Glide & Slide Independent Ski Shop UK Privacy Policy & Cookies
Privacy Policy & Cookies
This website privacy policy describes how Glide & Slide Ltd protects and makes use of the information you give to the company when you use this website.
We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission, or the law requires us to.
All PayPal Transactions are subject to the PayPal Privacy Policy.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file of text which we transfer to your hard drive through your web browser, as with most websites, when you visit our website and use certain pages or features on the site, especially when placing an order. It enables our own system to recognize you when you visit our website again and improve our service to you. This information can be used to enhance the content of our website and make your use of it easier.
GDPR
Data Protection says that we are allowed to use and share your personal data only where we have a proper reason to do so. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons and these are:
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Contract - your personal information is processed in order to fulfil a contractual arrangement
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Consent – where you agree to us using your information in this way e.g. for storing your payment card details.
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Legitimate Interests - this means the interests of Glide & Slide Ltd. in managing our business to allow us to provide you with the best products and service in the most secure and appropriate way e.g. to transfer your data to certain Third Party’s such as delivery partners.
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Legal Obligation – where there is statutory or other legal requirement to share the information e.g. when we have to share your information for law enforcement purposes.
What We Use Your Personal Information For
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Our Reasons (Legal Basis)
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Our Explanation Of G&S Legitimate Interests
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Set up your G&S account
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Legitimate interest
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Process efficiency in dealing with such activity.
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Storing payment cards
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Consent
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N/A
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Process your orders
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Fulfilling a contract
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N/A
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Notify you of your order status.
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Legitimate interests
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Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make improvements to our services.
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Manage your account/ provide customer services to you.
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Legal obligation/ Legitimate interests (depending on nature of services)
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Keeping our records up to date, handling our customer contact efficiently and effectively, working out which of our products and services may interest you and telling you about them.
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To detect, investigate and report financial crime (e.g. Fraud)
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Legal Obligation / legitimate interests
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Developing and improving how we deal with financial crime. Complying with any legal obligation placed on us by regulators such as the FCA. Complying with any regulations that apply to us. Process efficiency in dealing with such activity, and to make service and process improvements.
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Undertake website personalisation and administration.
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Legitimate interests
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Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites. Defining types of customers for new products or services
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Marketing communications to inform you of special offers, promotions, new lines and Sales. Provide you with online advertising.
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Legitimate interests
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Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites.
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Notifying you about enhancements to our services, such as changes to the website and new services that may be of interest to you.
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Legitimate interests
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Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites.
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Contact you to undertake customer satisfaction surveys, invite you to provide product reviews or for market research.
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Legitimate interests
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Developing products, services, applications and designs that attract and retain customers. Improving customer interaction with our sites.
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Maintaining network and data security
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Legitimate interests
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To maintain the security of our network this in turns helps us to maintain the safety and confidentiality of your information.
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Logistics planning, demand forecasting, management information and research
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Legitimate interests
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We use information about shopping habits, products bought and volumes, to help us to respond to demand, ensure the right products get to the right areas and to help us plan our ranges.
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Changes To This Privacy Policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
You can use the settings of your browser to block, or delete cookies as you wish. Do please note that blocking cookies may slow down your experience on our website, or cause issues with placing an order, as cookies are often required to help with a smooth checkout process!
If you have any questions about our cookies policy or feedback please email us at info@glideslide.co.uk or contact us on 01943 641136.
Our Website Cookies Policy
A cookie is a small file of text which we transfer to your hard drive through your web browser, as with most websites, when you visit our website and use certain pages or features on the site, especially when placing an order. It enables our own system to recognise you when you visit our website again and improve our service to you. This information can be used to enhance the content of our website and make your use of it easier. For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them.
Our use of cookies
When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.
These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with govt services so we can make them better
You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article, Internet Browser cookies- what they are and how to manage them.
Learn how to remove cookies set on your device.
There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using Glide & Slide Independent Ski Shop UK :
First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.
Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies' internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.
First party cookies
*Glide & Slide Independent Ski Shop UK uses cookies in several places - we've listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.
We will endeavour to let you know before we store a cookie on your computer.
Our Own PERSISTANT cookies
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Typical content |
_Session |
This cookie speeds up your experience on our website if you visit us more than once by remembering key information if you have set your browser to allow it. For example your username when logging in, or your preferences when browsing our website.
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It is an anonymous customer ID cookie, so we do not save any specific data about you at all, just a unique _Session reference number |
Cookies set by Glide & Slide Independent Ski Shop UK website
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ASP.NET_SessionId
HttpReferer
Referer
dd_object
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These only last for the session (visit) to our website, and help with your movement through the website, and also let us know if you have visited from a 'Referer' i.e. another website where we may have a link, or an article about us.
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Third party cookies
We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites' on its behalf. Glide & Slide Independent Ski Shop UK do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.
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Google Analytics |
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These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. They do not contain any personally identifiable information.
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Google Privacy policy
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Add This |
_atuvc |
The _atuvc cookie is created and read by our JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis.
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Add This privacy
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Changes to this privacy policy
If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
You can use the settings of your browser to block, or delete cookies as you wish. Do please note that blocking cookies may slow down your experience on our website, or cause issues with placing an order, as cookies are often required to help with a smooth checkout process!
If you have any questions about our cookies policy or feedback please contact us on 01943 461136 or via our contact us page link at the top of the page.