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Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies to the website www.dssmithepack.co.uk, any subdomains thereto, and any webpages displayed on or through www.dssmithepack.co.uk or such subdomain (collectively, the “Site”) which is run by DS Smith Packaging Limited (the “Company”, “we” or “us”) with an address at 350 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom, NW1 3AX.
Version 3 11-07-2018
The Company recognises the importance of honest and responsible use of your personal information. This Privacy and Cookies Policy (this “Policy”) explains how the Company collects, uses and discloses personal information about you when you visit this Site and when you contact the Company, whether by e-mail, post, fax or telephone using the contact options on this Site. The information you provide to us through the Site will initially be collected by the Company, but may then be shared with affiliates of the Company (the Company, together with its Affiliates, the “Group”).
It is important to us that you feel comfortable in visiting the Site.
What type of information does the Company collect and why?
If you use the Site’s search feature, queries and results are logged anonymously without any user-specific details being collected. Our collection of website use information may also involve the use of cookies and Web beacons. Please see the “Cookies” section below for more information.
If you want to contact us or to use certain features that we provide on the Site, you will need to provide us with some additional personal information so that we can liaise with you and deal with your request, query or application. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we will collect that information for our own use and for the purposes described in this Policy.
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, Use Live Chat or enter information on our site.
What type of personal information does the Company collect?
In connection with your use of the Site and its features, we may collect certain personal information from you. Some of this information is only collected if you choose to provide such information to us (such as your full name, title and gender), while some of this information is collected automatically (such as standard internet and website log information). The following are the categories of personal information that we collect from you:
- your full name, title and gender;
- your work and home contact details, such as address, telephone numbers and e-mail address;
- the reason for your contact, which may be a request or enquiry on your own behalf, a request or enquiry on behalf of someone else, a customer service need, providing a comment, a job application, or details in relation to a possible or existing order or service contract;
- if you create an account - your username, password, e-mail address and your full name, address and telephone numbers;
- employment and personal and educational details you choose to provide to us as part of any application for employment, such as your employee ID, including social security number, other governmental identity number, and if needed, driver’s license number and/or passport number, your date of birth, place of birth, nationality (and where applicable dual or former nationality) and eligibility (including evidence) to work in the relevant country;
- financial account information, such as credit card number and other payment information;
- your contact and marketing preferences;
- information necessary for legal compliance;
- standard internet and website log information and details of patterns about how website visitors behave on the Site. The information we may collect includes information about your Internet service provider, your operating system, browser type, domain name, the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or other electronic Internet-enabled device), your access times, the website that referred you to us, the Web pages you request and the date and time of those requests.
- where you “like” us or make posts on our pages on social networking websites.
This information will be collected primarily from you as information voluntarily provided to us, but we may also collect it where lawful to do so from (and combine it with information from) public sources, third party service providers, individuals whom you have indicated have agreed for you to provide their personal information, government, tax or law enforcement agencies, and other third parties. We may also collect personal information about you from your use of services provided by affiliates of the Company.
How does the Company use information about you?
The Company may use information about you for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you on the Site or with our services. For example, we may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, navigate the Site, or use certain other Site features in the following ways:
- to personalise your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested;
- to improve the Site in order to better serve you;
- to allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests;
- to quickly process your transactions;
- to ask for ratings and reviews of services or products;
- to follow up after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries)
- subject to your consent where required under applicable laws, to carry out direct marketing and/or e-mail marketing that you have requested;
- to perform any contract the Group has with you; and
- for compliance with legal, regulatory and other governance obligations.
Personal information will be kept in computerised files and electronic databases as set out in more detail below.
In most cases, the information the Company processes about you is required to deal with your request or registration, or required by law, or is necessary for the exercise of the Company’s legitimate business interests and needs, in which case, special care is taken to safeguard your rights and to ensure any such use is proportionate.
The Company or one of its affiliates may also convert personal information into anonymous data and use it (normally on an aggregated statistical basis) for research and analysis to improve the performance of the Site or the services provided by the Group.
What is the legal basis for the use of personal data?
The legal basis on which we rely to process your personal information include:
- On some occasions, we process your data with your consent (for example, when you agree that we may place cookies or process information that you input into our website).
- On other occasions, we process your data when we need to do this to fulfil a contract with you (for example, for billing purposes) or where we are required to do this by law (for example, to comply with governmental record-keeping obligations).
- We also process your data when it is in our legitimate interests to do so and when these interests are not overridden by your data protection rights (including, for example, when we share data with our affiliates).
