The Country Seat: Security details

The satisfaction of our customers is of the greatest importance to us.

On-line ordering security

At The Country Seat, we are dedicated to providing you with a secure on-line purchasing experience. All financial information that you submit to our site is protected with an SSL digital security certificate whilst in transit access the Internet. In addition, we never store your credit/debit card number on our systems after debiting your card. You will be asked for your card number each time you purchase from us.

Paypal

Our credit/debit card processing is provided by Paypal (www.paypal.com) the foremost service for processing Internet based credit card payments in the USA & United Kingdom.

Data Protection Act

The Country Seat follows the Data Protection Act 1998 and is committed to follow the eight principles laid out in the Act. Any data supplied by an individual to "The Country Seat" will not be used in a manner, which is contrary to these principles. Data will be held in a secure manner, protected from unauthorised access and use and not be passed to a third party unless the positive assent is first obtained from any individual directly affected. "The Country Seat" recognise the rights of an individual and will ensure they are fully complied with.

Privacy Statement

The following is the covering Privacy Statement that The Country Seat fully adheres to.

Information Collection and Use "The Country Seat" is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this statement. "The Country Seat" collects information from our users at several different points on our website. Cookies A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. Once the user closes their browser, the cookie simply terminates. If a user rejects the cookie, they may still use our site. Cookies can also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our site. Log Files We use IP addresses to analyse trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. Sharing We will share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. Links This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that "The Country Seat" are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this website. Surveys & Contests From time-to-time our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as postcode, age). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site. Security This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and off-line. We do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line. All of our users’ information, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Our systems are password-protected and ALL employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. Every quarter, as well as any time new policies are added, our employees are notified and/or reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage. If you have any questions about the security at our website, you can send an email to security@thecountryseat.co.uk Correction/Updating Personal Information If a user’s personally identifiable information changes (such as your postcode), or if a user no longer desires our service, we will endeavor to provide a way to correct, update or remove that user’s personal data provided to us. This can usually be done by emailing the "The Country Seat" Notification of Changes If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our Homepage so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If at any point we decide to use personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, we would notify users by way of an email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.