Introduction

We (Future Data Systems Limited) are committed to protecting your privacy as an internet user whenever you buy, our products. We recognise our responsibility to keep confidential at all times any information about you which we acquire in connection with such a transaction. Please note however that our responsibility is necessarily limited to protection by us of information which we obtain.

Collection of Information

To enable us to provide secure payment facilities we will typically acquire information which includes your name, your credit or debit card numbers (with the expiry date) your e-mail and billing addresses, and (where applicable) the delivery address. Use and disclosure of Information We use the information which you enter onto the payment page to obtain authorisation to the transaction from the issuer of the credit or debit card and our own or the supplier's bank and to process the payment. The information may be transferred out of the European Union in certain cases for the purposes of processing transactions by us. If this does occur the data will only be transferred to environments equally secure as that provided by us in the UK. Future Data Systems will not disclose the information to third parties, or make any use of it, without your permission (unless we are required to do so by statute or by an authorised body in order to aid the investigation or prevention of crime).

Security

Future Data Systems is committed to protecting the security of your data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For example, we store the personal information you provide in computer servers with limited access that are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit sensitive information (such as a credit card number) over the internet, we protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

Cookies

Cookies are text files, used by your computer's browser, that store visitor session data. Cookies, by themselves, do not identify the individual user. Cookies are commonly used on the Internet and do not harm your system. We currently use cookies to collate general management data which is used to plan enhancements to our services. Future Data Systems never stores any personal information in cookies (on any computer that you may use) that can be used to identify you, such as your name or account numbers.

If you do not want us to use cookies you may be able to configure your browser not to accept them.

Please refer to your browser's 'help' facility for further information. However, you should bear in mind that this may affect our ability to process the transactions you wish to have authorised.