Discount Oil values your privacy and takes great care to protect any information you provide us with. Please read our Privacy & Security 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 Discount Oil.
We use the information to provide quotes, process orders, deliver products and/or services, process payments; to communicate with you about orders, products, services and promotional offers.
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, just ask.

Who we are

This website is operated by Discount Oil. You can contact us here, or email us at this address: orders@discountoil.co.uk
To write to us click here

Your email address

We do not know your email address unless you give it to us. We only record your email address if you send us a message, request an online quotation for your heating requirements or by completing an online form.
If at any time you wish to stop receiving correspondance from us, please contact us or click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any e-mail you receive from us.
Information we collect from you.

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:

• Your server address.
• The date and time.
• The pages accessed and documents downloaded.
• The previous site visited.
• The type of browser used.

Cookies

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers which enable our systems to recognise your browser in order that we can provide you with easy use of the various services available on the website, by continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
Like many websites we use cookies because they allow you to take full advantage of the interactive elements of the website and you’ll need to have cookies enabled to place an order. Some of the cookies that we use are essential for the operation of the website, Cookies are usually enabled in most browsers by default.
If you wish to learn more about cookies go to http://www.allaboutcookies.org.


How we use this information

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.


Who has access to your information?

We use this information internally and share it with other people or organisations who need to know it as part of working with us in our normal business activities (e.g. suppliers). 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.


Payment Security

Our payment services are provided by Payment Sense. When you enter your payment details on our website you are actually providing them direct to Payment Sense, and Discount Oil never has access to your card number. This ensures the highest level of payment security for you.
All online Discount Oil transactions involving card payments are protected for your security using 128-bit SSL encryption. This means that the information you enter into your browser is scrambled before being sent over the internet, and it will be useless to anyone intercepting it.
You can check that you are shopping in a secure environment by looking for the padlock icon in your internet browser. In addition, website pages protected using SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption always begin with “https” rather than “http”. Check this in the address bar near the top of your screen.
Proof of PCI compliance is required of all merchants who accept credit cards. Payment Sense/Discount Oil is tested frequently to ensure that high security standards are maintained.