Does the Company share personal information with third parties?
Your personal information will be made available for the purposes mentioned above (or as otherwise notified to you from time to time), on a ‘need-to-know’ basis and only to management, accounting, legal, logistics, audit, compliance, information technology and other corporate staff who properly need to know these details for their functions within the Group. Certain individuals who will see your personal information may not be based at the Company or in your country (please see below).
We may share personal information within the Group as needed for reasonable management, analysis, planning and decision making, including in relation to taking decisions regarding the expansion and promotion of our product and service offering, order or customer request fulfilment and for use by the Group for the other purposes described in this Policy.
Your personal information may also be made available to third parties (within or outside the Group) providing relevant services under contract to the Group (see below for further details), such as credit card processors, auditors and compliance managers, providers or call centres and IT hosting and IT maintenance providers. These third parties may use information about you to perform their functions on our behalf. The Company has put in place various security and data privacy measures, including with such third parties, in order to protect personal information and shall seek to comply with applicable legal requirements.
We use the following tools in order to improve the quality of our products: Hotjar and AutopilotHQ. They allow us to understand how our products are being used, i.e. the frequency of use of certain features etc. We use this data for internal use only. We also use a tracking code provided by Lead Forensics, which provides us with information on users’ IP addresses and the webpages that they visit. The Lead Forensics tool uses IP tracking for identifying businesses and only provides information that is readily available in the public domain, which does not include individual, personal or sensitive data regarding who has visited our website. This data may be used by us to contact the business about their experience or for marketing purposes and we will not pass this data to third parties for any reason. More information can be found at www.leadforensics.com.
We may disclose specific information upon lawful request by government authorities, law enforcement and regulatory authorities, where required or permitted by law, and for tax or other purposes. Personal information may also be released to third parties in response to legal process, and when required to comply with laws, or to enforce our agreements, corporate policies, and terms of use, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Group, our employees, agents, customers, and others, as well as to parties to whom you authorise the Company to release your personal information.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information to outside parties (other than as part of any restructuring of the Group or sale of any business or assets of the Group) unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses, as further set out in this privacy policy.
Will your personal information be transferred abroad?
Some transfers of personal information have been explained above. Individuals within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) should be aware that recipients of their personal information, within the Group or third parties (as set out in this notice), may not be located within the EEA but instead located in countries which do not have equivalent protection for personal information to that within the EEA. Steps will be taken to protect your personal information in that instance consistent with applicable law. For example data is adequately protected by EU Commission approved standard contractual clauses, an appropriate Privacy Shield certification or a vendor's Processor Binding Corporate Rules. A copy of the relevant mechanism can be provided for your review on request to compliance.legal@dssmith.com.
What choices does the Company offer you with regard to direct marketing?
The Company may wish to provide you with information about new products, services, promotions and offers, which may be of interest to you and may invite you to take part in market research or request feedback on the Group’s products and services. This communication may occur by e-mail, telephone, post or SMS. We will obtain your consent and advise you of how to opt-out of receiving such communications where we are required to do so in accordance with applicable law.
What safeguards are in place to protect your personal information?
The Company takes reasonable steps to employ appropriate physical, technical and administrative security measures to help prevent loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure or modification of your personal information. While we take these reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information you disclose online. You accept the inherent security implications of dealing online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless such breach has been caused by the specific negligence of the Group or their agents.
An external PCI compliant payment gateway handles all credit card transactions and we use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
All payment transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
What rights do you have to review and amend personal information?
You have the right to review and access your personal information held by the Company.
You also have the right to ask us to rectify, block, complete and delete your personal information, to restrict its use, and to ‘port’ your personal information (that is, to ask us to provide it to you in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and to transmit it directly to another organisation).
In addition, you have the right to request further information about the handling of your personal information.
If you wish to do so, if you wish to amend your personal information or to notify the Company of a change in your details, please contact us:
- by emailing us at shop@dssmith.com;
- by calling us at 0808 1787227;
- by logging in to your account; or
- by chatting with us or by sending us a support ticket.
There are exceptions to these rights, however. For example, access to personal information may be denied in some circumstances if making the information available would reveal personal information about another person or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. In addition, we may be able to retain data even if you withdraw your consent, where we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your data.
If you have a question about the use of your personal information, or wish to file a complaint about it, please contact us, using the contact details set out above.
Finally, if you have unresolved concerns, you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities.
