Privacy Statement

The Rope People™ will not gather personal information other than to carry out day to day business with businesses or private individuals. The Rope People™ will not divulge any information you provide to The Rope People™ to any third parties, for any reason other than in circumstances mentioned in exceptions below. Your active consent even then will be required, which will be on an opt-in basis. Non disclousre of your information includes businesses, corporations, trading partners and individuals. Neither do we collect personal information for any purpose other than to give a feel good factor when we contact you after you have asked questions in response to the material posted on this website.
The Rope People™ will at no time send unsolicited mail, newsletters or other materials or correspondence to anybody for any purpose whatsoever, either by telephone, electronically or physically without your express prior consent.
Information garnered from your visit to The Rope People™ will consist of non-personal information about which pages you have visited, browser type, country you are from, IP address and how long you stayed on the site. This information will be used to improve The Rope People™ website and any faciites or services that may become availabe form time to time. Any information so gathered from The Rope People™ website will be held in secure storage and will not contain any personal information about you or your household.
At no time will extra information be requested regarding your visits to The Rope People™ website unless it is part of an ongoing campaign or competion as mentioned in excption 4 below. Neither will any information be requested that will be personally identifiable except in as required in the exceptions below. Any personal information gathered will be held in secure storage and only accessable by The Rope People™.
Minors
People under the age of 13 will need to gain parentel consent before any interaction will be entered into. This is to ensure their on-line safety. Proof of parentel consent will be required.

Exceptions

  1. E-Commerce transactions
    Information required for the purpose of purchasing items via The Rope People™ will be requested and will by the very nature of the transaction will require the passing of your bank details to an on-line Merchant Bank. This will only occur through their secure servers.

  2. Addresses
    will only be asked for if you purchase products directly from The Rope People™. This will only be for the purpose of sending the products purchased to your chosen destination address.

  3. Telephone Numbers
    will only be requested so that should exceptional or unexpected circumtances beyond the control of The Rope People™ occur you can be contacted regarding your order.

  4. Opt In
    From time to time The Rope People™ may run campaigns and or competitions, develop new products, services or facilites. Only information nessesary for the running of campaigns, competions, services or facilites will be collected. You will always have the choice of Opt-Out should you so wish, where upon your request your information will be removed and no further contact will be made.

The Rope People™ from time to time may alter this privacy statement at their discretion according to new laws or standards of practice that may come into effect regarding the holding or witholding of personal information.

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