Privacy
IMI Cornelius is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of
this Website. For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the
"Act"), the data controller is IMI Cornelius (UK) Limited
440427, whose registered office is at Russell Way, Bradford Road,
Brighouse, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom HD6 4LX.
IMI Cornelius collects and stores the information provided by you
through its registration process. IMI Cornelius will use these details
to contact you from time to time with information about new ranges,
promotional offers and new initiatives from IMI Cornelius. IMI Cornelius
may compile data in aggregate form so that it can better understand
users that visit the Website. For example, IMI Cornelius may produce
reports on the most popular search forms by collecting general search
form data based on individual searches. If you no longer wish to receive
any information from IMI Cornelius, please send a blank e-mail to
optout@corneliusuk.com and your details will be removed from its mailing
list.
None of the data that IMI Cornelius obtains will be provided to third
party organisations in anything other than aggregate statistical form.
It is not IMI Cornelius’s policy to pass on personal information about
our users to third parties.
All data collected from users is protected against unauthorised access.
As required by the Act, IMI Cornelius follows strict security procedures
in the storage and disclosure of information that you have given to it,
in order to prevent, as far as possible, any unauthorised access.
However, due to the nature of the medium, IMI Cornelius is unable to
provide any guarantee that information stored by it will not be subject
to unauthorised access and you acknowledge that any information which is
provided by you, is provided at your own risk.
When you visit this Website IMI Cornelius may send your computer a
“cookie” (a small file that resides on your computer’s hard-drive).
Cookies allow IMI Cornelius to make this Website more stable so that it
can give you a better and more user friendly experience. You can set up
your browser not to accept cookies. If you choose to disable cookies you
may not be able to access certain features on this Website.
Collection and use of Information
IMI Cornelius may collect information about your computer, including
where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for
system administration and to report aggregate information to our
advertisers. This is statistical data about IMI Cornelius users'
browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
For the same reason, IMI Cornelius may obtain information about your
general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the
hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help IMI Cornelius to
improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalised
service. Cookies also enable IMI Cornelius:
- To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
- To store information about your preferences, and so allow us to
customise our site according to your individual interests.
- To speed up your searches.
- To recognise you when you return to our site.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your
browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if
you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our
site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our
site.
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we
have no control.
IMI Cornelius may disclose your personal information to any member of
our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company
and its subsidiaries, as defined in Part 38 of the UK Companies Act
2006.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case
we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of
such business or assets.
- If IMI Cornelius or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a
third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers
will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in
order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or
apply our Website Terms of Use or our Terms and Conditions of Supply and
other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of IMI
Cornelius, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of
fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for
marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your
data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to
disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can
exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes
on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the
right at any time by contacting us at [optout@corneliusuk.com]
Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the
websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you
follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites
have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any
responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these
policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to Information
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your
right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access
request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing
you with details of the information we hold about you.
By using this Website you consent to the collection and use of
information gathered by IMI Cornelius through this Website.
In the event that IMI Cornelius decides to change its Privacy Policy, it
will post the changes on this Website.