What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Data Collect
We may collect various pieces of
information if you seek to place an order for a product with us on the Site.
We collect, store and process your data for processing your purchase on the
Site and any possible later claims, and to provide you with our services. We
may collect personal information including, but not limited to, your title,
name, gender, date of birth, email address, postal address, delivery address
(if different), telephone number, mobile number, fax number, payment details,
payment card details or bank account details.
We will use the information you provide to enable us to process your orders and
to provide you with the services and information offered through our website
and which you request. Further, we will use the information you provide to
administer your account with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in
relation to payments you make; audit the downloading of data from our website;
improve the layout and/or content of the pages of our website and customize
them for users; identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our
users’ demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which
you have requested from us, including information about our products and services,
provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for
these purposes. Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email
with details of other products and services. If you prefer not to receive any
marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
We may pass your name and address on to a third party in order to make delivery
of the product to you (for example to our courier or supplier). You must only
submit to us the Site information which is accurate and not misleading and you
must keep it up to date and inform us of changes.
Your actual order details may be stored with us but for security reasons cannot
be retrieved directly by us. However, you may access this information by
logging into your account on the Site. Here you can view the details of your
orders that have been completed, those which are open and those which are
shortly to be dispatched and administer your address details, bank details (
for refund purposes) and any newsletter to which you may have subscribed. You
undertake to treat the personal access data confidentially and not make it
available to unauthorized third parties. We cannot assume any liability for
misuse of passwords unless this misuse is our fault.
Other uses of your Personal Information
We may use your personal
information for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and
will only be used for statistical purposes. You can choose to opt out of this
at any time. Any answers to surveys or opinion polls we may ask you to complete
will not be forwarded on to third parties. Disclosing your email address is
only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions. We save the
answers to our surveys separately from your email address.
We may also send you other information about us, the Site, our other websites,
our products, sales promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other
companies in our group or our business partners. If you would prefer not to
receive any of this additional information as detailed in this paragraph (or
any part of it) please click the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email that we send
to you. Within 7 working days (days which are neither (i) a Sunday, nor (ii) a
public holiday anywhere in Pakistan) of receipt of your instruction we will
cease to send you information as requested. If your instruction is unclear we
will contact you for clarification.
We may further anonymize data about users of the Site generally and use it for
various purposes, including ascertaining the general location of the users and
usage of certain aspects of the Site or a link contained in an email to those
registered to receive them, and supplying that anonymized data to third parties
such as publishers. However, that anonymized data will not be capable of identifying
you personally.
Competitions
For any competition we use the
data to notify winners and advertise our offers. You can find more details
where applicable in our participation terms for the respective competition.
Third Parties and Links
We may pass your details to other
companies in our group. We may also pass your details to our agents and
subcontractors to help us with any of our uses of your data set out in our
Privacy Policy. For example, we may use third parties to assist us with
delivering products to you, to help us to collect payments from you, to analyze
data and to provide us with marketing or customer service assistance.
We may exchange information with third parties for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction. We may transfer our databases containing
your personal information if we sell our business or part of it. Other than as
set out in this Privacy Policy, we shall NOT sell or disclose your personal
data to third parties without obtaining your prior consent unless this is
necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy or unless we are
required to do so by law. The Site may contain advertising of third parties and
links to other sites or frames of other sites. Please be aware that we are not
responsible for the privacy practices or content of those third parties or
other sites, nor for any third party to whom we transfer your data in
accordance with our Privacy Policy.