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Bikewise and Run Privacy Policy & Cookies

Complaints Policy

If you are not entirely happy with your recent experience, please raise a complaint by contacting the owner Dallas Wiseman dallas@bikewiseandrun.com or 01570640070.We aim to resolve your complaint as quickly as possible and if we are able to resolve your complaint within [days/weeks to resolve], we will send you a final response detailing our resolution. If we are unable to provide you with a final response at 14 days, we will send you a letter explaining the reason for delay and when we expect to issue you with a final response.



Vunrable Customer Policy

Definition of vulnerable customers:

  1. Elderly individuals.
  2. Customers with disabilities, including physical, sensory, cognitive, or mental health impairments.
  3. Customers experiencing financial hardship or debt-related difficulties.
  4. Customers with limited English proficiency or communication barriers.
  5. Individuals identified as vulnerable by a recognized authority or social service agency.

Identification and training:

  1. All employees will undergo regular training to recognize signs of vulnerability and understand the appropriate actions to take.
  2. Frontline staff will be trained to proactively identify vulnerable customers through attentive observation and active listening.
  3. Managers and supervisors will receive additional training to handle complex cases and provide necessary support.

Communication and accessibility:

  1. Provide clear and accessible communication channels, including easy-to-understand language and alternative formats (such as large print or braille).
  2. Offer translation or interpretation services for customers with limited English proficiency.
  3. Ensure physical facilities are accessible to customers with mobility impairments.

Support and assistance:

  1. Designate a specific team or individual responsible for handling vulnerable customer inquiries and providing personalized support.
  2. Offer flexible appointment scheduling and extended time for vulnerable customers to discuss their needs or make decisions.
  3. Provide assistance with form filling, document submission, or navigating online platforms if required.
  4. Establish referral partnerships with external organizations or agencies to connect vulnerable customers with additional support services.

Data protection and confidentiality:

  1. Ensure that all personal information shared by vulnerable customers is handled in accordance with data protection regulations and treated with strict confidentiality.
  2. Obtain explicit consent from customers before sharing their information with external agencies or organizations, unless legally required or in the customer's best interest.

Complaints and feedback:

  1. Provide clear information to vulnerable customers on how to make complaints or provide feedback, including multiple channels (such as phone, email, or in-person).
  2. Designate a dedicated contact person to handle complaints related to vulnerable customers promptly and sensitively.
  3. Regularly review and analyse complaints to identify areas for improvement in the vulnerable customer support process.

Staff training and awareness:

  1. Conduct regular training sessions to raise awareness among employees about vulnerability issues, empathy, and understanding.
  2. Provide ongoing support and resources to employees to ensure they can effectively implement the vulnerable customer policy.
  3. Foster a culture of respect, inclusivity, and non-discrimination throughout the organization.

Our Website Cookies Policy

A cookie is a small file of text which we transfer to your hard drive through your web browser, as with most websites, when you visit our website and use certain pages or features on the site, especially when placing an order. It enables our own system to recognise you when you visit our website again and improve our service to you. This information can be used to enhance the content of our website and make your use of it easier. For more information about cookies please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

- enabling a service to recognise your device so you don't have to give the same information several times during one task
- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast

You can manage these small files yourself and learn more about them through Internet browser cookies - what they are and how to manage them.


Our use of cookies

When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful and reliable. Where services are delivered on the internet, this sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your device, for example, your computer or mobile phone. These include small files known as cookies. They cannot be used to identify you personally.

These pieces of information are used to improve services for you through, for example:

- recognising that you may already have given a username and password so you don't need to do it for every web page requested
- measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and there's enough capacity to ensure they are fast
- analysing anonymised data to help us understand how people interact with govt services so we can make them better

You can manage these small files and learn more about them from the article, Internet Browser cookies- what they are and how to manage them.

Learn how to remove cookies set on your device.

There are two types of cookie you may encounter when using Bikewise and Run :

First party cookies: these are our own cookies, controlled by us and used to provide information about usage of our site.

Third party cookies: these are cookies found in other companies' internet tools which we are using to enhance our site, for example Facebook or Twitter have their own cookies, which are controlled by them.


First party cookies

*Bikewise and Run uses cookies in several places - we've listed each of them below with more details about why we use them and how long they will last.

We will endeavour to let you know before we store a cookie on your computer.

Our Own PERSISTANT cookies

Name Purpose Typical content
_Session This cookie speeds up your experience on our website if you visit us more than once by remembering key information if you have set your browser to allow it. For example your username when logging in, or your preferences when browsing our website. It is an anonymous customer ID cookie, so we do not save any specific data about you at all, just a unique _Session reference number

Cookies set by Bikewise and Run website

Name Purpose Expires
ASP.NET_SessionId
HttpReferer
Referer
dd_object 		These only last for the session (visit) to our website, and help with your movement through the website, and also let us know if you have visited from a 'Referer' i.e. another website where we may have a link, or an article about us. Expires on exit

Third party cookies

We use a number of suppliers who may also set cookies on their websites' on its behalf. Bikewise and Run do not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third party websites for more information about these.

Provider Name Purpose More Info
Google Analytics _utma
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_utmz 		These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. They do not contain any personally identifiable information. Google Privacy policy
Add This _atuvc The _atuvc cookie is created and read by our JavaScript on the client side in order to make sure the user sees the updated count if they share a page and return to it before our share count cache is updated. No data from that cookie is sent back to AddThis. Add This privacy

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

You can use the settings of your browser to block, or delete cookies as you wish. Do please note that blocking cookies may slow down your experience on our website, or cause issues with placing an order, as cookies are often required to help with a smooth checkout process!

If you have any questions about our cookies policy or feedback please contact us on 01570640070 or via our contact us page link at the top of the page.