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Privacy policy

 This site is hosted by WordPress.com. Privacy statement effective 25 July 2020.

SECTION 1 – WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU AND WHAT DO WE DO WITH IT?

If you subscribe to the blog or contact us on this site, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address or email address, in order that we are able to communicate with you. If you pay for any services offered through this site your information may be shared with our payment provider company or the UK banking system for the purpose of processing your payment. Your information may also be shared with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) or similar authorities if and when specifically requested or required by law.

When you browse this site, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address, web browser, time zone and some of the cookies that are installed on your device, in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system. This information gives us an overview of how people use our website and may helps us to assess risk and fraud.

With your permission, we may use your personal information to send you emails about our site, including blog posts if you subscribe to such updates.

We do NOT use your information for automated decision making such as profiling, credit scoring or other purpose.

SECTION 2 – HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We will only store your personal information for as long as we need it for the purposes for which it was collected. Where we provide you with any service, we will retain any information you provide to us at least for as long as we continue to provide that service to you. The HM Revenue and Customs service  requires us to keep records of receipts for 6 years.

SECTION 3 – COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM THIRD PARTIES

We will only collect personal information provided directly by you. We will NOT approach any third parties for your personal data.

SECTION 4 – CONSENT

We use consent as our lawful basis for processing your personal information for marketing and updates. We use legitimate interests as the lawful basis when processing your personal information for the purposes of payment transactions.

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will ask you directly for your expressed consent. You will NOT be automatically opted in. The provision of personal data does not form part of a statutory or contractual obligation. There are no detrimental consequences of failing to provide personal data.

How do I withdraw my consent?

If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time.

SECTION 5 – YOUR RIGHTS AS A DATA SUBJECT

We have a legal obligation to provide you with concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible information about your personal information and our use of it. We have written this policy to do just that, but if you have any questions or require more specific information, you can get in touch using Contact Us section of the website.

SECTION 6 – DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so.

SECTION 7 – WEBSITE HOSTING

Our on-line store is hosted by WordPress.com. They provide us with the blog and website platform that allows us to present our range of services to you. Your data is stored through data storage, databases and the WordPress application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

SECTION 8 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. However, certain third-party service providers, such as the payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, such as Paypal, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies, so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers. For your information, in most cases we accept only Paypal transactions for services advertised on this site. You can read more about how Paypal use your information at https://www.paypal.com/re/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-prev

Please note that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us, including the U.S. and Canada. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

SECTION 9 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

SECTION 10 – COOKIES AND DEVICE INFORMATION

Additionally, as you browse our website, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to our website, and information about how you interact with the website. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

– “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

SECTION 11 – AGE OF CONSENT

This site is not intended to be used by children. If using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence. We do not knowingly collect information, including personal data, from children.  If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected personal data from a child under the age of majority, we will promptly delete it, unless we are legally obligated to retain such data.

SECTION 12 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information please contact us via the Contact Us section on this website. Alternatively write to Edward Windle (the data controller) at 29, Woodhill Rise, Cookridge, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS16 7DB. You also have a right to complain to the International Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at https://ico.org.uk/ if you think there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

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