Privacy Policy

Smc Services Ltd is registered as a Data Controller with the Data Protection Regulator, The Information Commissioner’s Office. Smc Services Ltd only collect or use personal and other information relating to you for the purposes indicated in notifications with the Information Commissioner’s Office and as detailed in this privacy policy in accordance with all applicable UK & International Laws.

Why Smc Services Ltd collect your information

When Smc Services Ltd collects and processes Personal Data it is conducted under the legal basis of performance of a contract to provide goods or services to you that you purchase.

What information Smc Services Ltd collects & how it is used

Personal Information – When you place an order with Smc Services Ltd, your name, e-mail address, home address, delivery address, your contact telephone numbers and payment details, which may include credit or debit card number, expiry date & security code are collected in order to authorise your payment, process and fulfil your orders and to notify you of your order status.

Smc Services Ltd may also use this information to carry out security checks which may involve sharing your personal information with credit reference agency Experian to help prevent fraudulent activity.

Smc Services Ltd may also use your information to contact you for your views on our services and to notify you occasionally about important changes or developments to the site or to our services.

If you have provided prior consent Smc Services Ltd may also use your name and email address to send you special offers, updates and other promotions.

Consent will be asked for at the point of order and should you decide to order over the phone our operators will also ask you for consent at the appropriate time and refer you to this privacy policy.

Should you later wish to withdraw consent you may do so using the unsubscribe link in any email you receive from us or you may use our contact details to make this request.

Tracking & Performance Data – To improve the design, to tailor content and in order to understand the buying behaviour of users, Smc Services Ltd use cookies which are small text files containing tracking information which are stored on your computer’s hard drive. If you set your browser to reject cookies you may be limiting your use of some areas of the website.

Cookies hold the following information:

• A unique identification number in order to keep track of your order
• A unique reference number to help identify your order as a whole
• Product information
• Computer IP address
• Web Browser & version
• Page views & visit information

To find out how to block the use of cookies, please refer to the Smc Services Cookie Policy. Please be aware however that blocking the use of cookies may prevent certain functions of our website from working.

Other Information Pertaining to you Smc Services Ltd may collect other information from you such as any email messages you send to us, transcripts of any live chats you take part in and Smc Services Ltd may also record any telephone conversations you may have for training, legal obligations, warranty and improvement purposes.

Your consumer rights

As a customer of Smc Services you have several rights in relation to the processing of your personal information, these are:

Right to Access – You may contact Smc Services Ltd at any time to ask what information is held about you free of charge. Smc Services Ltd are obliged to provide this to you without undue delay up to a maximum of 30 days. Depending on the initial request Smc Services Ltd will issue a Subject Access Request (SAR) form in order to better and more quickly identify you and your records. Should Smc Services Ltd require more than 30 days to process your request Smc Services Ltd will contact you within the 30 day period and let you know.

Right to Accuracy – Smc Services Ltd takes all necessary steps to ensure information collected is accurate, however should you believe or discover the information held about you is inaccurate you can contact us using the details in the Contact Us section below and ask us to correct it.

Right to Object – If you are not satisfied in any way with how Smc Services Ltd is processing your information you may communicate using the details/methods provided in the Contact Us section and explain why you object. You may ask Smc Services Ltd to restrict or completely stop processing your information. Dependent on the legal basis upon which we are processing it, if Smc Services Ltd should not agree to this we will let you know together with the reason why. If you are still not satisfied with our response you may then further appeal this decision by escalating the matter to the ICO whose details are also listed in the Contact Us section.

Right to Erasure – You may ask Smc Services Ltd to remove all information that relates to you using the details listed in the Contact Us section. Depending on the legal basis upon which your personal data is being processed, should we not agree to this Smc Services Ltd will let you know together with the reason why. If you are still not satisfied with the response you may then further appeal this decision by escalating the matter to the ICO whose details are also listed in the Contact Us section.

Right to Portability – You can ask Smc Services Ltd to provide any information held about you to another organisation in a universally compatible format. Again you may make this request using the details shown in the Contact Us section.

