Model Maniacs Online Security

Privacy Policy

We use the information collected from you to process orders and to provide a more personalised shopping experience. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.

We employ other companies to deliver your purchases. Such companies and individuals will have access to personal information needed to perform these functions, but may not use it for any other purposes and are required to process the data in accordance with the UK's Data Protection legislation.

What information do we collect? How do we use it?

When you order, we need to know your name, e-mail address, delivery address, credit or debit card number and the card's expiry date. This allows us to process and fulfil your orders and to notify you of the status of your order. We also give you a password that will enable you to log in and retrieve details of your order and whether it has been acknowledged, packed, shipped etc.

As an extra security measure we only will post goods to the address that your credit/debit card is registered to. This is a measure that many online businesses have decided to implement to cut down on Internet credit card fraud.

Secure Payments

When you enter credit/debit card details to make a payment you will be transferred to Barclays secure server. All of your information that we ask for on this site is treated in the strictest of confidence.

We only keep details of your purchases and address in our online database. Modelmaniacs' staff DO NOT see any credit/debit card information. Credit/debit card information IS NOT kept on file by Modelmaniacs or our credit card payment company.

Collection of information by our payment company Barclays.

Our payment comapny utilises a high level of encryption - customers connect using 128 bit SSL encryption. Our payment company also encrypts stored transaction information, ensuring that it's not tampered with. Our payment company, currently 'Barclays', captures your credit card information and will always ensure that this information is held with the very high levels of security you would expect from a major financial services company.

Cookies are common on the Internet and do no harm to your system. They are small, harmless text files that web servers sometimes store on your computer's hard drive when you visit a site. Cookies allow web servers to recognise you when you revisit a site, so that your details and settings are remembered. In this way cookies help you do things online by, for example, inputting your password and name every time you go to a site.

There are two main types of cookie:

1) Transient (or per-session) cookies - only last for the duration of your visit to a site. They are used to recognise you as you move from page to page, for example, recording the items you add to an online shopping basket. They are deleted when you leave. Such cookies can also help maintain session integrity and security.

2) Persistent (or permanent) cookies - remain on your machine until they expire or until they're deleted. Many will be built with an automatic deletion date to ensure that they delete themselves harmlessly at this time, thereby ensuring that your hard drive doesn't get filled up with these tiny files. Often this type of cookie is used to store and re-enter login information for you, so that you don't need to remember long site membership numbers.

Barclays make use of both types of cookie in order to maximise the security of our services and to ensure you always get an optimal service from this website. Barclays do not use cookies to track people's use of the Internet after leaving modelmaniacsonline.co.uk, nor do they store any information about you in cookies that others (including other sites) could read and understand. Barclays will not sell or distribute information gathered by cookies without your prior permission or consent.

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