Privacy Policy
What is this Privacy Policy for?
This privacy policy is for this website www.holmeshillfurniture.co.uk and governs
the privacy of its users who choose to use it.
The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and
outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website and website
owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user
data and information will also be detailed within this policy.
The Website
This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and
ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users
throughout their visiting experience. This website complies to all UK national
laws and requirements for user privacy.
Use of Cookies
This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the
website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing
the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies
on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements
for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or
reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.
Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save
and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website.
This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored
experience within this website. Users are advised that if they wish to deny the
use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive
they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to
block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.
This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand
how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses
cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers
hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the
website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read
Google’s privacy policy here for further information
[ http://www.google.com/privacy.html ].
Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
Contact & Communication
Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and
provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal
information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer
required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort
has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process
but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own
risk.
This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with
further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in
answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes
using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website
operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission
was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the
consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from
the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by
no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving email marketing
material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.
Email Newsletter
This website may operate an email newsletter program, used to inform
subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can
subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do
so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed
through prior written agreement with the user. Subscriptions are taken in
compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic
Communications Regulations 2003.
All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance
with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third
parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that
operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a
copy of personal information held about you by this website’s email newsletter
program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information
held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.
Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain
tracking facilities within the actual email.
Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and
evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding
of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and
frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list]. This information is
used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant
content based around their activity. In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the
Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given
the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This
process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated unsubscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will
by detailed instead.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external
links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external
web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text /
banner / image links to other websites). The owners of this website cannot
guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their
best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own
risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or
implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media
platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms
and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media
platform respectively. Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely
and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to
their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask
for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and
encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through
primary communication channels such as by telephone or email. This website
may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web
pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using
such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that
the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page
respectively through your social media platform account.
Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may
share web links to relevant web pages. By default some social media platforms
shorten lengthy urls. Users are advised to take caution and good judgement
before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this
website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are
published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and
therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or
implications caused by visiting any shortened links.
Resources & Further Information
• Data Protection Act 1998
• Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003
• Twitter Privacy Policy
• Facebook Privacy Policy
• Google Privacy Policy
• Linkedin Privacy Policy
