Privacy Policy
At Arcadia, we are totally committed to protecting your personal information and will look after the information you entrust to us, keeping it safe and secure.
Principles of Data Protection
Anyone processing personal data must comply with the eight enforceable principles of good practice. Data must be:
1. Fairly and lawfully processed
2. Processed for limited purposes
3. Adequate, relevant and not excessive
4. Accurate
5. Not kept longer than necessary
6. Processed in accordance with the data subject’s rights
7. Secure
8. Not transferred to countries without adequate protection
Personal data covers both facts and opinions about the individual. It also includes information regarding the intentions of the data controller towards the individual, although in some limited circumstances exemptions will apply.
Arcadia’s Privacy Policy
The sections below explain Arcadia's privacy policy.
Statement of intent
From time to time, you may be asked to submit personal information about yourself (eg name, e-mail address etc) in order to receive or use services on our web sites. By entering your details in the form fields requested, Arcadia will be able to provide you with the services you choose and provide you with the information you wish to receive. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and will not in any event share or disclose your data with any other third party without first obtaining your consent. Arcadia will act in accordance with current regional legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
Information on users
During the course of any visit to a Company Store hosted and managed by Arcadia, the pages which you see, along with something called a ‘Cookie’, are downloaded to your computer (see below for more information on Cookies). Most, if not all, web sites do this, and that’s because Cookies allow the web site to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably you its user) has visited the web site before and re-use any preferences set from previous visits. 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 you our visitor.
Use of Cookies
A Cookie is a small text file stored on your computer. The one set by Arcadia's web sites can only be read by Arcadia and will not expose you to any security risks. Cookies in themselves do not identify the individual user, just the computer used, this is perfectly safe and doesn’t affect the performance of your computer in any way. It does mean that if you’re using the same computer we can potentially recognise you when you revisit to our web site.
Please view our full Cookie Policy.
Disclosing Personal Information
When you supply any personal information to Arcadia, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we handle that data. We have to collect the information fairly, and to let you know how we will use it and whether we will pass the information on to anyone else. We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely.
Access to your Personal Information
You have the right to access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences. This may be accomplished by writing to Arcadia's Head Office at:
Arcadia Corporate Merchandise Ltd, Grove Place, Wellington Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP12 3PR, UK.
Please include your name, address, and/or e-mail address when you contact us. Please note that Arcadia reserves the right to charge a fee for responding to information requests.
Users under 18 years
Should you be under 18 years, please make sure that you obtain a parent/guardian’s permission before you provide personal information to the Arcadia Corporate Merchandise web site. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.