PRIVACY & COOKIES
We’ll always keep your data safe and secure.
So you’re clued up, here’s why we need it and how we use it.
1. THE GOOD STUFF
We will only use your data to up your experience.
2. LOCKED DOWN
We’ll protect your data like it’s our own.
3. STRAIGHT TALKING
We’ll always talk your language and have your back – no nonsense, no surprises.
4. NO SPAM
You decide what and how you hear from us.
5. JUST THE ESSENTIALS
Your info won’t just hang about – if we don’t need it, we’ll delete it.
PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY
At AKAI, we are 100% committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and site visitors (yep, we mean you). The AKAI team members are customers themselves, of both AKAI and other internet sites – so we totally appreciate and respect how important privacy is. If you have any questions about how we Protect Your Privacy, just contact us.
For all our services, the data controller — the company that’s responsible for your privacy— is Fashion Brands Collective Limited.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use your information in a number of different ways — what we do depends on the information. The below sets this out in detail, showing what we do, and why we do it.
YOUR NAME AND CONTACT DETAILS
Deliver your purchases to you
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you (it’s a bit hard to send your order if we don’t use your name and contact details!)
Send you service messages by text, e-mail or through our app, such as order updates
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you (so you can tell when your order is coming)
Sending you information by email, SMS, or post, about our new products and services
To keep you up to date. We only send this with your permission
Fraud prevention and detection
To prevent and detect fraud against either you or AKAI – unfortunate, but absolutely essential
Showing you AKAIAPPAREL.com adverts as your browse the web
So you can see our latest products and deals
Finding out what you, and other customers, like
To ensure we are giving you what you want, and to stay ahead of the competition
YOUR DATE OF BIRTH
Fraud prevention and detection
To prevent and detect fraud against either you or AKAI – unfortunate, but absolutely essential
YOUR GENDER INFORMATION
To direct you to the right part of our website
To get you to the products that you want faster
YOUR PAYMENT INFORMATION
This means your card’s security/CVV code, don’t worry, we don’t keep them.
Take payment, and give refunds
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you — we’re not giving all our stuff away!
Fraud prevention and detection
To prevent and detect fraud against either you or AKAI – unfortunate, but absolutely essentiaL.
YOUR CONTACT HISTORY WITH US
What you’ve said to us — for example, over the phone, on instant chat, or on social media.
Provide customer service and support
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you, after all, you expect the best service from us
Train our staff
So that, when you contact us, you get the best possible customer service
PURCHASE HISTORY
What you’ve bought.
Sell you things
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you — if you can’t put stuff into a basket, you can’t buy it!
Provide customer service and support, and handle returns
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you
Finding out what you, and other customers, like
To ensure we are giving you what you want, and to stay ahead of the competition
INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR PHONE OR LAPTOP, AND HOW YOU USE OUR WEBSITE AND APP
Information you give us when you browse our site or use our app, including your IP address and device type and, if you choose to share it with us, your location data, as well as how you use our website and app.
Improve our website and set default options for you (such as language and currency)
To give you the best possible shopping experience
Protect our website
To prevent and detect fraud against either you or AKAI – unfortunate, but absolutely essential — and to meet our legal obligations about looking after your data
INFORMATION FROM ACCOUNTS YOU LINK TO US
What we do if you link your Twitter or Facebook accounts to us
To enable you to log into our website simply and easily without having to create a specific account
To make it easier for you to use AKAIAPPAREL.com and purchase those items you want!
To provide product recommendations
So you can quickly spot things which take your fancy
YOUR RESPONSES TO SURVEYS, COMPETITIONS AND PROMOTIONS
How we use your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions
Run the survey, competition or promotion
We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you — if we can’t use your entry, you can’t possibly win!
You don’t have to give us any of this personal information but if you don’t, you may not be able to buy from the site, and you are unlikely to receive our optimal overall customer experience. But that is your choice – and we respect that.
