Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies between you, the User of this Website and THE GIFTY ROOM LTD, the owner and provider of this Website. THE GIFTY ROOM LTD takes the privacy of your information very seriously. This privacy policy applies to our use of any and all Data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of the Website.

This privacy policy should be read alongside, and in addition to, our Terms and Conditions, which can be found at: (Link to Terms and Conditions)

Please read this privacy policy carefully.

How do we collect information from you?

We obtain information about you when you use our website, for example, when you complete the contact form, when you complete the site registration form, purchase a product from our store or engage with other forms within our site.

What type of information is collected from you?

We may collect the following Data, which includes personal Data, from you:

  1. name;
  2. contact Information such as email addresses and telephone numbers;
  3. demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests;
  4. IP address (automatically collected);
  5. web browser type and version (automatically collected);
  6. operating system (automatically collected);
  7. in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.

How is your information used?

We may use your information to:

  • Contact you regarding queries raised in the contact form;
  • Progress an order you have submitted and send you information directly related to this;
  • Process a donation that you have made;
  • Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us;
  • Deal with entries into a competition;
  • Seek your views or comments on the services we provide;
  • Notify you of changes to our services;
  • Send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.
  • These may include information about  campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities, promotions of our associated companies goods and services;

Log Data 

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site(“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this data.

Who has access to your information?

We may share your Data with the following groups of people for the following reasons

  • our employees, agents and/or professional advisors – to process your order;
  • third party payment providers who process payments made over the Website – to enable third party payment providers to process user payments and refunds;

in each case, in accordance with this privacy policy.

We will use technical and organisational measures to safeguard your Data, for example:access to your account is controlled by a password and a user name that is unique to you. we store your Data on secure servers.

Technical and organisational measures include measures to deal with any suspected data breach. If you suspect any misuse or loss or unauthorised access to your Data, please let us know immediately by contacting us via this e-mail address: enquires@thegiftyroom.com

If you want detailed information from Get Safe Online on how to protect your information and your computers and devices against fraud, identity theft, viruses and many other online problems, please visit www.getsafeonline.org. Get Safe Online is supported by HM Government and leading businesses.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.

Your rights
You have the right to:

  • Receive disclosure of any of your personal data that we store and process
  • Update/amend inaccuracies or changes to your data
  • Opt out of e-mail marketing by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email communication
  • Request for processing of your personal data to be restricted
  • Be informed of what lawful basis we are relying on for the processing of your personal data
  • Be forgotten (have your personal data deleted); however we would recommend that we supress you from future communications, rather than delete your data from our database

You can also stop the processing of your data for digital marketing purposes. This is done via the ‘My Account’ section of the website.

Data retention

Unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, we will only hold your Data on our systems for the period necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or until you request that the Data be deleted. Even if we delete your Data, it may persist on backup or archival media for legal, tax or regulatory purposes.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive .Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Minors

We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.

Changes to our Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of September 2021 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact us 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact by e-mail at enquiries@thegiftyroom.com