Privacy Policy

This privacy policy forms part of DIY UK terms and conditions. Once you have provided your personal details on this website you will be deemed to have read and accepted this privacy policy. DIY UK is committed to protecting your privacy online. The site is operated by DIY UK . It complies with all applicable UK Data Protection legislation currently in force in relation to its treatment of personal information. This privacy statement sets out DIY UK policy in relation to how it uses any personal information collected from you through your use of this site.

What personal information do we collect?

DIY UK is acting as an affiliate by providing web links to other merchants. Consequently there is no requirement for you to provide any Personal Information to DIY UK in order to use the links that appear on our site.

How do we use your personal information?

DIY UK may disclose personal information collected about you to third parties, for the purposes of completing any transaction you are undertaking with us, for providing any goods or services to you or for the purposes of associated administration or obtaining professional advice.

If you have requested to be kept informed of services that we offer, we will contact you with these details.

We monitor traffic patterns and site usage. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information which you have given us, to prevent unauthorized access. For these purposes we may send your information internationally, including too countries outside the European Economic Association. Other countries offer differing levels of protection for personal information, not all of which will be as high as the levels of protection offered in the UK.

Accessing personal data

You can contact us to ask whether we are keeping personal data about you. Upon request, we will provide you with a readable copy of data which we hold about you. If you ask us to delete, correct or amend that personal data we will do so within a reasonable time. If you have any queries relating to your personal data please contact us at:

Data Protection Officer, DIY UK (Ignite Performance Marketing Ltd), PO Box 78, York, YO43 4WA.

Your consent

By disclosing your personal information to DIY UK , you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information in the manner set out in this privacy policy.

Use of cookies and third-party advertising technology

  1. We use third-party advertising technology to serve ads when you visit our website and sites upon which we advertise. This technology uses information about your visits to this website and the sites upon which we advertise, to serve our ads to you. In the course of serving our advertisements to you, a unique third-party cookie may be placed or recognized on your browser. In addition, we use Web beacons, provided by our third-party ad server, to help manage and optimize our online advertising. These Web beacons enable our ad server, on our behalf or on behalf of our agent, to recognise a browsers cookie when a browser visits this site, and to learn which banner ads bring users to our website. Our third-party ad server is performing its functions on our behalf or on behalf of our agent, and we may, directly or indirectly, instruct such ad server to enable other service providers to receive information about our site related to our online advertising.
  2. DIY UK collects information about your preferences in relation to this site by analyzing site traffic, which includes the use of cookies. A cookie is text file which is stored on your computer and is sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information back from the browser. This enables us to identify if you have visited DIY UK before.

We use cookies to help us analyse traffic on our site and customer behaviour. Cookies may also be used by our partners to understand marketing and traffic patterns. During the course of any visit to DIY UK the pages you see, along with a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us in analyzing the profile of our visitors.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but normally you can alter your browser settings to prevent automatic acceptance, if you prefer. If you opt not to receive our cookies, we cannot guarantee that your experience with our website will be as quick or responsive as if you do receive cookies.

We do not store passwords or any other information about a visitor in a cookie that could identify them, their location, their preferences or their financial activity.