Privacy Policy

We use your information in a number of different ways — what we do depends on the information. The tables below set this out in detail, showing what we do, and why we do it.

Your name and contact details

How we use your name & contact details	Why?
Deliver your purchases to you	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you (it’s a bit hard to send your order if we don’t use your name and contact details!)
Send you service messages by text, e-mail or through our app, such as order updates	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you (so you can tell when your order is coming)
Sending you information by email, SMS, or post, about our new products and services	To keep you up to date. We only send this with your permission
Fraud prevention and detection	To prevent and detect fraud against either you or HYPA – unfortunate, but absolutely essential
Showing you HYPA-computers.com adverts as your browse the web	So you can see our latest products and deals
Finding out what you, and other customers, like	To ensure we are giving you what you want, and to stay ahead of the competition

Your date of birth information

How do we use your date of birth	Why?
Fraud prevention and detection	To prevent and detect fraud against either you or HYPA – unfortunate, but absolutely essential

Your gender information

How do we use your gender information	Why?
To direct you to the right part of our website	To get you to the products that you want faster

Your contact history with us

What you’ve said to us – for example, over the phone, on email, or on social media.

How do we use your contact history	Why?
Provide customer service and support	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you, after all, you expect the best service from us
Train our staff	So that, when you contact us, you get the best possible customer service

Purchase history and saved items

What you’ve bought and what you’ve stored in your basket for another time.

How do we use your purchase history and saved items	Why?
Sell you things	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you – if you can’t put stuff into a basket you can’t buy it!
Provide customer service and support, and handle returns	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you
Finding out what you, and other customers like	To ensure we are giving you what you want, and to stay ahead of the competition

Information about your phone or laptop, and how you use our website and app

Information you give us when you browse our site or use our app, including your IP address and device type and, if you choose to share it with us, your location data, as well as how you use our website and app.

How we use information about your phone or laptop, and how you use our website	Why?
Improve our website and set default options for you (such as language and currency)	To give you the best possible shopping experience
Protect our website	To prevent and detect fraud against either you or HYPA – unfortunate, but absolutely essential — and to meet our legal obligations about looking after your data

Information from accounts you link to us

What we do if you link your Twitter or Facebook accounts to us.

How we use information from accounts you link to us	Why?
To enable you to log into our website simply and easily without having to create a specific account	To make it easier for you to use hypa-computers.com and purchase those items you want!
To provide product recommendations	So you can quickly spot things which take your fancy

Your response to surveys, competitions and promotions

How we use your responses to surveys, competitions and promotions	Why?
Run the survey, competition or promotion	We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you — if we can’t use your entry, you can’t possibly win!

You don’t have to give us any of this personal information but if you don’t, you may not be able to buy from the site, and you are unlikely to receive our optimal overall customer experience. But that is your choice – and we respect that.

We also anonymise and aggregate personal information (so that it does not identify you) and use it for purposes including testing our IT systems, research, data analysis, improving our site and app, and developing new products and services. We also share this information with third parties.

We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party – including your name, address, email address or credit card information. We want to earn and maintain your trust, and we believe this is absolutely essential in order do that.

However, we share your data with the following categories of companies as an essential part of being able to provide our services to you, as set out in this statement:

• Companies in the Tactus Ltd Group, as sometimes different bits of our group are responsible for different activities (especially licensed ones)
• Companies that do things to get your purchases to you, such as payment service providers, warehouses, order packers, and delivery companies
• Professional service providers, such as marketing agencies, advertising partners and website hosts, who help us run our business
• Credit reference agencies, law enforcement and fraud prevention agencies, so we can help tackle fraud
• Companies approved by you, such as social media sites (if you choose to link your accounts to us), Marketplace sellers where you place an order.

We may provide third parties with aggregated but anonymised information and analytics about our customers and, before we do so, we will make sure that it does not identify you.

If you have said we can, we’ll send you marketing messages by email, text, to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you see and find our products.

How to stop marketing messages from HYPA-computers.com

You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time.

You can do this:

• Through your account settings
• By clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email
• By contacting our Customer Care team
• Once you do this, we will update your profile to ensure that you don’t receive further marketing messages.

Please note that, as HYPA comprises a complex web of many inter-connecting services, it might take a few days for all our systems to be updated, so you might get messages from us while we process your request.

Stopping marketing messages will not stop service communications (such as order updates or where you have expressed an interest in an activity at HYPA, for example new colours).

We also engage in online advertising, also to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you see and find our products.

Like many companies, we target HYPA banners and ads to you when you are on other websites and apps. We do this using a variety of digital marketing networks and ad exchanges, and we use a range of advertising technologies like web beacons, pixels, ad tags, cookies, and mobile identifiers, as well as specific services offered by some sites and social networks, such as Facebook’s Custom Audience service.

The banners and ads you see will be based on information we hold about you, or your previous use of HYPA (for example, your HYPA search history, and the content you read on HYPA) or on HYPA banners or ads you have previously clicked on.

We’ll hold on to your information for as long as you have your account, or as long as is needed to be able to provide the services to you, or (in the case of any contact you may have with our Customer Care team) for as long as is necessary to provide support-related reporting and trend analysis only.

If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required, even after you have closed your account or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.

We may change this page from time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data.

If we make significant changes, we will make that clear on the HYPA website or other HYPA services, or by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes before you continue to use HYPA.

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