Privacy Policy
Your Privacy, Our Priority – Learn How We Protect Your Information.
1.General
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from tcdistributions.com (“Service”).
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.
2. Use of Personal Information
We may collect personal information about individuals. Our usual approach is to collect personal information directly from the individual concerned. This information could include your name, email, telephone or address contact details, birth date, image/photographs of you, social media information, shopping preferences and profile and credit card and payment related information. In most circumstances we do not collect sensitive information. We collect personal information in such circumstances but not limited to:
(i) when a person signs up to become a user of the Service;
(ii) when goods, services or vouchers are ordered;
(iii) when processing returns or exchanges;
(iii) when you telephone us or visit our website and make an enquiry to which a later response is requested and to do so requires your contact details;
(iii) when you ask to be included on marketing distribution lists, become a member of our website or interact with our social media services;
(iv) when you otherwise register for or subscribe to one of our online services;
(v) when you enter a special promotion; and
(vi) when receiving applications for employment, when evaluating job applicants and personnel which may include collection of details such as employment history and educational qualifications.
We may use ‘cookies’ to collect data (typically not personal information) relating to your general internet usage. This data may include IP-addresses, browser versions, number of visits and similar such data relating to your navigation of the internet and our site. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more tailored service.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating settings on your internet browser. However, please note that if you select such settings you may be unable to access certain parts of our website.
We hold personal information in our own secure databases to conduct electronic direct marketing subject to all legislative requirements.
3. Disclosure of Personal Information
We may also provide personal information to third parties outside our company for limited purposes, such as to help us in providing goods and services to customers.
Those persons and business may include:
(a) Organisations who carry out credit, fraud and other security checks;
(b) Our online payment gateway service providers, for the purpose of facilitating payments and securing against fraud or theft;
(c) Couriers and delivery businesses (where we arrange to deliver goods to you or persons you have requested us to send deliveries to);
(d) Third party software providers who store details of customer accounts for us or who provide other IT services;.
We may also disclose your personal information to third parties outside our group of companies:
(a) Where we have your express permission to do so;
(b) Where it can reasonably be inferred from the circumstances that you consent to the disclosure to the third parties;
(c) If all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information which we hold about our customers may be one of the transferred assets (subject to the same constraints on use and disclosure as under this policy); and
(d) If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions or to protect the rights, property, its personnel or customers. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We limit the information we provide to third parties to the information they need to help us provide or facilitate the provision of goods and services to you. We deal with third parties that are required to meet the privacy standards required by law in handling your personal information, and use your personal information only for the purposes that we gave it to them.
4. Security of personal information
We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information, including internal and external security, restricting access to personal information to those who have a need to know, maintain technological products to prevent unauthorised computer access and regularly reviewing our technology to maintain security.
We treat website and credit card security seriously and endeavour to provide a secure, safe platform through which to conduct transactions.
5. Questions and concerns and access to/ correction or updating of your personal information
For more information about our privacy practices and other concerns, please email us at [email protected]
6. Changes to our privacy policy
We may modify, alter or otherwise update this privacy policy at any time. We will post revisions on our website. We encourage you to review this policy from time to time.