Collection of Personal Information

HalfPricePhones.co.uk collects personal information provided by you when you register for an account with us, complete a survey, and/or when you contact us to inquire about our products or services. When you provide personal information through our Website, the information may be sent to servers located in the different countries around the world.

The personal information we collect may include the following: Name, home address, email address, your home and/or mobile phone numbers, your gender, and your date of birth.

We may collect additional personal information in connection with your participation in any promotions offered by us.

Collection of Non-Personal Information

We may automatically collect non-personal information about visitors to our Website, such as number of visitors, Internet Protocol address, browser type, operating system and pages viewed, but we will not combine such data with any personal information. We use this data in the aggregate to determine how visitors use our Website so we can improve your experience on our Website. We also collect information about your transactions with us.

We may use “cookies” (text files placed on your computer by a web page server) or other technologies (such as web beacons and pixel tags) to collect such non-personal information. HalfPricePhones.co.uk uses cookies for a number of purposes, for instance to enable us to simplify the logging on process for registered users, to help ensure the security and authenticity of registered users, to provide the mechanisms for online shopping and to enable traffic monitoring.

Non-registered visitors to the Website are sent anonymous cookies to keep track of their browsing patterns and build up a demographic profile. In addition, any visitor who has clicked on a HalfPricePhones.co.uk advertisement on another site that links to HalfPricePhones.co.uk will be sent anonymous cookies that will allow us to analyze advertising effectiveness and manage our relationship with affiliate sites.

You can turn off the ability to receive any of these cookies by adjusting the browser on your computer.  If you refuse cookies, however, certain functions and conveniences of the Website may not work properly. For example, if your browser does not accept cookies, you will not be able to complete a transaction through our Website.

Additionally, when you download or use HalfPricePhones.co.uk mobile applications, we may collect and process information about your actual location and your mobile device, including a unique device identifier. We may use this information to provide you with location-based products and services, such as advertising, search results, and other personalized content. Most mobile devices allow you to turn off or opt out of location-based services.

WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION

This Privacy Policy applies to the website HalfPricePhones.co.uk (the “Website”) and any HalfPricePhones.co.uk sites, applications (including mobile applications), and services that reference this policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we collect, how we use that information, and the choices you have with respect to that information.

We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy carefully before using our Website or services or transacting business with us. By using our Website, you accept and agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

HalfPricePhones.co.uk is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. For more information, please see the section titled “Children and Privacy.”

Your Privacy Choices

If you provided HalfPricePhones.co.uk with personal information and have registered for an account with us, you may review and update your information by logging in and clicking on the “My Account” section. There, you may choose to opt out of receiving certain communications or information including the following:  account activity updates; surveys and focus group invitations; email promotions and special offers; mail catalogs and promotions; and phone updates and promotions.

HalfPricePhones.co.uk’s Commitment to Security

To prevent unauthorized access and ensure the correct use of information, HalfPricePhones.co.uk has put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Children and Privacy

HalfPricePhones.co.uk is committed to protecting the online privacy of users of this Website, particularly children. For this reason, HalfPricePhones.co.uk does not collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through our Website. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personal information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete the information immediately and close such user’s account.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR PREFERENCES

We may use personal information collected from you for several general purposes:

• To deliver the products and services that you have requested.
• To deliver your payment to you at the address you have provided.
• To collect or pick up items from you at the address you have provided.
• To respond to your inquiries.
• To manage your account and provide you with customer support including for administrative or operational purposes relating to our service.
• To send you offers and news about HalfPricePhones.co.uk products and services or those of other carefully selected companies which we think may be of interest to you.
• To conduct market research relating to the development of our products, services, and/or Website.
• To develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our Website and other sites.
• To verify your eligibility and deliver prizes in connection with contests and sweepstakes;
• To otherwise maintain and administer the Website.
• To send you push notifications for service-related updates (if you are using a HalfPricePhones.co.uk mobile application).
• To ask your opinions on our services (e.g., through surveys), which will help us improve our services and/or to perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

 We also may use your personal information to verify your identity and prevent or detect fraud. In performing these checks your information may be disclosed to credit reference agencies, who may keep a record of that information. This is not a credit check and your credit rating will be unaffected.

Please note that we may contact you by mail, email, telephone or fax for any of the above purposes.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we may transfer that information within the HalfPricePhones.co.uk corporate family. HalfPricePhones.co.uk also may disclose your personal information to other companies or people in any of the following circumstances:

To send the information to companies who work on our behalf to provide a product or service to you, however, we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes.

To conform or comply with the law, or if we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a court order or subpoena, to cooperate with investigations by law enforcement or regulatory authorities or to participate or cooperate with a judicial proceeding, to enforce applicable terms and conditions of this Website, or, in urgent circumstances, to protect the safety of persons or property, including this Website and/or

 In the event of a merger, consolidation or reorganization involving HalfPricePhones.co.uk, acquisition of HalfPricePhones.co.uk by another company, a sale of all or a portion of HalfPricePhones.co.uk’s assets, or other similar transaction, your personal information will, in most instances, be transferred to the control of a third party.

We may also use and disclose information in aggregate (so that no individual customers are identified and no personal information is revealed) for marketing and strategic development purposes.

THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISERS & LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

In addition to the non-personal information collected by HalfPricePhones.co.uk, as described above, we may allow third parties to serve advertisements on our Website and/or collect non-personal information through cookies or web beacons (or other technologies). These third parties may use such information (i) to help tailor site content to users; (ii) to serve ads on our behalf; (iii) to measure advertising effectiveness (such as which web pages are visited or what products are purchased); and/or (iv) to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Third-party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party’s own privacy policy, not HalfPricePhones.co.uk’s Privacy Policy. You can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org to learn more about third-party ad servers and the “opt-out” procedures offered by certain such companies.

Our Website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy (“Third-Party Websites”). If you access Third-Party Websites using the links provided, the operators of such sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their own privacy policies, which may differ from ours. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those Third-Party Websites so that you understand if/how they collect and/or use information from you or your computer.

COOKIES

‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information that allow a web server to collect information from a web browser. If you’d like to learn more about the way cookies work, visit http://www.cookiecentral.com.

HalfPricePhones.co.uk uses cookies for numerous reasons: they allow us to simplify the logging on process for registered users and ensure their security and authenticity, as well as providing the mechanisms for online shopping and allowing us to monitor traffic.

Non-registered users of HalfPricePhones.co.uk are sent anonymous cookies to track their browsing behaviour and build up a demographic profile. Any visitor who clicks on a HalfPricePhones.co.uk advertisement hosted on another site will be sent anonymous cookies that allow us to analyse the effectiveness of our advertising and manage our relationship with affiliates.

You don’t need to enable cookies to browse our website or access some of our services. However, you must enable cookies to complete transactions and access any pages reserved for registered users.

You can turn off cookies in your browser (refer to your browser’s help section for more information on how to do this). However, as mentioned above, this will restrict the HalfPricePhones.co.uk services you can use.

REVISIONS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

HalfPricePhones.co.uk reserves the right to update and revise this Privacy Policy at any time. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised since your last visit by referring to the “Effective Date of Current Policy” date at the bottom of this page. Your use of the Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Policy. You should review this Policy regularly to ensure that you are aware of future amendments.