Keeping you informed
When we store your information, we do so for as long as necessary to (i) fulfill the specific purposes for which your personal information was collected, (ii) to perform the services set out in this notice, or (iii) to comply with our legal obligations or enforce our legal rights.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for certain areas of the Site. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us improve the Site and your experience. We use cookies to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits to our websites, to recognise you as a returning visitor and to tailor your experience of the Site according to your preferences. Overall, cookies help us provide you with better websites, by enabling us to:
- monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not;
- remember and process the items in your shopping cart;
- understand and save your preferences for future visits; and
- compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future (we may use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf).
We may also use cookies for targeting or advertising purposes. We may use Web beacons on the Site or in our e-mails. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage of Group websites and to tell if an e-mail has been opened and acted upon. Further details about cookie purposes and types are below. To delete or block cookies by browser settings at any time and for more general information about cookies including the difference between session and persistent cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
We also use Google Analytics on our Site to collect information about your online activity on the Site, such as the Web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on the Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. For more information about the information gathered using Google Analytics please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You can prevent these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Site. You may download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
With your permission, our website utilises the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only users over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger than this age, please consult your legal guardians.
Please click here if you would like to revoke your permission: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences
The cookies used on our Site are categorised in accordance with the International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom Cookie Guide as follows:
- Cookies which are “strictly necessary” for functionality of the Site’s platforms. These cookies are essential in order to enable users to move around the Site and use its features.
- “Performance” cookies which collect information about how users navigate the Site, for example, which pages users access most frequently. They identify how users interact with the Site, any errors that occur, which pages are not used often, which pages take a long time to load, which pages users tend to visit and in what order. These cookies do not collect any information which could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our Site works and understand what interests the Site’s users.
- “Functionality” cookies which allow the Site to remember choices you make and your preferences as a logged in user (for example, based on your user name).
- “Targeting or advertising” cookies used to deliver advertising material relevant to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which are tailored to interests associated with the website activity tied to that machine or device. For example, if a cookie on a third party website recognises that a particular product was purchased from a particular device, that cookie may “talk to” marketing cookies on the Site to ensure advertisements about similar products displayed on the Site are accessed from that device. These cookies are also used to limit the number of times a user sees an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They may also remember that the Site has been visited from a device and share that information with marketing organisations. The marketing cookies on the Site are operated by third parties with our permission. Marketing cookies are used to monitor from which advertising source a user was directed towards the Site so that we know whether it is worth us investing in that particular advertising source.
Cookie name/type |
Expiration Period |
Purpose |
Category of cookie as defined in the ICC Cookie Guide |
AspNetCore.Identity.Application |
Session (these cookies typically expire at the end of your session, in other words, when you close your browser) |
Authentication session to prevent having to login multiple times in one browser session. A unique ID that ties the current session to a database settings table. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
epack.basket |
30 days |
A unique ID that ties the current session to a database basket table. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
epack.cookie-compliance |
365 days |
Enables us to remember if you accept cookies from this website. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
Google Analytics |
2 years from set/update |
Provides a unique ID for each Web browser that visits this site. |
Targeting/advertising |
Google Analytics |
Session 30 minutes from set/update |
Used to establish and continue a user session with this website. |
Targeting/advertising |
Google Analytics |
Session (these cookies typically expire at the end of your session, in other words, when you close your browser) |
Used to establish and continue a user session with this website. |
Targeting/advertising |
Google Analytics |
6 months from set/update |
Used to calculate search engine traffic, ad campaigns and page navigation within this site. |
Targeting/advertising |
_lc_visitor_id bislr_identifier |
Persistent cookie: 2 years |
Set to analyse onsite behaviour to provide more relevant services and products. |
Targeting/advertising |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites |
365 days |
Set once a visitor interacts with a survey invitation to ensure that the same invite does not re-appear if it has already been shown. |
Targeting/advertising |
_hjDonePolls |
365 days |
Set once a visitor completes a poll to ensure that the same poll does not re-appear. |
Targeting/advertising |
_hjMinimizedPolls |
365 days |
Set once a visitor minimises a Feedback Poll widget. Used to ensure that the widget stays minimised when the visitor navigates through your site. |
Targeting/advertising |
_hjIncludedInSample |
365 days |
Set to let Hotjar know whether that visitor is included in the sample which is used to generate funnels. |
Targeting/advertising |
login_redirect |
Session |
Magento_customer module. Preserves the destination page the customer was loading before being directed to log in. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
mage-messages |
365 days. Cleared on frontend when the message is displayed to the user. |
Magento_theme module. Tracks error messages and other notifications that are shown to the user, such as the cookie consent message, and various error messages. The message is deleted from the cookie after it is shown to the shopper. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
X-Magento-Vary |
Based on PHP setting session.cookie_lifetime |
Magento_PageCache module. Configuration setting that improves performance when using Varnish static content caching. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
mage-cache-storage |
Session |
Magento_Customer, Magento_Persistent, Magento_NegotiableQuote modules. Local storage of visitor-specific content that enables ecommerce functions. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
section_data_ids |
Session |
Magento_Customer module. Stores customer-specific information related to shopper-initiated actions such as display wish list, checkout information, etc. |
Strictly necessary/Functionality |
Google advertising
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en.
