Privacy Policy

Updated: 27th September 2007

Ask-models.com understands that the personal information you provide is private and should not be shared with and/or used by any other third party.

As a result of visiting ask-models.com, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this privacy policy.

 

You will be notified by e-mail of any changes made to this Privacy Policy.

 

Credit Card information

No credit card information is processed or retained by ask-models.com this is all done by our payment provider PayPal which is one of the most secure online payment processing providers on the internet today. We believe that using PayPal as our payment provider is the safest method of payment and is therefore more secure for you as a customer. Although PayPal is our preferred payment method we also accept payment by cheque for UK based customers.

Payment via PayPal

Once you reach our payment gateway, pressing ‘pay’ will transfer you to PayPal to complete payment. By using PayPal to process payment you will be accepting and consenting to practices described in PayPal’s privacy policy.

Details of PayPal’s privacy policy can be found here.

Control of Personal Information

Any personal information provided to us is only accessible by us; furthermore we will not pass on your details to any other third party.

Collection and Use of Personal Information About Customers

Information attained from you the customer helps us to personalise and continually improve the ask-models.com online shopping experience. This information is used exclusively to handle orders, deliver products quickly, process payments via PayPal, and communicate with customers regarding their orders, making them aware of dispatch dates, new products, and promotional offers that may be of interest.

We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

We offer gift-cards by which you can personalize a product you order for another person. Information you provide to us to create a gift-card is only used for that purpose, and it is only disclosed to the person receiving the gift. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.

Additionally we may use this information to improve our online store, help prevent or detect fraud or general abuses of our website. Examples of the types of information we gather: Information you give us: we receive and store any information you input into our shopping cart software or that you give us in any other way.

Automatic information

We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with ask-models.com. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies” to obtain certain types of information when your Web browser accesses ask-models.com.

If for any reason you browse online with cookies disabled in any way then we cannot recognise you when you visit ask-models.com preventing us from offering a personalised shopping experience at ask-models.com as a result.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our shopping cart system to recognise your browser and to provide features like personalised greetings and storage of items in your Shopping Basket between visits. Cookies can be disabled, although cookies allow you to take full advantage of ask-models.com shopping cart features therefore we recommend that you leave them turned on.

If you do leave cookies turned on, be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.

Other Agents

We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Such as processing payments, delivering packages, sending postal mail, they must process the personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and as permitted by the UK’s Data Protection Act.

Protection of ask-models.com and others

We only release account and other personal information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with law, to enforce or apply our Conditions of Use and other agreements or to protect the rights, property or safety of ask-models.com our users or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Obviously, however, this does not include selling, renting, sharing or otherwise disclosing personally identifiable information from customers for commercial purposes in a way that is contrary to the commitments made in this Privacy Policy.

With your consent

Even with your consent we will never release your information to third parties nor will it be our policy to do in the future.

How Secure Is Information About Me?

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Therefore we work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.

Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof or identify before we disclose personal information to you.

It is important for you to protect against unauthorised access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when you finish using a shared computer, this can be done be hitting ‘logout’, which is found at the top left of the ask-models.com website.

Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site.
Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and herecontent network privacy policy.

What Choices Do I Have?

If you do not want to receive e-mail updates from us, please adjust your setting in your account. This can be done here.