Privacy Policy
Privacy and Cookie Policy
This privacy policy sets out how the beacon-market.com website (hereafter "Site") uses and protects any information that you give beacon-market.com (hereafter "us", "we" or "our") while using the Site. We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this Site, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.
What we collect
The types of personal information we may collect about you include:
---- your name;
---- your contact details, including email address, mailing address, street address and/or telephone number;
---- details of products and services we have provided to you and/or that you have enquired about, and our response to you;
---- your browser session and geo-location data, device and network information, statistics on page views and sessions, acquisition sources, search queries and/or browsing behavior;
---- information about your access and use of our Site, including through the use of Internet cookies, your communications with our Site, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, and the domain name of your Internet service provider;
---- additional personal information that you provide to us, directly or indirectly, through your use of our Site, associated applications, associated social media platforms and/or accounts from which you permit us to collect information;
---- any other personal information requested by us and/or provided by you or a third party.
We may collect these types of personal information directly from you or from third parties.
For the exhaustive list of cookies, we collect see the List of cookies we collect section.
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
---- to enable you to access and use the Site, associated applications, and associated social media platforms;
---- to contact and communicate with you;
---- for internal record keeping, administrative purposes, invoicing, and billing purposes;
---- for analytics, market research, and business development, including to operate and improve our Site, associated applications, and associated social media platforms;
---- to run competitions and/or offer additional benefits to you;
----- for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you;
---- and to comply with our legal obligations and resolve any disputes that we may have.
Storage and Security
We are committed to ensuring that the personal information we collect is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the personal information and protect it from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorized access, modification, and disclosure.
We cannot guarantee the security of any information that is transmitted to or by us over the Internet. The transmission and exchange of information are carried out at your own risk. Although we take measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that the personal information we collect will not be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties
We may disclose personal information to:
---- our employees, contractors and/or related entities;
---- our existing or potential agents or business partners;
---- anyone to whom our business or assets (or any part of them) are, or may (in good faith) be, transferred;
---- credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you;
---- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights;
---- third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you. This may include parties located, or that store data, outside of China;
---- third parties to collect and process data, such as Google Analytics or other relevant businesses. This may include parties that store data outside of
China.
By providing us with personal information, you acknowledge that some third parties may not be regulated by the Privacy Act and the Chinese Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act and if any third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Chinese Privacy Principles, it would not be accountable under the Privacy Act and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.
Your rights and controlling your personal information
Choice and consent: Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By providing personal information to us, you consent to us collecting, holding, using, and disclosing your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of this Site or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person's consent to provide the personal information to us.
Restrict: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you. An administrative fee may be payable for the provision of such information.
Correction: If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details below. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Complaints: If you wish to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the complaint. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint
Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our e-mail database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details below or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
List of cookies we collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.
Cookie Name: Cookie Description
FORM_KEY: Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests.
PHPSESSID: Your session ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW: Allows guests to view and edit their orders.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART: A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this.
STF: Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE: The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE: Indicates whether a customer is allowed to use cookies.
MAGE-CACHE-SESSID: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
SECTION-DATA-IDS: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION: Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster.
X-MAGENTO-VARY: Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION: Facilitates translation of content to other languages.
MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE: Facilitates translation of content to other languages.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.