PRIVACY POLICY

Functionalab’s Privacy Policy is intended to protect your privacy and ensure that your personal information is protected and handled in a responsible manner.

 

SHARING OF INFORMATION

Functionalab collects information that you provide us or that we learn about you from your use of functionalab.co.uk. For example, you may provide information to functionalab.co.uk when you register, sign-in, search, add items to your shopping cart, participate in a survey, request our e-mail newsletters, or communicate with Functionalab’s Customer Care.

 

Your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and personal shopping and product preferences will not be shared with any third parties except under legal subpoena or to complete a transaction when you request to purchase items in your shopping bag.

 

Functionalab or its authorised service providers may track aggregate traffic patterns throughout functionalab.co.uk. We may use aggregated statistical information to describe our customer audience, products and services, and to develop partnerships with third parties to offer products and services, which we believe our customers may be interested in.

 

QUALITY CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

 

Functionalab is committed to quality customer experience. We are constantly reviewing your feedback to improve and enhance your online experience. You can tell us what you think by sending us an e-mail. See our Customer Care section.

 

THE SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US

 

Functionalab UK Limited, doing business at http://www.functionalab.co.uk, values our customers and guests and respects your concerns about online security and privacy. We believe in providing you with a safe and secure online experience. Our Privacy Policy is intended to protect your privacy and ensure that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner. By using our website, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information. In addition to reviewing our Privacy Policy, you should also read our Terms of Use. Your use of functionalab.co.uk constitutes your agreement to its terms and conditions.

 

OUR PRIVACY AND SECURITY POLICY MAY CHANGE OVER TIME

 

Because we continue to develop functionalab.co.uk and take advantage of technologies to improve the services we provide, our policies may change over time. We encourage you to refer to this Privacy Policy from time to time to stay abreast of our most current privacy policy practices. Your continued access and use of functionalab.co.uk will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to our Privacy and Security Policy.

 

THE TYPE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

 

Functionalab UK Limited collects information that you provide us or that we learn about you from your use of functionalab.co.uk. We receive and store information you enter on functionalab.co.uk or give us in any other way. For example, you may provide information to functionalab.co.uk when you register, sign in, search, add items to your shopping cart, participate in a survey, request our e-mail newsletters, or communicate with Functionalab’s Customer Care department. As a result of those actions, you might supply us with such information as your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and personal shopping habits and product preferences. We also automatically receive and store certain types of information whenever you visit functionalab.co.uk.

 

HOW WE USE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

 

We use information we have collected about you to provide you with the very best health and beauty news, products and services, and shopping experience. We do not sell your personal information to third parties for any reason. We do not disclose your personal information to unaffiliated third parties who may want to offer you their own products and services unless you have requested or authorized us to do so. We do not partner with or have special relationships with any ad server companies.

 

We may share your personal information to third parties or affiliates of Functionalab whom we have contracted to perform services on our behalf. All companies that act on our behalf are contractually obligated to keep the personal information we provide to them confidential and to use the personal information we share only to provide the services we ask them to perform.

 

We may disclose personal information about our customers as permitted or required by law, such as in connection with a subpoena or similar legal process, or in connection with a merger, acquisition, as discussed further below.

 

We try to provide you with the information you need to make informed, reasonable choices with respect to how functionalab.co.uk uses or shares your information. Functionalab collects and uses your personal information in several ways:

 

WEBSITE USAGE

 

Functionalab, or its authorized service providers, may observe activities, preferences and transactional data (such as your IP address, browser type and operating system) relating to your use of functionalab.co.uk. We may use this collected or logged information in order to provide better service, to facilitate our customers' use of the website, to track usage of the website, and to address security hazards. Functionalab, or its authorized service providers, may use this information to track aggregate traffic patterns throughout functionalab.co.uk. We may use aggregated statistical information to describe our customer audience, products, and services, as well as to develop partnerships with third parties to offer products and services in which we believe our customers will be interested.

 

PASSWORD FOR YOUR ONLINE ACCOUNT

 

When setting up an online account on our website, you will be asked to select a password. The retrieval of personal information relating to you and your order history is only available to you if you provide the correct password that you have created. After providing your password, you can edit or delete your information at any time through the "My Account" page.

 

If you forget your password, you can request that it be emailed to your email address. We will not give passwords out over the phone, nor will we email them to a different address than the one used to register. If you request to have your password emailed to you, your credit card information will be automatically deleted from your profile for your protection.

 

COOKIES AND PIXEL TAGS

 

A cookie is a small data file that is stored by your Web browser on your computer. Cookies enable you to place an order on our website. They also allow us to enhance and personalise your online shopping experience, so that the information you receive is more relevant to you.

 

For example, we use cookies to:

 

Remember what items are in your Shopping Bag

 

Recognize you when you return to our website

 

Study how our customers navigate through our website and which products they request in site searches

 

We also use pixel tags (tiny graphic images) to tell us what parts of our website you have visited or to measure the effectiveness of any searches you may do on our site. Pixel tags also enable us to send you email in a readable format and lets us know when you have opened an email message from us.

 

We may also contract other companies who use cookies or other online tools such as pixel tags to measure the performance of a marketing effort on our behalf. We prohibit these companies from using this information for their own marketing purposes or from sharing this information with anyone other than Functionalab.

 

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES AND WEBSITES CONTAINING  FUNCTIONALAB BRANDING

 

functionalab.co.uk  may contain links to third-party sites. Please be aware, however, that Functionalab is not responsible for and cannot control the privacy policies of these other sites or their practices. We encourage you to read the privacy policies for these other sites, as they may differ from ours.

 

This website may also contain links to sites that display functionalab.co.uk branding and/or Functionalab’s logo but which are maintained by third parties. Such websites may be identified in that they do not display a functionalab.co.uk URL. Please read the privacy policy on these sites for applicable privacy practices relating to personal information collected via those sites because they may differ from functionalab.co.uk's privacy practices. This Privacy Policy applies solely to personal information collected by Functionalab.

 

ACCESSING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

You can change your contact preferences at any time by following the instructions on functionalab.co.uk. Keeping your account information accurate and up-to-date is very important so we can provide you with excellent service. If your account information is incomplete, inaccurate, or not current, please follow the instructions on functionalab.co.uk to correct your account information online.

 

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS

 

If Functionalab should ever merge with another company, or if Functionalab should decide to buy another business, or sell or reorganize part or all of Functionalab’s business, Functionalab may be required to disclose your personal information to prospective or actual purchasers and other parties. If these types of transactions occur, Functionalab will obtain appropriate protections for information disclosed.

 

TRADEMARK NOTICE

 

The Functionalab and functionalab.co.uk names and logos are trademarks of Functionalab. Other featured words or symbols, used to identify the source of merchandise or services, may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

 

Functionalab UK Limited

 

7-11 Nelson Street

 

Southend-on-Sea

 

Essex, SS11EH

 

United Kingdom

 

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Last revised May 26, 2010