Privacy
Your privacy
Pawnbrokers Charitable Institution ("PCI") is committed to protecting the privacy of clients and users of our website. We want to provide a safe and secure user experience.
We will ensure that the information you submit to us via our website or through our office is only used for the purposes set out in this policy.
Information we collect and how we use it
PCI will collect certain personal data about you via our website for the purposes of providing you with services and/or information. We may ask you to do this by completing and submitting an online form. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.

When we receive personal information from you, we take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is stored securely on our servers.

Updating your personal data
You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the data supplied by you that we hold. We may ask you to verify your identity and for more information about your request. We also have the right to charge an administrative fee for this service. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we may refuse your request and will give you reasons for doing so. If you would like to make a request for information, please contact us at info@the-pci.co.uk, or write to the address below. If you believe that any of your personal data that we hold is incorrect or incomplete, or you have any enquiries, you can contact us at info@the-pci.co.uk or write to us at:

Pawnbrokers Charitable Institution
Grasmere,
Deerleap Lane,
Rushmore Hill,
Knockolt,
Kent TN14 7NP

Cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

The only cookies in use on our site are for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it.

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page.

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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