Privacy policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we use information we collect from you when you use our website at www.30yearsofschuh.co.uk (“this site”).  We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review.  Any updates will be posted on this web page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.  This Privacy Policy was last updated on 26 April 2011.

The words “we”, “us” and “our” refer to Schuh Limited.  You will find our full details in paragraph 6 below

If you have privacy questions which are not answered by this Privacy Policy or any other queries about how we use your information, please contact us at schuh@30yearsofschuh.co.uk.

1. What information we collect
   1. Information provided by you
      • We collect information about you (such as your name, address and e-mail address) when you register with our site or create an account to use any interactive services available on or through it.  We also collect information whenever you choose to provide it in order to use features on our website such as completing customer surveys, providing feedback, participating in competitions, and or using certain of our interactive services.
      • If you create an account using your Facebook login details, we may collect certain basic account information from Facebook relating to your Facebook account (your “Facebook Basic Information”).  This may include any or all of the following: Your name, email, gender, birthday, current city and profile picture url.
      • If you use our interactive services (for example, chat rooms, bulletin boards; or other facilities allowing you to post comments and material) then the comments and material that you post (your “contributions”) are visible to everyone who visits our site, whether or not they have created an account and are users themselves.
      • Furthermore, our site provides a facility whereby users of Facebook may “share” the contributions they find on our site (including any that you post) on their Facebook pages.
      • For full details on using our interactive services, please see our terms of use.
   2. Records of website use
      • Our website server automatically records information that your browser sends whenever you visit a page on our website, such as your IP address; details of the web browser and operating system that you are using; the date and time of your request; the specific page requested and how you arrived at that page (e.g., the search term used to find the page or link clicked to access it).  This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.
   3. Cookies
      • We may store information about your use of our site and preferences by using cookies which are stored on your computer’s hard drive.
      • A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
      • We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
      • Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
      • You may refuse to accept cookies or receive notification when you receive cookies by adjusting your privacy settings in your browser.  However, if you refuse cookies in a few cases you may be unable to access certain parts of our site or to use all of its functionality.
2. How we use your information
   We collect information about you for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including:- 
   1. managing your account;
   2. allowing you to participate in interactive features of our website, when you chose to do so; and
   3. improving our products and services;
   4. if you agree, to e-mail you about other products and services we think may be of interest to you. . You can opt out from receiving marketing information from us at any time by sending an e-mail to schuh@30years of schuh.co.uk;
   5. Where you have entered a competition run by us, we may use your information to contact you to let you know you’ve won, and, if you have agreed at the time of entering the competition or otherwise, we may use your name and city of residence when announcing you as a winner of that competition.
3. Information sharing
   We only share your information with third parties in the following circumstances:- 
   1. with members of our group of companies (who will adhere to our privacy policy when using your information); or
   2. with your consent; or
   3. to provide our advertisers or marketing consultants with aggregate information about our users, although we will not provide them with information about individuals.  We may also provide aggregated and statistical information to third parties involved in maintaining or developing our website; or
   4. in the event of a sale or proposed sale of us (as a company) or any of the companies in the same group as us (or the business of us any of them); or
   5. if we require to do so in order to comply a legal or regulatory obligation; to enforce our terms of use, or to protect our rights or the rights of any of the companies in our group, our other affiliates or users of the site.  This includes exchanging information with other organisations to help prevent the risk of fraud or credit risk.
   6. If you use our interactive services, our site provides a facility whereby users of Facebook may “share” your contributions to our site on their Facebook pages and with their friends.
4. Your rights
   You have a right to access the personal information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email us at schuh@30yearsof schuh.co.uk or write to us at the address given below.  We may make a small charge for this service.If you create an account on our site through Facebook you may request at any time that we delete your Facebook Basic Information by emailing from our site schuh@30years of schuh.co.uk
5. Other websites
   Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website, so when you access other websites via our links you should read their own privacy policies.[In some cases, users of our interactive services offered on this site are able to use facilities which allow them to post and comment on contributions they find on our site on their Facebook pages and share them with their friends on Facebook. 

   When your contribution is posted on Facebook by another user of our interactive services, Facebook’s privacy policy and other terms and conditions apply to it, and you should make sure that you agree to those before you post anything on our site.

6. Our details
   www.30yearsofschuh.co.uk is a website owned and operated by: 
   • SCHUH LIMITED, company registered in Scotland with its registered office at:
     1 Neilson Square, Deans Industrial Estate, Livingston EH54 8RQ
     Company number SC125327
     VAT number: 847 6769 63