It is First Aid For Feet’s policy to respect your privacy on any information we may collect while using our websites.

Website visitors

Like most website operators, First Aid For Feet collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. First Aid For Feet’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how First Aid For Feet’s visitors uses its website. From time to time, First Aid For Feet may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

First Aid For Feet also collects personally-identifying information, like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on First Aid For Feet blogs/sites. First Aid For Feet only reveals logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and shows personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of personally-identifying information

Certain visitors to First Aid For Feet’s websites choose to interact with First Aid For Feet in ways that require First Aid For Feet to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that First Aid For Feet gathers will depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at www.firstaidforfeet.co.uk to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with First Aid For Feet are asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, First Aid For Feet collects such information only insofar as is necessary or proper to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with First Aid For Feet. First Aid For Feet does not publish personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the exception that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated statistics

First Aid For Feet may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. First Aid For Feet may display this information publicly or provide it to others. But First Aid For Feet does not publish personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of certain personally-identifying information

First Aid For Feet shows potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information to process it on First Aid For Feet’s behalf or to provide services available at First Aid For Feet’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside your home country. By using First Aid For Feet’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. First Aid For Feet will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, First Aid For Feet reveals potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental requests, or when First Aid For Feet believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of First Aid For Feet, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the First Aid For Feet website and have supplied your email address, First Aid For Feet may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with First Aid For Feet and our products. If you send us a request (for example, via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. First Aid For Feet takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Business transfers

If First Aid For Feet or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that First Aid For Feet goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of First Aid For Feet may continue to use your personal information, as in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers using cookies by First Aid For Feet and does not cover using cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy policy changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, First Aid For Feet may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in First Aid For Feet’s sole discretion. First Aid For Feet encourages visitors to often check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a www.healthfirstsoutham.co.uk account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored, but this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, usually, there are no industry-standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not, in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

Disabling cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. So it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

The cookies we set

When you submit data through a form, such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. To provide you with a better experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third-party cookies

Third-party cookies are set by an organisation that does not own the site that the user is visiting. These are normally cookies set by specialist marketing or analytics organisations.

Which third-party cookies do we use?

We may use the following third-party cookies:

Google

We may use various products and features provided by Google, Inc. (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, "Google").

Google Analytics

This website uses the analytics service of Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

For the website provider, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services on website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse to use cookies by selecting the right settings on your browser. But please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html.

Google Dynamic Remarketing

We may use Google Dynamic Remarketing to advertise across the Internet, in particular, on the Google Display Network. Dynamic remarketing will display ads to you based on what parts of our websites you have viewed by placing a cookie on your web browser. This cookie does not in any way identify you or give access to your computer or mobile device. The cookie is used to show other websites that "This user visited a particular page, so show them ads relating to that page." Google Dynamic Remarketing allows us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.

If you do not wish to see targeted ads, you can opt-out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings. For further information visit Google's privacy policy.

DoubleClick by Google

DoubleClick uses cookies to enable interest-based advertisements. The cookies identify which ad has been shown in the browser and whether you have accessed a website through an ad. The cookies do not collect personal information. If you do not wish to see interest-based ads, you can opt-out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's Ads Settings. For further information visit Google's privacy policy.

Facebook

We may also use retargeting tags and Custom Audience provided by the company Facebook Inc. (1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA, "Facebook").

Facebook Custom Audiences

In the context of interest-based online advertising, we may use the product Facebook Custom Audiences. For this purpose, a non-reversible and non-personal checksum (hash value) is generated from your usage data. That hash value can be transmitted to Facebook for analysis and marketing purposes. The collected information contains your activities on the website (e.g., browsing behaviour, visited subpages, etc.). Your IP address is transmitted as well and used for geographical controlling of advertising. The data collected is only transmitted encrypted to Facebook and is anonymous to us, which means the personal data of individual users are not visible to us.

For more information about the privacy policy of Facebook and Custom Audience, please check

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ or https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/custom-audiences-website.

Facebook Exchange FBX

When you visit our websites with the help of remarketing tags, a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server is created. Facebook gets the information that you have visited our website with your IP address. This allows Facebook to assign your visit to our website to your user account. The information thus obtained we can use for the display of Facebook Ads. We point out that we, as the provider of the website, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data and are using it by Facebook.

Facebook Conversion Tracking Pixel

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 stays anonymous. This means that we cannot see the personal data of any individual user. But the collected data are saved and processed by Facebook. We are informing you on this matter according to our information at this time. Facebook can connect the data with your Facebook account and use the data for their own advertising purposes, in accordance with Facebook's privacy 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.

By using the website, you agree to the data processing associated with the integration of Facebook Pixel.

Other social media

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn and Reddit will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or to contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.