Information collection and Use

Highland Fishing Tackle.co.uk is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. Highland Fishing Tackle collects information from our users at different points on our website.

Registration

In order to purchase products fromHighland fishing tackle, a user must first complete a registration form. During registration a user is required to give their contact information (such as name and address) This information is used to contact the user about items that have been purchased, for example an email receipt of the secure transaction or  shipping notification.

Order

We request information from the user on our secure order form. Here the user must provide contact information ( like name and billing address) and financial information (like credit / debit card number and expiry date). This information is used for billing purposes and to complete the customers purchase. If we have trouble processing an order then this information will be used to contact the user.

This privacy statement discloses the privacy practices for Highland fishing tackle. To demonstrate our commitment to your privacy, we disclose our information practices in this document. Highland fishing tackle agrees to notify you of the following.

• How the information is used.
• With whom the information is shared.
• The  organization collecting the information.
• What choices are available to you regarding collection, use and distribution of this information.
• What personally identifiable information of yours is collected from you through the website.

The kind of security proceedures that are in place to protect the loss, misuse, or alteration of information under  the control of Highland fishing tackle.

Sharing

We use Worldpay to bill users for online purchases. This company does not retain, share, store, or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

Links

This website contains links to other websites.

Cookies

A  cookie is a piece of data stored on the users hard drive containing information about the user. Useage of a cookies is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser the cookie simply terminates. For instance by setting a cookie on our site, the user would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time whilst on our site. If a user rejects a cookie, they may still use our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience of using our site.

Security

This website takes every precaution to protect our users information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information will be protected both online and offline.

When our order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as card/debit card numbers and expiry dates), that information is encrypted and is protected by the best encryption software in the industry, -SSL while on a secure page, such as our order form. The locked icon on the bottom of web browsers such as Netscape navigator and Microsoft Internet  Explorer become locked, as opposed to un-locked or open when you are just surfing.

While we use SSL encryption to protect sensitive informationonline, we also do everything in our power to protect user information offline. All our customers information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above is restricted to key individuals.

Finally the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a highly secure enviroment. The data centre is monitered for all aspects of operational  security, and enviromental conditions. It is equipped with state of the art security and enviromental monitoring systems. These systems include,

• Card readers
• PINS
• Biometrics

Multiple sensors for intrusion detection

Additional sensors detect variations in temperature and humidity, as well as smoke and other changes in official system enviroments.

SPECIAL OFFERS

As we specalise in special offers, users of our website will receive information on our promotions and special offer deals. Out of respect for the privacy of our users we present the option for our users not to receive these types of communication please see our choice of opt outs.

Notification of changes

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post these changes on our homepage, so our users are always aware of what  information we collect. How we use it and which circumstances if any we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected we will notify users by email. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.