Policy statement

In relation to the website: www.marinecompasses.co.uk (‘the Site').

The Site is a United Kingdom based website owned by Brook Trading and complies with the Data Protection Law of 1998 relating to the personal information you supply online.

Any personal information that you provide to Brook Trading whilst contracting with these entities is stored and controlled by Brook Trading, PO Box 340, Southampton. SO30 3XL.

By using our services, you give us your express consent to process your personal data as described hereafter.

The data we collect

The information collected by the aforementioned entities when you register with us at the www.marinecompasses.co.uk website is generally used to communicate with you and improve our services where possible, and specifically, to process payments or enable third parties to carry out technical or commercial supporting functions. These functions may be carried out by us or appointed third parties who are bound by Data Protection covenants and must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

In addition to personal data such as name, e-mail address, delivery address, billing address, credit or debit card number and expiry date, we also analyse data about participants in order to provide a safe shopping environment for all users. Examples of the data we may collect and analyse include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, login, password, computer and connection information such as browser type and version, your operating system and platform, the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), cookie number, products you viewed or searched for, your purchase history and personal preferences. In using the Site you accept that your personal data may be used for such purposes.

We will not sell, distribute or disclose information about you or your personal usage of the Site without your express consent or unless required or permitted to do so by law.

Please note that we do provide links to other sites, which may not be governed by this Privacy Policy and you should view the respective privacy policies of those sites for further information.

Participants have the right to access their stored data, to rectify them if required and to object to the storage of their data for legitimate purposes. We would like to keep your information up-to-date, you may change any of the basic information we keep about you at any time by e-mailing us at privacy@brook-trading.co.uk.

In addition to the information which you supply to us, information and data may be automatically collected through the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files the Site can use to recognise repeat users and allow us to observe behaviour and compile aggregate data in order to improve the Site for you. Cookies also allow us to count the number of unique and return visitors to our Site.

You can configure your Internet browser to accept or reject certain cookies or inform you when a cookie is saved.

We do not cross reference the information recorded in the cookies with the personal information collected at the time of your registration on the Site or with your online activity.

Some of our business partners may themselves use cookies on their own websites. We have no access or control of these cookies, therefore we cannot accept liability for any malfunctioning of your PC or its installed web browser as a result of your access to any of the websites.

Sharing data

We have business and technical partners whom we share data with to handle orders, process credit and debit card payments and provide a range of services, including for fraud protection purposes. They are bound by Data Protection covenants and must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

In case any fraudulent activity is detected on the website, or, without limitation, in connection with the breach of intellectual property rights through the use of the website, we may release personal information in order to comply with any applicable regulation or assert our rights as well as our business partners'.

If any of the information you provide on the form you complete when ordering a product from the website or subscribing to the services changes, please e-mail us at privacy@brook-trading.co.uk.

We may occasionally modify this Privacy Policy, such variations becoming effective immediately upon posting to the Site and by continuing to use the website, you will be deemed to accept any such variations.

Should you have any queries regarding the above Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at privacy@brook-trading.co.uk.