G H Lucas & Co. Ltd Privacy Pledge
We understand that making purchases online involves a great deal of trust on your part, we take this trust very seriously and make it our highest priority to ensure the security and confidentiality of the personal information you provide us. (By personal information we mean information that can be linked to a specific individual, such as name, address, phone number, or e-mail address). As a visitor to G H Lucas & Co. Ltd you have the right to understand our information privacy practices prior to providing G H Lucas & Co. Ltd with any of your personal information.
What information we collect
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd only collects personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.
How we use your information
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd uses your personal information only for the purpose of responding to and fulfilling your requests for G H Lucas & Co. Ltd products and services. Who we share your information with
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd does not share your personal information with any outside companies or organisations (other than third party delivery companies and Mailchimp). G H Lucas & Co. Ltd does not sell or rent your personal information to any third party. How you can control the use of your information
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd provides you with choice and control over the collection and use of your personal information, as well as a means of updating, correcting, or removing any personal information stored in your user account.
How you can decide what marketing communications you’ll receive
The only directly targeted marketing communication G H Lucas & Co. Ltd provide is the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd newsletter and G H Lucas & Co. Ltd require that you specifically request that this be sent to you. Aside from that G H Lucas & Co. Ltd will only send you e-mail that relates to a specific purchase you have made on the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website or in response to a request on your part.
How we protect your information
To ensure the confidentiality of your sensitive personal information, G H Lucas & Co. Ltd uses leading security technology (Secure Sockets Layer protocol). This means that any sensitive information which you transmit to us is encrypted and cannot be intercepted and accessed by any third party. In addition, unlike other internet companies, G H Lucas & Co. Ltd do not store your credit card details for future purchases. Credit card information is only stored until your current transaction is processed and during this time it is stored in an encrypted from on our secure internal database.
By providing you with this Privacy Statement, G H Lucas & Co. Ltd is pledging our continued commitment to protecting the information you provide us.
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd Privacy Statement
The following text contains details of the full privacy statement for G H Lucas & Co. Ltd
Information collected about you
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects personal information about you that you specifically and voluntarily provide. Personal information includes information that can identify you as a specific individual, such as your name, phone number, or e-mail address. Although you are required to provide personal information in order to complete a purchase or register for a user account many areas of the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website can be accessed without providing any personal information.
On all the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website pages that collect personal information, we specifically describe what information is required in order to provide you with the product or service you have requested.
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects personal information when you:
1. Become an G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account holder 2. Complete a purchase (either as an account holder or not) 3. Contact G H Lucas & Co. Ltd via the form provided on the website or by phone/email 4. User Account information 5. G H Lucas & Co. Ltdcollects your username, password, full name, address, telephone numbers (optional) and e-mail address when you register a user account with us. Note that you do not need to have a user account to purchase products from us via our website, it is purely provided as a service to you to speed up the repeat order process.
Purchase information
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects credit card information, including the billing address, card number, card type, cardholder name, and expiration date, in order to bill you for products purchased through G H Lucas & Co. Ltd. Note that G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website obtains your credit card number over an encrypted link so no third party can intercept it and in addition to that your credit card details are then encrypted and stored on our secure internal database until your order is processed.
Contacting G H Lucas & Co. Ltd
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects personal information such as your full name, email address, and/or contact telephone number whenever you submit a question ,suggestion, or request assistance from G H Lucas & Co. Ltd.
Other information we collect
Some information is collected automatically every time you visit G H Lucas & Co. Ltd. G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects information about your computer and assigns you a “cookie” (a small, unique identifier text file) when you visit G H Lucas & Co. Ltd. You do not provide this information, it is collected automatically as a means of supporting your visit to our site (e.g. tracking your shopping basket contents etc.). This cookie does not contain any personal information.
Computer information
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd collects certain technical information from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website. This information is collected from your computer’s web browser and may include your IP address, operating system, web browser software (e.g. Netscape Navigator, Internet Explorer etc.), screen resolution and referrer web site. Some of this is standard webserver log information similar to that recorded by any website and webserver on the internet and some of it is recorded by Javascript programmes used to tailor how our website is presented to your browser.
Use of your information
Information collected on the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website may be used to:
1. Register you as an G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account holder 2. Process your order (either as an account holder or not) 3. Send email notification of order confirmation 4. Respond to any enquiry made via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website 5. Improve the quality of your visit to the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website 6. User Account information
When you register for an G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account we use your information to create your account.
