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Privacy Policy

1001homes knows the personal data you have submitted in order to complete online transactions is strictly confidential, and we thank you for your trust. We assure you no other third party will have contact of your personal data. Any personal information provided to 1001homes is controlled by us, and it won´t be shared.

This Privacy Policy describes our practices concerning your privacy. Although this Privacy Policy may seem long, we have prepared a detailed policy because we believe you should know as much as possible about 100homes practices so that you can make informed decisions. By using 1001homes, shopping at participating merchants, or otherwise interacting with 1001homes, you are consenting to the 1001homes practices, including the use and disclosure of any personally identifiable information you have shared with us, as described in this Privacy Policy.

What Personal Information About Customers Does 1001homes.co.uk Gather?

The information we learn from customers helps us personalize and continually improve your shopping experience at 1001homes.co.uk and participating merchants. We use the information to process payments, communicate with you about services and promotional offers, update our records and generally maintain your accounts with us, display content such as wish lists or sort by distance and customer reviews and recommend merchandise and services that might be of interest to you. We also use this information to improve our store and platform, prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and enable third parties to carry out technical, logistical or other functions on our behalf.

Here are the types of information we gather.

  • Information You Give Us: we receive and store any information you provide to us when you become a 1001homes.co.uk Merchant, submit a review or survey, communicate by email, telephone or physical mail with our customer service, or otherwise interact with us. Such information may include your name, address, email address, shopping interests and preferences, birthday, hometown, transaction history, and other personal data. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of certain useful 1001homes.co.uk features.
  • Automatic Information: we receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use "cookies" and "web beacons" to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses 1001homes.co.uk. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit websites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience at 1001homes.co.uk if we cannot recognise you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.
  • Information from Other Sources: we might receive information about you from other sources and add it to our account information.
  • Third Party Advertising
    We work with third parties, including advertising companies and website analysis firms, who use cookies and web beacons to collect non-personally identifiable information when you visit our Web site and other sites. This information may be used to provide you with better shopping or savings opportunities through advertisements on this and other Web sites that you visit, or to conduct market research and website analysis.

How We Use Cookies On Our Site And What Information We Collect

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer's hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the "lifetime" of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this website:

  • Session Cookies which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site,
  • Persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies can help a website to arrange content to match your preferred interests more quickly. Most major websites use cookies.
Cookies cannot be used by themselves to identify you.

Session Cookies.

  • To allow you to carry information across pages of our site and avoid having to re-enter information.
  • To allow you to maintain a shopping basket
  • Within registration to allow you to access stored information.

Persistent Cookies.

  • To help us recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and to allow us to tailor content or advertisements to match your preferred interests or to avoid showing you the same adverts repeatedly.
  • To compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that allow us to understand how users use our site and to help us improve the structure of our website. We cannot identify you personally in this way.
  • Within research surveys to ensure you are not invited to complete a questionnaire too often or after you have already done so.

Third Party Cookies

Third parties serve cookies via this site. These are used for the following purposes:

  • To serve advertisements on our site and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users.
  • To control how often you are shown a particular advertisement.
  • To tailor content to your preferences.
  • To count the number of anonymous users of our site.
  • To provide security within shopping baskets or transactions.

Use of Web Beacons.

Some of our Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons (sometimes known as clear gifs) that allow us to count users who have visited these pages. Web beacons collect only limited information which including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides. We may also carry web beacons placed by third party advertisers. These beacons do not carry any personally identifiable information and are only used to track the effectiveness of a particular campaign by tracking the online movement of a Web user or to let us know if you have opened an email that we sent you.

Disabling/Enabling Cookies.

  • You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, you may not be able to use all the interactive features of our site if cookies are disabled. The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of 1001homes.co.uk's most innovative and useful features and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

  • If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

  • We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We also use a secure server hosting location, firewall protection, controlled access and encryption technology to protect your data. While no system is completely foolproof, we take the security of your personal information very seriously, and our security measures are designed to protect that information in a responsible manner.
  • We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you.
  • It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

What About Third-Party Advertisers and Links to Other Websites?

  • Our site may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. We do not provide any personally identifiable customer information to these advertisers or third-party websites.
  • These third-party websites and advertisers, or Internet advertising companies working on their behalf, sometimes use technology to send (or "serve") the advertisements that appear on our website directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalise advertising content. We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that they may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by this Privacy Notice. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Does 1001homes.co.uk Share The Information It Gathers?

  • Information about 1001homes.co.uk shoppers and other users is an important part of our business, and we take steps to maintain the privacy and security of such information against unauthorized access. We generally use such information for such purposes as customizing future shopping and savings opportunities for you, improving our Services, and communicating with you if you have authorized such communication. In an effort to serve you better and improve your online shopping experiences, we may also share such information in a responsible manner as described below.

Aggregated Research Data

  • The information collected from online surveys and reviews is used to develop ratings of, and research for, participating merchants, as well as product reviews and ratings. Our research team produces research reports and other information and data about online shopping for participating merchants and other customers, as well as media and other interested parties. Such information and data is based upon aggregated, anonymous information about millions of online shoppers and does not include personally identifiable information about individuals.

Special Offers

  • Sometimes we may send email newsletters or special offers to selected groups of 1001homes.co.uk shoppers who have chosen to receive email on behalf of participating merchants or other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that merchant or business your name or e-mail address.

    If you no longer wish to receive these newsletters or special offers, you can opt-out by notifying us by email at the following address: info@1001homes.co.uk.

Protection of 1001homes.co.uk and Others

  • We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; assist in fraud protection or investigation; or protect the rights, property, or security of 1001homes.co.uk, our users, or others.

Participating Merchant Policies

  • Online merchants and others who participate in our Web site and other Services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we cannot be responsible for their actions. We recommend that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.

Are Children Allowed to Use 1001homes.co.uk?

1001homes.co.uk is not designed or intended for use by children under 13, although participating merchants on our Web site may offer children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you should use 1001homes.co.uk only with involvement of a parent or guardian. Children under 13 may not submit any personally identifiable information to us, and if we discover that we have inadvertently gathered any such information from a child under 13, we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions

If you choose to visit 1001homes.co.uk, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Privacy Notice and our Terms of Service , including limitations on damages and application of the laws of England. If you have any concern about privacy at 1001homes.co.uk, please e-mail us at info@1001homes.co.uk with a thorough description and we will try to resolve the issue for you.

Our business changes constantly and our Privacy Notice and the Terms of Service will change also. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Notice applies to all information that we have about you and your account. We stand behind the promises we make, however, and will never materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of customer information collected in the past without the consent of affected customers.

Automatic Information

Examples of the information we collect and analyse include: the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type and version; operating system and platform; purchase history, which we sometimes aggregate with similar information from other customers to create features such as Top Sellers; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); cookie number; products you viewed or searched for; and any phone number used to call our customer service number. During some visits we may use software tools such as JavaScript to measure and collect session information, including page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Contact Us

If you would like to contact 1001homes regarding privacy or any other matter please e-mail info@1001homes.co.uk or click here for more contact details.

Effective Date: Privacy Policy last modified January, 2007.
© 2007 1001homes, Inc.