available. Alternatively you can adjust your browser to tell you when a website tries to put a cookie on your computer. How you adjust your browser to stop it accepting cookies or to notify you of them, will depend on the type of internet browser programme your computer uses. If your computer uses Microsoft Windows Explorer or Netscape Navigator, you will need to follow these instructions after clicking into this link www.allaboutcookies.org.
You should be aware that cookies do not contain confidential information such as your home address or telephone number. We do not exchange cookies with any third parties.
Your IP address is automatically logged by our servers and used to collect traffic data about visitors to our website. We do not use your IP address to identify you personally. If you wish to find out more about cookies, please refer to www.allaboutcookies.org.
- Your rights
You have a right to see personal data (as defined in the Act) that we keep about you upon receipt of a written request and payment of a fee (which is currently £10.00). If you are concerned that any of the information we hold on you is incorrect, please contact us via any of the channels set out in paragraph 8 below.
- Security
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose on-line. You accept the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing on-line over the internet and you will not hold us responsible for any breach of security (save to the extent that nothing in this Policy shall exclude or limit liability for death or personal injury resulting from our negligence or that of our servants, agents or employees or any other liability which is prohibited from being excluded by law).
- Sale of business
In the event that Akzo Nobel is sold or integrated with another business, your details may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers' advisers and will be passed onto the new owners of the business. We will only transfer information in accordance with this section 7 on the understanding that recipients keep such information confidential.
- Contact us
If you have any comments or queries in connection with our Privacy Policy, please call 0870 240 1127 or write to Akzo Nobel Decorative Coatings Limited, Customer Services PO Box 31 Crown House, Hollins Road, Darwen, Lancashire BB3 0BG.
Please also refer to our Terms and Conditions.
- Removal from marketing lists
If you want to be removed from our marketing lists, please send an e-mail to [insert e mail address] with the word "remove" in the subject line and the e-mail address that you wish to remove within the e-mail.
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