Purchase Information
Information collected when you complete an order is used to confirm, process, charge your credit card and deliver your order.
Email order notification
The email address provided either when you complete your order or via your user account information is used to send you an automatic confirmation of the receipt of your order.
Enquiry Response
The information you provided to us when making an enquiry either via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website or via email (e.g. name, email address, telephone number) will be used to contact you with a response to your enquiry.
Improving the quality of your visit to the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website
Some of the technical information collected from your computer each time you request a page during a visit to the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website is used to tailor how the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website is presented to your browser. Examples of this include using a cookie to record if you have visited before and hence not displaying the welcome splash screen if you have and dynamically building the dropdown menu (present across the top of all pages except the Home page) to suit the browser you are using.
Sharing your information
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd does not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. The only circumstances where we provide personal information supplied by you to third parties are as follows:-
Service providers
The only time we pass on personal information about you is to our service providers which at present means those companies used by G H Lucas & Co. Ltd to deliver products purchased via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website. To these service providers we provide the minimum information required for them to carry out their business of delivering your orders.
Our legal obligations
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd may be required by law to disclose information you have provided in obtaining our products or services. G H Lucas & Co. Ltd may also disclose information against someone who poses a threat to G H Lucas & Co. Ltd interests (such as customer fraud) or whose activities could bring harm to others.
Other Web Site
There are several places throughout G H Lucas & Co. Ltd that may link you to other websites that do not operate under G H Lucas & Co. Ltd information privacy practices. When you click through to these websites G H Lucas & Co. Ltd information privacy practices no longer apply. We recommend that you examine the privacy statements for all third party websites to understand their procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information.
Communications from G H Lucas & Co. Ltd
Visitors to the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website will receive communications from G H Lucas & Co. Ltd when they:-
1. Place an order via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website 2. Create an G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account 3. Close an G H Lucas & Co. Ltduser account 4. Contact G H Lucas & Co. Ltd with an enquiry either via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website or via email
Place an order via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website
When you place an order via the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website you will receive an email confirming your order. The email will contain the personal details you supplied to G H Lucas & Co. Ltd via the checkout form (excluding credit card details for security reasons) and details of your order (i.e. which products you ordered and the associated costs).
Creating G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account
When you create an G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account you will receive an email confirming this action. The email will contain the username you chose and the full name you supplied, but not your password (for security reasons).
Closing G H Lucas & Co. Ltd user account
When you close a user account you will receive a email confirming this action. The email will contain the username you chose and the full name you supplied.
Contact G H Lucas & Co. Ltd with an enquiry
If you have contacted G H Lucas & Co. Ltd with an enquiry you will receive a reply either by email or via telephone depending on the information you gave when submitting your enquiry.
Protecting your information
We want our site visitors and user account holders to feel confident about using G H Lucas & Co. Ltd to purchase their products so we are committed to protecting the information we collect. G H Lucas & Co. Ltd has implemented a security program to keep information that is stored in our systems protected from unauthorized access. Currently G H Lucas & Co. Ltd only stores the information you provide when registering as a user account holder, purchasing a product or making and enquiry.
Our systems are configured with data encryption technologies and industry-standard firewalls. When you send sensitive personal information (e.g. when completing your order or when creating a user account) to G H Lucas & Co. Ltd over the Internet your data is protected by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption technology to ensure safe transmission and prevent third party interception of you personal information.
G H Lucas & Co. Ltd has also obtained a digital certificate from one of the major providers of digital security certificates for internet companies. This certificate verifies that when a document is requested via the secure sockets layer protocol from the G H Lucas & Co. Ltd website that G H Lucas & Co. Ltd are a recognised and trusted entity and therefore your browser will negotiate a secure connection to the site (this is what activates the padlock symbol/key symbol in your browser).
Additionally all personal information that you give us is stored on our secure internal database and credit card numbers are encrypted to provide an additional layer of security. Unlike a lot of internet companies who only worry about visible security when you send sensitive personal information to them (e.g. credit card numbers), but then go on to retrieve your information via a standard web link to their back end systems we at G H Lucas & Co. Ltd guarantee to only ever retrieve your sensitive personal information from our webservers via a secure link and can assure you that our systems have been built on this premise.
