Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as the terms may have changed since your last visit to this website. By using this website and/or registering
with Connection Fitness Ltd. ("connection-fitness.co.uk"), you are accepting
and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your privacy
and security is important to us. This statement sets out Connection Fitness’
privacy statement in respect of the information that you provide to us when
using this website.
Our Privacy Policy describes the ways we capture your personal information
and governs how we will deal with it. We aim to ensure that any personal
information we obtain and use about you will always be held, used and
transmitted in compliance with all applicable data protection rules. If you
have questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us. Where
this Privacy Policy contains hyperlinks to other pages on our website, we
recommend you click on such links as they may contain additional important
details about our Privacy Policy.
The website may contain links to third parties' websites. Connection Fitness
Ltd assumes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of those
websites. Therefore, please read carefully any privacy policies on those
websites before either agreeing to their terms or using those websites.
This Privacy Policy applies from 25
February 2010 for all use of the website after this date. Connection
Fitness Ltd may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy to reflect regulatory requirements
and changes in our information collection and disclosure practices. All amended
terms shall automatically be effective seven days after they are initially
published on the website. You should therefore return here regularly to view
our most up to date Privacy Policy. We also advise you to print a copy for your
records.
By using this website and/or registering with you consent to the
transfer of your personal information for these purposes. However Connection
Fitness Ltd will ensure that your information is transferred in accordance with
this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the Data Protection Act 1998.
Opting in and opting Out
When you give your personal information to Connection Fitness Ltd, you may
opt out at any time even if you have previously given your consent. Please click here to be taken to the Contact Us page. Please select the Customer Services option to opt out.
Access to your Personal Information
You have the right of access to any personal information processed by us. Connection
Fitness Ltd Fitness is committed to providing you with reasonable and practical
access to your information to give you the opportunity to identify any
inaccuracies. Where possible, if Connection Fitness Ltd is informed of the
inaccuracy of any personal information, we will make appropriate corrections.
You can request the updating or amending of any information you have provided
to Connection Fitness Ltd by contacting us.
Dispute Resolution
In case of any concerns, please email Connection Fitness Ltd Customer
Service or call us between 9am and 5pm local time. If your dispute is not
addressed to your satisfaction, please email the Chief Executive.
Information We Collect About You
The information we collect from you depends on what activities you are
carrying out on our website, whether you are logged in or not and whether you
are making a purchase. We may collect:
- Contact information, such as name, address and telephone number
- Online
contact information, such as your email address
- Purchase
information, such as credit card details
- Navigation
and click-stream data, the time of accessing the website, duration of your
visit, products you viewed or searched for, items in your basket, at which
stage you abandoned your basket
- Information
from cookies (more details on this are given below)
- Information
on your computer and connection, including your browser type and version,
IP address, operating system and platform details.
CONNECTION FITNESS LTD DOES NOT STORE ANY OF YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS ON ANY
COMPUTERS AFTER YOUR TRANSACTION HAS BEEN MADE. NEITHER DO WE STORE ANY PAPER
WORK WITH REVELVENT DETAILS.
How We Collect Your Personal Information
Connection Fitness Ltd obtains information from you in three ways:
- By you typing your personal details in:
If you wish to place an order we will ask you to key in standard contact
and financial information as you proceed through the stages of making a
purchase, in order to process and deliver your order. Similarly, if you
wish to receive email alerts, we will request you to provide your email
address.
- By the automatic collection of information about you as you use the website:
Like most websites, our website uses 'cookies' to enhance your shopping
experience. A cookie is an element of data that our website automatically
transfers to a directory on the hard drive of your PC or Mac when your
browser accesses our website. Cookies only identify a PC or Mac, not the
individual using a PC or Mac.
If you are only browsing our website and have not logged in, we will not
ask you to key in any personal information, but certain information -
including computer and connection information, browser type and version,
IP address, operating system and platform details, the time of accessing
the website - is automatically collected about you. The same information
will be collected every time you access our website for purposes of
completion and support of the activity you are carrying out, anonymous
user analysis and research and development.
When you browse the website while logged in, we automatically collect
information concerning what pages you have visited and when, the contents
of your basket and similar information on your browsing of our website.
Third Party Cookies: We occasionally carry out market
research and business development, which a third party assists with,
during which they may issue a cookie from our website. Some of our
affiliate organisations may also issue cookies so that they can track your
purchasing and browsing behaviour on our website.
Disabling cookies: You can set your browser to disable
cookies or to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance
to decide whether or not to accept it. If you do not want to accept third
party cookies, this will not affect the functionality of our website, but
it may impair your use of or prevent access to some areas, including
taking advantage of special offers and vouchers. If you do leave cookies
turned on, please take care to sign off when you are finished using a
shared computer.
- From third parties
Connection Fitness Ltd may also obtain information about you directly from
third parties, such as new delivery address details from our carriers. We
will use this information to update our delivery records and account
information. We may also obtain details of your credit history from credit
reference agencies, which we use to prevent and detect fraud.
How We Identify you
As we explained above, every time your web browser accesses our website, we
automatically receive and store certain information about you, by placing a
cookie on your computer. Two types of cookies are used on our website:
- Session
cookies (which remain in the cookie file of your browser only so long as
you are accessing the website) are used:
- To
allow you to carry information from one page of our website to another
without having to re-enter information
- To
allow you to maintain a shopping basket during each visit that you make
to the site
- Within
registration or login mode, to allow you to access stored information
- Persistent
cookies (which remain in the cookie file of your browser for a longer
period and store some basic information) help us to identify if you have
visited our website previously using the same computer, and if so enables
our website to remember the personal information you provided, keeps track
of the number of visits that you make to our website, where you browse and
what you have purchased, and offers you tailored content, even though you
may not have logged on.