Contact us

You can exercise any of the rights listed above, this is known as a Data Subject Request (DSR) and should be made in writing by completing the form.

This should be printed, completed, signed & returned to Smc Services Ltd together with 2 forms of ID, one of which must include your address.

Proofs of identity can include:

• Your full name and address
• Your Order Reference Number
• Birth Certificate
• Passport
• Driver’s License
• Credit or debit card statement
• Utility bill
• Child benefit book
• Pension book

Return this information to us by post:

Data Protection Office

Smc Services Ltd.

Unit 36 Enniskillen Business Centre

21 Lackaghboy Road

Enniskillen

Fermanagh

BT74 4RL

Alternatively you can email us using: [email protected]

We recommend that postal communications are sent by Recorded Delivery, but this is not compulsory.

We will process your request and respond to you no later than 30 days after receipt of your communication.

Should you not be satisfied with Smc Services decision you may of course escalate the matter to:

The Information Commissioners Office (ICO)

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Smc Services Ltd may make changes every now and then to its privacy policy & terms & conditions, it is your responsibility to familiarise yourself with the latest versions prior to using our website and our services.

We are a secure site

Smc Services Ltd uses various organisational and technical measures to protect your personal information and is proud to be certified against BSI EN ISO9001 for business processes.

Organisational Measures – Smc Services Ltd have company policies and handling procedures in place which employees and business partners with whom we may share your information must follow. Regular training is also undertaken to ensure policy and procedures and all applicable regulations and laws are followed.

Access Control & Authentication – Smc Services Ltd use access control systems to ensure only authorised employees and business partners have access to your information that is limited to what is needed for carrying out their job. Each individual with access has to provide access credentials in order to gain access to the systems which are monitored.

Just as Smc Services Ltd employees and business partners can gain access to your personal information, Smc Services Ltd site may also provide you with account facilities where you can customise and improve your user experience and manage any customisable settings as well as view your own account information.

In order to provide this service Smc Services Ltd invite you in the first instance to create a username and password. Smc Services Ltd would ask that you maintain the confidentiality of these credentials just as we do ours to help prevent unauthorised access.

Smc Services Ltd offer the following tips to keep your log in details secure:

Make your password strong – the longer and more complicated it is the harder it is for others to guess or crack, we suggest using a passphrase (a random selection of words you can easily remember) or why not use a password manager (there are many freely available on line that can create one for you and remember it so that you don’t have to

Don’t share passwords with anyone – even someone you know, passwords can be easily compromised especially if they are known to others

Don’t reuse passwords across multiple on line accounts – once a password is compromised a crook can try these credentials on other websites that you may use and gain unauthorised access allowing them learn more about you which can then be used for fraud or identity theft

Encryption – Smc Services Ltd use data encryption to ensure safe and secure transactions. Smc Services Ltd site is secured using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology which creates an encrypted link between the web server and your browser ensuring that all data passed between us remains private and secure.

In order to be able to generate this encrypted link a web server requires an SSL/TLS Certificate. SSL/TLS certificates confirm two essential factors:

• That you have a secure SSL/TLS (encrypted) link with our website.
• That the website owner is a valid and legitimate organisation.

Payment Card Data – In addition to Smc Services Ltd using your payment details to process your order, the organisation that processes the payment together with your card issuer may do additional fraud checks to verify the card and the transaction is legitimate.

Visa & MasterCard in particular may interrupt the order process after you enter your payment details and will prompt you for an additional security password where you are using one of these cards and are enrolled in either the “MasterCard SecureCode” or “Verified by Visa” schemes. Where you are not enrolled you will be asked to enrol. Once this process is completed you will be returned to our website to complete the transaction.

MasterCard® SecureCode™ Explained

MasterCard® SecureCode™ is a simple and secure method of payment at online stores, for which you will have a private code known only to you and to your bank. Your SecureCode™ enhances your existing MasterCard® account by safeguarding against unauthorised use of your card when shopping at participating online retailers. Every time you make a payment with these retailers, you will be automatically prompted to enter your own private SecureCode™ – just like entering a PIN at a cash machine. In seconds, you gain added protection while shopping online.

