Our website is https://alisonreadprintmaker.co.uk

Alison Read is the data controller of the information you provide.  We aim to follow GDPR guidelines to ensure that you and your data are protected.

This page aims to let you know what data we collect, and how that data is used. 

Data Protection Principles

We will comply with data protection law. This says that the personal information we hold about You must be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
• Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to You and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
• Relevant to the purposes we have told You about and limited only to those purposes.
• Accurate and kept up to date.
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told You about.
• Kept securely.

Your Information

We only collect data that is necessary to allow us to provide you with the ability to work with us, and for us to provide you with the best possible service.  This data is stored for the minimum length of time that allows us to provide / maintain our service to you (e.g. warranty), and our legal duty to the relevant authorities (e.g. taxation)

Information we store about you:

• Name
• Addresses
• Phone Numbers
• E-mail Addresses
• Order details

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your consent.

How we use your data

We will only use your personal information when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract, we have entered into with you, for example purchases of items from the site
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

We may also use Your personal information in the following situations, which are likely to be rare:

• Where we need to protect Your interests (or someone else’s interests).
• Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.

Data Retention

We will only retain Your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Cookies

We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a “cookie” (a small piece of electronic information), which would be stored on your browser. Unless you modify your browser settings, information collected this way can be used to identify you.

COOKIE NAME	DURATION	PURPOSE
woocommerce_cart_hash	session	Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
woocommerce_items_in_cart	session	Helps WooCommerce determine when cart contents/data changes.
wp_woocommerce_session_	2 days	Contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer.
woocommerce_recently_viewed	session	Powers the Recent Viewed Products widget.
store_notice[notice id]	session	Allows customers to dismiss the Store Notice.

Security

Alison Read takes security seriously. Our websites all use encryption to provide you with a secure experience.  All web pages will be delivered using https (you can see this by the presence of the green padlock in your browser address bar).

Right to Withdraw Consent

In the limited circumstances where You may have provided Your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of Your personal information for a specific purpose, You have the right to withdraw Your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw Your consent, please contact us.

Changes to this privacy notice

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide You with a new privacy notice when we make any substantial updates. We may also notify You in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.