Privacy

This data protection and security notice describes how Mammoth Holdings Limited (later referred to as "us", "we" or "our") collects, stores, uses and discloses your personal details in connection with the Mammoth site and service.

It is our duty to handle your personal details with great care. We will neither sell nor trade them nor encroach in any other manner on your personal rights. Please read our general terms and conditions carefully.

Anyone can visit the National Tool Hire Shops website without imparting his or her personal details to us. You do not tell us your personal details until you decide to actively make an enquiry.

As part of our business we collect and process your details. This may include any information you provide by filling in forms on our site, details in communication between us, details of the transactions you carry out through our site and the fulfilment of your hires. In particular, when products are placed on the rental site, relevant personal and company details have to be accessible to both Hire Station and Mammoth in order for them to establish contact and conclude legally binding agreements. The following details are passed on to the other party: address, email, surname, first name, telephone number and if available fax number and company name.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

1. Using cookies

Persons under the age of 18 are not permitted to use our service.

The provision of certain information and some functions is, in part, only possible by collecting and processing data that we receive either directly from you or through the computer that you are using.

We use "cookies". They enable us to make our service user-friendly, more effective and safer. Cookies are small packets of data that are put onto your computer. We do not store any personal details in the cookies, only information that helps us to optimise our site.

Certain functions are only available if they accept function-related cookies. Every time you visit NationalToolHireShops.co.uk you receive a "session- cookie" from us; this will be automatically deleted from your hard drive when it has fulfilled its purpose. Most browsers offer the option of refusing to accept cookies. This can be enabled directly on your computer. It can however, make using the website more difficult.

2. Data circulation

Mammoth is strongly committed to honouring the trust that our customers put in us. We treat all details that you provide us with the greatest care and confidentiality.

Mammoth will only pass on your details for the necessary contracting, accounting and payment processes and to enable the communication required for transactions to take place through our website.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Mammoth, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;

- If Mammoth or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;


The transmission of information via the internet is never 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.

3. Other Uses of Data

We may also use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us or to ensure terms of the contracts are carried out;
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- To notify you about changes to our service.

Where you have consented, we may also use your data to provide you with information by electronic means about goods and services which may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your data in this way for marketing purposes, please untick the relevant box situated in the "My Account" area of our website or follow the link in our email newsletter to unsubscribe from future emails.

4. Data and other users (hirers/suppliers)

You undertake not to make use of other users´ data except in connection with current business dealings through the Mammoth service. It is not permitted to enter the personal data of other users in an emailing list or an address list or in any other list without first having the explicit approval of the user.

5. Data security

Your data can only be accessed through Mammoth. Nevertheless, it is of essential importance and for your own protection from unauthorised access to your account that you keep your password secret. Choose an unusual password, play with mnemonics and combine numbers and letters.

6. Changing personal data

In the My Account section, Mammoth provides you with a quick and easy way of personally changing or updating your data whenever you like. Make the changes after logging in with your own personal and secret password.

7. Changing the guidelines

Mammoth reserves the right to change these guidelines at any time without giving reason. Any new guidelines will be displayed on this website.

If you have any questions on data protection and security please get in touch with us.