Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
The following contains important privacy information.
This privacy notice is provided to you by pink poppies living creatively and contains important information regarding the collection, use, disclosure and security of your personal information. Pink Poppies Living Creatively recognises and values the protection of your privacy. We recognise that in using the Pink Poppies Living Creatively website (the Website) and the service offered to you via the Website (theService), you are entrusting us with your personal information so we understand that you want clarity about how we manage that information.
We have implemented this Privacy Policy in order to ensure that you are informed about what your use of the Service authorises us to do in relation to how we collect, hold, use your personal information and under what circumstances we may disclose your personal information. The Privacy Policy also outlines your rights to gain access to, your personal information we hold.
Through this Privacy Policy we have aimed to be as clear, open and transparent as possible about these matters, but if you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
Collection
The information we collect includes:
When you make a purchase via our Website, we may ask you for the following information:
- First name;
- Surname;
- Residential address;
- Postal address:
- Phone numbers; and
- Email address.
Transactional information when you shop using Pink Poppies Living Creatively such as when you shopped, your purchases and method of payment.
Personal information via the Website
Most commercial websites use ‘cookies’, which are pieces of information that websites send to the browser and are stored in the computer hard-drive. Cookies make using the Websites easier by storing information about matters such as your preferences on the Website. This allows the Website to be tailored to you for any of your return visits. Cookies will not be used to identify you personally.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter your security settings on your web browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. However, by disabling the cookie function in your web browser you may impede your ability to use parts of the Website.
Use and disclosure
Pink poppies may use your information to keep you informed about special promotions, events, product launches and other special offers and discounts, relevant to customers through various communication channels unless otherwise advised.
Your personal information, including your e-mail address, will be used, either on its own or as part of aggregated data (such as statistical data, trends, and usage information derived from your use of the Service), for the following primary purposes:
- to ensure the proper functioning of the Service and the Website;
- to ensure the proper functioning of the pink poppies living creatively business; and
- to assist Pink Poppies Living Creatively with our marketing, planning, product development and research requirements.
We will not use or disclose (or permit the use or disclosure of) personal information that could be used to identify an individual member in any circumstances except:
- to ensure the proper functioning of our business, the Service and the Website;
- to communicate promotional offers and special events to you;
- where applicable law requires, or authorises, us or a company holding data on our behalf to do so; or
- where you have given express consent to us for a prescribed purpose.
Under no circumstances will we sell, rent or licence your personal information onto any third parties for profiling or advertising purposes.
Should a third party approach Pink Poppies Living Creatively with a demand to access your personal information or your user generated data, including any text, sound, video, image or software files you have stored, posted or transmitted via the Service, we will take reasonable steps to redirect the third party to request the information directly from you, wherever it is lawful and reasonable for us to do so.
If we are compelled to disclose your personal information or your user generated data, including any text, sound,video, image or software files you have stored, posted or transmitted via the Service, to a third party we will take reasonable steps to notify you of this in advance, wherever it is lawful and reasonable for us to do so.
For the prevention and detection of fraudulent activity, your information may be shared with law enforcement bodies and as and if required by legislation.
Safeguarding your information
Pink Poppies Living Creatively will take all reasonable steps to ensure your personal information is protected from unauthorised access, misuse, modification and disclosure while stored by us.
In our business, personal information may be stored both electronically and in hard-copy form. We are committed to keeping your personal information secure regardless of the format in which we hold it and we take all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. However, you use the Website and/or Service at your own risk and we accept no responsibility, whether we are deemed to have been negligent or not, in the event of a breach of your privacy.
Note that no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. However, we will endeavour to protect your personal information as best as possible but we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.
Accuracy and quality of personal information
We will take all such steps as are reasonable in the circumstances to ensure that all information requested from you is kept accurate, up to date and complete. As we do not generally monitor the data you voluntarily upload as part of your use of the Service (such as your use of the message, calendar and gallery features) we cannot undertake to ensure that such data, even where it includes personal information, is kept accurate, up to date and complete.
(Privacy Policy last updated on 1 March 2018)