Accredited Supplier’s Privacy Policy – effective 06.11.2009
Accredited Supplier takes privacy concerns very seriously. If you would like to contact us regarding a privacy concern or question, please get in touch using the following details:
Write to us:
Office 52
12 South Bridge Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DD
Email us:
privacy@accreditedsupplier.co.uk
We aim to respond to all privacy questions within a maximum of 5 business days and in most cases much sooner.
Our Commitment to Privacy
This document outlines the privacy practices Accredited Supplier (our, we, accreditedsupplier.co.uk) follows to ensure our website visitors and customers understand the implications of using our website. Use of our website, becoming a buyer (requesting a quotation) or becoming a supplier (receiving requests for quotations) through Accredited Supplier indicates full acceptance of our privacy policy.
Links to External Sites
Accredited Supplier links to other websites not owned and operated by Accredited Supplier, and has no control over their content or privacy practices. We are not responsible for the content of third party websites, and we encourage you to check their privacy policy.
Personally Identifiable Information
Accredited Supplier collects personally identifiable information to assist in serving buyers and suppliers, to improve efficiency and for marketing purposes. We may supplement your information with additional non personal information acquired from third parties, and it may also be linked with information taken from our log files, cookies, web beacons or other methods used to track your use of Accredited Supplier’s website. This information could be supplemented with information on your browser type, operating system, click stream data, internet protocol (IP) address, referring and exiting URLs and your internet service provider.
Call Recordings:
When you contact Accredited Supplier or are contacted by Accredited Supplier, your calls may be recorded for training and monitoring purposes.
Requesting Quotations:
If you are requesting a quotation, you will be required to provide to provide the following contact information:
1. Your name, email address, telephone number, company name, job position, address and website.
2. You will be required to provide answers to questions regarding the project(s) you would like to receive quotes on.
Receiving Quotations:
1. Your name, email address, telephone number, company name, job position, address and website.
Information Not Personally Identifiable
As well as collecting personally identifiable information, Accredited Supplier also collects information that is not personally identifiable. This information is collected to improve your user experience, for marketing purposes and to make our service more efficient. In the instance where you also choose to submit personally identifiable information, non-personally identifiable information could be linked with your personally identifiable information. Non-personally identifiable information could include:
Browser type, operating system, click stream data, internet protocol (IP) address, referring and exiting URLs and your internet service provider.
Your non-personally identifiable information will be linked to your internet protocol (IP) address, and that shall be considered non-personally identifiable because for many users this will change periodically.
Cookies:
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer for the purpose of keeping records. Cookies are used on this website. We link user’s personal information to cookies to generate an online profile of the user.
Log Files:
Log files are used on this website and they allow Accredited Supplier to access information such as: browser type, operating system, click stream data, internet protocol (IP) address, referring and exiting URLs and your internet service provider.
Web Beacons:
Web beacons are used on this website and may also be used in our email messages to gauge the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and our website.
Third-party Access:
Third parties may place tracking devices on the site in order to receive access to aggregate site information provided by web beacons, log files and cookies to monitor our website traffic.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information:
Non-personally identifiable information may be shared on an anonymous basis. Third parties may collect non-personally identifiable information, subject to their own privacy practices, and Accredited Supplier may publish and use aggregate information for marketing purposes.
Credit Card Details:
Accredited Supplier do not store any credit card or debit card details.
Use of Information
Legal Disclosure:
Accredited Supplier reserves the right to disclose your personally identifiable information when it is needed for a court order, warrant, subpoena or legal process or when it is requested by a government or a government agency.
Suppliers:
Suppliers’ personally identifiable information may be shared with buyers so that they can be contacted in order to allow the buyer to request a quotation. Suppliers’ personally identifiable information may also be posted on our website in order to allow website visitors to contact them regarding their products and services or any other queries they may have. If suppliers wish to opt-out of having their personal information posted publicly on the site they should not sign up for the accredited supplier service.
Buyers:
Buyers’ personally identifiable information will be shared with suppliers so that they can provide a quotation.
Agents:
Buyers and suppliers personally identifiable information may be provided to agents for the purpose of billing, administration, completing business processes or providing our service to buyers and sellers. No agents may use your information for any purpose other than to provide the service that they are contracted to provide to Accredited Supplier.
Promotional Purposes:
Accredited Supplier may use your personally identifiable information for promotional purposes. You may opt out of this by using the contact details listed at the bottom of this document.
M&A:
Should Accredited Supplier be acquired, merge or sell all or a portion of its assets, information that is non-personally identifiable and personally identifiable can be transferred.
Ownership of Information
All information submitted by buyers and suppliers will become property of Accredited Supplier. Information submitted by buyers will become property of Accredited Supplier and the suppliers that we share the information with. Suppliers will have their own privacy policy and are not bound to comply with ours. You must contact suppliers directly for information related to their use of your information.
Changing/Removing or Requesting Information
You can make a request to have your personally identifiable information changed/removed or you can request to see the information we hold on file by using the contact details available at the bottom of this document.
Opt Out Procedure
You may opt out of receiving marketing messages from Accredited Supplier using the contact details noted at the bottom of this document.
You are required to provide non-personally identifiable information for use of this website.
Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, the home page, and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.
Security
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
While no method of information storage can be said to be 100% secure, and therefore we cannot guarantee your information’s security, we do take our responsibility seriously. If you have any questions about how your information is handled, please contact us using the details contained at the bottom of this document.
Children Under 13
Accredited Supplier does not intend to attract children to use our website. As a result, we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information for children under the age of 13.
TRUSTe
Accredited Supplier is a licensee of the TRUSTe Web Privacy Seal Program. TRUSTe is an independent organization whose mission is to build user’s trust and confidence in the Internet by promoting the use of fair information practices. This privacy statement covers the Web site www.accreditedsupplier.co.uk. Because this Web site wants to demonstrate its commitment to your privacy, it has agreed to disclose its information practices and have its privacy practices reviewed for compliance by TRUSTe.
If you have questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact privacy@accreditedsupplier.co.uk. If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should contact TRUSTe at http://www.truste.org/consumers/watchdog_complaint.php TRUSTe will then serve as a liaison with us to resolve your concerns.
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California Privacy Rights
Californian residents are entitled to request certain information disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes. Should you wish to make such a request, you can contact us using the details listed at the bottom of this document.
Write to us/opt-out:
Office 52
12 South Bridge Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1DD
Email us/opt-out:
privacy@accreditedsupplier.co.uk
