This is the privacy policy notice for Downpatrick Computers.

Our postal address is:

Downpatrick Computers,
Down Business Park,
Belfast Road,
Downpatrick,
County Down,
BT30 9UP.

You can contact us using the online contact form or by phone on 028 44 617 616.

Website Security:
Our website database is stored on a different server to our website and is only accessible by the website server. This makes it impossible for a hacker to gain access to our database. Access to the database can also only be made with private credentials, this information is only available to the webmaster of Downpatrick Computers. Online payments are made on 3rd party secure systems, we have no access to your bank or credit card details.

Automatic Logging:
The IP address, date, time, browser information and operating system details are logged with each page view to help diagnose problems and to administer our website. Your IP address is also used to help identify you and your shopping basket, and to gather broad demographic information.

Cookies:
Our website uses cookies to keep track of your shopping basket. We have no control of the content of any 3rd party cookies.

Registration, Order Forms, & Contact Data:
Our site's registration and order form requires users to give us contact information (such as name, email, and postal address), unique identifiers (such as password), and demographic information (such as postcode). This data is stored for use in all our marketing communications, analysis and for returning customers.

Contact information is used to process and ship orders, and to send information about our company. The customer's contact information may also used to send promotional material to our customers, and to get in touch with the customer when necessary. Users may opt-out of receiving future mailings & telemarketing activity, and opt in to email activity. Unique identifiers (such as password) are collected from website visitors to verify the user's identity.

Demographic and profile data is collected to tailor our visitor's experience at our website showing them content that we think they might be interested in, and displaying the content according to their preferences. Data is also used in our mailing, email and telemarketing activities to provide information to our customers and prospects on the products and services we offer.

We will not share or sell your information with any 3rd party.

Data Access:
You have the right to access the data we hold against your records, we will supply this within 40 days of the request being received by us, at a nominal charge of £10 per access request. To request access please write to us at the above address with the payment enclosed.

Use of Cookies on our website:
A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk or memory so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website:

Session Cookies:
These are temporary cookies that remain in the memory of your browser until you leave the site.

Persistent cookies:
These remain in the cookie folder or file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies. Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you. Find out more about cookies.

How we use Cookies on our Site and what Information we collect:

Session Cookies
• To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
• Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent Cookies
• To allow you to maintain a shopping basket.
• To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website
• To compile aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so. This information is not used outside of Downpatrick Computers.

Third Party Cookies
Third parties serve cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes:
• To count the number of anonymous users of our site and business levels of our partners.

Disabling/Enabling Cookies:
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you will not be able to use our site if cookies are disabled.

There are a number of ways to manage cookies. If you use different computers in different locations you will need to ensure that each browser is adjusted to suit your cookie preferences.

Some modern browsers have a feature that will analyse website privacy policies and allow a user to control their privacy needs. These are known as "P3P" features (Privacy Preferences Platform).

You can easily delete any cookies that have been installed in the cookie folder of your browser. The latest versions of browser technology - Internet Explorer 6 and Netscape 7 - are P3P enabled, which means that they are capable of automatically reading privacy policies. However, to date they have only been developed with the capability of providing you with the ability to manage your preferences in relation to cookies. This means that before you start surfing you must decide how you want to manage cookies - both first-party and third-party cookies.