Pantherella Privacy Policy & How We Protect Your Data

 

As with all shopping websites, we collect personal information from you when you shop online at any of the Pantherella International Group Ltd. websites, including Pantherella.com, HJ.co.uk and Softopsocks.co.uk. We use this information to make your shopping experience as easy and enjoyable as possible. We need it to process your order, and to inform you of any delays or problems.
Your Data

The information we collect is:

  • Your name – so we know what to call you if and when we contact you.
  • Email address – so we can email your order confirmations, delivery delays, etc. You can unsubscribe at any time. Please allow 10 days for your request to be updated across all our systems. You can also subscribe to our separate VIP marketing list, and you will then receive occasional emails from us with the latest offers, sales, and new product launches. When you sign up to our newsletter or register an account, Pantherella will keep you up to date with news of products and services including offers, promotions and sale information. If you do not wish to receive any further email messages from us, (and we quite understand if you don't, but remember that if you unsubscribe we will not be able to send you offers before anyone else) please unsubscribe via the link on every marketing email we send out or via the newsletter subscription in 'My Account'
  • Delivery address – so we know where to send you any goods
  • Telephone number – to contact you to discuss your order. We'll only call if we have a delivery problem, or to talk to you about your order. We will not call you for any other reason other than to help you with your orders, returns, or queries.
  • IP Address – the IP address of the computer from where the order is placed is captured in order to prevent fraud, and to make the completion of the order form easier by populating the country you are located automatically.
  • Payment Card Details – We only ask for these when you place your order, and we don't store any of your card details on the server. They are all processed and held securely by our payment partner, Stripe (https://stripe.com/docs/security/stripe).
    Just to confirm, we never see or store your credit card details on the website or on our servers.
SSL

Our sites are all secured using the latest secure server technology to ensure this information is protected to the highest standards.  We use encryption to safeguard your credit card information and only accept orders from web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology - this means you cannot inadvertently place an order through an unsecured connection. Most common web browsers support this security.  This encryption makes it virtually impossible for unauthorised parties to read any information that you send us.  The encryption technique we use is the highest standard available for e-commerce, and our security certificate can be checked at any time here.

Data Protection

Pantherella is a registered data controller under the Data Protection Act. We will never pass on your details to third parties for marketing purposes unless you explicitly agreed to it.
There are only two circumstances where we may share some of your data with others:

  • With agents (including credit card reference agencies, credit card clearing agencies (Stripe), fraud prevention and detection agencies, delivery companies and data processing analysts) that we use to process the orders you place with us, or who assist us in the service we provide to you. In these instances, we provide them with only the information they need to perform their function.
  • In the unlikely event that our business assets are ever sold to, or purchased by another company (our data records are part of our business).

If you have any questions about your personal data or our privacy policy, please contact us at [email protected].

To see all the information we have about you, and to correct any inaccuracies, please write to:

The Data Protection Officer
Pantherella International Group Ltd
Hallaton Street
Leicester
LE2 8QY

Marketing Permissions

If you sign up to our VIP subscriber lists, Pantherella will send you occasional special offers and promotions by email (usually a maximum of two emails a month). If you do not wish to receive any further email messages from us, (and we quite understand if you don't, but remember that if you unsubscribe we will not be able to send you Sale details before anyone else) please unsubscribe via the link on every marketing email we send out.

Cookie Policy for Pantherella

What are Cookies?
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the sites functionality. For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How we Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed above. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out. We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

This site offers e-commerce or payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly.

When you submit data to through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. In order to provide you with a great experience on this site we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site. This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

From time to time we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience whilst on the site whilst ensuring we understand which optimisations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products it's important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and as such this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you. For more information on Google AdSense see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

In some cases we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

We use a third-party service provider to serve ads on our behalf across the Internet. They may collect anonymous information about your visits to our Web site, and your interaction with our products and services. They may also use information about your visits to this and other Web sites to target advertisements for goods and services. This anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag, which is industry standard technology used by most major web sites. No personally identifiable information is collected or used in this process. They do not know the name, phone number, address, email address, or any personally identifying information about the user. You can also read more about online marketing practices and the technologies that support them by visiting the Your Online Choices website.

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site. However, if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods.