Privacy Policy
I take my responsibilities under the data protection act and in due course GDPR very seriously and want to comply with the spirit and letter of the of the guidance offered by the information Commissioners office.
You can find more information about the ICO on their website https://ico.org.uk/
This Privacy Policy for Nicola Leverington – The Wedding Dress Surgeon ( ‘Company’, ‘We’’, ‘Us’, ‘Our’) describes how we might collect, use, store and share ( ‘process’) your information when you use our services (‘services’) such as when you
- Visit our website theweddingdresssurgeon.co.uk or any other websites of ours that links to this privacy policy.
- Engage with us in other ways such as visit us, events , sales or marketing.
- Purchase a service or product from us.
By providing me with your data you confirm that you are over 18 Years of age.
Nicola Leverington is the data controller and can be contacted on nleverington@googlemail.com or in writing at 603 Tonbridge Road, Maidstone, Kent ME16 9DG
I regret that if you are unhappy with any of the points below your only recourse is to leave my site immediately.
What data do we collect?
We collect and process data that you voluntarily provide to us when inquiring about information about our goods or services. The information may include:
Name
Phone number
Wedding date
We may further collect information when completing your order or sewing services or product purchases of
Partners name
Address
I will only use your data for the reason it was collected for. I will process this information on the basis that there is a contract between us, or that you have requested I use this information before we enter into a contract. I shall continue to process this information until the contract ends or is terminated by either party.
Sensitive Data
I do not collect sensitive data about you.
All information you provide must be true, complete and accurate and kept up to date. Please supply us with any changes in your data in a timely manner at nleverington@googlemail.com
How I collect your personal Data
I collect your data through inquiry and booking forms and also in person or through direct communication with you.
Information automatically collected
Some information such as your IP address and/or browser or device characteristics is collected automatically when you visit our website.
I may use software embedded in my website to collect information about pages you have visited and how you got to them, what you do when you visit a page and how long you spent on them, and how I perform in providing content for you. Such information is not associated with an identifiable person
Like many businesses we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
Disclosure of your personal Data
When and where I share your personal information. I may provide your information to third parties or services who perform services for us such as
Invoicing and Accounting software
Cloud storage facilities
Payment processors
Order fulfillment service providers
I may also share your personal information with
Professional advisers such as lawyers, bankers,
Legal authorities and government officials, if they have proper authorisation.
Third parties to whom I may sell, transfer or merge part of my business or assets.
Data Security
I allow access to your data only to those employees or business partners that have a business need to know that data. I have procedures in place to deal with any data breach and would notify you and any data regulator I am legally required to do so if a breach were to happen.
Data Retention
We keep your data for the term of your business with us. For Tax and accounting purposes I am required to keep your data for 7 years after our business has concluded. This would include contact details, invoicing and transaction details.
When we have no longer ongoing reason to process your information we will delete it or in the case of it being stored in back up archives we will secure this storage and prevent from any further processing.
Third party links
This website may include links to third party websites, plugins and applications. Clicking on those links or enaballing connections may allow third parties to collect and process information about you. I do not control these third party websites and am not responsible for their privacy statements. I suggest you read the privacy statement for every website you visit.
Cookies
Your browser can be set to refuse all or some cookies, or to alert you when websites access cookies. If you choose to disable or refuse cookies the functionality of some parts of the website may be compromised. For more information about cookies please see below.
Cookies are widely used by websites and their owners to make sites work, or work more efficiently as well as provide information to the site owners. It is a piece of information stored on your hard drive that records how you moved around a website. This can improve the user experience next time you visit and provide valuable information about the website and improvements to be made.Cookies can also be used to analise traffic for marketing purposes.
How my website uses cookies.
Complaints
If you are not happy with how I have collected or processed your data you have the right to complain to the ICO at www.ico.org.uk. I would however be grateful if you raised this complaint with me first so that I may try and resolve it for you. Please contact me at nleverington@googlemail.co.uk