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out of having making your site activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) that is running on websites from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.
Do Not Track Signals
We honour Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Cookie settings
We will ask for your consent to the use of cookies set out in this Policy when you first access the Site and if we introduce any new cookies to the Site. When you first visit the Site, a box/banner will appear asking you to agree to the cookies that we set on the Site. Your continued use of the Site will be treated as consent to the use of these cookies for the purposes described.
If you reject cookies by clicking on “No thanks”, we will not set any further cookies on your device, except that we will set the “Strictly necessary” cookies detailed above, including a cookie to remember that you don't want any cookies set when you visit the Site.
You can usually choose to set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being set or to remove or reject cookies. Each browser is different, so review your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, it will affect many features or services on the Site.
If you agree to cookies on the Site by clicking on the "I agree" button, we will set cookies on your device. If you wish to delete the cookies we have set on your device, please refer to your browser Help menu.
If you do nothing to indicate your cookie preference for the Site (in other words, if you do not click on either "I agree" or "No thanks"), we will treat this as acceptance and set cookies on your device. To modify your cookie settings, please refer to the Help menu of your browser.
Changes to this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. We may change this Policy from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices. The date at the top of this Policy will be updated accordingly.
We encourage you to check the date of this Policy when you visit the Site for any updates or changes. We will notify you of any modified versions of this Policy that might materially affect the way we use or disclose your personal information.
Contact/address details
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
DS Smith ePack
350 Euston Road
London
NW1 3AX
Privacy and Cookie Policy
This Privacy and Cookies Policy applies to the website www.dssmithepack.co.uk, any subdomains thereto, and any webpages displayed on or through www.dssmithepack.co.uk or such subdomain (collectively, the “Site”) which is run by DS Smith Packaging Limited (the “Company”, “we” or “us”) with an address at 350 Euston Road, London, United Kingdom, NW1 3AX who is the controller of your data.
Version 4 --2021
The Company recognises the importance of honest and responsible use of your personal information. This Privacy and Cookies Policy (this “Policy”) explains how the Company collects, uses and discloses personal information about you when you visit this Site and when you contact the Company, whether by e-mail, post, fax or telephone using the contact options on this Site. The information you provide to us through the Site will initially be collected by the Company, but may then be shared with affiliates of the Company (the Company, together with its affiliates, the “Group”).
The Policy also describes your data protection rights, including a right to object to some of the processing which Company carries out. More information about your rights, and how to exercise them, is set out in the “What rights do you have to review and amend personal information?” section.
It is important to us that you feel comfortable in visiting the Site.
What type of information does the Company collect and why?
If you use the Site’s search feature, queries and results are logged anonymously without any user-specific details being collected. Our collection of website use information may also involve the use of cookies and Web beacons. Please see the “Cookies” section below for more information.
If you want to contact us or to use certain features that we provide on the Site, you will need to provide us with some additional personal information so that we can liaise with you and deal with your request, query or application. If you choose to provide us with your personal information, we will collect that information for our own use and for the purposes described in this Policy.
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, Use Live Chat or enter information on our site.
What type of personal information does the Company collect?
In connection with your use of the Site and its features, we may collect certain personal information from you. Some of this information is only collected if you choose to provide such information to us (such as your full name and title), while some of this information is collected automatically (such as standard internet and website log information). The following are the categories of personal information that we collect from you:
- your full name, title and gender;
- if you check out as a guest- your contact details, such as delivery address and registered addresses for payment cards which may be your home or work address, telephone number and e-mail address;
- the reason for your contact, which may be a request or enquiry on your own behalf, a request or enquiry on behalf of someone else, a customer service need, providing a comment, a job application, or details in relation to a possible or existing order or service contract;
- if you create an account - your username, password, e-mail address and your full name, address and telephone numbers;
- financial account information, such as credit card number and other payment information;
- your contact and marketing preferences;
- standard internet and website log information and details of patterns about how website visitors behave on the Site. The information we may collect includes information about your Internet service provider, your operating system, browser type, domain name, the Internet protocol (IP) address of your computer (or other electronic Internet-enabled device), your access times, the website that referred you to us, the Web pages you request and the date and time of those requests.
