Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Vapourcore Online Ltd, obtain, store and use your personal information when you use or interact with our website, www.vapourcore.com, or where we otherwise obtain or collect personal information.

The effective date of this Privacy Policy is 24th May 2018.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. We recommend that you print off a copy of this privacy Policy and any future versions in force from time to time for your records.

DATA COLLECTION

We collect personal information about you when you provide it to us, such as through your use of our website and its features, when you contact us directly by email, via social media, phone or in writing, when you complete one of the forms on our website or complete a purchase through our website. Such User Information will only be used for the purposes for which it was collected, for any other purposes specified at the collection point and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

It is possible to browse our website without providing us with any personal information on who you are. However, to use our services; such as purchasing a product from us, you will need to provide personal data for us to fulfil the order.

The type of information we collect about you may include information such as;
Your name
Your email address
Your address
Your phone number
Information about your computer (ie your IP address)
Information about how you use our website
Information about your mobile device (such as your geographical location)
Information about your preferred products based on what you have bought in the past

During a user’s registration and later if they go on to use additional features of our website, they provide information such as name, email, phone number, address and other relevant data. The information is used by Vapourcore to identify the user and provide them with support services and fulfil e-commerce orders.

If you are under 18, you may not use Vapourcore.com. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18 and question your age at the point of entry to our website.

HOW WE MAY USE YOUR DATA

Personally Identifiable Information
We respect the importance of privacy. Other than as provided in this privacy policy, we do not share your Personal Information, unless we have your consent or we are required by law to do so. Generally, we may disclose the information we collect, including Personal Information, which may be with organisations in various market sectors other than vaping, in order to facilitate our provision of the Services or communications with customers, to operate our business, to advertise or promote our Services, to facilitate changes to or transfers of our business, as required by law, or with your consent.

Non Personally Identifiable Information
We may share non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners – like publishers, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information publicly to show trends about the general use of our services, sales of our products or trends in what customers are buying.

Marketing
We may contact you for marketing purposes by email if you have agreed to be contacted in this manner. By subscribing to Vapourcore emails or opting in to email communication from Vapourcore, you grant us the right to use the email for both email marketing purposes and advertisement targeting.

We may include information from other organisations (such as promoting offers from third party manufacturers that we stock) in these communications. It is your choice as to whether you want to receive information about our work. If you do not want us to use your personal information in these ways please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data during the checkout process.

You may opt-out of our marketing emails at any time by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the end of our marketing emails. You can also change any of your contact preferences at any time including telling us that you don’t want us to contact you for marketing purposes by telephone, or by post by using the contact us page on the website here.

We will not use your information for marketing purposes if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted for such purposes. However, we will retain your details on a suppression list to help ensure that we do not continue to contact you.

UPON PURCHASE OF A PLOOM DEVICE: The personal data (Name, Address, Tel No, Email) we obtain from you in connection with your purchase of a Ploom device will be transferred to Gallaher Limited (trading as “JTI UK”) (UK number 01501573) with the serial number of the purchased device. They will use your data to create your personal Ploom account, activate the 12-month warranty and for data analysis purposes. Any of your data will be held in accordance with their privacy policy, available HERE. Please contact us before you order your Ploom device should you wish to opt out of this process.

COOKIES

We use technologies such as cookies and pixel tags to provide, improve, protect and promote our services. For example, cookies help us with things like remembering your username for your next visit, understanding how you are interacting with our website, and improving your experience based on that information.

Cookies do not attach to Your system and damage Your files. If You do not want information collected through the use of Cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows You to deny or accept the Cookie feature. Note, however, that "personalised" services may be affected if the cookie option is disabled.

SECURITY AND DATA RETENTION

We work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input. We reveal only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, we transmit the entire credit card number to the Worldpay during order processing. 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.

We only retain the Personal Data collected from a user for as long as their account is active or for a limited period of time for as long as is needed to fulfil the reasons for why it was initially collected, unless otherwise required by law.

UPDATES

You may notify Us of any updates, amendments and corrections to previously collected User Information by emailing:cs@vapourcore.com

You can also access and update your personal information when you login to the website and visit your personal account menu options where information can be edited or deleted from areas of your account. You can also update your preference choices on how you wish to be contacted from this area of the website.

If we are involved in a reorganisation, merger, acquisition or sale of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that deal. We will notify you (for example, via a message to the email address associated with your account) of any such deal and outline your choices in that event.
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time, and will post the most current version on our website. If a revision meaningfully reduces your rights, we will notify you.

CONTACT

You can contact us by writing to Vapourcore Online Limited, Unit 29, Orbital 25 Business Park, Tolpits Lane, Watford, WD18 9DA, United Kingdom, or sending an email to cs@vapourcore.com.

If you have any additional questions about how we collect and store data, you can contact us at any time to;

* Request access to information Vapourcore has about you
* Correct any information that Vapourcore has about you
* Delete information that Vapourcore has about you

Any site that you may connect to from here is not covered by this Privacy Policy.