• Privacy Policy

QC Privacy Policy

QC Supplies (“We”) commit ourselves to protecting and respecting your privacy when visiting our website. This privacy policy sets out how we will process and use any personal data that you provide to us, or that we may collect as a result of visiting www.qcsupplies.com.

Please read the following information to understand our practices with regards to your personal data and how we will treat it.

Information We May Collect From You

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Any information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes provided information at the time of registering to use our site, posting material, requesting further services or subscribing to any service offered by us on the site. We might also request further information and if you should report a problem with our site.
• We may keep a record of any correspondence if you should contact us.
• Details of the resources you access and of your visits to our site.
• Details of transactions you may carry out through our site and of the completion of your orders.

IP Addresses and Cookies

We may collect information about your computer; this is statistical data concerning your browsing actions and does not identify you individually. This information includes your IP address where available, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report collective information to our advertisers.

We may also collect information about your general internet usage using cookie files stored on the hard drive of all computers. The cookies contain valuable information that is transferred to your computers hard drive. In collecting this information we are able to improve our site and deliver a better and more personalised service.

You can refuse to accept cookies but note that in doing this you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. You can do this by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting.

Uses Made of the Information We Collect

We use the information held about you in the following ways:

• To notify you of any changes to our service.
• To ensure that the content of our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.
• Where you have consented to be contacted, to provide you with the information, products and services requested from us or in the event that we feel will be of interest to you.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, should you choose to do so.
• In allowing ourselves to carry out our obligations concerning any contracts entered into between you and us.

We may also use your data to inform you and provide information on goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want your data used in this way or passed onto third parties for marketing purposes please tick the relevant box on the form in which we collect your data.

Disclosure of Your Information

As defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985 we may disclose your personal information to any member of our group. These include our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries. We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

To the prospective buyer or seller of any business or assets in the event that we sell or buy.
If we are under a duty to comply with any legal obligation to disclose or share your personal data. To protect the rights, property and safety of our customers or others, or to enforce our terms of use for the site. For the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction this may include exchanging information with other companies and organisations.

Third Party Websites

From time to time our site may contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you visit any of these sites please note that they have their own privacy policies and you should check these before submitting any personal data. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

Access to Information

In accordance with the Act you can exercise the right to access any information we hold about you.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We will where appropriate notify you by email of any changes made to our privacy policy and these changes will also be posted on this page.

Contact

We welcome any questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy. Please email info@qcsupplies.com

Cookies

Visiting our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept cookies tells us that you want to use our products and services and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies to provide them to you as described below. See below for information on how to modify the settings in your browser to notify you when you receive a new cookie and disable cookies altogether.

Cookies and How We Use Them

Cookies are a simple text file that we transfer to your computer or mobile device’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide services. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. Our cookies do not contain any personal information about you and are used only to determine your browser and user preferences for our website, these maybe either for the duration of your visit (using a ‘session cookie’) or for repeat visits (using a ‘persistent cookie’). We believe that this can greatly assist us in providing you with an enhanced user experience, as cookies make the interaction between you and our website faster and easier.

We also use cookies for additional purposes, including:

• Identifying you when you sign-in to our site. This allows us to provide you with product recommendations and display personalised content
• Keeping track of items stored in your shopping basket
• For web analytics to help us understand how our site is performing and to help us improve areas of the site that do not perform aswell
• Preventing fraudulent activities
• Improving security
• Providing Social Media content

Cookies and Browser Settings

The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. Additionally, you can disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. We are currently working on a method to provide you with this choice directly from our website and we will inform you as soon as this feature has been launched.