Verified by Visa Explained

Verified by Visa is a simple password-protected identity-checking service that takes the risk out of online shopping for both retailers and customers. Retailers are protected against fraudulent transactions and the costs associated with it, while customers can spend with confidence knowing that their payment details are safe.

Data Storage & Retention – In order to minimise the risk of exposure to your information Smc Services Ltd only keep your information for as long as needed in accordance with our policies, industry best practice and to comply with the law. Smc Services Ltd current internal retention policy is set to a maximum of 7 years this allows us to comply with financial regulations and provides ample time for customers to make enquiries about previous orders and to deal with queries regarding any guarantee and warranty period on products or services sold to you.

Personal information collected via this website is stored on servers located within the EU and therefore is subject to both UK and EU privacy and data protection regulations; Smc Services Ltd will not store your information on systems outside of the EU without permission from you unless international data sharing treaties or specialist contracts are in place.

Information Sharing – Smc Services Ltd will not disclose your personal information to anyone other than businesses within the CDSL group and to reputable third party contractors engaged by Smc Services Ltd to perform a variety of functions such as delivering and processing your orders, assisting with promotions, fraud management, handling complaints or providing technical services such as Live Chat and hosting.

Smc Services Ltd require all such third parties to sign a data sharing agreement which means they agree to treat your personal information as fully confidential and to fully comply with all applicable UK and International data protection laws and consumer legislation from time to time in place. Additionally Smc Services Ltd will never sell or pass your personal information to anyone without informing you and gaining your consent.

Disclaimer – Smc Services Ltd provide links to other resources & websites such as review sites, social media pages and blogs hosted on other platforms amongst others. By visiting these sites you recognise that these other websites to which Smc Services Ltd link to will be governed by their own terms and conditions & privacy policies. We accept no responsibility or liability for the content and data protection policies of websites which are not within Smc Services Ltd control.

This privacy policy may not be applicable in all countries where Smc Services Ltd visitors or registered community users reside, security policies may vary according to the individual Internet laws in each host country.

Cookie Policy

There are lots of misconceptions about cookies and what they are for.

Cookies are not programs; they are simple text files that can be used by a website for various purposes. At Smc Services Ltd we use cookies to ensure our website works efficiently and also to observe visitor behavior during a session. All the information contained in these cookies is used to ensure the website works correctly, delivers the performance you expect and also to improve the overall experience offered to visitors and customers. Some of these cookies are essential to the operation of the website.

If you would like to manage your cookies, you have the ability to turn them on/off and save your choices. If you ever want to change them in the future, please click on Cookie Settings and change your choices accordingly and click save.

The cookies we use are:

Strictly Necessary Cookies

These cookies are needed to run our website and to keep it secure.

Source of Cookie [Name of Cookie]	Purpose	Expiry
Session ID [ASP.NET_SessionId]	Session ID is a unique number which is used to identify a user that has logged on to a website	Upon expiry of session
Currency [currency]	This cookie is used to identify and store which currency the user is choosing to browse the site with	One year
Destination [destination]	This cookie is used to identify and store which delivery destination the user selects	One year
Basket ID [basketId]	This cookie is used to identify the user’s basket and its contents. This allows us to keep track of all changes to the basket	One year
Request Verification Token [__RequestVerificationToken]	This cookie is used for anti-forgery purposes	Upon expiry of session
Authentication/Login [.Smc Services_AUTH]	This cookie is used to ensure that the user has successfully authenticated and has logged in successfully	Upon expiry of session
YouTube	Third Party Cookies. Cookies are used by YouTube to allow users to view product videos embedded on to our site. For further information from YouTube, please read YouTube’s privacy policy	Varies from upon expiry of session to ten years from set/update
NetScaler [NSC_qh_xxx]	Set by the load balancer for sticky sessions	Upon expiry of session
Google Tag Manager	Third Party Cookies. Google Tag Manager does not personally set cookies, however the services it hosts will contain cookies
PayPal	Third Party Cookies. These cookies are required for secure transactions when placing an order with PayPal. For more information on how PayPal uses cookies, please read PayPal’s cookie policy

Functional Cookies

These cookies allow us to provide enhanced functionality and personalise content for you. For example they’re used to recognise you when you return to our website. If you do not allow these cookies then some or all of these services may not function properly.