This information will be collected primarily from you as information voluntarily provided to us, but we may also collect it where lawful to do so from (and combine it with information from) public sources, third party service providers, individuals whom you have indicated have agreed for you to provide their personal information, government, tax or law enforcement agencies, and other third parties. We may also collect personal information about you from your use of services provided by affiliates of the Company.
How does the Company use information about you?
The Company may use information about you for purposes described in this Policy or disclosed to you on the Site or with our services. For example, we may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, navigate the Site, or use certain other Site features in the following ways:
With your consent:
- To place any non-essential cookies or similar technologies on your device;
- To carry out direct marketing and/or e-mail marketing where we need your consent;
- when you consent to us, we can also check whether you have opened any emails we sent you or clicked on any links within the email
- To check whether you have opened our emails or clicked on links in the emails;
- to personalise your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested;
In other cases where we need your consent we will let you know at the time we collect it. For our or others’ legitimate interests:
- to improve the Site in order to better serve you;
- to ask for ratings and reviews of services or products;
- to follow up after correspondence (live chat, email or phone inquiries);
- to carry out direct marketing and/or e-mail marketing where we do not need your consent;
- to prevent, investigate and/or report fraud, terrorism, misrepresentation, security incidents or crime, in accordance with applicable law.
Where it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you:
- To process your transactions and
- to respond to your customer service requests
We also process your personal data for compliance with legal, regulatory and other governance obligations.
The Company or one of its affiliates may also convert personal information into anonymous data and use it (normally on an aggregated statistical basis) for research and analysis to improve the performance of the Site or the services provided by the Group.
The provision of your name, address and payment details are mandatory when you place an order as otherwise we would not be able to process and deliver your order. Provision of all other personal data is optional.
Does the Company share personal information with third parties?
Your personal information will be made available for the purposes mentioned above (or as otherwise notified to you from time to time). Certain individuals who will see your personal information may not be based at the Company or in your country (please see below).
We may share personal information within the Group as needed for reasonable management, analysis, planning and decision making, including in relation to taking decisions regarding the expansion and promotion of our product and service offering, order or customer request fulfilment and for use by the Group for the other purposes described in this Policy.
Your personal information may also be made available to third parties (within or outside the Group) providing relevant services under contract to the Group (see below for further details), such as credit card processors, auditors and compliance managers, providers or call centres and IT hosting and IT maintenance providers. These third parties may use information about you to perform their functions on our behalf. The Company has put in place various security and data privacy measures, including with such third parties, in order to protect personal information and shall seek to comply with applicable legal requirements.
We may disclose specific information upon lawful request by government authorities, law enforcement and regulatory authorities, where required or permitted by law, and for tax or other purposes. Personal information may also be released to third parties in response to legal process, and when required to comply with laws, or to enforce our agreements, corporate policies, and terms of use, or to protect the rights, property or safety of the Group, our employees, agents, customers, and others, as well as to parties to whom you authorise the Company to release your personal information.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses, as further set out in this privacy policy.
Will your personal information be transferred abroad?
Some transfers of personal information have been explained above. Individuals within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK should be aware that recipients of their personal information, within the Group or third parties (as set out in this notice), may not be located within the EEA or the UK but instead located in countries which do not have equivalent protection for personal information to that within the EEA or the UK. Steps will be taken to protect your personal information in that instance consistent with applicable law. For example data is adequately protected by EU Commission approved standard contractual clauses, or a vendor's Processor Binding Corporate Rules. A copy of the relevant mechanism can be provided for your review on request to compliance.legal@dssmith.com.
Relying on our legitimate interests
We have carried out balancing tests for all the data processing we carry out on the basis of our legitimate interests, which we have described above. You can obtain information on our balancing tests by contacting us at compliance.legal@dssmith.com.
What choices does the Company offer you with regard to direct marketing?
The Company may wish to provide you with information about new products, services, promotions and offers, which may be of interest to you and may invite you to take part in market research or request feedback on the Group’s products and services. This communication may occur by e-mail, telephone, post or SMS.
