Privacy

Welcome to Guardsman Limited websites. At Guardsman Limited, we value your trust in our site, products and services. Preserving your privacy and the integrity of our site, products and services is our highest priority. We have implemented this Privacy Policy to help you understand how and why we collect information from you and how we use it. Our policies and systems are designed to give you a private, secure means of communicating with us and using our site.
By registering or placing an order on this site, you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.
Bear in mind that we may revise this Privacy Policy at any time without notice to you, and for this reason we encourage you to review this Policy whenever you use this site. Your continued use of this site after the effective date of any posted change constitutes your acceptance of the Policy as modified. If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or any other questions regarding this website, please contact Guardsman Limited.

Information about you
When you join our site, visit certain areas, order a catalogue, join our mailing list, contact us, or ask us for additional information, we may ask you for personally identifiable information (such as name, email address, mailing address, telephone and fax number). We collect personally identifiable information from you only when you voluntarily submit it. Providing personally identifiable information is not required for visiting our site. You may choose not to provide this information and still visit our site, but you may not be able to utilize certain features and functions.
In order to use certain areas of our site you will be asked to give us contact information (such as your name, e-mail address and user name). The information we request will be the minimum amount required for us to successfully complete your order.
We may also collect information about your usage of our website as well as information about you from emails, faxes, letters, orders or other documents that you send to us.

Use of Cookies
In order to provide personalised custom services, this website may use cookies to track information about you. A cookie is a tiny element of data that the site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so that we can recognize you when you return. Cookies are generally accepted in nearly all leading websites to enhance the user's experience. We use the information we collect from cookies to better personalise the content, banners, and promotions that you and others may see on this site.
You may be able to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, or to refuse to accept them entirely.

Collection of Information
When you visit this site and are asked for personal information, unless specifically stated otherwise, the information is being collected by Guardsman Limited. The information we collect is used solely by Guardsman Limited and unless we are required to do so by law will not be shared with outside organisations. Guardsman Limited is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998, registration number Z5072939.
This site may contain links to other sites that collect personal information. These links are provided for your convenience. When you use another site, we cannot guarantee that the other site will adhere to a similar privacy policy. You should refer to the policies posted on these other sites regarding privacy and other policies before you use them.

Use of Information about you
Your information will enable us to provide you with access to our site and to supply the goods that you have requested. It will also enable us to generate emails as part of the transactional process i.e. order confirmations, delivery information, etc., raise invoices, process payment and to contact you when necessary concerning your orders by post phone or fax.
We will also use and analyse the information that we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business. In particular we may use your information to contact you when necessary by email or other communication for your views on our services and to alert you to product upgrades, special offers, updated information, new products and services that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving such communications and mailings and if you wish to opt out please contact us.
We may also use and analyse the personal information you provide so we can make improvements, and to protect the security and integrity of our site when necessary. We also use visitor login information to help us ensure that our members only see and use appropriate areas of our websites.
We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires us to do so.

Disclosure of Information about you
Other than as provided in this Privacy Policy, Guardsman Limited will generally not disclose any of your personally identifiable information except where we have your permission to do so.
We may, however, disclose information in special cases where we believe it is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our website terms and conditions, our policies or other agreements, or may be causing injury to, or interference with, Guardsman Limited’s rights or property, other Guardsman Limited website users or anyone else that may be harmed by such activities.
Guardsman Limited does not guarantee that third parties will not have access to any information, comments, feedback or materials that you submit.

Security and Protection of Information
Guardsman Limited strives to maintain a highly secure environment for our users, and we've installed a number of safeguards. Your Guardsman Limited account is password-protected so that only you and those you authorize have access to this personal information. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone, and you should be aware that Guardsman Limited will never ask you for your password in an unsolicited phone call. We have implemented firewall technology in order to secure our users' data from unauthorized access through the Internet. We also utilize industry-standard encryption technology.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed as 100% secure. Therefore, Guardsman Limited cannot warrant the security of information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

Third Party Websites
For your convenience, this site may contain links to other sites of third parties. Guardsman Limited is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those other sites. We encourage you to regularly review the privacy policies of any sites you visit.