Privacy Policy

The following statement explains our policy regarding the personal information we collect about you.

1. Introduction
2. Visitor Information
3. What is a cookie?
4. Use and storage of your personal information
5. List of Platform Building Materials cookies

1. Introduction

This policy covers the Platform Building Materials use of personal information that the Platform Building Materials collects when you use this web site. The policy also gives you information about cookies; Platform Building Materials and third parties' use of cookies; and how you may reject such cookies.

From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include price guides, newsletters, competitions.

By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable the Platform Building Materials and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. When using your personal informaiton Platform Building Materials will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.

2. Visitor Information

During the course of any visit to www.platformbuildingmaterials.com, the pages you see, along with a short text file called a 'cookie', are downloaded to your computer. Many websites do this, because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the website before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.

Information supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better online user experience and assist us to analyse the profile of our visitors. For example: if on a previous visit you went to our store pages, we might find this out from your cookie and highlight store information on your second and subsequent visits.

3. What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website's computer and stored on your computer's hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser's preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Many sites do this whenever a user visits their website in order to track online traffic flows.

Cookies record information about your online preferences. Users have the opportunity to set their computers to accept all cookies, to notify them when a cookie is issued, or not to receive cookies at any time. The last of these, of course, means that certain personalised services cannot then be provided to that user user and accordingly you may not be able to take full advantage of all of the www.platformbuildingmaterials.com features. Each browser is different, so check the "Help" menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie preferences.

If you have set your computer to reject cookies you can still browse www.platformbuildingmaterials.com anonymously until such time as you wish to view personalized features such as price guides. For further information on cookies please visit www.aboutcookies.org.

4. Use and storage of your personal information

When you supply any personal information to www.platformbuildingmaterials.com (e.g. for competitions, we have legal obligations towards you in the way we use those data. We must collect the information fairly, that is, we must explain how we will use it (see the notices on particular webpages that let you know why we are requesting the information) and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else.

In general, any information you provide to Platform Building Materials will only be used within Platform Building Materials and by its agents and service providers. Your information will be disclosed where we are obliged or permitted by law.

We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met.

5. List of Platform Building Materials cookies

This is a list of the main cookies that Platform Building Materials sets, and what each is used for: