Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

1. Introduction 

This policy sets out the basis on which we collect and manage your personal data through your use of our website and/or signing up for newsletters, competitions and other marketing activities. Any changes we make to this policy in the future will be posted on this page and, if appropriate, notified to you by email so please check this page regularly.  

2. Information about PLAID STUDIO

When you are using the Plaid Studio website, Plaid Studio is the data controller and we are responsible for your personal data (referred to as "we", “us” or “our” in this privacy policy). Plaid Studio's address is19 Underwood Road, Paisley, PA3 1TH. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, the use of your personal information, or your dealings with our website, you can contact us at info@plaidoriginals.com.

3. What sort of personal data we may collect from you

In the process of purchasing goods from our website, registering a customer account with us, contacting us, or signing up for newsletters and other marketing activities, you may provide some or all of the following information to us:

·      Your Identity and Contact Details - includes your name, email address, home postal address/billing address, delivery address (if different), and your contact telephone number;

·      Your Profile Data - if you register a customer account, this includes the profile you create to identify yourself when connecting to our website (including your username and password) and other data about purchases and your personal preferences; and

·      Additional Personal Details - At your option, you can also provide additional personal information to us such as your date of birth, gender, product preferences and interests. This additional information would only be collected and stored by us for the purpose of analysing sales to help us understand and improve our business and for the purpose of any direct marketing which you may have expressly given your consent to.

Please Note:

·      As all our financial transactions are managed through independent third parties (PayPal, Worldpay), we do NOT have access to or hold any financial information on any of our customers - including bank accounts details;

·      It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

·      We do not collect any categories of sensitive personal data and this website is not intended for children so we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.  

4. Information we may collect when you use our website

As you interact with our website, we also automatically collect usage and technical data (described below) about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Click here for more information about our cookies policy.  

Usage Data – includes: 

• details of products and services you have purchased from us
• information about how you use our website  

Technical Data - includes:

• your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website;
• information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page, mobile applications traffic data, weblogs and other communication data;
• if you use a mobile device to access our website or one of our apps, the type of mobile device you use, a unique device identifier (for example, your device’s IMEI number, the MAC address of the device’s wireless network interface, or the mobile phone number used by the device), mobile network information, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile browser you use, time zone settings)  

5. How we may use your personal data

Data protection law in the UK allows us to collect, use, store and transfer (see below) personal information to facilitate the fulfilment of your order or for other reasons where you have expressly consented - for example to receive newsletters and offer   Below are the ways we may use your personal data to fulfil your order;

• processing your order, including taking payment, supplying products and any after sales services such as cancellations and returns;
• keeping you updated on the progress of your order, we will usually communicate with you about your order by email, but we or our couriers may also contact you by phone;
• processing information required for competition, promotion or survey entries by you;
• analysing sales to help us understand and improve our business;
• administration, analysis and assessment of our website to understand and develop our business and for the improvement and optimisation of our website; and
• as part of our efforts to keep our website  safe and secure.  

Below are the ways we may use your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you have expressly given your consent to receive direct marketing (for example newsletters and offers) from us, we may use the information you have given us for: ·

• delivering direct marketing, advertising and updates from us to you, such as telling you about forthcoming events, products, services and offers and updates and information about us;
• measuring and understanding the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others; and
• making suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our website about goods or services that may interest you or them.

At any time you can opt out of our direct marketing by unsubscribing - see below.

 6. Who we may share your personal information with

We may share your information with our selected third parties for the following purposes:

• Payment Acquiring Services to process your payment;
• Companies who produce and deliver our one-off customised orders on our behalf 
• Delivery and Courier Companies to supply your order;
• Credit Reference & Fraud Prevention Agencies for credit checking and identity verification;
• Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website;
• Build and hosting service providers that help us to maintain the software that runs our website. They provide us with reporting statistics, and serve cookies on our behalf to enable personalisation and sign-in functionality. Click here for more information on cookies

Where you opted in to direct marketing, affiliate marketing agencies and advertising networks engaged by us to select and serve relevant communications to you on our behalf.   We require all third parties engaged by us to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Such third parties are only allowed to process your personal data in accordance with our instructions, and not for their own purposes. From time to time, we may ask you if you would like to be contacted by other selected third parties, such as part of a joint promotion or a collaboration. If we do this, we will also provide you with a link to that third party’s privacy policy to help you decide whether or not you wish to be contacted by them.

If you do consent to this (by an express opt in), that third party would be the data controller in respect of any activity by them that you have consented to.  

Links to Other Organisations

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites. 

7. Opting out and unsubscribing 

If you no longer wish to receive direct marketing and updates from Gillian Kyle you can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link in the footer of our emails.

8. Security of your personal data

Our website has appropriate security measures in place to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers. We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach.  

Where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you to choose an effective, secure password and not to share your password with anyone. We recommend only connecting to secure wireless networks that you trust to reduce the risk of unauthorised people intercepting your online activity. Beware of the risks of using public Wi-Fi.  

If you receive an email purporting to be from PLAID STUDIO asking for personal data, please do not respond to the email but please let us know that this has happened so we can check whether the email is genuine.  

9 How long will we keep your personal data

We will keep your data for as long as you are a customer and thereafter we may keep it for longer in order to respond to any questions or complaints and to maintain necessary records to satisfy legal, accounting or reporting requirements. We may also keep your data for research or statistical purposes.  

10. Your rights

You have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove or stop using it if there is no need for us to keep it. Please let us know if you think we should not be using it, but please be aware that there may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your information.   Your rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data are briefly summarised below, and you can exercise these rights by emailing us at info@plaidoriginals.com

Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. Please note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which we will tell you about, if applicable, after receiving your request.

Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of processing of your personal data. You can ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c)where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time if we are relying on your consent to process your personal data (such as direct marketing and cookies). This won’t affect any processing already carried out before you withdraw your consent or processing under other grounds. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you.   We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.   You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data and we try to respond to all requests within one month.  

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). However, we would appreciate the chance to deal with any concerns you may have before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.   If you have any questions or require any more information please contact us at info@plaidoriginals.com.