We also anonymise and aggregate personal information (so that it does not identify you) and use it for purposes including testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our site and app, and developing new products and services. We also share this information with third parties.
SHARING YOUR INFORMATION
We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party – including your name, address, email address or credit card information. We want to earn and maintain your trust, and we believe this is absolutely essential in order do that.
However, we share your data with the following categories of companies as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you, as set out in this statement:
Companies in the AKAI group, as sometimes different bits of our group are responsible for different activities.
Companies that do things to get your purchases to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses, order packers, and delivery companies
Professional service providers, such as marketing agencies, advertising partners and website hosts, who help us run our business
Credit reference agencies, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies, so we can help tackle fraud
Companies approved by you, such as social media sites (if you choose to link your accounts to us), and Clearpay where you choose to use their payment service.
We may provide third parties with aggregated but anonymised information and analytics about our customers and, before we do so, we will make sure that it does not identify you.
MARKETING MESSAGES
If you have said we can, we’ll send you marketing messages by email, text, to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you see and find our products.
How to stop marketing messages from AKAIAPPAREL.com
You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time.
You can do this:
Through your account settings
By clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email
By contacting our Customer Care team
Once you do this, we will update your profile to ensure that you don’t receive further marketing messages.
Please note that, as AKAI comprises a complex web of many inter-connecting services, it might take a few days for all our systems to be updated, so you might get messages from us while we process your request.
Stopping marketing messages will not stop service communications (such as order updates or where you have expressed an interest in an activity at AKAI).
SEEING ADVERTS FOR AKAIAPPAREL.COM ONLINE
We also engage in online advertising, also to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you see and find our products.
Like many companies, we target AKAI banners and ads to you when you are on other websites and apps. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience service.
The banners and ads you see will be based on information we hold about you, or your previous use of AKAI (for example, your AKAI search history, and the content you read on AKAI) or on AKAI banners or ads you have previously clicked on.
YOUR INFORMATION AND COUNTRIES OUTSIDE EUROPE
AKAI is a global business with operations inside and outside of the United Kingdom and we use suppliers and fulfilment centres located across the world. Some of these locations will not offer the same level of protection for your personal data as the UK, but if we transfer your information to one of these locations we will take steps to ensure that your data and rights are protected through methods approved within the relevant Data Protection laws. Please contact us if you would like further information about how we protect your transferred information.
KEEPING YOUR INFORMATION
We’ll only hold on to your information for as long as you are a customer. If you haven’t logged onto our website for three years we will delete your information from our systems.If you no longer wish to be a customer, you can also contact our Customer Care team and request to delete all the information we have on you.
If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our Terms & Conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required, even after you have closed your account or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.
YOUR RIGHTS
You have a lot of rights relating to your personal information:
The right to be informed about how your personal information is being used (like this notice!)
The right to access the personal information we hold about you
The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you (although you can probably do most of this through My Account)
The right to request that we delete your data, or stop processing it or collecting it, in some circumstances
The right to stop direct marketing messages, which you can do through My Account, and to withdraw consent for other consent-based processing at any time
The right to request that we transfer or port elements of your data either to you or another service provider
The right to complain to your data protection regulator — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office
If you want to exercise your rights, have a complaint, or just have questions, please contact us.
CHANGES TO HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
We may change this page from time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data.
If we make significant changes, we will make that clear on the AKAI website or by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use AKAI.
COOKIES
We use cookies on our website. For more information on cookies, please see our cookie notice.
HOW TO CONTACT US
We always want to hear from our customers (especially if you feel we’ve let you down or could do better).
If you:
Have any questions or feedback about this notice
Would like us to stop using your information
Want to exercise any of your rights as set out above, or have a complaint
please don’t hesitate to contact our Customer Care team, who will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
You can contact our privacy team through Customer Care via the AKAI website. Or if you’d like to, you can write to us at:
AKAI APPAREL
Mill 7
Mabgate Mills
Mabgate
Leeds
LS9 7DZ