Wherever we rely on your consent, you will always be able to withdraw that consent, although we may have other legal grounds for processing your data for other purposes, such as those set out above. In some cases, we are able to send you direct marketing without your consent, where we rely on our legitimate interests. You have an absolute right to opt-out of direct marketing, or profiling we carry out for direct marketing, at any time. You can do this by following the instructions in the communication where this is an electronic message, or by contacting us using the details set out below.
What rights do you have in relation to your personal information?
You have the right to access your personal information held by the Company.
You also have the right to ask us to rectify, object to the processing, complete and delete your personal information, to restrict its use, and to ‘port’ your personal information (that is, to ask us to provide it to you in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and to transmit it directly to another organisation).
In addition, you have the right to request further information about the handling of your personal information.
If you wish to do so, if you wish to amend your personal information or to notify the Company of a change in your details, please contact us:
- by emailing us at shop@dssmith.com;
- by calling us at 01908 088888;
- by logging in to your account; or
- by chatting with us or by sending us a support ticket.
There are exceptions to these rights, however. For example, access to personal information may be denied in some circumstances if making the information available would reveal personal information about another person or if we are legally prevented from disclosing such information. In addition, we may be able to retain data even if you withdraw your consent, where we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your data.
If you have a question about the use of your personal information, or wish to file a complaint about it, please contact us, using the contact details set out above.
Finally, if you have unresolved concerns, you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities where you live, work or believe a breach has happened.
How long will the Company keep your personal information?
We generally store your information for 24 months , or otherwise for as long as necessary to (i) fulfill the specific purposes for which your personal information was collected, (ii) to perform the services set out in this notice, or (iii) to comply with our legal obligations or enforce our legal rights.
How we use cookies
We use cookies for certain areas of the Site. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Cookies help us improve the Site and your experience. We use cookies to see which areas and features are popular and to count visits to our websites, to recognise you as a returning visitor and to tailor your experience of the Site according to your preferences. Overall, cookies help us provide you with better websites, by enabling us to:
- monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not;
- remember and process the items in your shopping cart;
- understand and save your preferences for future visits; and
- compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future (we may use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf).
We may also use cookies for targeting or advertising purposes. We may use Web beacons on the Site or in our e-mails. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage of Group websites and to tell if an e-mail has been opened and acted upon. Further details about cookie purposes and types are below. at any point you would like to change your consent preferences about cookies set on our website you can visit our cookie preference centre here .
We use Hotjar and AutopilotHQ in order to improve the quality of our products. They allow us to understand how our products are being used, i.e. the frequency of use of certain features. We use this data for internal use only. We also use a tracking code provided by Lead Forensics, which provides us with information on users’ IP addresses and the webpages that they visit. The Lead Forensics tool uses IP tracking for identifying businesses and only provides information that is readily available in the public domain, which does not include individual, personal or sensitive data regarding who has visited our website. More information can be found at www.leadforensics.com.
We also use Google Analytics on our Site to collect information about your online activity on the Site, such as the Web pages you visit, the links you click, and the searches you conduct on the Site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the Site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. For more information about the information gathered using Google Analytics please visit http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html. You can prevent these cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. If you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Site. You may download and install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
With your permission, our website utilises the Conversion Tracking Pixel service of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). This tool allows us to follow the actions of users after they are redirected to a provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook advertisement. We are thus able to record the efficacy of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes. The collected data remain anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. However, the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook is able to connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Use Policy found under: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Facebook Conversion Tracking also allows Facebook and its partners to show you advertisements on and outside Facebook. In addition, a cookie will be saved onto your computer for these purposes.
Only users over 13 years of age may give their permission. If you are younger than this age, please consult your legal guardians.
Please click here if you would like to revoke your permission: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences
The cookies used on our Site are categorised in accordance with the International Chamber of Commerce United Kingdom Cookie Guide as follows:
- Cookies which are “strictly necessary” for functionality of the Site’s platforms. These cookies are essential in order to enable users to move around the Site and use its features.
- “Performance” cookies which collect information about how users navigate the Site, for example, which pages users access most frequently. They identify how users interact with the Site, any errors that occur, which pages are not used often, which pages take a long time to load, which pages users tend to visit and in what order. These cookies do not collect any information which could identify you and are only used to help us improve how our Site works and understand what interests the Site’s users.
- “Functionality” cookies which allow the Site to remember choices you make and your preferences as a logged in user (for example, based on your username).
