Who we are

Our website address is: https://a1mint.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

  1. Statement of intent
    From time to time, you will be asked to submit personal information about yourself (e.g. name and email address etc) in order to receive or use services on our website. Such services include newsletters, diary reminders and email bulletins.
    By entering your details in the fields requested, you enable a1mint.com and its service providers to provide you with the services you select. Whenever you provide such personal information, we will treat that information in accordance with this policy. Our services are designed to give you the information that you want to receive. a1mint.com will act in accordance with current legislation and aim to meet current Internet best practice.
  2. Information on visitors
    During the course of any visit to a1mint.com website, the pages you see, along with something called a cookie, are downloaded to your computer. Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before. This is done on a repeat visit by checking to see, and finding, the cookie left there on the last visit.
    Any information that is supplied by cookies can help us to provide you with a better service and assists us to analyse the profile of our visitors.
    Both the cookies and the embedded code provide non-personal statistical information about visits to pages on the site, the duration of individual page view, paths taken by visitors through the site, data on visitors’ screen settings and other general information. a1mint.com use this type of information, as with that obtained from other cookies used on the site, to help it improve the services to its users.
  3. What is a cookie?
    Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.
    Our website www.a1mint.com uses first party cookies which are set by our web server as opposed to a different web server. They are categorised as strictly necessary, which are essential to the operation of the website, and performance cookies which collect anonymous information about the usage of our website. By using our website you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.
    We do not use cookies to collect personal information about you. Should you wish to restrict or block cookies which are set by our website you can do this through your browser settings. The ‘help’ function within your browser or the manual that comes with your device should tell you how. You may also wish to visit www.aboutcookies.org  which contains comprehensive information on how you can do this on a wide variety of browsers. Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of our website.
    The table below explains the cookies we use and why:
  4. Use and storage of your personal information
    When you supply any personal information to a1mint.com (e.g. when ordering products or services) we have legal obligations towards you in the way we deal with that data. We must collect the information fairly and tell you if we want to pass the information on to anyone else. In general, any information you provide to a1mint.com will only be used within a1mint.com. It will never be supplied to anyone outside a1mint.com without first obtaining your consent, unless we are obliged or permitted by law to disclose it. Also, if you post or send offensive or inappropriate content anywhere on or to a1mint.com and a1mint.com considers such behaviour to be serious and/or repeated, a1mint.com can use whatever information that is available to it about you to stop such behaviour. This may include informing relevant third parties such as your employer, school or e-mail provider about the content and your behaviour.
    We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met, or, in the case of a personalised service, such as online billing, you no longer wish to continue your registration as a personalised user. Where personal information is held for people who are not yet registered but have taken part in other a1mint.com services (e.g. information requests), that information will be held only as long as necessary to ensure that the service is run smoothly. We will ensure that all personal information supplied is held securely, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
  5. Access to your personal information
    You have the right to request a copy of the personal information a1mint.com holds about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Please address requests to:-
    Website Manager
    a1mint.com
    364 Cheetham Hill Road
    Cheetham Hill
    Manchester
    M8 9LS
  6. Users 16 and under
    If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide personal information to a1mint.com website. Users without this consent are not allowed to provide us with personal information.