D Giles Limited and this website
Information and communication technologies play a fundamental role in the activities of an organisation like D Giles Limited. D Giles Limited is a UK company registered at Jeremy Scholl And Company, 20-21 Jockey’s Fields, London, company number 04885042. Our principal activity is Book Publishing. Our privacy policy covers D Giles Limited and its website. You can access our website home page and browse our site without disclosing your personal data.
Cookies Policy
Cookies are tiny text files stored on your computer or handheld device as you browse this website. We use cookies to collect information about browsing and buying behaviour, keep track of what you have in your cart, and to remember you when you return to our site. Our cookies exist to enable functionality on the website and not for advertising purposes. If you do not wish these cookies to be tracked you can disable them in your browser. However, this may negatively effect your experience on the site: you will not be able to shop from the site, register or log in. There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using gilesltd.com: – First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site. – Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies’ internet tools which we are using to enhance our site. Eg. Facebook and Twitter have their own cookies which they control.
First party cookies
Cookie Name | Purpose |
exp_last_visit, exp_last_activity, exp_tracker, exp_sessionid | Stores information used by this website to track which pages have been visited and when logged in users last used the site. |
PHPSESSID | Used to identify a specific user session. It is used to store information about a guest user’s shopping cart contents. Expires at the end of the session (24 mins). |
Third party cookies
Cookie Name | Purpose |
_utma, _utmb, _utmc, _utmz, _utmv | Stores information used by Google Analytics to track user activity on the site. The data stored by these cookies can be seen only by us and Google. |
twid, pid, k, guest_id, js, _twitter_sess, original_referer, external_referer | Twitter cookies which allow content from Twitter to be shown on website pages and pages to be shared on Twitter. |
datr, lu, s, locale, c_user, xs | Facebook cookies which allow sharing of a page on Facebook. |
Data Collection and Purpose Specification
We collect the personal data that you may volunteer while using our services. We do not collect information about our visitors from other sources, such as public records or bodies, or private organisations. If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, we offer you the means to consent to this new purpose: by indicating in a box at the point on the site where personal data is collected.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect personal data from children. We take specific steps to protect the privacy of children by making reasonable efforts to ensure that a parent has authorised the collection of the child’s personal data. We do not provide information about our personal data practices in relation to children on our home page, or at those sites on our website where we collect personal data.
Disclosure and Visitor Choice
We do not disclose your personal data to our subsidiaries or other organisations.
Confidentiality and Security
We do not give visitors to our website the option of using a secure transmission method to send us their personal data. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:
- – Unauthorised access
- – Improper use or disclosure
- – Unauthorised modification
- – Unlawful destruction or accidental loss
All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of our visitors’ personal data. We ensure that your personal data will not be disclosed to State institutions and authorities except if required by law or other regulation.
Access to personal data we may hold about you
You can ask us, by {encode=”[email protected] ” title=”sending an email”} whether we are keeping personal data about you. Upon request, which you can indicate by {encode=”[email protected] ” title=”sending an email”}, we will provide you with a readable copy of the personal data which we keep about you, within a week – although we may before require proof of your identity. We will provide the information without any charge. We allow you to challenge the data that we hold about you and, where appropriate, you may have the data:
- – Erased
- – Rectified or amended
- – Completed
We reserve the right to refuse to provide our visitors with a copy of their personal data, but will give reasons for our refusal. We do, however, allow you to challenge our decision to refuse to provide you with a copy of your personal data.
Privacy Compliance
Our privacy policy is compliant with the following instrument: Data Protection Act 1998. It is also compliant with the following global or regional regulatory, or self-regulatory instrument: OECD Privacy Guidelines on the Protection Of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data Guidelines. In order to demonstrate that our privacy policy accords with the above privacy instrument, we are voluntarily committed to a Self Assessment procedure.