1. Introduction

This privacy policy explains how we collect and use your personal information. In this policy, "we" and "our" means Homs Mall Pty Ltd and it covers all the products and services operated by our three brands: Fones and Ink House

Please read this policy in conjunction with the terms & conditions of any particular service or services you are using.

By using any of our services or visiting our websites you agree to our use of your personal information as set out here.

2. The personal information we collect.

The personal information we collect about you will depend on the products and services you use and subscribe to. It includes (but isn't limited to):

your name, address, telephone number, date of birth, gender and email address;
your debit or credit card information, information about your bank account number, sort code and other banking information, and other information required to validate your identity;
your account information such as how you purchased or signed up to our products and services, the products and services you use and anything else relating your account;
your preferences and interests both when you tell us what they are or when we deduce them from what we know about you;
your demographic information (which we may acquire from third parties);
information you provide to us when entering prize draws or competitions or participate in surveys or consumer panels;

3. Using your personal information

We use your personal information for the following purposes:

to verify your identity and make credit decisions about you (which may include carrying out a network credit check on you).
to confirm that your orders have been received and to process them, to validate you as a registered customer when using our services and calling our customer services;
for providing the relevant products and services to you, for administration of your account with us and customer services.
to send you certain communications (including by email and SMS) such as service announcements and administrative messages and other communications relating to our services. Please note that you will not be able to opt out of receiving these essential service communications;
for our internal purposes such as management, research, analytics, corporate reporting, and to improve business efficiencies;
to ensure security for you and our staff, and help maintain service quality (calls to our customer services may be monitored and/or recorded for authentication, security, quality and training purposes);
to trace nuisance or malicious calls;
to help the emergency services;
to prevent and detect criminal activity, fraud and misuse of or damage to our services, and to prosecute those responsible, to trace and recover debts, to defend our rights or property and to protect the rights and interests of our customers and users;
to comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, government and law enforcement agencies' requests, to operate our systems properly and to protect ourselves, our users and customers and to solve any customer disputes.
to market and advertise our products and services that may be of interest to you including third party offers, promotions, advertisements, competitions or commercial communications by telephone (mobile and landline when available), post, electronic messaging (including SMS and MMS), email or online or via applications. You may be contacted by our Group companies for these purposes.
to provide you with personalised services and communications as well as targeted advertising from our website and selected other partner websites. This may involve the use of cookies and other similar technologies.
to enable third parties to tailor adverts which are more relevant and useful to you when you are browsing the internet or are using mobile applications. This may involve the use of cookies and other similar technologies.
In some circumstances we may use your personal information along with information from credit reference agencies or fraud prevention agencies to help us manage our credit risk and prevent fraud and money laundering. We may also use these organisations to confirm your identity in order to process your order.

4. Sharing your personal information.

We may share your personal information with:

other third parties where you have given your consent to the disclosure (either to us or the third party);
our service providers including for the provision, distribution, delivery and marketing of our products and services, for advertising and payment services purposes.
These service providers have to follow our express instructions in respect of the use of your personal information and they must comply with appropriate security measures to protect your personal information
Identity checking reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies;
debt collection or debt tracing agencies;
insurance providers if you have purchased an insurance policy through us;
law enforcement agencies, regulators, courts and public authorities, and emergency services.
our prospective or actual purchasers, sellers or partners and their advisers if we decide to sell, buy, merge or otherwise re-organise our business.

5. Understanding what you want

We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers and similar technologies to collect and store information (which may include your personal information) about how you interact with our websites, communications and services and selected third party websites which belong to our partner advertising networks. We may use these technologies to show you relevant adverts based upon this information, this is called interest-based advertising.

Cookies are small text files placed on your device which uniquely identify your device. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your device.

Web beacons (also known as "Pixel tags") are small blocks of code on webpages or in our emails that allow us to read and set cookies. Web beacons are often used in connection with cookies to help operate our websites, emails and collect information about online activity.

6. Access and Control Your Personal Information

We want to make sure that any personal information we hold about you is up to date. So if you think your personal information is inaccurate, you can ask us to correct or remove it at no charge to you. Please contact our Customer Services team on the numbers below to do this.

You can always tell us that you do not wish to receive direct marketing communications from Homs Mall and its brands fones, and Ink House. But remember, if you do not want us to get in touch, you may miss out on valuable and exciting offers. If you would prefer not to receive direct marketing communications from us, simply let us know at any time by contacting us as below or by following the opt-out instructions in the relevant communication.

Please contact Customer Services on email info@homs.co.za if you wish to opt out of marketing communications.

Please note that it may take up to 96 hours to process your opt-out request.

7. Keeping your personal information secure

We maintain the highest standards of data privacy and security to protect your personal details and other information about your account because we want you to feel completely confident about using our services. We regularly review our processes and procedures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access and use, accidental loss and/or destruction.

We may monitor or record any conversations between you and our staff for authentication, security, quality and training purposes.

Sometimes we use other organisations to process your personal information on our behalf. We don't allow them to use this information for their own commercial purposes and they have to follow our strict instructions and comply with appropriate security measures. We assess the security measures in these organisations when we bring them on board and we continue to monitor their compliance while they process your personal information.

We store all your account details and other such information on secure servers, adhering to all relevant UK legislation. We use encrypted transmission links whenever we can.

For further information on how you can help us to protect your personal information, please refer to our section on accessing and controlling your personal information.

