Cookie & Privacy Policy

OUR PRINCIPLES REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

User privacy and data protection are human rights.
We have a duty of care to the people within our data.
Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary.
We will never spam.
We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information.

RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with our business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)
EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)
EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact our data protection officer (details of whom can be found below) for clarification.

PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

SITE VISITATION TRACKING

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA.

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

OUR BLOG

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third party data processors

Your comment and it’s associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 1.) remove the comment or 2.) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and it’s associated personal data deleted, please email us using the email address that you commented with.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

CONTACT FORMS AND EMAIL LINKS

Should you choose to contact us using the contact form on our Contact us page the data that you supply will be stored by this website. We will never pass your data to any of the third party data processors. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

EMAIL NEWSLETTER

If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be forwarded to mailchimp who provide us with email marketing services. We consider mailchimp to be a third party data processor. The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain within mailchimp database for as long as we continue to use mailchimp services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

While your email address remains within the mailchimp database, you will receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us.

COOKIES
We use 2 types of cookies on our website:

Cookies that are required for the site functionality to work. These do not collect or hold any personal data.
Google Analytics. We use these to monitor visitor behaviour so we can analyse website activities and improve your user experience. This data is collected anonymously however your IP address will be included in the data Google collect. We do not use this information.

HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
As detailed in the section above, if you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website some personal information will be stored within this website’s database. This data is currently stored in an identifiable fashion; a limitation of the content management system that this website is build on (WordPress).

YOUR RIGHT TO REQUEST YOUR DATA BE DELETED
This is commonly called the right to be forgotten. To request that we remove all data about your from our systems please email wilmaaaa168@gmail.com Do not forget to give us your full name you booked with us under and your email address so we can correctly identify you.

ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER
This website is hosted by ionos within a UK data centre located in London.

All traffic (transferral of files) between this website and your browser is encrypted and delivered over HTTPS.

OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS
We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in the General Data Protection Regulations. Both of these third parties are based in the USA and are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

Google (Privacy policy)
DATA BREACHES
We will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

DATA CONTROLLER
The data controller is Gifts at The artists Gallery

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy may change from time to time inline with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

Use of cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

We use 5 group of cookies: Google Analytics cookies, Woocommerce cookies, Pop-up Cookie Consent Cookie, Twitter cookie, and Google maps cookies.

Google Analytics Cookies

The 4 Google Analytics cookies provide us with data about visitor usage patterns on our site. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the site when they’re using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example by making sure users are finding what they need easily. The visitor remains anonymous.

Woocommerce Cookies

The 2 Woocommerce cookies allow the online shop to function correctly.

Pop-up Cookie Consent Cookie

The cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.

Twitter Cookie

This cookie is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our twitter account.

Google Maps Cookies
The embedded Google Map on our site sets 3 cookies known as NID, PREF and khcookie. These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps.

The table below explains the cookies we use and why.

Google Analytics
_utma
_utmb
_utmc
_utmz
These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited.
Expires after 2 years, 30mins, when you close your browser, 6months respectively
WooCommerce
woocommerce_items_in_cart, PHPSESSID_ 
These cookies are used by the online shop to allow it to function correctly.
Expires when you close your browser
UK cookie consent wordpress plugin
catAccCookies 
Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies. This cookie is used to stop the Cookie notification displaying each time a new session is opened.
Expires after 1 month
Twitter
guest_id 
This cookie is set for the browser to remember the guest id to display the latest news from our twitter account.
Expires after 2 years
Google Maps
nid pref khcookie 
These cookies allow Google Maps to remember which browser you are using and what preferences you have set when you view maps.
Expires 6 months, 2 years, when you close your browser, respectively

For more information about cookies, please see www.allaboutcookies.org/