Security & Privacy
Privacy Policy
Effective from 1st June 2006
Tomy UK Limited takes the privacy of the personal information which you submit to the Website seriously. We set out our privacy practices and policies in this Privacy Policy. Please read it in conjunction with our terms and conditions of sale as the terms incorporate this Privacy Policy.
You do not need to give us any information to browse the Website. However, when you register online with us in order to obtain certain products and services from the Website, we will ask you for information about yourself.
If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy please email careline@tomy.co.uk.
Personal Information we collect about you
You can visit the Website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself.
When you register with the Website, we may collect the following information about you:
- your name, email address,
- your user name and password;
- your full address and contact telephone number;
- your children's details: name, date of birth, gender
In this Privacy Policy, we refer to the information above and any other personally identifiable information that we may request from you and that you may provide to us as “Personal Information”.
Our use of your Personal Information
When you register with us, we use Personal Information submitted by you in the following ways:
- to enable you to use any services that we may from time to time provide through the Website;
- to enable you to participate in competitions and offers for certain products and services which may be of interest to you, unless you inform us otherwise;
- to process orders which you make for any of our products and services;
- to correspond with you on any issues regarding your online order including delivery or cancellations;
- to send you updates about the Website;
- for general research purposes, to allow us to develop the products and services we can offer to you;
- for website administration (including enabling us to respond to any comments on the Website or feedback you may give us).
You may opt-out of receiving information about our competitions and offers for our products and services by unticking the relevant boxes when you register or purchase online.
Disclosures
Your Personal Information may be passed to and used by our group companies and to our third party partners and service providers in connection with providing products and services to you over the Website. At any time, we may need to send your Personal Information to other countries, whose data protection laws may not be as extensive as in the European Economic Area. However, we have taken appropriate steps to ensure the same level of protection for the processing carried out in these countries as within the European Economic Area.
We may also disclose your Personal Information in the following instances: (i) if we are required to do so by applicable law or pursuant to a court or similar order; (ii) as deemed necessary, in our discretion, to protect our legal rights or property or the legal rights or property of an individual who registers with the Website or third party, or to prevent personal injury; and/or (iii) in connection with a sale, merger, assignment, joint venture or other transfer or disposition of a portion or all of our assets or stock or our affiliated entities (including, without limitation, in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Hyperlinks to other web sites
This website contains hyperlinks to websites owned and operated by third parties which are beyond our control. These other sites have their own privacy policies and we urge you to review them – because this Privacy Policy will not apply. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of such third party web sites and your use of such web sites is at your own risk.
We reserve the right to move or change the Website URL at any time in order to meet changing business needs and to continually improve our online service. External websites link to the Website at their own risk.
Cookies
When you view or use the Website we may store information on the hard drive of your computer in the form of a "cookie" (essentially a small text file). Cookies allow us to tailor the Website to your interests and preferences. For example, a cookie might contain information about the web pages you have visited on the Website, which could allow us to customise your next visit to the Website. However, cookies do not allow us access to the rest of your computer and we do not use them to collect personally identifiable information about you.
Most internet browsers enable you to delete cookies or to receive a warning before a cookie is stored on your hard drive. Please refer to your browser instructions or help screen to learn more about how to do this. However, should you decide to disable any cookies we place on your computer you may not be able to use certain services or facilities on the Website.
You may occasionally get cookies from our advertisers or other third parties with links on the Website. We do not control these cookies. The use of advertising cookies sent by third-party servers is standard in the Internet industry.
Updating Your Personal Information
To the extent that you do provide us with Personal Information, we wish to keep it up-to-date. Please let us know if your Personal Information changes by sending the details to careline@tomy.co.uk. We will try to incorporate the changes as soon as practicable.
Your right to see your Personal Information
You have the right to request a copy of the Personal Information that we hold on you and to have any errors in that information corrected. We may charge a reasonable fee for such requests as permitted by law. Please address your request to careline@tomy.co.uk. We will use reasonable efforts to supply, correct or delete Personal Information about you on our files.