Privacy and Security Policy |
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Heatingoilshop.com values your privacy and 
takes great care to protect any information you provide us with.
Please read our Privacy & Cookie Policy below for details on how we use such information:
Summary
The information we derive from customers helps us to personalise and continually improve the service from Heatingoilshop.com.
We use the information to send heating oil quotes to your selected heating oil suppliers every time you request a quote. The heating oil suppliers will supply you with a priced quote either by phone or email depending on your choice and based on the
information provided by yourself. Once you have selected a supplier based on your criteria the supplier will process orders, deliver products and/or services, process payments; to communicate with you about orders, products, services and promotional offers; to seek your feedback on the service and to recommend products or services that might be of interest to you.
We also use this information to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our website and to carry out technical, logistical or other functions to improve the service.
- We only ask for personal information which is required to provide the service.
- We will only use this information to satisfy the purposes for which it was collected.
- We'll tell you what information we have recorded about you.
If you would like any personal information changed or deleted, you may do so by login just ask.
Who we are
This website is operated by Heatingoilshop.com. You can contact us here.
Your email address
We do not know your email address unless you give it to us. We only record your email addresses if you send us a message or by completing an online quotation form for your heating requirements.
If at any time you wish to stop receiving our newsletter or any other information you may have requested from us, please contact us or change your preferences here by logging in, viewing your information and then clicking the red “EDIT” link top right. You may also use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any e-mail you receive from us.
Information we collect from you
When you visit our Web site, our Web server automatically records some general information about your visit, but does not recognise or record any individual information about you. We cannot identify you personally unless you give us personal information voluntarily. In addition to any information you submit to us, whether online or by post, for system administration and to understand your browsing actions, we may collect:
Initial data at time of accessing website
- Your server address.
- The date and time.
- The pages accessed and documents downloaded.
- The previous site visited.
- The type of browser used.
Data at time of submitting a heatingoil request,through the heatingoilshop.com website:
- The name of suppliers chosen by you to provide a heating oil quote by your chosen method.
- Customer Type: Whether you are an individual, business,club etc.
- Company Name if applicable.
- Your Title.
- Your First and Last names.
- Your full address including postcode.
- Your email address and phone number.
- Your preferred contact with a supplier or suppliers
- The type of oil you require.
- The amount of oil you require.
- The preferred delivery time
- The preferred payment method.
- The type of browser used.
- The tanker type able to access your property.
- Your contact preferences with Heatingoilshop.com.
How we use this information
Purposes and Legal Bases for Our Using of Your Information
We do not sell your personal data – such as your name and contact information – to third parties to use for their own marketing purposes.
Heatingoilshop.com uses the information we collect for our legitimate interests which include the following:
- Provide our Services. To provide you the services we offer on the Heatingoilshop.com website, communicate with you about your use of the Heatingoilshop.com website, respond to your inquiries, provide troubleshooting, and for other customer service purposes.
- Advertising. To display interest-based advertising to you in the Heatingoilshop.com website, to improve our advertising and measurement systems so we can show you relevant ads, and to measure the effectiveness and reach of ads and services. For more information, see the section below about Heatingoilshop.com Ads and Personalization.
- Marketing and Promotions. For marketing and promotional purposes, such as to send you news and newsletters, special offers, and promotions, or to otherwise contact you about products or information we think may interest you, including information about third party products and services.
- Analytics. To gather metrics to better understand how users access and use the Heatingoilshop.com website; to evaluate and improve the Heatingoilshop.com website, including the Ad Services and personalization, and to develop new products and services.
- Comply with Law. To comply with legal obligations, as part of our general business operations, and for other business administration purposes.
- Prevent Misuse. Where we believe necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or violations of our Terms of Service or this Privacy Policy.
How We Share Your Information
We share information as set forth below, and where individuals have otherwise consented:
- Service Providers. We may share your information with third party service providers who use this information to perform services for us, petroleum product suppliers, advisors, customer service and support providers, as well as those who assist us in providing the Ad Services.
- Affiliates. The information collected about you may be accessed by or shared with subsidiaries and affiliates of Heatingoilshop.com, whose use and disclosure of your personal information is subject to this Privacy Policy.
- Business Transfers. We may disclose or transfer information, including personal information, as part of any merger, sale, and transfer of our assets, acquisition or restructuring of all or part of our business, bankruptcy, or similar event.
- Legally Required. We may disclose your information if we are required to do so by law.
- Protection of Rights. We may disclose information where we believe it necessary to respond to claims asserted against us or, comply with legal process (e.g., subpoenas or warrants), enforce or administer our agreements and terms, for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation, and protect the rights, property or safety of Heatingoilshop.com, its users, or others.
- Your Content and Activity. Your Content, including your name, profile information, and certain associated activity information is available to other users namely petroleum product suppliers of the Heatingoilshop.com website and may be viewed publicly. Public viewing includes availability to non-registered visitors and can occur when users share Your Content across other sites or services. In addition, Your Content may be indexed by search engines. See the section below about Your Choices for information about how you may change how certain information is shared or viewed by others.
