Privacy policy

1. Panasonic recognises the importance of your privacy. All information that you provide to us will be retained and disclosed only in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1984 and 1998.

2. Registration - Visitors to the Panasonic website are given the opportunity to register in various ways:

• The benefits of registration include the options to subscribe to different Panasonic newsletters that you will receive by e-mail.
• You may tell us about the purchase of certain products and hence register the guarantee. You will also be given the opportunity to purchase an extended guarantee at the same time.
• In addition to the details you supply when registering, Panasonic may collect information about your tastes and preferences based on your use of the site or newsletters. The collection of information may include the analysis of website traffic and purchasing behaviour, including the use of cookies. Panasonic may use this information and the information supplied by you when registering to inform you about new product launches, new technologies, competitions or offers that you might find interesting.

3. Panasonic will not pass your details to any third party or company, except those that we use to perform statistical analysis, manage communications or act on our behalf.

4. From time to time, Panasonic will compile aggregate statistics about the services and may share them with reputable third parties. These statistics will not contain information that would enable any third party to identify you personally.

5. Panasonic reserves the right to access and disclose individually identifiable information to comply with all applicable laws and lawful requests by the appropriate authorities, to operate its systems properly or for its own protection or that of its other users.

6. Panasonic stores all financial details securely. Card details remain encrypted in our secure web server. Access to our secure web server is strictly controlled.

7. Panasonic UK Ltd use Sitestat 4.0 from Nedstat on this web site to measure and analyse visitor information related to our web site. For that purpose, on the basis of your IP Address, Internet traffic data and data on your browser type and PC are collected, among other things. We will not use the data to identify you personally. On our web site, Cookies are also used in this context. A Cookie is a small piece of information that is stored on your computer in the form of a file. We will not use the data obtained via Cookies to identify you personally. You have options with regard to Cookies. By changing the settings of your browser, you may opt to accept Cookies, to be informed when a Cookie is being placed on your PC, or to reject all Cookies. Please consult the help utilities included within your browser. If you choose to reject cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas of our web site. We use the information provided by Nedstat to gear our web site with content and functionalities that are of interest and use to our visitors. If you would like to receive more information on Nedstat, and the kind of information that Sitestat 4.0 collects and processes, we refer you to Nedstat's web site and its privacy policy on that web site (www.nedstat.com).