- “Targeting or advertising” cookies used to deliver advertising material relevant to an identified machine or other device (not a named or otherwise identifiable person) which are tailored to interests associated with the website activity tied to that machine or device. For example, if a cookie on a third party website recognises that a particular product was purchased from a particular device, that cookie may “talk to” marketing cookies on the Site to ensure advertisements about similar products displayed on the Site are accessed from that device. These cookies are also used to limit the number of times a user sees an advertisement as well as to help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. They may also remember that the Site has been visited from a device and share that information with marketing organisations. The marketing cookies on the Site are operated by third parties with our permission. Marketing cookies are used to monitor from which advertising source a user was directed towards the Site so that we know whether it is worth us investing in that particular advertising source.
Google advertising
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en.
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt-out of making your site activity available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) that is running on websites from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity.
Do Not Track Signals
We honour Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Cookie settings
If you reject cookies by clicking on “No thanks” or if you do not click on either “No thanks” or “I agree”, we will not set any further cookies on your device, except that we will set the “strictly necessary” cookies detailed above, including a cookie to remember that you don't want any cookies set when you visit the Site.
You can usually choose to set your browser to warn you when a cookie is being set or to remove or reject cookies. Each browser is different, so review your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookie settings. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, it will affect many features or services on the Site.
If you agree to cookies on the Site by clicking on the "I agree" button, we will set cookies on your device. If you wish to delete the cookies we have set on your device, please refer to your browser Help menu.
Changes to this Policy
We keep this Policy under regular review. We may change this Policy from time to time by updating this page in order to reflect changes in the law and/or our privacy practices. The date at the top of this Policy will be updated accordingly.
We encourage you to check the date of this Policy when you visit the Site for any updates or changes. We will notify you of any modified versions of this Policy that might materially affect the way we use or disclose your personal information.
Contact/address details
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
DS Smith ePack
350 Euston Road
London
NW1 3AX
DS Smith (“wij” “ons” “onze”) verwijst naar DS Smith Packaging Netherlands BV met zijn geregistreerde kantoor op gevestigd aan de Coldenhovenseweg 130, 6961 EH Eerbeek, Nederland en zijn dochterondernemingen. U kunt ook contact met ons opnemen via e-mail op data.privacy@dssmith.com.
Dit cookiebeleid beschrijft hoe wij bepaalde informatie op onze website verzamelen met behulp van cookies en vergelijkbare trackingtechnologieën.
Om te begrijpen hoe wij uw persoonlijke informatie beheren, verwijzen wij u naar ons privacybeleid dat hier beschikbaar is.
Wat zijn cookies?
Cookies zijn kleine stukjes data (tekstbestanden) die op uw apparaat worden opgeslagen, meestal binnen uw webbrowser, wanneer u een website bezoekt. Dankzij cookies kan de website u, uw voorkeuren en hoe u de website gebruikt, onthouden telkens wanneer u terugkeert. Cookies helpen de gebruikerservaring te verbeteren door ervoor te zorgen dat sites sneller laden en inhoud aan te passen aan individuele gebruikers.
Ons gebruik van cookies
Wij gebruiken cookies voor bepaalde delen van de website. Cookies helpen ons de website en uw ervaring te verbeteren. Wij gebruiken cookies om te zien welke gebieden en functies populair zijn, om bezoeken aan onze websites te tellen, om u te herkennen als terugkerende bezoeker en om uw ervaring van de website aan uw voorkeuren aan te passen. Over het algemeen helpen cookies ons betere websites te bieden door ons in staat te stellen:
- - te monitoren welke pagina’s u nuttig vindt en welke niet;
- - de items in uw winkelwagentje te onthouden en te verwerken;
- - uw voorkeuren voor toekomstige bezoeken te begrijpen en op te slaan; en
- - geaggregeerde gegevens over siteverkeer en site-interacties te verzamelen om in de toekomst betere site-ervaringen en tools aan te bieden (we kunnen hiervoor gebruikmaken van vertrouwde diensten van derden die deze informatie namens ons volgen).
Wij kunnen ook cookies gebruiken voor targeting- of advertentiedoeleinden. Wij kunnen webbakens gebruiken op de website of in onze e-mails. Webbakens zijn elektronische afbeeldingen die kunnen worden gebruikt om cookies te leveren, bezoeken te tellen, het gebruik van onze websites te begrijpen en om te zien of een e-mail is geopend en hierop is gereageerd. Verdere details over de doeleinden en typen cookies zijn hieronder te vinden. U kunt cookies op elk moment verwijderen of blokkeren via de browserinstellingen en voor meer algemene informatie over cookies, inclusief het verschil tussen sessie- en permanente cookies, kunt u terecht op https://allaboutcookies.org/.