Source of Cookie [Name of Cookie]	Purpose	Expiry
WhosOn Live Chat [whoson]	This cookie is issued by the WhosOn live chat application. It’s used to link a visitor to a ‘visitor record’ which stores the IP address and UserAgent	Maximum of seven years

Marketing/Targeting Cookies

These cookies help us decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you. We use this data to customise the marketing content you see on websites, apps and social media. They also help us understand the performance of our marketing activities. These cookies are set by us or our carefully-selected third parties.

Source of Cookie [Name of Cookie]	Purpose	Expiry
Fresh Relevance [tms_VisitorID, tms_wsip, newsPopup]	Third Party Cookies. This site uses cookies to keep track of your shopping. This data may be used to personalise marketing content to help find what you want The tms_VisitorID cookie stores a unique id for the device, this is used to keep track of your shopping The tms_wsip cookie records whether you are using a modern web browser that supports a more efficient communication channel called “web sockets” The newsPopUp cookie is the default cookie used by PopOver SmartBlocks to suppress a PopOver x days after it is last seen, where x is configurable for each PopOver. The duration is also the same value as x	tms_VisitorID – Five hundred and fifty nine days tms_wsip – One day newsPopup – One month

Analytical Cookies

These cookies tell us how customers use our site and provide information to help us improve the website and your browsing experience.

Source of Cookie [Name of Cookie]	Purpose	Expiry
Google Analytics [__utma, __utmb, __utmc, __utmt, __utmz, _ga, _gat, _gid]	Third Party Cookies. We use Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors navigate to and through our website	__utma – Two years from set/update __utmb – Thirty minutes from set/update __utmc – Upon expiry of session __utmt – Ten minutes __utmz – Six months from set/update _ga – Two years _gat – One minute _gid – Upon expiry of session
Convert.com [_conv_s, _conv_v]	Third Party Cookies. Convert.com is a Conversion Rate Optimisation platform, we use this to conduct A/B testing in order to make improvements to the site	_conv_s – Twenty minutes _conv_v – Maximum of six months
Google AdWords Conversion Linker [_gcl_au, _gcl_aw]	Third Party Cookies. Google uses this cookie to help customise adverts on Google Properties such as Google Search	_gcl_au – Three months _gcl_aw – Ninety days
Hotjar [_hjid, _hjIncludedInSample]	Third Party Cookies. Hotjar tracks visitors moving around the site. This helps us to make improvements to the site	_hjIncludedInSample – Upon expiry of session _hjid – One year
Visual Website Optimiser (VWO) [_vis_opt_s, _vis_opt_test_cookie, _vwo_ds, _vwo_sn, _vwo_uuid, _vwo_uuid_v2, __cfduid]	Third Party Cookies. VWO is a Conversion Rate Optimisation platform, we use this to conduct A/B testing in order to make improvements to the site	_vis_opt_s – One hundred days _vis_opt_test_cookie – Upon expiry of session _vwo_ds – Depends on retention period of account _vwo_sn – Thirty minutes and reset again to thirty minutes on user activity _vwo_uuid – Ten years _vwo_uuid_v2 – Three hundred and sixty six days __cfduid – Thirty days
Google Customer Reviews / Certified Shop Badge	Google uses cookies in order to provide a Google Customer Reviews rating on our page. For information on how Google uses cookies, please read Google’s cookie policy
Trustpilot	Trustpilot uses cookies for many reasons, such as generating statistics and authentication for genuine reviews. For information on how Trustpilot uses cookies, please read Trustpilot’s cookie policy
Trusted Shops	Trusted Shops use cookies to enable certain features to show suitable products, conduct market research and show accurate reviews. For information on how Trusted Shops uses cookies, please read Trusted Shop’s cookie policy
Bing [_uetsid]	Bing uses this cookie to help customise advertisements and content on properties such as Bing Search Engine. For information on how Bing uses cookies, please read Bing’s cookie policy	One minute to thirty days