Privacy/cookies
PRIVACY / COOKIES
1.1 Quiet Man Trading Ltd (“we” and “us”), as a data controller, is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains (i) how we process the personal information we collect about our website visitors and customers (“you”), (ii) how you can instruct us if you prefer to limit the use of that information and (iii) what procedures we have in place to safeguard your privacy. It also describes the cookies we may use and send to your computer or mobile device.
1.2 This Policy should be read in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions of use for the Website of which it forms part (the “Terms”).
1.3 By using this Website or submitting information to us through or in connection with this Website, you acknowledge having been informed that we collect, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with this Policy.
1.4 If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer at contact@quiet-man.com
2.1 Personal data means any information relating to a person who can be identified either directly or indirectly; it may include name, address, email address, phone number, credit / debit card number, IP address, location data, and purchase history (“Personal Data”)
3.1 We will use, store or otherwise process any of your Personal Data in accordance with the terms of this Policy, including but not limited to, your name, postal address (for billing and delivery), e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, location data and any other Personal
Data collected on registration with the Website, on placing an order and through surveys to the extent reasonably necessary to provide the products and services that are available through our Website to you by us. Credit or debit card details are held via the Shopify ‘token’ system and are not visible to us.
3.2 When we collect Personal Data through forms, including but not limited to electronic forms, we will indicate the mandatory fields via asterisks. Failure to provide the data marked with an asterisk could prevent you from accessing a service of ours.
3.3 We will take reasonable steps to ensure the Personal Data that we store is accurate, complete and up-to-date.
3.4 We will only process your Personal Data, in accordance with applicable law, for the following purposes:
3.4.1 creating and maintaining your customer account, if you become our registered customer;
3.4.2 to carry out our contract with you, if you are a customer;
3.4.3 offering our goods and services to you in a personalised way, for example, we may provide suggestions based on your previous searches to enable you to identify suitable goods or services quicker. This may also include, where legally permitted, processing data related to your location;
3.4.4 handling and fulfilling your orders and dealing with your inquiries, if you request goods or services from us;
3.4.5 processing your payment, if you purchase any of our goods or services;
3.4.6 enabling our suppliers and service providers to carry out certain functions on our behalf, including payment processing, verification, technical, logistical or other functions, as may be required, in order to fulfil your orders;
3.4.7 resolving any returns, refunds or disputes, if you lawfully exercise your rights or if you wish to dispute any part of our offering;
3.4.8 carrying out market research campaigns and sending you personalised marketing communications, where you have agreed that we may do so, in order to keep you informed of our products, which we consider may be of interest to you;
3.4.9 sending personalised advertising to your devices;
delivering ads based on your interests ascertained from your past searches, visits of subpages and purchases on our websites, and other data obtained through the use of cookies placed on your devices (please see our cookie statement at paragraph 9 below).
3.4.10 ensuring the security of your account and our business, preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our website, for example, by requesting verification information in order to reset your account password;
3.4.11 developing and improving our products and services, for example, by reviewing visits to our Website and its various subpages and demand for specific goods or services;
3.4.12 for our own administrative purposes, including training our staff, conducting internal audits or transferring assets as part of a sale, purchase or investment in the business; and
3.4.13 to comply with applicable law, for example, in response to a request from a court or regulatory body, where such request is made in accordance with the law.
3.5 To process your Personal Data lawfully we need to rely on one or more valid legal grounds. The grounds we may rely upon include:
3.5.1 your consent to particular processing activities. For example, where you have consented to us using your information for marketing
purposes;
3.5.2 our legitimate interests as a business (except where your interests or fundamental rights override these). For example, it is within our legitimate interests to use your Personal Data to prevent or detect fraud or abuses of our Website;
3.5.3 our compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject. For example, we have a duty to investigate and respond to complaints made against us and may need to process your Personal Data as part of such investigation; or
3.5.4 if you are a customer, because processing your Personal Data is necessary for the performance of a contract.
4.1 The Internet is not a secure medium. However, we have put in place various security procedures as set out in this Policy. All your card details are passed from your browser to Shopify using secure server software (ssl) encryption. Shopify use secure server software (ssl) encryption systems. Your user account area is protected by your user name and password, which you should never divulge to anyone else.
