Privacy Policy and Cookies

Richardson e-Safety Store (ReSS) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy or any other documents referred to in it, sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding 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:

    Information that you provide by filling in forms on this websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.

     If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

     We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

     Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data.

COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are placed on to your computer’s hard drive by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

The cookies used by this website and their purpose are identified and described below. Please be aware that denial of the cookies used by this website may prevent parts of the website from working properly. 

First party cookies 

First party cookies are set by the website you are visiting and they can only be read by that site. To make full use of the online shopping experience on ReSS website, your computer, tablet or mobile phone will need to accept these cookies.

Session cookies

Session cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from the users device when the browser is closed. This is used for example to keep track of your login or shopping basket while using our site. These are strictly necessary to the working of the website, and if they are disabled then various functionalities on the site will not work as expected.

Persistent cookies

These cookies are saved on your computer for a fixed period (usually a year or longer) and are not deleted when the browser is closed. We use these persistent cookies when we need to know something related to you for more than one browsing session.

Tracking cookies

These cookies enable the function of our authorised providers to help us gather and analyse non-specific visitor information such as browser usage, new visitor numbers, response to marketing activity and shopping times. That information helps us to improve the website and your shopping experience, and to make our marketing campaigns relevant. These are typically persistent cookies.

Third party cookies

When you visit any ReSS website, you may notice some cookies that are not related to ReSS. If you go on to a web page that contains embedded content, for example from Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, you may be sent cookies from these websites. We don't control the setting of these cookies, so we suggest you check the third-party website for more information about their cookies and how to manage them.

MANAGING COOKIES

Most browsers allow some user control of most cookies through the browser settings.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled.

There are a number of ways to manage cookies. If you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. You can search for "cookies" in the "Help" function for information on where to find your cookie folder and the controls to manage them.

If you continue to browse our sites without adjusting your browser settings you are agreeing to our use of the cookies listed above until such time as you adjust your browser.

WHERE WE STORE PERSONAL DATA

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these.

If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (email or SMS) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of previous sale to you.

If you are a new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

We may collect information about your computer.  This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.   

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may only disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

a)     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.

b)    If Richardson Oil and Gas Limited 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.

c)    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 terms of use (if applicable) and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Richardson Oil and Gas Limited 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.

Our site 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.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and can be posted using the Contact us form.

TERMS OF USE

Please see our Terms of Use policy regarding access to and use of our sites.