8. Other privacy information

Links to third party websites

This privacy policy does not apply to third party websites which our websites link to or which advertise on our websites. These third party websites operate their own privacy policy which we encourage you to read.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes to our privacy policy will be posted on our websites and, where appropriate notified to you by SMS or email. Changes are effective when they are posted and by continuing to use our products and services you acknowledge and agree to those changes.

Our Cookies Policy

Introduction

We use cookies, web beacons, unique identifiers and other similar technologies (collectively "cookies") to provide our services and help collect data. We do this to understand your use of our websites, emails, mobile applications and services; improve your user experience and enable personalized features and content; optimize our advertisements and marketing; and to enable third-party advertising companies to assist us in serving ads specific to your interests across the Internet. By using our website, you consent to our use of these cookies.

Different cookies are used to perform different functions. We detail below our use of cookies. You do have choices about how cookies are used.

Our use of cookies & similar technologies

We use cookies that are essential

Some cookies are essential for us to use in order to provide you with the services you have requested. These cookies will be used to manage the delivery of any web services requested by you and if you do not accept these cookies, the services may not be so easy to access and you may not be able to receive some services that you have requested e.g. pay for goods and services or access secure areas of our websites. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or remembering where you have been on the internet.

1.1 to remember your selections

We also use cookies to remember your selections that change the way our websites behave or look e.g. the font sizes or layout you have chosen etc. These types of cookies can also be used to deliver a specific function requested by you which is not core to the usage of the website e.g. streaming a video. Please note that if you delete these cookies, we will no longer be able to remember your preferences or remember your log in details or provide you with the content you have requested. When selecting your choices for the first time, we may ask you whether you want us to remember your choices and if you do this it will constitute consent of our use of cookies for these purposes. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes or remembering where you have been on the internet. If you opt out of interest based advertising, we store your opt out preference in a cookie on your device.

1.2 to personalise your experience

We also use cookies to change the way our website behave or look in order to personalise your experience from information we infer from your behaviour on our websites or information we already know about you e.g. because you are a registered customer. These cookies may be used to tailor the services you receive from us or the content, look and feel delivered to you on subsequent sessions to our websites. For example, if you personalise webpages, or register for products or services, a cookie helps our webpage server to recall your specific information. When you next visit our website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the website features that you previously chose. Even if you use more than one device or computer on a regular basis, we can link cookies together so you will still receive a personalised online experience. We can also personalise the information you see based on what we already know about you, so that you spend less time looking for things. So, instead of one website for all website visitors, each visitor can have a website experience which is unique to them.

1.3 For analytics purposes

We also use our own cookies and/or third party cookies and other identifiers (such as web beacons) to see how you use our websites and services in order to enhance their performance and develop them according to the taste of our customers and visitors. For example, cookies may be used to: test different designs and ensure that a consistent look and feel is maintained for users of our websites; track and provide trend analysis on how our users interact with our websites; track errors and measure the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns. We also include web beacons in our promotional email messages or newsletters to determine whether you open and act on them and whether our mailing tools are working correctly.

The data collected will generally be aggregated to provide trends and usage patterns for business analysis, site/platform improvement and performance metrics. This analysis may be performed by third parties but will be for the review and benefit of "us" only. The type of information we collect includes how many visitors visit our websites, how many customers log in, when they visited, for how long and which areas of our websites and services.

1.4 For advertising purposes

We use cookies to collect and store information about how you interact with our websites, communications and services and selected partner websites and to identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that is most relevant and useful to you. Cookies enable us to learn about what ads you see, what ads you click, and other actions you take on our sites and other sites. We do not associate your interaction with unaffiliated sites with your identity in providing you with interest-based adverts.

In addition, we may work with third party companies, known as service providers who are authorised to place third party cookies or use other technologies on our websites or in our services, applications and tools with our permission. These service providers may use these technologies to help us deliver our own content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. If you are a registered user, the information collected from our websites is not anonymous and we may use this information along with other information we know or infer about you including your preferences to tailor content, services, advertising and offers for you. The information we collect and share with third parties through these cookies does not directly identify you. You can opt out of receiving interest based advertising on our website by blocking these cookies as described in the How to refuse or opt out of cookies section. Please also read below about advertising cookies used by third parties.

Advertising cookies used by third parties

We do allow advertisers and other third parties to place cookies on our websites to allow them to show you adverts that are more relevant and useful to you. However, we do not share any information with these advertisers and third parties that will directly identify you. These advertisers and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards.

The types of cookies used by these third parties and how they use the information generated by them will be governed by those companies' privacy policies.

Other similar technologies

In addition to standard cookies and web beacons, our services may use other similar technologies to store and read data files from your computer. This includes the use of flash cookies which are created by Adobe Flash. To manage these cookies, visit the Website Storage Settings Panel on www.adobe.com. We are minimising our use of flash cookies but they may be used by third parties on our websites and services.

Session cookies and persistent cookies

Our servers use two different types of cookies.

The first type is known as a 'session-based' cookie and is allocated to your computer only for the duration of your visit to our Web site. It helps you to move around the Web site faster and, if you're a registered customer, it allows us to give you information relevant to your selected service. This cookie automatically expires when you close down your browser.

The second type of cookie is known as a 'persistent' cookie. These cookies will remain on your computer for a period of time set for each cookie. These cookies allow us to:

limit how often you see a particular advertisement or announcement on our web site;
identify your preferences when customising content for you;
provide you with relevant self-help information;
record how many times you visit a page or advertisement;
limit and record how often you can vote in our polls;
confirm you are a registered user and save your login details when accessing certain services on our websites; and
collect statistics on the use of our services.

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