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Privacy Policy

1st Rate Products is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to our website at 

www.1st-rateproducts.co.uk.

Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us. By placing an order on this website, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy. This statement is readily available on our main home page and can also be found at the bottom of every web page.

Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us. By registering or placing an order on this website, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.

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It is important you read this notice, together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal information about you so that you are aware of how and why we are using such information. Under the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are required to notify you of the information contained in this privacy notice.

WHAT TYPE OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We may receive, collect and store your name, address, email address, phone number and any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; customer login/password information for our website; computer and connection information, and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION?

When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

WHY DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  1. To provide and operate the goods or services requested, and to allow you to access all parts of our website;

  2. To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

  3. Where consent has been given, we might also use your information to let you know by email about other products and services which we offer which may be of interest to you. If you change your mind about being contacted in the future, please let us know.

  4. To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services; 

  5. To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

HOW DO WE USE AND STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.  

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE WITH YOU?

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

HOW CAN YOU WITHDRAW CONSENT?

If you don’t want us to process your data anymore, please contact us at admin@1st-rateproducts.co.uk or you can write to us at 1st Rate Products, 13a Pentire Road, Newquay TR7 1NX.

COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of data stored on a site visitor's browser. They are typically used to keep track of the settings users have selected and actions they have taken on a site.

Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:

  • To provide a great experience.

  • To identify registered members

  • To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of Wix's platform.

  • To ensure our platform is secure and safe to use. 

 

 

WHAT ARE COOKIES?

Also known as browser cookies or tracking cookies, cookies are small, often encrypted text files, located in browser directories. They are used by web developers to help users navigate their websites efficiently and perform certain functions.

Website servers set cookies to help authenticate the user if the user logs in to a secure area of the website. Login information is stored in a cookie so the user can enter and leave the website without having to re-enter the same authentication information over and over.

 

Session Cookies are temporary cookie files, which are erased when you close your browser. When you restart your browser and go back to the site that created the cookie, the website will not recognize you. You will have to log back in (if login is required) or select your preferences/themes again if the site uses these features. A new session cookie will be generated, which will store your browsing information and will be active until you leave the site and close your browser. 

 

Cookies act as a sort of “bookmark” within the site.  Similarly, cookies can store ordering information needed to make shopping carts work instead of forcing the user to remember all the items the user put in the shopping cart.

 

Persistent or Tracking Cookies Persistent cookies are files that stay in one of your browser's subfolders until you delete them manually or your browser deletes them based on the duration period contained within the persistent cookie's file.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

 

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us admin@1st-rateproducts.co.uk or you can write to us at 1st Rate Products, 13a Pentire Road, Newquay TR7 1NX.

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