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Privacy Statement

Whenever you enter any personal details, they are transferred to the server across an industry standard secure connection that encrypts all data. This ensures that any details you enter on our Web site are encrypted before being transmitted across the Internet, with the goal of making it safe for you to provide your details and prevent any unauthorized person from gaining access to the information.

Credit card security
We use an independent secure payment system to deal with payment card details. We will only ask you to enter your payment card information after you have put the items you want to order into your shopping basket.
When you are ready to pay for your product, your payment card information will be encrypted to keep it secure. Encryption prevents other people, including us, from looking at your card information. No credit card data is stored permanently. Because of this security feature, you will need to re-enter your payment card information each time you place an order with us.

We can process payments from Visa, American Express, Mastercard and Discover.

Privacy
In general, you can visit this website without telling us who you are or giving any information about yourself. The only time we collect information from you is when you:
  • place an order with us so that we can process your order and contact you
  • update your account details
In these instances, we ask for your name, address, e-mail address and other appropriate information we need. If you place an order through this Web site, we will also ask for certain payment card information to check and charge your account. This information is never stored on our Web site.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.

We collect information about you for two reasons: first, to process your order, and second, to provide information about products and services which might be of interest to you.

In order to ensure that the information we hold about you remains accurate and up to date, please check the information that we hold about you by visiting the "My Account" page. If you find any inaccuracies, you can update your profile or contact us via the form here. The personal information we do hold will be kept securely in accordance with our internal security policy, and the law. If you have any questions/comments about privacy, please use the form on the Contact Us page to communicate them to us.

Use of personal information
If you choose to give us personal information, such as your name, address and e-mail address, we may use this information for marketing and promotional purposes, such as mailings announcing new OICM products or making promotional offers.

We do not rent, sell or give customer-identifying information to other companies. When you order goods through this Web site, the order form may ask you to provide a daytime phone number. We will only use this phone number to ask you questions about an order or to let you know, for example, that the payment is incorrect or there is an additional shipping charge. We will not call you to try and sell you other products.

When you place an order we will also ask for your e-mail address, so we can send e-mails to you confirming your orders and shipments. We may also send you e-mails in the future about promotions and offers.

If you do not want us to use your personal information for our marketing or promotional activities, please tick the mail option preference box in the "My Account" section.

Removing your name from our mailing list
You may ask us at any time to remove your name and address from any future mailings, including new product announcements and special offers, by updating your opt-out details in the "My Account" section at any time and asking for all your details to be removed from our database.

What about "cookies?"
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually change your browser to prevent that. We only use cookies to keep track of the pages you visit on the site and to tell us whether you have visited the site previously so that, in order to serve users better, we understand how you and other visitors use it.

By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies, you will be unable to use those parts of the site that require registration in order to participate.

Web site security
This site uses security features with a view to ensuring that any personal data we collect from you is safe from misuse. Oxford Instruments Direct uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to transfer all sensitive information. Industry standard 128-bit encryption (the highest level currently supported by web browsers) is utilized to guarantee a secure connection between the Web site and your computer. To view our SSL certificate, simply right click on any page where your browser displays a padlock icon.