Privacy Policy 2018 V1.0
1.0 Disclaimer
At The Stone Workshop, we teach stone carving and create commissioned designs. We understand your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used and shared online. Therefore, we are committed to protecting your privacy and online security. This Privacy Policy will outline why we collect your personal data in, the ways in which we store and use your personal data in addition to your rights to access this information. This Policy applies to the use of our website and any other methods we use to collect data.
2.0 Definitions:
‘Our website’ relates to www.stoneworkshop.co.uk
‘Cookie’ are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites you visit.
‘UK and EU Cookie Law’ relates to relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 as amended in 2004, 2011 and 2015.
‘GDPR’ stands for General Data Protection Regulation, an EU data privacy regulation that came into force on 25th My 2018. It replaces the Data Protection Act (1998).
3.0 Your Rights:
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
a) The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out any additional information or raise any queries.
b) The right to access your personal date we hold
c) The right to have your personal data amended if any personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us for additional information.
d) The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data we hold.
e) The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data
f) The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
g) The right to data portability. Meaning that you can ask for a copy of all personal data held by us to re-use with another service or business.
h) Rights relating to automated decision-making profiling. We do not use your personal data in this way.
For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above please do not hesitate to contact us. Further information about the GDPR can also be obtained from https://ico.org.uk/.
4.0 Types of data we collect
Some data will be collected automatically by our websites; some will only be collected if you voluntarily submit it, for example when signing up to receive e-mail newsletters or downloadable content; and some will be collected using non-website based methods. Depending on the methods used, we may collect some or all of the following data:
- Name
- Email address
- Gender (inferred through name)
- Business/company name
- Job title
- Profession
- Telephone numbers
- Demographic information such as address, postcode, preferences and interests
- Financial information such as credit/debit card numbers
- IP address (automatically collected)
- A list of URLs starting with a referring site, your activity on our site and the site you exit to (automatically collected)
- Domain names
5.0 Why we collet this data
Website Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to make the Customer’s user experience more enjoyable. They also provide information to the owners of the site.
We have carefully chosen these cookies and have taken steps to ensuring that your privacy is protected and respected at all times. Before cookies are places on your computer or devices, you will be shown a prompt, i.e. a pop-up message, requesting your consent to set those cookies, you may deny consent, but this may lead to features of our website not functioning as intended.
All the cookies used by and on our website are used in accordance with UK and EU Cookie Law. Below we will explain the cookies we use and why:
Squarespace – Please view Squarespace’s Cookie policy for more information. https://www.squarespace.com/cookie-policy/
N.B., You may access our website without providing any data at all through our use of cookies. However, to use all features and functions available on out site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.
Direct from you – During a meeting or over the phone, we often take personal information directly from you, as a client or prospective client. This information may include your name, telephone number, email address and a personal or business address, we collect this information so that we can keep in touch with you via some or all of the following channels:
- Phone
- Post
- Social media
The Stone Workshop will never call or email you without prior consent. Any marketing materials we send out in the post will display explicit ‘opt-out’ instruction should you wish to stop receiving marketing material from us.
Third Parties - We do not collect personal data through ‘third party’ software.
6.0 How we store your data
We use a number of third party software to store your customer data, Below, each software is listed with the type of information it holds:
- Squarespace – Some personal data will be stored by Squarespace. If your website is ecommerce we can also see the data of your customers e.g. email address, names. View Squarespace’s Privacy Policy, here https://www.squarespace.com/privacy-new
7.0 Access to your personal Information
Under the GDPR, you are entitled to view, amend or delete the personal information that we hold, Email your request to dan67stim@gmail.com.
8.0 Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal information. If and when changes occur, The Stone Workshop will notify you immediately, to make an enquiry, please email dan67stim@gmail.com.