Welcome to the Asbent International Co. We respect
your privacy and want to protect your personal information. To learn more,
please read this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy explains
how we collect, use and (under certain conditions) disclose your personal
information. This Privacy Policy also explains the steps we have taken to
secure your personal information. Finally, this Privacy Policy explains your options
regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. By
visiting the Site directly or through another site, you accept the practices
described in this Policy.
Data protection is a matter
of trust and your privacy is important to us. We shall therefore only use your
name and other information which relates to you in the manner set out in this
Privacy Policy. We will only collect information where it is necessary for us
to do so and we will only collect information if it is relevant to our dealings
with you.
We will only keep your
information for as long as we are either required to by law or as is relevant
for the purposes for which it was collected.
You can visit the Site and
browse without having to provide personal details. During your visit to the
Site you remain anonymous and at no time can we identify you unless you have an
account on the Site and log on with your user name and password.
1. Data that we collect
We may collect various pieces
of information if you seek to place an order for a product with us on the Site.
We collect, store and process
your data for processing your purchase on the Site and any possible later
claims, and to provide you with our services. We may collect personal
information including, but not limited to, your title, name, gender, date of
birth, email address, postal address, delivery address (if different),
telephone number, mobile number, fax number, payment details, payment card
details or bank account details.
We will use the information
you provide to enable us to process your orders and to provide you with the
services and information offered through our website and which you request.
Further, we will use the information you provide to administer your account
with us; verify and carry out financial transactions in relation to payments
you make; audit the downloading of data from our website; improve the layout
and/or content of the pages of our website and customize them for users;
identify visitors on our website; carry out research on our users'
demographics; send you information we think you may find useful or which you
have requested from us, including information about our products and services,
provided you have indicated that you have not objected to being contacted for
these purposes. Subject to obtaining your consent we may contact you by email
with details of other products and services. If you prefer not to receive any
marketing communications from us, you can opt out at any time.
We may pass your name and
address on to a third party in order to make delivery of the product to you
(for example to our courier or supplier). You must only submit to us the Site
information which is accurate and not misleading and you must keep it up to
date and inform us of changes.
Your actual order details may
be stored with us but for security reasons cannot be retrieved directly by us.
However, you may access this information by logging into your account on the
Site. Here you can view the details of your orders that have been completed, those
which are open and those which are shortly to be dispatched and administer your
address details, bank details ( for refund purposes) and any newsletter to
which you may have subscribed. You undertake to treat the personal access data
confidentially and not make it available to unauthorized third parties. We
cannot assume any liability for misuse of passwords unless this misuse is our
fault.
Other uses of your Personal Information
We may use your personal
information for opinion and market research. Your details are anonymous and
will only be used for statistical purposes. You can choose to opt out of this
at any time. Any answers to surveys or opinion polls we may ask you to complete
will not be forwarded on to third parties. Disclosing your email address is
only necessary if you would like to take part in competitions. We save the
answers to our surveys separately from your email address.
We may also send you other
information about us, the Site, our other websites, our products, sales
promotions, our newsletters, anything relating to other companies in our group
or our business partners. If you would prefer not to receive any of this
additional information as detailed in this paragraph (or any part of it) please
click the 'unsubscribe' link in any email that we send to you. Within 7 working
days (days which are neither (i) a Sunday, nor (ii) a public holiday anywhere
in Pakistan) of receipt of your instruction we will cease to send you
information as requested. If your instruction is unclear we will contact you
for clarification.
We may further anonymize data
about users of the Site generally and use it for various purposes, including
ascertaining the general location of the users and usage of certain aspects of
the Site or a link contained in an email to those registered to receive them,
and supplying that anonymized data to third parties such as publishers.
However, that anonymized data will not be capable of identifying you
personally.
Competitions
For any competition we use
the data to notify winners and advertise our offers. You can find more details
where applicable in our participation terms for the respective competition.
2. Cookies
The acceptance of cookies is
not a requirement for visiting the Site. However we would like to point out
that the use of the 'basket' functionality on the Site and ordering is only
possible with the activation of cookies. Cookies are tiny text files which
identify your computer to our server as a unique user when you visit certain
pages on the Site and they are stored by your Internet browser on your
computer's hard drive. Cookies can be used to recognize your Internet Protocol
address, saving you time while you are on, or want to enter, the Site. We only
use cookies for your convenience in using the Site (for example to remember who
you are when you want to amend your shopping cart without having to re-enter
your email address) and not for obtaining or using any other information about
you (for example targeted advertising). Your browser can be set to not accept
cookies, but this would restrict your use of the Site. Please accept our assurance
that our use of cookies does not contain any personal or private details and
are free from viruses.
This website uses Google
Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.
("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files
placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website
(including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on
servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of
evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for
website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and
internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties
where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the
information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with
any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting
the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do
this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By
using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google
in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
3. Security
We have in place appropriate
technical and security measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful access to
or accidental loss of or destruction or damage to your information. When we
collect data through the Site, we collect your personal details on a secure server.
We use firewalls on our servers. Our security procedures mean that we may
occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information
to you. You are responsible for protecting against unauthorized access to your
password and to your computer.
4. Your rights
If you are concerned about
your data you have the right to request access to the personal data which we
may hold or process about you. You have the right to require us to correct any
inaccuracies in your data free of charge. At any stage you also have the right
to ask us to stop using your personal data for direct marketing purposes.