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Privacy - GDPR

Collection And Use Of Personal Information

The information we gather from customers is used to process orders,
deliver products, process payments, communicate with you
about orders, promotional offers and to update our records.

Types Of Information We Gather

Information you give us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website
or give us in any other way. But we do NOT store
details of your credit/debit card.

Automatic information:
We receive and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with us.
For example like many web sites we use 'Cookies'
when you use our shopping cart.
This does NOT store details of your credit/debit card.

E-mail communications:
We receive and store e-mail addresses only obtained
from customers or subscribers to our newsletter.
If you contact us for other reasons your details are not stored.

What Are Cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your
computers hard drive via your web browser to enable our
shopping cart system to recognise your browser
and store details of the items you have
placed in the shopping cart.
It can also store your name, address, telephone
and e-mail details but only if you choose too.
For your security it will NOT store any credit/debit card details.

EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive

Also commonly known as the 'EU Cookie Law' which
came into effect on 26th May 2012 and limits
the use of Cookies without your consent.
We use Cookies for the shopping cart only
which is absolutely an essential cookie.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

Any online communication which contains sensitive information
such as credit/debit card details is submitted using
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software using 128-bit encryption.
You can confirm this by looking for
https:// at the start of the URL in the address bar.

Our shopping cart is provided by Mal's e-commerce
and card payments are processed via Paypal Commerce
Platform, both are verified PCI-DSS compliant.
The cart is certificated secure by GeoTrust SSL.

Order confimation e-mails do NOT contain any credit/debit card details.

We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in
connection with the collection, storage and disclosure
of personally identifiable customer information.
Our security procedures mean that we only disclose such
information to yourself. The only exception to this rule,
is a request from recognised Law Enforcement Agencies.
We do not disclose any information to 'Third Parties'.

All our computer systems are firewall protected and constantly monitored
by anti-virus software, plus being regularly checked for malware infects.
Our shopping cart administartion area is multiple password protected
and your credit/debit card details are NEVER present
or stored physically or electronically on our systems.

Cookie Policy

Cookies and How They Benefit You

Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do,
but we use only for the shopping cart process.
Cookies are small text file that are placed on your
computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.

What We Use Cookies For

To remember the items that you place in the shopping cart.

What We Do NOT Use Cookies For

To collect any personally identifiable information
To collect sensitive information (including Debit or Credit Card details)
Pass any data to third parties or advertising networks

Granting Us Permission To Use Cookies

We use the standard practice of 'Implied Consent' as your
browser is almost certainly set to accept 'Cookies' by default.
Plus the cookies we use are essential cookies only.

Cookies That We Use

Cookie type: Mals e-Commerce       Cookie names: ckcar, pcd, rf
To allow the shopping cart and checkout process to work.
They remember the cart contents, name and address.
They also send these details to our payment gateway provider
Paypal Commerce Platform. This so that we can fulfil your order.
Learn more at Mal's Privacy Policy