Privacy Policy.
Introduction
In order to inform you of its policies and activities with respect to the collection, use and transfer of Personal Data on its website, Kwik Shirts Ltd is providing you with an electronic copy of this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”). This Policy applies to all websites that are owned and operated by Kwik Shirts Lt.
When required by local law, the relevant Kwik Shirts Ltd performs the formalities with the local data protection authorities with respect to the processing of Personal Data.
In this Policy, “Personal Data” means information, which relates to an individual and which identifies that individual, either directly or indirectly (together with other information that is reasonably likely to come into Kwik Shirts Ltd’s possession), such as your name, email address or telephone number.
Collection of Personal Data
Generally, you can visit Kwik Shirts website without providing any Personal Data about yourself. However, in order to access some parts as quote of our websites, such as to download certain documents, or in connection with another specific purpose, we may need to collect Personal Data from you. Providing Personal Data to us in these events is voluntary. If you do not provide Personal Data to us, then you will not be able to benefit from the respective functionality offered by our websites, such as communication, downloading of documents or recruitment. Kwik Shirts Ltd has the legitimate interest in collecting your Personal Data for the purposes set for forth below:
- Communicating with you.
- Direct marketing and promotion.
- Recruitment.
- Maintaining the website and conducting customer satisfaction surveys.
- Compiling aggregate statistics regarding the use of the website.
When providing Personal Data on this website, you acknowledge that you have the necessary authorization and consent to disclose Personal Data to be used by Kwik Shirts Ltd as described in this Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are used on this website. By using our website, you agree that cookies are to be placed on your device as further explained below.
Cookies are small pieces of data that a website sends to your computer’s web browser while you are navigating through it. They have many different purposes, but mainly, cookies enable you to navigate between pages easily, to remember your preferences, and eventually to improve the user experience. These cookies may then be stored on your machine to identify your computer. Cookies used on this website can be either set up by our website or by a third-party website. More over, these cookies can be “session” or “persistent” cookies: a session cookie is a cookie that is automatically deleted when the user closes the browser, whereas a persistent cookie is a cookie that remains stored in the user’s terminal device until it reaches a defined expiration date. Cookies used on Kwik Shirts Ltd’s website have a maximum lifetime of 6 months.
a.Types of cookies
We use several types of cookies on this website, as categorized on the basis of four categories. For more information on the different cookies we use on this website, see the list of cookies further below.
Strictly necessary cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for cannot be provided. Strictly necessary cookies used on Kwik Shirts Ltd’s website:
- Registered visitor cookies.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow a website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may be able to provide you with local information or news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to the text size, font and other parts of the web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for such as watching a video. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites. They do not gather any information that could be used for advertising. Functionality cookies used on the Kwik Shirts Ltd website:
- Registered visitor functionality cookies.
- Social plug-in content sharing cookies.
Performance cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages they go to more often, and if they get error messages from web pages. All information collected by means of these cookies is anonymized, aggregated and only used to develop and track traffic patterns and the volume of use of our website and to improve how our website works. This information is for Kwik Shirts Ltd’s exclusive use and is not shared with any third party or connected to any other information. Performance cookies used on the Kwik Shirts Ltd website:
- Unregistered visitor cookies.
- Analytic cookies.
Targeting cookies
These cookies are used to deliver advertisements that are targeted to be relevant to you, limit the number of times you see an advertisement, and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising agencies with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers. Quite often they will be linked to a website functionality provided by the other organization. We do not have third-party advertising on our website. We use targeting cookies only for our own analytic purposes. We use third parties to gather and provide us with information about our website’s advertising audiences and to deliver targeted advertisements on third-party sites. Third-party social media websites may log certain information (such as your IP address, browser type, language or access time) if you are logged in to those social media websites as you are navigating through our website. They may also link such collected information with your profile information on that website. We do not control these third-party tracking technologies, thus we recommend that you read the terms of use and privacy policy of such websites before using them.
b. Use of cookies
We may use Personal Data collected from our cookies to identify user behavior and to serve content and offers based on your profile. The performance cookies used on this website do not collect Personal Data.
Other cookies can collect Personal Data (including information from cookies placed via our advertisements on third-party websites):
- If a user is a registered user.
- If we send you a targeted email, which includes web beacons, cookies or similar technologies we will know whether you open, read, or delete the message.
- When you click a link in a marketing e-mail you receive from Kwik Shirts Ltd, we will also use a cookie to log what pages you view and what content you download from our websites, even if you are not registered at or signed into our site.
Here is a list of the main cookies we use on our website:
Registered visitor cookie
Cookie given to each registered user.
Registered visitor functionality cookie
Cookies used to remember the unique identifier given to each registered user.
Social plug-in content sharing cookie
Cookies set by services such as Facebook or Instagram Button, which allow social networks users to share the content of our websites on social networks.
Unregistered visitor cookie
Cookies used to give to unregistered users a unique identifier in order to recognize them and to analyze how they use the website.
