We analyse your contact details with other personal information that we observe about you from your interactions with our Site, our email communications to you and/or with our products and services in our shops, such as the products and services you have purchased or viewed, or from your use of our shop Wi-Fi.
By using this information, we are able to measure the effectiveness of our content and how visitors use our Site and our Services. This allows us to learn what pages of our Site are most attractive to our visitors, which parts of our Site are the most interesting and what kind of offers website visitors like to see.
We want to bring you offers and promotions that are most relevant to your interests at particular times. To help us form a better, overall understanding of you as a customer, we combine your personal data gathered across our shops, for example your past information requests. For this purpose we may also combine the data that we collect directly from you with data that we obtain from third parties.
Where you have given your consent (where lawfully required), we use cookies, log files and other technologies to collect personal information from the computer hardware and software you use to access the Site, or from your mobile. This includes the following:
- An IP address to monitor Site traffic and volume
- A session ID to track usage statistics on our Site
- Information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, buying habits, experiences with our products and contact preferences
Our web pages and e-mails contain certain Tags such as “cookies” “web beacons” or “pixel tags” (“Tags”). Tags allow us to track receipt of an e-mail to you, and/or to view your web page and email interactions. Once you click on an e-mail that contains a Tag, your contact information may subsequently be cross-referenced to the source e-mail and the relevant Tag.
In some of our e-mail messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to certain websites administered by us or on our behalf. We may track click-through data to assist in determining interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of these communications.
To provide you with more choice about your Tag preferences, we are using Civic. You can ‘Allow All’, or ‘Manage Settings’ based on their categories:
- Essential Cookies (Can not be blocked as required for the website to function)
- Performance/Analytics Cookies
- Targeting Cookies
Please see our Cookie Policy for further information.
We also use this information for marketing purposes (see the Marketing section below for further details).
What is our legal basis?
Where your personal information is completely anonymised, we do not require a legal basis to use it as the information will no longer constitute personal information that is regulated under data protection laws. However, our collection and use of such anonymised personal information may be subject to other laws where your consent is required. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.
Where your personal information is not in an anonymous form, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information in such a way to ensure that we provide the very best products and services to you and our other customers.
We will only use your location data for customer insight purposes where we have your consent to do so.