At bathmart we take security very seriously and make every effort to protect your 'on-line' transactions with us.
How do we make sure that others do not have access to your credit card information?
As required by the UK Data Protection Act of 1998, we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information that you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we are able to disclose sensitive information to you. We absolutely retain the right to refuse any transactions made via our site.
Cookies and other information we monitor from you
When you browse the site the only way we can obtain any kind of personal information is if you submit it to us voluntarily.
bathmart requires that you supply personal information, including an e-mail address when making a booking or when wishing to join our e-mail offer service.
When you buy products from our site, we need to know your name, email address, delivery address, credit or debit card number and expiry date. This allows us to process and fulfill your order, and to notify you of your order status and the whereabouts of your order. We also ask for your telephone number that enables us to contact you urgently if there is a problem with your order.
Where the facility is offered you are responsible for keeping safe any password that you select to use the bathmart web site. Thus, please be careful when using the password.
We do employ cookies (download of files to your PC to record your visits to the site) to measure site usage and related information.
How is your personal information used to benefit you?
This information is used to communicate with you, to understand your shopping needs and to offer future relevant products and services to meet your needs.
What do we do with your personal information?
We will process any information you give us in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act of 1988, this privacy policy (detailed below) and our security policy.
We collect personal information (data) from customers at the time of their order or enquiry. Information about you and your order will be held on the computers (and in other ways) of bathmart.
Information about products and services
We will never sell your details to third parties for marketing purposes. We may transfer information to businesses within our group and other co-operative organisations to keep you informed about their products. You may opt out of receiving marketing information by advising a member of staff when placing your order.
Prevention of fraud, debt tracing and collecting monies
We may use the data you provide for the purposes of financial control and debt recovery through outside agencies.
Business Administration
We may use the information you provide for the purposes of administration, customer service, business management, market research and analysis.
Prevention of crime
We may provide your information to the public authorities, such as the police, customs and immigration if required by them or as required by law.
By making an order with bathmart you are accepting on behalf of yourself and your party that you consent to the uses, transmission and disclosure of information as described, irrespective of the levels of the data protection provided in any particular country, and understand that this is at your own risk. You have given explicit consent on behalf of your party to provide bathmart with their information and allow processing of the data.
The information you supply will be held and used by bathmart, in accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act for the purposes of administration, statistical and business analysis and marketing. We will never sell your details to third parties for marketing purposes. However, we may transfer this information to our subsidiaries to keep you informed of products and services that may be of interest to you. If you would prefer not to receive any offers or marketing information about products and services, emails us on info or alternatively write to us (at the address detailed) and we will correct them as soon as possible.
We may use visitor information to measure the entry and exit points of visitors to the site and respective numbers of visitors to various pages and sections of the site and details of searches performed. We may also use this information in the future to measure the usage of advertising banners, and other click through from and to the site.
We have security processes in place to ensure that our customers' data that is held on a central database is not accessible by any unauthorised persons. However, persons such as IT systems suppliers may need to have access to the system from time to time.
We do not rent or sell our customer lists to any organisation or individual. We may however use the lists to process customer information and research our customers' needs and preferences.
Visitors to the site who subscribe to our e-mail service or visitors purchasing products on the site whom have not opted out from receiving promotional emails, may receive promotional mailings and e-mails from bathmart.
bathmart will provide a summary of any personal information held upon request. This information will only be sent to the e-mail address on file for the subscriber name associated with it.
* Links to other website's and Principle Clause
bathmart, its contractors, agents, owners, and employees cannot accept responsibility for the content or the privacy policies of web sites to which it may link and in all cases it should be known that bathmart acts as agent and not principle for any products or services it provides.
Any future changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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