We are completely committed to the protection of the privacy of our website visitors and telephone customers, this privacy policy has been created to document how information is collected and how it is used. By accessing our website or telephoning us, you are agreeing to the terms of this privacy policy.

This privacy policy was created and is maintained by: -

Art & Crafts Direct Ltd
Unit A, Coney Green Networkcentre
Wingfield View
Clay Cross
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S45 9HX

Website: http://www.artandcraftsdirect.com/
Email: contact@artandcraftsdirect.com
Tel: +44 (0) 871 4237680
Fax: +44 (0) 1246 860652

This part of the document shows how personal information is collected and used. To fulfil an order over the internet or telephone it is necessary for us to collect your personal information including but not limited to name, company name, address, post code, telephone number, fax number and email address.

Upon placing an order on-line it is also necessary for us to collect your payment details, including but not limited to name on card, card number, start date, expiry date, card type and issue number. This information is never visible to us and is sent to our third party payment processor, Protx (www.protx.com) who then transfer the funds from your credit/debit card into our bank account.

Upon placing an order by telephone it is necessary for us to collect your payment details as above, this information is entered directly into our 'Card Holder Not Present' payment system which will process your order, these payment details are never stored by us.

Upon registering a membership for the website we ask you to submit your email address, this is used to activate your account as well as receive notifications of activity on our message forum and gallery. You can stop notifications at any time through the Edit Profile section of the members area.
Additional information collected at registration includes but is not limited to name, address and post code, this information is optional and should only be entered if you wish to receive our catalogue by post.

Information collected upon registering as a member can be rectified or erased at any time by the member through the Edit Profile section of the members area.

Information collected upon submitting an order can be rectified or erased at any time by the customer contacting us.

Although no technology can be fully secure, we take appropriate steps to secure all data entered by our users. All pages which allow a user to enter sensitive information such as payment details are encrypted to the industry standard level.

We will not publish, give, sell or rent your information to anyone. However, we reserve the right to disclose user information when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with us, other users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities. We also reserve the right to disclose user information when we believe that the law requires it.

Upon browsing to the website, information will be stored on your computer in a cookie, a cookie is a small text file which websites use to store information on the users computer.
Information stored about you includes but is not limited to: -

» Shopping cart information
» Search engine, phrases and keywords
» Visit duration
» Pages viewed
» Operating system
» Web browser
» Referral URL

This information is used for us to understand the technologies used by our visitors to further improve the website.

This policy was last updated on the 25th June 2007.

We may change this privacy policy at any time and without notice.