Interflora British Unit
Online Privacy Policy for the Website at www.interflora.co.uk

The website at www.interflora.co.uk (the "Website") is owned by Interflora British Unit ("we/us"). For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998, the data controller in respect of the Website is Interflora British Unit. We are committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our Website and complying with all applicable laws in the use of the information we collect about you.

This policy (together with our Terms and Conditions and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal information we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it, including what type of information is collected and tracked on the Website, how the information is used, and with whom the information is shared.

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The Information we Collect

We may collect two types of information from users of this Website:

(i) "Personal Information" (including, but not limited to, your name, date of birth, address, telephone number (including mobile number), credit card information or e-mail address; and

(ii) anonymous "Non-Personally Identifiable Information" (such as information about how many users log on to our Website). The personal information we may collect and process includes:

• Personal details that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our services or requesting further services, including, but not limited to, your name, date of birth, address, telephone number (including mobile number), credit card information or e-mail address;
• Details of your visits to our Website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access;
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
• Details of any transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfilment of orders; and
• Dealings with third parties who hold personal information on you (which could include organisations such as banks, credit card agencies). They may provide this information as a matter of ordinary business dealings, or we may ask them to do so.
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Uses Made of the Information we Collect

The personal information you provide on the Website will be used, amongst other things, for the following purposes:

• To process your order (including payment authorisation);
• To ensure that content from our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer;
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
• To notify you about changes to our services;

In addition to circumstances set out elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may also disclose the personal information provided by you or collected from you to any member of our group of companies. We will only share relevant information with these parties. All such providers are obliged to respect the confidentiality of this personal information. We may also disclose this personal information to third parties:

• If Interflora British Unit or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
• If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Interflora British Unit, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction; and
• For marketing purposes, as described in more detail under "Direct Marketing" below.
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Direct Marketing

If you are a new or existing customer, and where you permit selected third parties (such as mutual commercial partners who may advertise on our website from time to time) to use your personal information, we (or they) will contact you by e-mail, mail, telephone, SMS or other means.

Your personal information will be transferred to these commercial partners if you give your consent to this in the process outlined below:

(i) If you have clicked the "CONTINUE" or "CLICK HERE" buttons on the Interflora purchase check-out page displayed once you have submitted an order on the Website, agreeing to view details of the discount voucher offer made in conjunction with any of our mutual commercial partners, and their terms and conditions of such offers and services; and

(ii) If you have consented to having Interflora transfer your personal information to our mutual commercial partners by providing your e-mail address and clicking the button on our mutual commercial partners' webpage, consenting to such transfer.

If you do consent to your personal information being disclosed by us to our mutual commercial partners as referenced above, your personal information will be held by them for the purposes set out in their privacy policy. Therefore, you are strongly advised to read our mutual commercial partners' privacy policy and satisfy yourself as to the purposes for which they will use your personal information before agreeing to their terms and conditions. We have no responsibility for the uses to which any of our mutual commercial partners puts your personal information.

If you would like to opt-out of Interflora British Unit contacting you for marketing purposes, you can do so at any time by e-mailing us at sales.enquiries@interflora.co.uk. However, once you have consented to the transfer of your personal information to a third party as previously described, you must follow the opt out /modify procedures provided for by such third party, to opt out/modify your personal information contained in such third party's database.

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Transfers of your Personal Information Abroad

The personal information we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of an order on your behalf, the processing of your payment details or provision of support or other services.

By submitting your personal information, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

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Site Security

While no data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, the security of our system is very important to us. We seek to ensure that up-to-date data storage and security techniques are used to protect the personal information. All our employees and any third parties we engage to process the personal information are also obliged to respect the confidentiality of this personal information. The personal information is held on a secure online server utilising the Secure Socket Layer technology (SSL) standard.

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What are 'Cookies'

We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of registered and non-registered visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which is a small file stored on your browser. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser to prevent this happening - guidance for which is set out below. We also aggregate this data to perform statistical analyses of the characteristics and behaviour of our Website visitors. Cookies are also used as a further means of ensuring private and secure purchase sessions are operated within the Website.

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements on our behalf. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is completely anonymous. Your browser can be modified to not accept cookies - guidance for which is provided in the paragraph below.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser (for example, using Internet Explorer select 'internet options' from the 'tools' menu, then click 'security', followed by 'custom level' and select 'disable cookies'). However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. For more information about cookies, including how to set your internet browser to reject cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org.

We are currently developing the ability for you to select which cookies you are happy for us to use during your time on our site and hope to have this available soon. The cookies we use on our site are as follows:

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Your Rights

We have a legal obligation to ensure that the personal information is kept accurate and up to date. Please assist us to comply with this obligation by informing us of any changes to the personal information. You have the right to request details of the information we hold about you and to delete or rectify any inaccurate information about you by sending us a written request to :

Customer Liaison
Interflora British Unit
Interflora House
Sleaford
Lincolnshire NG34 7TB

Please state your full name and your address.

Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

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Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We may amend this policy from time to time. If we make any substantial changes in the way we use personal information we will notify you by email or an announcement on the Website. You should check this page from time to time to ensure you are happy with any changes.

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Contact

If you have any questions/comments or requests about privacy, you can email us.