Privacy Policy
At How To Buy British, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our web site. In this Privacy Policy, we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information and how we use it.
Types of data we collect
Contact Forms
Our website allows visitors to use contact forms to enquire about our services. These contact forms simply send us an email with the details of your enquiry, no personal information is stored on our server. When a visitor sends us an email via our contact form, their name and email address, along with their enquiry will be sent securely to our email address. Personal data sent via our contact forms will be used only to respond to enquiries.
Google Analytics
When someone visits www.howtobuybritish.co.uk we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.
Cookies
Our websites use cookies to collect information. This includes information about browsing and purchasing behaviour by people who access our websites. This includes information about pages viewed, products purchased and the customer journey around our websites. Detailed information is set out in our Cookie Policy.
Membership
British brands can sign up as a member of a How To Buy British directory. When doing so some personal data such as contact name, email address, phone number and physical address are a collected. A unique identifier (Account Number) is also created, and public IP address recorded for security reasons. By signing up as a member of the How To Buy British directory, you agree to the processing if this data.
Links to Other Web Sites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.
Access to your personal information
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we hold. Email your request to How To Buy British at howtobuybritish@mail.com
Changes to this Privacy Notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on 6th September 2020.
COOKIES
1.1. How To Buy British may set and access Cookies on your computer. You can read more about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org
1.2. You can choose to disable Cookies in your web browser. By default, your browser will accept Cookies, but this can be altered. For further details please consult the help menu within your browser.
1.3. How To Buy British may use 3 types of cookies on our website:
1.3.1. Cookies to help the use of your site. These do things such as remember items in your shopping basket and your email address when logging in. If you restrict or reject your use of these cookies you will find that your use of this website will be hindered including the inability to purchase items.
1.3.2. Third party cookies – The main third party cookies that How To Buy British use are one that track the use of this website. How To Buy British uses Google Analytics, supplied by Google Inc, to report on activity on this website. These cookies can only identify that someone has used the site and do not collect any personal data. For more information on this you can view Google Analytics’ privacy policy at https://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html. During your visit there may be cookies used that are not related to this website. These could be placed if you view images or video via YouTube or Flickr that are embedded in a page. How To Buy British does not control these cookies and you should check with the individual site for more information on these.
1.3.3. Cross platform advertising and user recognition – We also use Cookies provided by Facebook. These Cookies operate in different ways but are used in connection with advertising served to a user of the How To Buy British web site on Facebook, the recognition of such users and the devices used by the user to access Facebook and the How To Buy British web site. This Cookie is placed by Facebook. It enables How To Buy British to measure, optimise and build audiences for advertising campaigns served on Facebook. In particular it enables How To Buy British to see how our users move between devices when accessing the How To Buy British web site and Facebook, to ensure that How To Buy British Facebook advertising is seen by our users most likely to be interested in such advertising by analysing which content a user has viewed and interacted with on the How To Buy British web site. For further information about the Facebook Pixel please see: https://en-gb.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616.