This is a privacy policy for HIFIX Hifi Excellence. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://www.hifix.co.uk. Users may go to http://www.hifix.co.uk/cookies.lasso for information on how to opt-in or opt-out of use of their information and see how we use the 2 cookies we set on this site..

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

HIFIX Hifi Excellence
163 Spon Street
Coventry
West Midlands 
CV1 3BB 
UK

You may contact us by e-mail at sales@hifix.co.uk. You may call us at 02476 631 707.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in some way, they can help you resolve your concern.

Dispute: Please speak to customer services on 02476 631 707 to resolve any issues you may have.

Additional Information

This policy is valid until 1 Jan, 2013 at 12:00:00 GMT.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 3 data groups. The data practices of each group will be explained separately.

Group "Cookies"

At the user's option, we will collect the following data:

HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Cookies are used to track visitors to our site, so we can better understand what portions of our site best serve you. We also use cookies to allow our server to maintain information about the contents of your shopping cart.

Group "Transaction info (required)"

We collect the following information:

Online contact information
Demographic data

At the user's option, we may also collect the following data:

Physical contact information
Purchase information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Information we collect in order to process your purchase.

Group "Transaction info (optional)"

We collect the following information:

Physical contact information
Online contact information
Demographic data
Purchase information

This data will be used for the following purposes:

Completion and support of the current activity.
Web site and system administration.
Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The data in this group has been marked as non-identifiable. This means that there is no reasonable way for the site to identify the individual person this data was collected from.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Information we collect in order to process your purchase.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies. Cookies are used for the following purposes:

Research and development

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

    CP="NON DSP COR CURa ADMa DEVa OUR NOR PHY ONL UNI PUR DEM"

The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

Field	Meaning
CP	This is the compact policy header; it indicates that what follows is a P3P compact policy.
NON	No access is available to collected information.
DSP	The policy contains at least one dispute-resolution mechanism.
COR	Violations of this policy will be corrected.
CURa	The data is used for completion of the current activity.
ADMa	The data is used for site administration.
DEVa	The data is used for research and development.
OUR	The data is given to ourselves and our agents.
NOR	The data is not kept beyond the current transaction.
PHY	Physical contact information is collected.
ONL	Online contact information is collected.
UNI	Unique identifiers are collected.
PUR	Purchase information is collected.
DEM	Demographic and socioeconomic data is collected.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Email Policy

As well as transactional emails for example delivery and shipping information HiFix may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address you have provided.

If you have received a mailing from us, your email address is either listed with us as someone who has expressly shared this address for the purpose of receiving information in the future usually via our web site opt-in, or you have registered or purchased from us. We will respect your time and attention by controlling the frequency of our mailings.

Opting Out

If you no longer wish to receive marketing information from us you have the option of opting out. HiFix provide clear instructions on how to opt out of each area and will be detailed specifically for instance at the bottom of all promotional emails.

HiFix will not sell or pass on any email information to any external third party. HiFix is owned by Hi Fi Excellence Ltd

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.