Privacy and cookie policy

buy.co.uk is committed to protecting your privacy. We use the information that we collect about you to process your switch and to inform you about other services we provide.

The site is operated by buy.co.uk Limited (buy.co.uk), a company incorporated in England and Wales (registration number 41962219), the registered office of which is 10th Floor, Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5BH. buy.co.uk complies with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation currently in force in relation to its treatment of personal information. This privacy statement sets out buy.co.uk's policy in relation to how it uses any personal information collected from you through your use of this site.

What personal information do we collect?

If you request to be kept informed of services that we offer, we collect your name and email address. You can opt-out of receiving information from us or our partner companies whenever you input personal data, or by sending an email to help@buy.co.uk.

How do we use your personal information?

buy.co.uk may disclose and use personal information collected about you within its own organisation for the purpose of internal business administration and analysis. buy.co.uk may also disclose personal information collected about you to third parties, for the purposes of completing any transaction you are undertaking with us, for providing any goods or services to you or for the purposes of associated administration or obtaining professional advice.

If you enter a contest or another promotion, we will use the data so that we can administer the contest and notify winners.

If you have requested to be kept informed of services that we offer, we will contact you with these details.

We will not rent, trade or sell your data to others.

We monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage in order to help us. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorised access.

For these purposes we may send your information internationally, including to countries outside the European Economic Association. Other countries offer differing levels of protection for personal information, not all of which will be as high as the levels of protection offered in the UK.You may edit your personal information at any time by contacting us at: dataprotection@buy.co.uk.

Use of cookies

buy.co.uk collects information about your preferences in relation to this site by analysing site traffic, which includes the use of cookies. Cookies are pieces of computer code which are stored on your computer and which allow us to recognise the fact that you have visited our site previously. Most browsers can be altered to prevent your computer from accepting cookies, although this may mean that some of the features of this site will not work properly.

During the course of any visit to buy.co.uk, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.

Sage Metrics, an independent measurement and research company, gathers non-personal data regarding the visitors to our site on our behalf using cookies and code which is embedded in the site. Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors' screen settings and other general information. buy.co.uk uses this type of information to help it improve the services to its users.

To disable the embedded code, you will need to send requests directly to http://www.sagemetrics.com/popup-dynamic.asp?pagename=privacy_main. Further information regarding Sage Metric's privacy statement can be found at http://www.sagemetrics.com/popup-dynamic.asp?pagename=privacy_main.

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies

If you're using Internet Explorer 6.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Privacy Tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Click on the 'Advanced' button
6. Check the 'override automatic cookie handing' box and select Accept, Block or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 5.5:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Security tab
4. Click on Custom Level
5. Scroll down to the sixth option to see how cookies are handled by IE5 and change to Accept, Disable, or Prompt for action as appropriate.

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

1. Choose View, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll down to the yellow exclamation icon under Security and choose one of the three options to regulate your use of cookies.

If you're using Netscape Communicator 4.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Set your options in the box that says Cookies.

If you're using Netscape 6.0:
On your Task Bar, click:

1. Edit, then
2. Preferences
3. Click on Advanced
4. Click on Cookies
5. Click the View Cookies button

If you're using Internet Explorer 5.0 or 6.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Click the General tab
4. Click Settings
5. View Files

If you're using Internet Explorer 4.0:

1. Choose Tools, then
2. Internet Options
3. Under the tab General (the default tab) click
4. Settings
5. View Files.

Netscape bundles all cookies into one file on your hard drive. You'll need to find the file, which it calls Cookie.txt on Windows machines.

Just click on a cookie to open it. You'll see a short string of text and numbers. The numbers are your identification card, which can only be seen by the server that gave you the cookie.

Your consent

By disclosing your personal information to buy.co.uk Limited, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information in the manner set out in this privacy policy.