Privacy and Data Security

We take your right to privacy and security very seriously and have the following guidelines in to protect your personal information. These guidelines were published in June 2007 and will be reviewed from time to time. acardia would, therefore, encourage you to review this page periodically.

Privacy Policy

In the process of doing business with acardia, requesting a quote, or buying from any of online sites acardia may collect information about you and your company. acardia may use this information, or in certain circumstances share your information within the group or with trusted suppliers, in order to fulfil our obligations to you. These partners share our concern to protect your privacy. However, under no other circumstances will acardia sell or divulge any information which you supply to us.

The Information acardia collects and may store

acardia is a business-to-business company and therefore the company primarily only requests information relating to you and your workplace or business. It may include:

The purposes to which acardia puts your information

The information you provide will be kept confidential and is collected and processed for the following general purposes or for any other legitimate purpose described by the applicable law.

Email and communications

After the telephone, email is acardia’s primary mode of communication.

We will use the information you supply to us in order to enhance the relationship between us. Unless you have requested us not to, we may periodically inform you via email about special offers, new product introductions and events concerning Sun Microsystems platforms and technologies. We may also communicate with you regarding end of life announcements and the expiry of warranty and service agreements. As a rule of thumb, our marketing communications will offer you the opportunity to unsubscribe from our mailing list.

To unsubscribe from acardia’s email list, please email unsubscribe@acardia.co.uk

E-commerce

acardia online stores at www.acardia.co.uk/developers, www.buysunonline.com and www.thedeveloperscatalogue.com are all designed to protect the privacy of information you supply including your name, address, email and phone number. We are committed to keeping this information secure by partnering with world class companies such as WorldPay for secure transactions.

Cookies

Some of our sites may use cookies to enhance your online experience, for example, to track the contents of your shopping cart and enable logged-in customers to view restricted site areas, however, these are session cookies and are destroyed when you exit the website concerned.

About acardia websites

acardia and its brands, www.acardia.co.uk, www.acardia.co.uk/developers, www.buysunonline.com and www.thedeveloperscatalogue.com are business-to-business suppliers of IT and IT services. The goods available are not thought to be applicable to the general public and therefore the sites are not intentionally designed to attract either adults outside of the workplace, or minors.