Privacy

1          Barkman Computers (http://www.barkman.co.uk / https://www.barkman.com) is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the security of any personal information received from you.  We strictly adhere to the requirements of the data protection legislation in the UK.
The purpose of this statement is to explain to you what personal information we collect and how we may use it.

2          When you place an order, we need to know your name, address, telephone number and email address along with the recipient and delivery address details.  This allows us to process and fulfil your order. You have the option to withhold personal information that is not required for the order process.

3          We use your personal information solely for payment, billing purposes and to deliver your order.

4          We do not sell, rent or exchange your personal information with any third party for commercial reasons, beyond the essential requirement for credit/debit card validation during purchase.

5          We follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access in accordance with the UK data protection legislation.

We do not collect sensitive information about you except when you specifically knowingly provide it.  In order to maintain the accuracy of our database, you can check, update or remove your personal details by contacting us by email at online@barkman.co.uk

We use a technology called "cookies" as part of a normal business procedure to track patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site.  A cookie is an element of data that our Website sends to your browser which is then stored on your system.  You can set your browser to prevent this happening.  Any information collected in this way could be used to identify you unless you change your browser settings.  Our webpages may also include scripts and cookies from google analytics, a separate privacy policy for google analytics is at http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

In order to generate business for our website we have engaged the use of Google Adwords and the Google network,  details of product pages that you visit on our site may be used to specifically target advertising of other products you may be interested in, or simply to remarket to your the details of products you have already viewed on our website.  You can set your browser to prevent this happening.  Any information collected in this way could be used to identify you unless you change your browser settings

6         Our credit card merchant facilities for our website are provided by Paypal (http://www.paypal.com) and Stripe (http://www.stripe.com) . privacy policies relating to these organisations is accessible when you process through the website 'checkout'. Both of the payment gateway providers (along with Bigcommerce who host our website) are fully PCI compliant.

7          If you have any questions about privacy please contact us at online@barkman.co.uk