4.2 Communications over the Internet, such as
emails/webmails are not secure unless they have been encrypted. Your
communications may route through a number of countries before being delivered –
this is the nature of the World Wide Web/Internet. We cannot accept
responsibility for any unauthorised access or loss of Personal Data that is
beyond our control.
4.3 We believe that we have appropriate policies, rules and
technical measures to protect the Personal Data that we have under our control
(having regard to the type and amount of that Personal Data) from unauthorised
access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification, unlawful
destruction or accidental loss.
5 TO WHOM WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE DISCLOSED?
5.1 There are circumstances where we wish to disclose or are
compelled to disclose your Personal Data to third parties. This will only take
place in accordance with the applicable law and for the purposes listed in
clause 3 above. These scenarios include disclosure:
5.1.1 to our employees, affiliates, group companies and
their employees;
5.1.2 to our outsourced service providers or suppliers who
assist us in operating our Website, conducting our business, or servicing you
(including but not limited to IT support service providers), so long as those
parties agree to keep the Personal Data confidential;
5.1.3 to our advertising partners who enable us to deliver
personalised ads to your devices or similar advertising;
5.1.4 subject to your consent, to our marketing partners,
who may contact you by post, email, telephone, SMS or by other means. If at any
time after you have consented to us using your Personal Data for marketing
purposes and you wish us to stop using your Personal Data for these purposes,
please unsubscribe by clicking here;
5.1.5 to third party service providers and consultants in
order to protect the security or integrity of our business, including our
databases and systems and for business continuity reasons;
5.1.6 to another legal entity, on a temporary or permanent
basis, for the purposes of a joint venture, collaboration, financing, sale,
merger, reorganisation, change of legal form, dissolution or similar event. In
the case of a merger or sale, your Personal Data will be permanently
transferred to a successor company;
5.1.7 to public authorities or other third parties where we
are required by law to do so; and
5.1.8 to any other third party where you have provided your
consent.
6 INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF PERSONAL DATA
We may transfer your Personal Data to a third party in
countries outside the country in which it was originally collected for further
processing in accordance with the purposes set out in clause 3 above. In
particular, your Personal Data may be transferred throughout the Quiet Man
group and to our outsourced service providers located abroad. In these
circumstances we will, as required by applicable law, ensure that your privacy
rights are adequately protected by appropriate technical, organisation,
contractual or other lawful means. Please contact the Privacy Officer for a
copy of the safeguards which we have put in place to protect your Personal Data
and privacy rights in these circumstances.
7 RETENTION OF PERSONAL DATA
7.1 Your Personal Data will be retained until your last use
or purchase of our services or goods and normally for a period of fifteen years
thereafter, unless longer retention is required by applicable local law or
where we have a legitimate and lawful purpose to do so. However, we will not
retain beyond this period any of your Personal Data that is no longer required
for the purposes set out in this Policy. The retention of your Personal Data
will be subject to periodic review.
7.2 We may keep an anonymised form of your Personal Data,
which will no longer refer to you, for statistical purposes without time
limits, to the extent that we have a legitimate and lawful interest in doing
so.
7.3 Please see the Margaret Howell Data Retention and
Destruction policy for more details of applicable retention periods.
8 YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR INFORMATION
8.1 Data protection law provides you with numerous rights,
including the right to: access, rectify, erase, restrict, transport, and object
to the processing of, your Personal Data. You also have the right to lodge a
complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you believe your
Personal Data is not being processed in accordance with applicable data
protection law.
8.2 Right to make subject access request (SAR). You may,
where permitted by applicable law, request copies of your Personal Data. If you
would like to make a SAR, i.e. a request for copies of the Personal Data we
hold about you, you may do so by writing to the Privacy Officer. The request
should make clear that a SAR is being made. You may also be required to submit
a proof of your identity and a fee.
8.3 Right to rectification. You may request that we rectify
any inaccurate and/or complete any incomplete Personal Data.
8.4 Right to withdraw consent. You may, as permitted by
applicable law, withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data
at any time when such processing is based on your consent. Such withdrawal will
not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your previous consent. Please
note that if you withdraw your consent, you may not be able to benefit certain
service features for which the processing of your Personal Data is essential.
