Privacy Policy
Your right to privacy is very important. W3 Web Hosting (referred to below as “we” or “us”) recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner. We believe this information should only be used to help us provide you with a better service. That’s why we have put a policy in place to protect your personal information.
By using this website, you give your consent that all personal data you submit may be processed in the manner and for the purposes described below.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 (“the Act”), the data controller is W3 Web Hosting Limited with registered office at 13 Ridgewell Grove, Hornchurch, RM12 5AG, England.
What personal information do we collect?
We may collect and process the following data about You:
- Details of transactions You carry out through our website and the fulfilment of your order. When making a purchase with W3 Web Hosting, we will collect your contact information, which includes name, address, email address and phone number, as well as payment information.
- When you become a W3 Web Hosting customer you automatically subscribe to electronic newsletter and special offer promotions. You can adjust your email preferences and/or unsubscribe from certain communications via your W3 Web Hosting Control Panel
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence
- Other information to help us provide you with improved services
- We may also collect information from the cardholder if another member of your household
How we use your information?
We use information about you in the following ways:
- To help us identify you and any accounts you hold with us
- To enable us to review, develop and improve the website and services
- To provide customer care
- To carry out marketing and statistical analysis
- To notify you about changes to our website and services
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contact for such purposes
With who is the information shared?
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- Any cardholder who has purchased services on your behalf
- Any employees, agents or service providers of W3 Web Hosting to deal with any accounts or to deliver specific services to you.
- Any associated company who are our business partners and/or with whom we work.
- 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, subject to their entering into appropriate confidentiality undertakings.
- If W3 Web Hosting 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.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of W3 Web Hosting, our customers, or others. This includes but is not limited to exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection, credit risk reduction and dispute policies.
Use of cookies
W3 Web Hosting uses cookies for various reasons, for example, cookies enable us to track information during the domain name registration and package sign-up process. These cookies do not track individual
information. Cookies from W3 Web Hosting can only be read by W3 Web Hosting. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However,
if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site and you will not be able to carry out a transaction with us unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will
refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.
If you do nothing other than read pages or download information while using this web site, we will capture and store information about your visit. This information will not identify you; it relates to:
- The Internet domain (e.g. www.company.co.uk) and IP address from which you access the web site
- The type of browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) and operating system (Windows, UNIX) you use
- The date and time of your visit
- The pages you visit
- The address of the web site from which you linked to us (if applicable).
We use this information to make each visit more rewarding, and to provide us with information to help improve our service. We do not know (and do not want to know) the identities of people who visit
us in this way.For further information about cookies, you may like to visit www.allaboutcookies.org
Where we store your Personal Data?
We have the following three reliable and highly secured gateway payment systems integrated on our website.
We don't use any custom payments system on our website which directly take your credit card details and hold your data.
* All the transections done through 2Checkout will be stored in their highly secured system
* All the transections done through Stripe will be stored in their highly secured system
* All the transections done through Barclays EDPDQ payment system will stored and protected by Barclays Data Control
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping the password confidential. We ask you not to
share a password with anyone.
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.
Links
W3 Web Hosting may provide links to third party sites. Since we do not control those websites, we encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third party sites. Any information You supply on
such sites will not be within our control.
How can you update the personal information you have provided to us?
You can help us maintain the accuracy of your information by notifying us of any changes to your address, title, phone number or e-mail address. You can do this by updating your personal details from
within your W3 Web Hosting Control Panel.
The personal information we collect and maintain will be subject to the version of the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of collection. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time
to time and will provide notice of these changes on the Privacy Policy on this page. You should make sure you periodically review the Privacy Policy to make sure it meets your needs.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we
intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. 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.