At Tartan, we are committed to protecting your privacy. We use any information that we collect on our website to deliver services and to enhance your experience. We use the latest in Secure Server Technology to ensure that all personal and transactional information is protected to the highest standards.
Data protection
Tartan does not make your information available to any third party. Specifically:
- We do not sell lists or usage information.
- We do not report usage or user information to any third party.
- We do not accept any advertising on our site and therefore have no information reporting requirements to any third party.
We may hold your personal details in order to process your enquiry/order, to maintain your account or for research purposes. Tartan is a registered data user under the data protection act.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that many websites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID that the site uses to track the pages you've visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Some parts of Tartan's website use cookies to track user traffic patterns. We do this in order to determine the usefulness of our website information to our users and to see how effective our navigational structure is in helping users reach that information.
If you prefer not to receive cookies while browsing our website, you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse the cookie when your browser alerts you to its presence. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser, although you may not be able to take full advantage of Tartan's website if you do so. In particular, you may be required to accept cookies in order to complete certain actions on our website. You do not need to have cookies turned on, however, to use/navigate through many parts of our website, except access to certain of Tartan's web pages may require a login and password.
How We Use Information Collected
Tartan uses information for several general purposes: to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, to personalize your experience on our website, to keep you up to date on the latest announcements, special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners, and to better understand your needs and provide you with better services. We may also use your information to send you direct marketing information or contact you for market research.
Your Ability to Review and Delete Your Account and Information
You may request deletion of your Tartan account or any of your personal information held by us by sending an email to privacy@tartanis.co.uk.
Data Security
Your Tartan account information is password-protected for your privacy and security. Tartan safeguards the security of the data you send us with physical, electronic, and managerial procedures. In certain areas of our websites, Tartan uses industry-standard SSL-encryption to enhance the security of data transmissions. While we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure the security of the information you transmit to us, and so we urge you to take every precaution to protect your personal data when you are on the Internet. Change your passwords often, use a combination of letters and numbers, and make sure you use a secure browser.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your personal information is never shared outside Tartan without your permission, except under conditions explained below. Inside Tartan, data is stored in controlled servers with limited access. Your information may be stored and processed in the United Kingdom or any other country where Tartan, is located.
Tartan may send your personal information to other companies or people under any of the following circumstances:
- when we have your consent to share the information;
- we need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
- we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Tartan to provide a product or service to you (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose); or
- we want to keep you up to date on the latest announcements, special offers or other information we think you'd like to hear about either from us or from our business partners (unless you have opted out of these types of communications).
- We will also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law, to enforce our Terms of Use, or in urgent circumstances, to protect personal safety, the public or our websites.
Children and Privacy
Our websites do not target and are not intended to attract children under the age of 16. Tartan does not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 16 or send them requests for personal information.
Third Party Sites
Tartan's website contains links to other sites. Tartan does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those companies.
Our website may contain links to websites operated by other companies. Some of these third-party sites may be co-branded with a Tartan logo, even though they are not operated or maintained by Tartan. Although we choose our business partners carefully, Tartan is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our site. Once you have left our website, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
Tartan will amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal information we will make that information available by posting a notice on this site.