- Emails:
Similarly, if you have ever provided us with an email address, we will be
able to associate this email address back to your previous browsing and
purchase experiences, whether you are logged on or not. We will know
whether you receive email alerts and will be able to associate this with
any other contact information you may have given us.
What We Use Your Information For
The principal purposes for which we collect and store your personal
information are to process your orders and deliver products, authorise payment,
bill you, respond to your enquiries, get in touch with you about other products
and promotional offers, recommend products which we think might be of interest
to you, and generally maintain the account you hold with us, together with improving
our website.
- Marketing and business development purposes
Apart from using your personal information to process any orders you may
place, if you provide Connection Fitness Ltd with an email address, it
will automatically be entered into our regular email update service. From
time to time, we may also contact you by post with information on special
offers or events regarding our products or services or those of trusted
third parties that we think you may be interested in. If you do not wish
to receive updates or marketing information, please amend your mailing
preferences on the My Account page.
If you do not object to receiving marketing material at the time the
information was collected from you, but subsequently change your mind and
no longer wish to receive such information, you may opt out of doing so.
In addition, we may use an IP address to identify you and to gather broad
demographic information about you, which we will use to assist in the
detection of fraud, to help identify problems with our server and to
administer our website.
- Use of your information by third parties
Connection Fitness Ltd will not sell your personal information to third
parties. However, on occasions we do share customer information with third
parties as described below.
Connection Fitness Ltd often runs competitions on the website in
conjunction with third parties, where we will ask you if you would like to
be contacted by the third party sponsoring the prize about its products or
services. If you expressly tell us that you want to receive such
information, we will pass on your personal details.
Connection Fitness Ltd collates statistics about site traffic, sales and
other commercial information, which we pass on to trusted third parties to
assist us in improving the services we provide to you, but this
information is not personally identifiable information. We also use
demographic information to tailor the website to the interests of our
customers, which we share with third parties, again on an aggregate basis
only so that they can build up a better picture of our customer base and
general consumer trends.
By making a purchase on the website, you consent to Connection Fitness Ltd
sharing your personal information with third parties as is necessary to
process your order, for example, to banks, credit card companies and
carriers. You also consent to us exchanging information with other
companies in the interests of fraud detection and prevention and credit
risk reduction or abuses of our website. Connection Fitness Ltd may also
pass your personal information to our couriers or other agents if they
need to contact you to process or arrange delivery of your order.
Connection Fitness Ltd may disclose your personal information if necessary
to comply with regulations or law or to assist with law enforcement, to
enforce the terms under which you trade with Connection Fitness Ltd, or to
protect our property and other rights.
In the unlikely event that Connection Fitness Ltd is sold, or some of its
assets transferred to a third party, your personal information, as a
valuable asset of the company, may also be transferred. However, use of
your personal information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy.
Similarly, your personal information may be passed on to a successor in interest
in the event of a liquidation or administration of Connection Fitness Ltd.
You hereby consent to such transfers occurring.
Security
What Security Checks do we carry out?
As part of our policy to protect against the fraudulent use of credit cards,
we carry out random security checks on orders. These can take various forms,
and may involve contacting you by telephone before your order is processed.
From time to time it may be necessary for us to ask you to provide a copy of
a recent statement header for the card being used on your order. Please note
that we are only interested in confirming information already provided on your
order, i.e. the billing name and address and card issuer details, and do not
need to see actual transactions, which can be covered up. In case you have any
concerns regarding security, we can assure you that all information is shredded
as soon as we have confirmed the details required.
We hope you appreciate that these measures are a necessary precaution,
undertaken in the interests of fraud prevention.
Personal firewalls
Connection Fitness Ltd has noticed an increase in the use of personal
firewall software (e.g. Zone Alarm, PTF). Under certain circumstances these
firewalls may deny access to our (and other websites') secure servers. To
enable access to secure servers, check that the firewall is configured to allow
the web browser to connect over port 443 (SSL). We are also aware of instances
whereby stopping and restarting the firewall may resolve connectivity problems.
Security on the website
Connection Fitness Ltd adopts industry standard practices to protect the
confidentiality of your personal information on the website and during
transmission, including firewalls and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption
software.
Is your Internet connection secure?
Your payment and order details are normally sent to us across a secure
connection that uses a 128-bit certificate. This means that the information is
encrypted and cannot be read by anyone other than Connection Fitness Ltd and persons
authorised by us. You can see that the web pages are secure because the address
in the address bar changes from http:// to https://. You will also see a
padlock symbol or key in the top or bottom bar of your browser.
However, some computers prevent this secure connection and in order to
proceed with an order, Connection Fitness Ltd must provide a less secure
connection to customers who encounter this problem. If required, you can use
our standard server to place an order. Although this will resolve the problem,
you should be aware that your personal information would be passed to us
without being encrypted.
Unfortunately, Connection Fitness Ltd cannot accept liability for any losses
caused to you as a result of using a non-secure connection. Similarly, although
the secure encryption we use is internationally regarded as secure, Connection
Fitness Ltd cannot accept liability should such encryption be broken.
Please take the utmost care whenever you visit our website or any other
e-commerce site and in particular, make sure that nobody is able to obtain your
password (if you use one). Once you have completed your purchase, and to ensure
all confidential information is removed, we recommend that you close all
browsers.