Cookies die door ons worden geplaatst, worden first-party cookies genoemd. Wij gebruiken ook third-party cookies, dit zijn cookies van een domein dat verschilt van het domein van de website die u bezoekt voor onze advertentie- en marketinginspanningen. Wij gebruiken Google Analytics op onze website om informatie te verzamelen over uw online activiteiten op de website, zoals de webpagina’s die u bezoekt, de links die u aanklikt en de zoekopdrachten die u uitvoert op de website. Wij gebruiken de informatie om rapporten samen te stellen en om ons te helpen de website te verbeteren. De cookies verzamelen informatie in anonieme vorm, inclusief het aantal bezoekers aan de website, waar bezoekers vandaan komen en de pagina’s die ze hebben bezocht. Voor meer informatie over de informatie die wordt verzameld met Google Analytics kunt u terecht op https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. U kunt deze cookies voorkomen door de juiste instellingen in uw browser te selecteren. Als u dit doet, kunt u mogelijk niet de volledige functionaliteit van deze website gebruiken. U kunt de Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on downloaden en installeren, beschikbaar hier: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Onze website maakt gebruik van cookies en vergelijkbare technologieën voor analyse- en marketingdoeleinden. Dit omvat zowel Google Analytics als retargeting/remarketing cookies.
Google Analytics en Google Signals:
Google Analytics zal de bezoekinformatie die het verzamelt van diensten van DS Smith associëren met Google-informatie van ingelogde gebruikers die hebben ingestemd met deze associatie voor advertentiepersonalisatie. Deze informatie wordt verzameld onder een dienst genaamd "Google Signals", wat ook een dienst van Google is. Met deze informatie stelt Google Signals voor ons multiplaform-dataverslagen samen over Google-gebruikers die gepersonaliseerde advertenties in hun Google-accounts hebben ingeschakeld. Deze Google-informatie kan eindgebruikerslocatie, zoekgeschiedenis, YouTube-geschiedenis en gegevens van websites die een partnerschap met Google hebben, omvatten en wordt gebruikt om geaggregeerde en geanonimiseerde inzichten in gebruikersgedrag over meerdere apparaten te bieden. Als u meer informatie wilt over de gegevens die Google op deze website verzamelt, kunt u het privacybeleid van Google lezen. Uw gegevens kunnen worden benaderd en/of verwijderd door eindgebruikers via Google's Mijn Activiteit..
Retargeting/Remarketing Cookies:
Onze website maakt gebruik van retargeting/remarketing cookies. Deze cookies stellen ons in staat om advertenties aan u weer te geven op andere websites op basis van uw eerdere bezoeken aan onze site. Ze werken door uw browser en internetapparaat uniek te identificeren. Als u deze cookies niet toestaat, zult u onze gerichte advertenties op verschillende websites niet ervaren.
U kunt cookies beheren via uw browserinstellingen.
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Cookie-instellingen
Wij zullen u op de hoogte stellen van ons gebruik van cookies en dit beleid wanneer u de website voor het eerst bezoekt. Wanneer u de website voor het eerst bezoekt, verschijnt er een vak/banner waarin u wordt gevraagd akkoord te gaan met de cookies die wij op de website instellen.
Als u cookies weigert
U kunt meestal kiezen om uw browser zo in te stellen dat u een waarschuwing ontvangt wanneer er een cookie wordt ingesteld of om cookies te verwijderen of te weigeren. Elke browser is anders, dus raadpleeg het Help-menu van uw browser om de juiste manier te leren om uw cookie-instellingen te wijzigen. Als u ervoor kiest geen cookies te accepteren, zullen veel functies of diensten op de website worden beïnvloed.
Als u akkoord gaat met cookies op de website door op de "Accepteren" knop te klikken, zullen wij cookies op uw apparaat instellen. Als u de cookies die wij op uw apparaat hebben ingesteld wilt verwijderen, raadpleeg dan het Help-menu van uw browser.
U kunt uw Cookie-instellingen hier beheren:
U kunt ook het gebruik van cookies weigeren door de juiste instellingen in uw browser te selecteren. Houd er echter rekening mee dat als u dit doet, u mogelijk niet de volledige functionaliteit van deze website kunt gebruiken.
Wijzigingen in dit beleid
Wij houden dit beleid regelmatig in de gaten. Wij kunnen dit beleid van tijd tot tijd wijzigen door deze pagina bij te werken om wijzigingen in de wet en/of onze privacypraktijken weer te geven.
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