Analytic cookie
Cookies used to store URLs of the previous page visited, enabling to track users navigating from inside or from outside the website. If you click on an Kwik Shirts Ltd advertisement on a non-Kwik Shirts Ltd website, a cookie may be used to log which website you are on, in order to ensure our advertisements are served effectively and to measure whether our advertisements are viewed.
- Google Analytics:
Cookies set by Google analytics are used for web analytical purpose, but are not used to track individual users. For further information on how Google Analytics collects and uses information on our behalf and the right to use such cookies, please refer to the Google Privacy Policy. If you object to your Personal Data being collected by Google Analytics, you may download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
- Google DoubleClick:
Cookies set by Google Doubleclick are used for targeting online advertising. You can turn off ads personalization for the Google ads at Adchoices.info.
- Pardot:
Cookies set by Pardot are used to track users on our website. Visits are tracked for known users only. Unknown users are recorded as anonymous users. Please refer to Pardot privacy policy for any further information on their use and your rights related to the use of such cookies.
- Hotjar:
Cookies set by Hotjar are used for web analytical purpose, but are not used to track individual users. Please refer to Hotjar privacy policy. You can opt-out of the Hotjar cookies on their website.
C. Other non-cookie technologies:
Kwik Shirts Ltd also enables the use of technologies that perform functions similar to cookies such as web beacons or other technologies that may be included in marketing e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and links clicked on. Web beacons do not place information on your device, but may work in conjunction with cookies to monitor website activity.
D. “Do-not-track” signals
Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites with which the browser communicates. As of the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy, an industry standard has not yet been established on how to respond to these signals. Therefore, our website does not currently recognize or respond to these signals, but Kwik Shirts Ltd will reassess its response approach once a standard is established. However, at this time you can generally express your privacy preferences regarding the use of most cookies through your web browser.
E. How to accept or refuse cookies
If you do not want to receive cookies from our website, you may set your browser to refuse cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, which you may then accept or refuse upon such notice. You can also generally set your browser to turn off cookies. To understand how to do this, please consult your browser’s “Tools” section, or any other similar heading.
We recommend that you leave the cookies active. Bear in mind that if you block, turn off or otherwise reject our cookies, some web pages may not display properly or you will not be able to use some website services.
If you object to have cookies placed on your machine, you need to disable them. In order to do so, please follow the relevant instructions depending on your browser.
Business reorganizations
Like many companies, Kwik Shirts Ltd may reorganize its business operations around the world from time to time, whether by buying new businesses or selling or merging existing businesses. This may involve Kwik Shirts Ltd disclosing Personal Data to prospective or actual purchasers of parts of our business, or receiving Personal Data from potential sellers. It is our practice to seek appropriate confidentiality protection for Personal Data disclosed in these types of transactions.
Legal disclosures
Kwik Shirts Ltd may disclose your Personal Data in order to enforce our website Terms of Use or in urgent circumstances to protect personal safety, the public or Kwik Shirts Ltd websites. It is also possible that we may be required by law to disclose your Personal Data pursuant to judicial or other government subpoenas, warrants, or orders, potentially, in any country where we do business.
Sensitive Personal Data
As a general rule, Kwik Shirts Ltd does not collect “Sensitive Personal Data” through its website. “Sensitive Personal Data” means Personal Data concerning racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership, or concerning health or sex life. By volunteering unsolicited sensitive Personal Data to us (e.g., by submitting your resume or a job application online), you expressly consent to your Personal Data being used as described in this Policy.
Requests regarding your Personal Data: access, correction, update, and deletion
Subject to applicable law and certain exemptions, you may have the right to access, rectify, oppose the processing, or delete your Personal Data.
In order to exercise these rights so that updates, corrections and/or deletions can be made in accordance with applicable law, you can submit a written request to admin@kwikshirts.co.uk
If sending by email, please write “Data Access Request” in the subject field of the email.
To help us search for the information you require, please let us know the data you require with as much detail as possible (e.g. copies of emails between [date] and [date]). If we do not receive sufficient information to locate the data you require, we may be unable to comply with your request.
Data security and integrity
Kwik Shirts Ltd uses various technological and procedural security measures in order to protect the Personal Data we collect, use or transfer from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. However, you should be aware that, due to the open and unsecured character of the Internet, Kwik Shirts cannot be responsible for the security of transmissions of the Personal Data over the Internet.
Third-party websites
Any of Kwik Shirts Ltd websites may provide links to third-party websites. We does not make any representations or warranties with respect to such third-party websites. You should be aware that the owners and operators of such third-party websites might collect, use or transfer Personal Data under different terms and conditions than Kwik Shirts Ltd. Upon linking to a third-party website, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies of such third-party websites.
Notification of changes to this Policy
This Policy is effective from May 2018 (as the “Effective Date”agreeg in England and Wales). In order to check updates to this Policy, please consult this page on a regular basis.