- Metrics. We may share with users of our advertisers or publishers aggregate statistics, metrics and other reports about the performance of their ads or content in the Heatingoilshop.com website such as the number of unique user views, demographics about the users who saw their ads or content, conversion rates, and date and time information. We do not share IP addresses or personal information. We may also allow our advertisers or publishers to use Pixels on the Heatingoilshop.com website in order to collect information about the performance of their ads or content.
- Anonymized and Aggregated Data. We may share aggregate or de-identified information with third parties for research, marketing, analytics and other purposes, provided such information does not identify a particular individual.
Heatingoilshop.com Ads and Personalization
On the Heatingoilshop.com website, we may display content from publishers tailored to your interests or personalized ads (including sponsored content) to you, based on information that we have collected via the Heatingoilshop.com website.
We also may report to users of our Ad Services and to publishers of content on the Heatingoilshop.com website the number of users that saw a particular ad or content, as well as other information about the audience engagement in an aggregated format.
We also do not disclose to the users of our Ad Services the names or identities of their customers that were successfully reached as part of such campaigns.
We may also work with third parties such as network advertisers to serve ads on the Heatingoilshop.com website and on third-party websites or other media (e.g., social networking platforms), such as Google AdSense (privacy and opt-out info here) and Facebook Audience Network (privacy and opt-out info here).
You may opt out of interest-based ads from these third party ad networks. These third parties may use cookies, JavaScript, web beacons (including clear GIFs), Flash LSOs and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content to you.
Any personal details you provide us with will only be used to contact you or to satisfy the purpose for which it was collected. We use statistical information to improve the content of our website and analyse what pages people visit.
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to personalise content and Google Ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
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The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.
This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Your consent applies to the following domains: www.heatingoilshop.com.com
Cookie declaration last updated on 15/05/2018 by Cookiebot:
Required (5)
Required cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Local Cookies
First party cookies are cookies that are set by the site itself and can only be read by this site. They are commonly used for the functionality of the site (e.g. shopping cart). This doesn't imply that these cookies are allowed by EU law.
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Key |
Value |
Domain |
Valid up to |
heatingoilshop.com |
Preserves user session state across page requests. |
PHPSESSID |
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Statistical (4)
Statistical cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously.
Name |
Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry |
Type |
_ga |
Heatingoilshop.com.com |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how |
2 years |
HTTP Cookie |
_ga |
oil-price.net |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how |
1 year |
HTTP Cookie |
_gat |
heatingoilshop.com.com |
Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
_gid |
sslcomrates. |
Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
Marketing 14)
Third party cookies are set by third parties who can be tracking or marketing companies (e.g. advertising networks). These cookies get re-read during a visit on other sites if they do business with these companies as well. Retargeting is good example of an application.Marketing or third party cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third party advertisers.
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Provider |
Purpose |
Expiry |
Type |
IDE |
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Used to throttle the speed of requests to the server. |
06/08/2019 |
HTTP Cookie |
PHPSESSID |
sslcomrates.forex |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
geoC |
sslcomrates.forex |
Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user accessed the web site. Used by Google |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
StickySession |
streamjs. |
Registers a timestamp with the exact time of when the user leaves the web site. Used by Google Analytics to calculate the duration of a web site visit. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
__utmt |
sslcomrates.forex |
Collects data on where the user came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked and what search term was used . Used by Google Analytics. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
__utma |
sslcomrates.forex |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
05-13-2020 |
HTTP Cookie |
__utmb |
sslcomrates.forex |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
__utmc |
sslcomrates.forex |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
Session |
HTTP Cookie |
__utmz |
sslcomrates. |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
11-13-2018 |
HTTP Cookie |
PHPSESSID |
www.oil-price.net |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
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HTTP Cookie |
VISITOR_ |
.youtube.com |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
11/10/2018 |
HTTP Cookie |
YSC |
.youtube.com |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
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HTTP Cookie |
PREF |
.youtube.com |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
01-13-2019 |
HTTP Cookie |
GPS |
.youtube.com |
Collects data on the number of times a user has visited the web site as well as dates for the first and most recent visit. Used by Google Analytics. |
05-21-2018 |
HTTP Cookie |
Third Party Requests (38)
Our site is financed only by clicks on advertising from Google AdSense. Third party requests are made from a user to an external service. Despite the fact that these requests don't set any cookies, they can still transfer privacy information to third parties. These third party requests constantly change with the type of advertising placed on our site by Google AdSense. Google Analytics for example works through third party requests.
If you wish to learn more about cookies go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Who has access to your information?
We use this information internally and share it with other people or organisations who are petroleum product suppliers only as part of working with us in our normal business activities. We take steps to ensure that these third parties put in place adequate security to protect your personal information and to ensure that your personal information is not processed other than in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. We do not share your personal information with others except under these conditions, and we do not disclose or sell your personal information to others for use in mailing lists or databases.
Future Variations
If our information practices change at some time in the future we will post the policy changes to our website to notify you of these changes and provide you with the ability to opt out of these new uses. If you are concerned about how your information is used, you should check back at our website periodically.
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Corrections
Upon request, we'll tell you what information we have recorded about you. If any of the information is incorrect, or you want us to remove all information about you, please contact us and we'll amend it promptly.
If you have any concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us here.
Your acceptance of these terms
By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
Contacting us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
admin@heatingoilshop.com
http://www.heatingoilshop.com
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