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Privacy Policy
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This website is brought to you by Pitchpuff Limited. For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, Pitch-puff Limited a Limited Company registered in England and Wales [Company Registration Number 06179564] with its registered office at Eastry Cottage 302-304 Wheatley Lane Road Fence Burnley in the County of Lancashire BB12 9QA ('we' or 'us') are the 'data controller' (i.e the company who is responsible for, and controls the processing of, your personal data).
We take the privacy of our website users very seriously. We ask that you read this Privacy Policy ('the Pol-icy') carefully as it contains important information about how we will use your personal data.
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version which will apply each time you access this website.
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Personal data we may collect about you
We will obtain personal data about you when you register to use this website, send us feedback, post material, contact us for any reason, sign up to a service, enter a competition, purchase goods or services.
We may monitor your usage of this website. This may include monitoring how many times you visit, which pages you go to, traffic data, location data and the originating domain name of a user's inter-net service provider. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Some of this data will be aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. Please see further the section on 'Use of cookies' below.
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How we may use your personal data
We will use your personal data for the purposes described in the data protection notice that was given to you at the time your data were obtained. These purposes include:
- to help us identify you and any accounts you hold with us
- administration
- statistical analysis
- customer profiling and analysing your purchasing preferences
- marketing--see 'Marketing and opting out' below
- fraud prevention and detection
- billing and order fulfilment
- credit scoring and credit checking--see 'Credit checking' below
- customising this website and its content to your particular preferences
- notifying you any changes to this website or our services which may affect you
- security vetting
- improving our services
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Marketing and opting out
Unless you have asked us not to do so, we may contact you by mail, telephone, SMS, text/picture/video message, fax, email about services, promotions, special offers, charitable causes which may be of interest to you.
We may share your personal data with organisations who are our business partners and we or they may contact you, unless you have asked us or them not to do so, by mail, telephone, SMS, text/picture/video message, fax, email, about products, services, promotions, special offers, charita-ble causes which may be of interest to you.
If you prefer not to receive any further marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time. See further 'Your rights' below.
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Disclosure of your personal data
We may disclose your personal data to:
- other companies within our group
- our agents and service providers (eg providers of web hosting or maintenance services)
- credit reference agents--see 'Credit checking' below
- law enforcement agencies in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity
- our business partners in accordance with the 'Marketing and opting out' section above.
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Keeping your data secure
We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your personal data, for example:
Whilst we will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data, you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or in-tegrity of any personal data which are transferred from you or to you via the internet.
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Monitoring
We may monitor and record communications with you such as telephone conversations and emails or the purpose of quality assurance, training, fraud prevention and compliance.
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Credit checking
To enable us to make credit decisions about you and members of your household and for fraud pre-vention and money laundering purposes, we may search the files of credit reference and fraud pre-vention agencies (who will record the search). We may disclose information about how you conduct your account to such agencies and your information may be linked to records relating to other peo-ple living at the same address with whom you are financially linked. Other credit grantors may use this information to make credit decisions about you and the people with whom you are financially associated, as well as for fraud prevention, debtor tracing and money laundering purposes.
If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we will record this.
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Information about other individuals
If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has ap-pointed you to act on his/her behalf and has agreed that you can:
- give consent on his/her behalf to the processing of his or her personal data
- receive on his/her behalf any data protection notices
- give consent to the transfer of his/her personal data abroad
- give consent to the processing of his or her personal information
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Use of cookies
When you use this website, we may collect information about your computer, such as your IP ad-dress and/or browser, which we will use for administration purposes and statistical analysis. This in-formation will not usually identify you personally.
We may also obtain information about your online movements and use of the internet. We do this by placing a 'cookie', which is a small file, on your computer's hard disk. Cookies are used for several reasons:
- to recognise you whenever you visit this website
- to speed up access to this website (so you do not have to log on each time)
- to store your personal preferences
- to build a profile about you
- to better target our marketing and advertising campaigns
The vast majority of web browsers accept cookies. However, you can change your browser settings so that cookies are not accepted. If you do this, you may lose some of the functionality of this web-site.
For further information about cookies and how to disable them please go to: aboutcookies.org
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Transfers of data out of the EEA
We may need to transfer your personal data to countries which are located outside the European Economic Area*). Any transfer of your data will be subject to a European Commission approved con-tract which will safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a secu-rity breach.
Rest assured that we will always ensure any transfer is subject to contractual provisions that will safeguard your personal data.
* The EEA comprises the EU member states plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
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Your rights
You have the right, subject to the payment of a small fee (currently £10) to request access to per-sonal data which we may process about you. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- put your request in writing
- include proof of your identity and address (eg a copy of your driving licence or passport, and a recent utility or credit card bill)
- attach a cheque in the amount of £10 made payable to Pitchpuff Limited
- specify the personal data you want access to, including any account or reference numbers where applicable.
You have the right to require us to correct any inaccuracies in your data free of charge. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- put your request in writing
- provide us with enough information to identify you (eg account number, username, registration details)
- specify the information that is incorrect and what it should be replaced with.
You also have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data for direct marketing pur-poses. If you wish to exercise this right you should:
- put your request in writing to (email address) with a header that says 'Unsubscribe'
- provide us with enough information to identify you (eg account number, username, registration details)
- if your objection is not to direct marketing in general, but to direct marketing by a particular channel (eg email or telephone) please specify the channel you are objecting to
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Our contact details
We welcome your feedback and questions. If you wish to contact us, please send
an email to info@pitchpuff.com
write to us at 302 - 304 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Burnley, Lancashire, BB12 9QA. VAT number 913 5926 18.
call us on +44 (0) 1282 601 536.