PRIVACY POLICY

Issue Date: September 2003

3663 is committed to Protecting your Privacy and we therefore ask that you please read our Privacy Policy before providing us with any Personal Information.

1. Our Use of Your Personal Information
BFS Group Limited, trading as 3663 First For Foodservice ('3663') (Company No.239718) has its registered office at Buckingham Court, Kingsmead Business Park, London Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1JU.

3663 and such other organisations which assist us in providing services to you will use Information which you provide to us on this website ('Personal Information') to provide and enhance our services to you.

Other purposes for which we may use your Personal Information include dealing with enquiries, tailoring our services to your requirements and preferences, market research, competitions.

Occasionally, we may also wish to use your Personal Information to inform you about goods, services, promotions or competitions which we think may interest you.

2. When might we Disclose your Personal Information to Others?
Please be assured that except for the reasons listed below, we will not disclose your Personal Information to others.

We may disclose your Personal Information to others in the following circumstances and/or purposes:

Where we are required to do so by the Courts or to comply with other legal, statutory and/or regulatory obligations including accounting and taxation requirements; – To prevent and/or detect crime; – Where we believe that you may be interested in the services offered by other organisations including our group companies. If you would like details about these companies, please contact us at comments@3663.co.uk

For credit reference purposes;

3. When might we Transfer your Personal Information Abroad?
As some of the organisations mentioned above are located in counties within the EU or outside, we may sometimes need to transfer your Personal Information to those countries. For example, we have group companies based in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Unless you inform us to the contrary by contacting us at comments@3663.co.uk, your consent to the use of your Personal Information in terms of this Privacy Policy will also be taken as consent to transfer your Personal Information to the countries listed above.

4. Obtaining Further Details
If you would like further details of who we share your Personal Information with and for what purposes, please contact us at comments@3663.co.uk or by telephone on 01494 555917.

5. Monitoring
Please note that if you communicate with us electronically, including by e-mail, telephone or fax, this communication may be randomly monitored and/or recorded to protect the interests of our business and our customers. This includes for the purposes of maintaining customer/service quality standards, detection of and/or prevention of crime and to ensure that 3663 employees comply with legal obligations and 3663 policies and procedures (including our customer relations practices).

6. Hyperlinks
We may provide hyperlinks from this web site ('the Site') to web sites of other organisations including websites of associated companies. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to this Site and that 3663 will not liable for the contents of linked web sites or any transactions carried out with organisations operating those web sites.

7. External Information Sources
We may on occasion obtain Personal Information from external sources such as credit reference agencies or our group companies. We may use this information for the purposes of improving the quality of our services to you.

8. Requests for Access to Personal Information
We are happy to provide you with details of the Personal Information, which we process about you.

To protect our customers' personal information, we follow strict storage and disclosure procedures, which means that we will require proof of identity from you prior to disclosing such information. We may charge a small administration fee of £10 in relation to any requests for access to personal information. Please direct any such request to comments@3663.co.uk or by post to the Data Protection Officer, 3663, Buckingham Court, Kingsmead Business Park, London Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1JU.

9. Information Updates
Please help us to keep your Personal Information current and accurate by contacting us at comments@3663.co.uk or by post at 3663, Buckingham Court, Kingsmead Business Park, London Road, High Wycombe, Bucks HP11 1JU if your Personal Information is or becomes inaccurate and/or out-of-date.

10. Security
As you may be aware, no data transmission over the internet can be entirely secure. As a result, while we will always use reasonable endeavours to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information and the use of our Site (including the e-mail facilities) is at your own risk.

11. Changes to this policy
As e-commerce horizons are changing at an ever increasing rate, we request that you refer to the Site on a regular basis to ensure that you are aware of our most recent Policies (including this Privacy Policy) and Terms and Conditions for Use of the Site.