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Personal Information

Group 8A is committed to observing and respecting your wishes regarding the information we collect about you on our web site.

By visiting Group 8A.com, you agree to accept the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Your transaction history and the information you provide to us voluntarily on our web site is stored in our customer database. Some of the information we solicit is voluntary, while much of it is required in order to fulfill your order properly. In addition to fulfilling your orders, we use the information that you provide for purposes such as responding to your requests, customizing future shopping for you, improving our service, and communicating with you.

Any personal information you reveal to us is protected during transmission by Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information and is the accepted standard industry-wide for web site security.

Group 8A does not share your name or mailing address with other companies. You may also elect not to receive any future catalogs or other mailings from Group 8A.

Persons who supply us with their telephone numbers online may receive telephone contact from us with information regarding orders they have placed online. All Group 8A e-mails are intended to comply with federal regulations.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your user id and password. To make any address changes or other modifications to your Group 8A account information, please email us at hello@group8a.com

Email Policy

We collect the email addresses of those who voluntarily provide it those us, either via telephone, e-mail or when ordering online.

We cannot obtain your email address unless you voluntarily provide it to us, or we obtain it from a service company that has confirmed your willingness to distribute it.

Group 8A does not sell, share or otherwise distribute your email address. Group 8A periodically produces sales flyers and literature for our customers. If you do not want to receive promotional email from Group 8A, please let us know by contacting us by email at hello@group8a.com and telling us that you do not want to receive promotional email from Group 8A.

Supplied email addresses on our customer registration form will be used for order confirmation and alerts relating to an order.

Additionally, you may opt-out of e-mail by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of each e-mail. If you supply us with your postal address online, you may receive periodic mailings from us with information on new products and services or upcoming events. Affiliates on our Commission Junction and Google Performics networks also may receive periodic mailings. If you do not wish to receive such mailings, please let us know via hello@group8a.com or by calling us at the above telephone numbers.

Cookies

Like most e-retail web sites, we use "cookies," which are pieces of data given to your browser that allow our web site to identify you when you access our site. Cookies cannot extract any information about you that you have not already revealed voluntarily. The vast majority of internet users now appreciate cookies as a convenience feature for shopping online.

Site Traffic Data

Our computers collect and store certain data from your visits to our web site. The information we collect from this site traffic helps us to make the site easier to navigate and to improve your shopping experience at Group8A.com. We do not share or distribute any specific customer site traffic data to any other parties.

If you have any questions regarding any of the elements of our web Privacy Policy, email us at hello@group8a.com.

This privacy policy sets out how Group 8A uses and protects any information that you give Group 8A when you use this website. Group 8A is 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 website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement. Group 8A 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

We may collect the following information:

name
contact information including email address
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers

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:

Internal record keeping
We may use the information to improve our products and services
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information 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 information we collect online.

How We Use Cookies

A cookie is a small file which 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.

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.

Controlling Your Personal Information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at hello@group8a.com.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please write to hello@group8a.com.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

List Of Cookies We Collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE NAME	COOKIE DESCRIPTION
CART	The association with your shopping cart.
CATEGORY_INFO	Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
COMPARE	The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
CURRENCY	Your preferred currency
CUSTOMER	An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
CUSTOMER_AUTH	An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
CUSTOMER_INFO	An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS	Stores the Customer Segment ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE	A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
FRONTEND	You sesssion ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW	Allows guests to edit their orders.
LAST_CATEGORY	The last category you visited.

COOKIE NAME	COOKIE DESCRIPTION
LAST_PRODUCT	The most recent product you have viewed.
NEWMESSAGE	Indicates whether a new message has been received.
NO_CACHE	Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART	A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
POLL	The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
POLLN	Information on what polls you have voted on.
RECENTLYCOMPARED	The items that you have recently compared.
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 allowed to use cookies.
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS	The products that you have recently viewed.
WISHLIST	An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
WISHLIST_CNT	The number of items in your Wishlist.

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