8.5 Right to object to processing, [including automated
processing and profiling]. You may, as permitted by applicable law, request
that we stop processing your Personal Data.
8.6 Right to erasure. You may request that we erase your
Personal Data and we will comply, unless there is a lawful reason for not doing
so. For example, there may be an overriding legitimate ground for keeping your
Personal Data, such as, a legal obligation that we have to comply with, or if
retention is necessary for us to comply with our legal obligations.
8.7 Right to restriction of processing. In some cases, you
have the right to obtain restriction of the processing of your Personal Data.
8.8 Right to data portability. You have the right to receive
the Personal Data concerning you which you provided to us, in a structured,
commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit
such data to another data controller without hindrance from us. This right only
applies when the processing of your Personal Data is based on your consent or
for the performance of a contract and such processing carried out by automated
means.
8.9 Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory
authority. We suggest that you contact us about any questions or if you have a
complaint in relation to how we process your Personal Data. However, you do
have the right to contact the relevant supervisory authority directly. To
contact the Information Commissioner’s Office in the United Kingdom, please
visit the ICO website for instructions.
9 COOKIE STATEMENT
What are cookies are do we use them?
9.1 In order to collect the information as described in this
Policy, we use cookies on our Website.
9.2 A cookie is a small file that a website or its service
provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if
you allow) that enables the websites or service providers systems to recognize
your browser and capture and remember certain information.
9.3 You can set your browser to notify you when you receive
a cookie. This enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not.
Alternatively, you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser
settings. However, some of the services and features offered through our
Website may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. However, you
can still place orders over the telephone or by contacting customer service.
9.4 Cookies can be first party or third party cookies.
• First party cookies – cookies that the website you are
visiting places on your computer.
• Third party cookies – cookies placed on your computer
through the website but by third parties, such as, Google.
What cookies are used on our site?
9.5 We use the following cookies on our website:
• Strictly necessary / Session cookies
These cookies are essential to enable you to move around our
Website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website.
Without these cookies, services you asked for, like shopping baskets or
e-billing, cannot be provided. They are deleted when you close the browser.
These are first party cookies.
• Performance cookies
These cookies collect information in an anonymous form about
how visitors use our Website. They allow us to recognise and count the number
of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Website when they are using
it and the approximate regions that they are visiting from. These are first
party cookies.
• Functionality cookies
These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make
(such as your username, language or the region you are in) and provide
enhanced, more personal features.
These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have
made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customise.
The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and they cannot track
your browsing activity on other websites. These are first party cookies.
• Targeting or advertising cookies
These cookies allow us and our advertisers to deliver
information more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to
limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the
effectiveness of advertising campaigns. They remember that you have visited our
Website and may help us in compiling your profile. These are persistent cookies
which will be kept on your device until their expiration or earlier manual
deletion.
• Social Media cookies
These cookies allow you to connect with social media
networks such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest. These are
persistent cookies which will be kept on your device until their expiration or
earlier manual deletion.
10 COOKIE CONSENT AND OPTING OUT
When you arrive on our Website a pop-up message will appear
notifying you that our Website uses cookies. By using our Website, you are
consenting to our use of cookies. If you, or another user of your device, wish
to withdraw your consent at any time, you can do so by altering your browser
settings otherwise we will assume that you are happy to receive cookies from
our Website. For more information please visit www.allaboutcookies.org and
www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/.
11 FURTHER INFORMATION
For further information from us with regard to this Policy,
please write to Quiet Man Trading Ltd, 20 Best Lane, Canterbury CT1 2JB or
email us at contact@quiet-man.com
12 CHILDREN
Please note that this website is not intended for children
under the age of 18.
13 LINKED WEBSITES
We are not responsible for the privacy policies and
practices of other websites even if you accessed the third-party website using
links from our Website. We recommend that you check the policy of each website
you visit and contact the owner or operator of such website if you have
concerns or questions.
14 CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to amend or modify this Policy without
notice to you and if we do so we will post the changes on this page. It is your
responsibility to check the Policy every time you submit information to us or
place an order.