Privacy Notice

Equip knows that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This notice describes our privacy policy. By visiting www.equip-u.com, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.

What Personal Information About Customers Does Equip Gather?
The information we learn from customers helps us personalise and continually improve your shopping experience. Here are the types of information we gather.

Information You Give Us:
We receive and store any information you enter on our website or give us in any other way. You can choose not to provide certain information, but then you might not be able to take advantage of many of our features. We use the information that you provide for such purposes as responding to your requests, customising future shopping for you, improving our store, and communicating with you.

Automatic Information:
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. For example, like many websites, we use "cookies," and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses www.equip-u.com. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see examples of the information we receive. A number of companies offer utilities designed to help you visit web sites anonymously. Although we will not be able to provide you with a personalised experience if we cannot recognise you, we want you to be aware that these tools exist.

E-mail Communications:
If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please uncheck the Newsletter box in your account pages. menu.

Information from Other Sources:
We sometimes receive updated delivery and address information from our shippers or other sources so that we can correct our records and deliver your next purchase or communication more easily.

What About Cookies?
Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer's hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognise your browser and to provide features such as automatic login and permanent shopping carts for storage of items in your Shopping Basket between visits.

The "help" portion of the toolbar on 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, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of the website's features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Does Equip Share the Information It Receives?
Information about our customers is an important part of our business, and we are not in the business of selling it to others.

Agents:
We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, designing and maintaining our website, and providing customer service. They have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.

Protection of Equip and Others:
We release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law; enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Equip, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

With Your Consent:
Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

Security
We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using PayPoint.net as our payment processor. PayPoint.net processes the credit card transactions - Equip has no access to your credit card information. PayPoint.net protects your privacy and information by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts the information you submit to them. For more information please visit www.paypoint.net.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What Information Can I Access?
Equip gives you access to the following information about you for the limited purpose of viewing and, in certain cases, updating that information. This list will change as our web site evolves:

- Your Account

What Choices Do I Have?
As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, even though it might be needed to make a purchase or to take advantage of such website features as Automatic Login, and permanent shopping baskets. You can add or update certain information on pages such as those listed in the "Your Account" pages. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the prior version for our records.

If you do not want to receive e-mail or other mail from us, please adjust your account to reflect this in the newsletter menu.

Children
We do not sell products for purchase by children. We sell children's products for purchase by adults. If you are under 18, you may use www.equip-u.com only with involvement of a parent or guardian.

Conditions of Use, Notices, and Revisions
If you choose to visit www.equip-u.com, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Notice and our Conditions of Use, including limitations on damages, arbitration of disputes, and application of the law of the UK. If you have any concern about privacy at equip-u.com, please send us a thorough description to info@equip-u.com, and we will try to resolve it. Our business changes constantly. This Notice and the Conditions of Use will change also, and use of information that we gather now is subject to the Privacy Notice in effect at the time of use. We may e-mail periodic reminders of our notices and conditions, unless you have instructed us not to, but you should check our web site frequently to see recent changes.

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; the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our website, including date and time; cookie number; and products you viewed or searched for.