Privacy Policy - Sony Ericsson
SE-Store (hereinafter referred to as "SE-Store" "us" "we" or "our") is committed to respecting your privacy and to complying with applicable data protection and privacy laws. You can visit our web and WAP sites without disclosing any personally identifiable information about yourself (although please note that we may use cookies and collect other non-personally identifiable information about your browsing activity - see below for more information). If you do submit personal information by ordering products, or services, for example, you can be assured that we will use your personal information only to support your continuing relationship with SE-Store.
We have provided this Privacy Policy Statement to help you understand how we collect, use and protect your information when you visit our web and WAP sites and when you generally use our products and services. We wish to help you make informed decisions, so please take a few moments to read the sections below and learn how we may use your personal information.
You should read this notice in conjunction with the terms & conditions of use for SE-Store Web and WAP sites and any separate terms & conditions issued with your airtime or other product/service contract.
We endeavor to collect and use your personal information only with your knowledge and consent and typically when you order and subsequently use products and services, make customer enquiries, register for information or other services, request product information, submit a job application or when you respond to communications from us (such as questionnaires or surveys).
The type of personal information we may collect could include, for example, your name and postal address, date of birth, gender, telephone and fax numbers, email address, and credit/debit card information; lifestyle and other information collected on registration or through surveys. If you choose to provide us with personal information it will be used in support of the intended purposes stated at the time at which it was collected, and subject to any preferences indicated by you.
We may also collect non-personally identifying information about your visit to our web, WAP and other similar sites based on your browsing (click-stream) activities. This information may include the pages you browse and products and services viewed or ordered for example. This helps us to better manage and develop our sites, to provide you with a more enjoyable, customised service and experience in the future, and to help us develop and deliver better products and services tailored to your individual interests and needs.
We may use your information for a number of purposes which includes: processing your orders and managing and administering your account; delivering any services, products or information requested by you; responding to complaints or account enquiries; administering debt recoveries; verifying your identity when required (you may lose your password or security information for example, and we may then need to ask you for other 'identifiable' information to protect your data from unauthorised access).
We may also undertake market and product analysis based on your use of our services and products and contact you with information about new developments, products, services and special offers by post, telephone and automated means such as mobile text message (SMS), Email, Fax, Pager, WAP and the world wide web (subject to any preferences expressed by you).
We may also tell you about the products and services of carefully selected third parties and allow you to receive advertising and marketing information from those selected third parties without passing control of your personal information to the third party.
We may disclose information about you, your account and your mobile phone to
(i) companies within the Phones International Group for the purposes and subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy Statement; and
(ii) in the event that we undergo re-organisation or are sold to a third party, in which case you agree that any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity or third party for the purposes and subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy Statement. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy Statement, "Phones International Group" means Phones International Group Ltd and any company or other entity in which Phones International Group Ltd owns (directly or indirectly) more than 15% of the issued share capital. Companies in the Phones International Group Ltd shall include, without limitation, Phones International Group Ltd Limited, SE-Store Limited, Data Select Ltd, Celcius Ltd.
Please note that SE-Store do not sell or pass your personal information to third parties (other than as set out in the paragraph above) unless you have given us permission or unless it is necessary to deliver the products and services ordered or used by you. For example, we may disclose your data to a credit card company to validate your credit card details and obtain payment when you buy a phone or other product or service.
SE-Store may also be obliged to disclose your personal information to meet any legal or regulatory requirements or obligations in accordance with applicable law.
We may use cookies to record details such as a user identity and general registration details on your PC. This helps us recognise you on subsequent visits so that you don't have to re-enter your registration details each time you visit us and allows us to carry out those activities mentioned in the above section "non-personally identifying information".
Depending upon the type of browser you are using, you may be able to configure your browser so that:
(i) you are prompted to accept or reject cookies on an individual basis or
(ii) you may be able to prevent your browser from accepting any cookies at all.
You should refer to the supplier or manufacturer of your web browser for specific details about cookie security.
You can write to us at any time to obtain details of the personal information we may hold about you.* Please write to: Data Protection Manager (SAR), SE-Store Limited, Network House, Globe Park, Marlow, Buckinghamshire SL7 1LY
Please quote your name and address together with your account number. We would be grateful if could also provide brief details of what information you want a copy of (this helps us to more readily locate your data).
We will take all reasonable steps to confirm your identity before providing you with details of any personal information we may hold about you.
*we may charge £10 to cover the administration costs involved.
SE-Store recognises that its customers are increasingly concerned about how companies protect personal information from misuse and abuse and about privacy in general. SE-Store is constantly reviewing and enhancing its technical, physical and managerial procedures and rules to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, accidental loss and/or destruction. We use industry standard secure sockets layer (SSL) technology, for example, to encrypt sensitive information such as your credit card and other financial information.
Please be aware that communications over the Internet, such as emails/webmails, are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered - this is the nature of the World Wide Web/Internet. SE-Store cannot accept responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of personal information that is beyond our control.
