The team at Sortit.com (“We”, “us”, “our”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use
Terms of Use
and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you
provide to us, will be processed by us. Definitions used in our Website Terms of Use will also apply to this policy.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how
we will treat it. By visiting www.sortit.com you are accepting and
consenting to the practices described in this policy.
The data controller is www.sortit.com of Apollo House, Eboracum Way, Heworth Green,
York, North Yorkshire, YO31 7RE. Our nominated representative is Edward Jones.
Information we may collect from you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us or choose to share.
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You may give us information about you when registering or by filling in forms on
our site www.sortit.com or any other website controlled by us
(our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This
includes information you provide when you register to use our site, subscribe to our service, search
for a product or service, place an order on our site, enter a dialogue, make a comment, participate in
discussion boards, click on any link or other social media functions on our site, enter a competition,
promotion or survey, or other activities carried out on the site and when you report a problem with our site.
The information you give us may include your name, date of birth, address, e-mail address, phone numbers,
financial and credit card information, personal description, photographs, videos and other images of
yourself. Your information may also include updates to your profile or comments or descriptions you add
about yourself or friends, family or work colleagues. Your information may also include comments you
make or share or collect from others.
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Information we collect about you.
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
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technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your
computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting,
browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;
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information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to,
through and from our site (including date and time); products, services you viewed or searched
for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction
information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from
the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
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Information we receive from other sources.
We may receive information about
you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we
provide. In this case we will have informed you when we collected that data that
it may be shared internally and combined with data collected on this site. We are
also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners,
sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising
networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference
agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to
provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to
improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which
we use them see our
Cookie Policy
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
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Information you give to us.
Subject to your Preferences we will use this information:
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to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into
between you and us and to provide you with the information,
products and services that you request from us;
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to provide you with information about other goods and services we
or our Customers offer that are similar to those that you have
already purchased or enquired about;
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to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with
information about goods or services we feel may interest you. If you
are an existing customer, we will contact you by telephone or
electronic means (e-mail or SMS) with information about goods and
services similar to those which were the subject of a previous
enquiry, dialogue, sale or negotiations of a sale to you. If you are a
new customer, and where we permit selected third parties to use
your data, we (or they) will contact you by telephone or electronic
means only if you have consented to this;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
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to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer.
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Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
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to administer our site and for internal operations, including
troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and
survey purposes;
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to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most
effective manner for you and for your computer;
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to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when
you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
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to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve
to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
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to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users
of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
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By submitting an enquiry on our website or via the sortit.com app, or registering
with us, you consent to us contacting you for marketing purposes.
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You can opt out of receiving marketing information from us at any time by emailing
support@sortit.com with the subject 'unsubscribe'.
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Information we receive from other sources.
We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you.
We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above
(depending on the types of information we receive).
Disclosure of your information
We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means any
subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of
the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may share your information with selected third parties including:
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Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any
contract we enter into with them or you.
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Advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve
relevant adverts to you and others. We do not disclose information about
identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with
aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that
500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day).
We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind
of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make
use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with
our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
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Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and
optimisation of our site.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
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In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may
disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business
or assets.
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If sortit.com or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in
which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the
transferred assets.
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If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply
with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our
Terms of Use and
other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of
sortit.com, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging
information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction.
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside
the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside
the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among
other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the
provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer,
storing or processing. We will take through 3rd parties all steps reasonably necessary to
ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security
of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have
received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to
prevent unauthorised access.
We never store your financial information, for example credit card details, although it may be
stored in 3rd party applications used on our site.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We
will usually inform you if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such
purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes
on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by
contacting us at sortit.com of Apollo House, Eboracum Way, Heworth Green, York, North
Yorkshire, YO31 7RE or support@sortit.com
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner
networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note
that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any
responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any
personal data to these websites.
Access to information
You have the right to access information held about you. Any access request may be subject
to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold
about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page
and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any
updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should
be addressed to sortit.com of Apollo House, Eboracum Way, Heworth Green, York, North
Yorkshire, YO31 7RE or support@sortit.com