Privacy and Cookie Policies

Privacy Policy

Summit Different is committed to protecting your privacy and we only use the information we collect about you lawfully. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather about you when you visit the Summit Different website. 

Summit Different will not disclose your personal information to any third parties.

We will only collect personal data through survey information, order fulfillment or website registrations.  We only collect information about you to process your order and provide you with the best possible service.  We may send you information about other Summit Different products and services.  If we send you an email/newsletter in the future, we will give you the chance to unsubscribe from any future marketing emails from us.

The information we DON’T collect
Summit Different does not collect credit or debit information. All our payments are processed via our chosen authorized payment provider PAYPAL.  We never have access to your card details at any time.

The information we DO collect about you
The personal information we collect may include your name, title, company or organization name, delivery address and e-mail address.  We may also collect certain information about your website visit, such as type of browser you are using, the date and time you accessed our site, the pages that you access while on our site and the address of the site from which you linked directly to the Summit Different website. This information is used to help improve our site optimisation and administer the site.

How we use your information
Summit Different only uses the information you provide about yourself when placing an order only to complete that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order e.g for goods delivery purposes.

If you have any queries about this Privacy statement or concerns about the way we process your personal data, then please contact us on info@summitdifferent.co.uk.

Contact Information
Data Controller and Owner: Summit Different Ltd, info@summitdifferent.co.uk

Cookie Policy

Most websites you visit will use cookies in order to improve the user experience by enabling that website to remember you, either for the duration of your visit (using a session cookie) or for repeat visits (using a persistent cookie).

Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, storing your preferences, and generally improving your experience of a website. Cookies make the interaction between you and the website faster and easier. If a website doesn’t use cookies, it will think you are a new visitor every time you move to a new page on the site – for example, when you enter your login details and move to another page it won’t recognise you and it won’t be able to keep you logged in.

This website uses cookies to allow us to see how our site is used.  The cookies cannot identify you. If you continue to use our site we will assume that you are happy with this.

What is in a Cookie?
A cookie is a simple text file that is stored on your computer or mobile device by a website’s server and only that server will be able to retrieve or read the contents of that cookie. Each cookie is unique to your web browser. It will contain some anonymous information such as a unique identifier and the site name and some digits and numbers. It allows a website to remember things like your preferences or what’s in your shopping basket.

Disable cookies
If you do disable our cookies you may find that certain sections of our website do not work. For example, you may have difficulties logging in or adding products to your shopping cart.

Google Chrome
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows-vista/Block-or-allow-cookies

Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Enabling%20and%20disabling%20cookies

Opera
http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/security/privacy/

Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Safari/3.0/en/9277.html

Our use of cookies
We use session cookies for the duration of your visit to improve your browsing experience, the session cookies we use help provide the following:

First Party Cookies
These are cookies that are set by this website (www.summitdifferent.co.uk) directly.

Shopping basket
We use session cookies to help identify your shopping basket and any products that you have added, in which the session cookie will time out if you have not completed the checkout process within 2 hours or you close/restart your internet browser.

Sign-in and Authentication
We use session cookies to hold sign-in information, which lets the website recognise that you have signed-in to your account and provides a better browsing and checkout experience.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. We use Google Analytics to collect data about visitor behaviour on our website.  Google Analytics stores information about what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got here and what you click on. The Analytics data we collect is not tied to personally identifiable information.

You can find out more about Google’s position on privacy as regards its analytics service at http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/privacyoverview.html

WordPress
Parts of our website run the popular WordPress CMS and cookies are used to store basic data on your interactions with WordPress. 

More information on session cookies and what they are used for at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/cookies/session-cookies-used-for.html

Third Party Cookies
These are cookies set on your machine by external websites whose services are used on this site. These services allow interaction with social networks or other external platforms.  Cookies of this type are the sharing buttons across the site allow visitors to share content onto social networks. We currently have cookies set by Twitter, Facebook and Google+.  

If a service enabling interaction with social networks is installed it may still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.  You should check the respective policies of each of these sites to see how exactly they use your information and to find out how to opt out or delete such information.

Mailchimp
Mailchimp is an email address management and message sending service provided by Mailchimp Inc.  We use Mailchimp to make it possible to manage a database of email contacts with our members.  This service also collects data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.