Privacy policy

How we use your information

Our website address is http://www.carolyngibbsquilts.co.uk

Contact details are available on our Terms & Conditions page.

This site collects information on you in two ways.

  1. The information that you manually provide us by leaving a comment, filling out our contact form, signing up for our newsletter or making a purchase. Information such as your name, email address and payment method is used to process payments, directly provide the download pattern that you have purchased, and to be able to resolve any problems which may arise related to the purchase. This information can be tied directly to you because of the information you’ve provided.
  2. The information that’s automatically collected via third-party partners included on this site in order to allow us to give and deliver content the most relevant content to you. The types of information collected here include things like your IP address, location, pages visited, and browser type. Generally, our third-party partners only give us this information in the aggregate (e.g. it’s not identifiable to you) but sometimes this information can be directly tied to you (e.g. to show you products you’ve recently viewed, or if you signed up for our newsletter).

Most of this information is only used in the aggregate to create a profile of our readers and the types of content that you, as our readers, most identify with.

The only data used by Carolyn Gibbs Quilts for direct marketing purposes is that provided by Newsletter subscribers who have specifically given their consent to this, under the terms of the General Data Protection Regulations. When a subscriber chooses to unsubscribe, their data is deleted within one month.

Data collected will never be sold on to any commercial company for marketing purposes. It is only shared with others if required by our terms of service/agreement with those parties, or if we are legally required to by law.

If you would like to know what information we have that’s directly attributable to you, please contact us and we will provide a response within 14-days. If you ask for specific data relating to you to be erased, it will be done within 14 days.

We use a recognised shopping cart service: WooCommerce to process your information securely. Payments can be made by credit card or by PayPal, and are processed by Braintree, a PayPal service, who process the payments using a secure server. Braintree is a validated Level 1 PCI DSS compliant service provider. All of these companies are GDPR compliant. Their Privacy Policies may be found at: https://www.braintreepayments.com/en-gb/legal/braintree-privacy-policy, https://woocommerce.com/privacy-policy/  and https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

 

How we use Cookies

Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user experience. You can disable any cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.

Cookies are used on this shopping site where they are strictly necessary for the site functionality. They are used to aid navigation, and to keep track of the contents of your shopping cart. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. You can turn off cookies by blocking them in your browser Privacy settings. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use them.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos from YouTube.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website

 

The following are not strictly necessary but are required to provide you with the best user experience and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting (anonymously).

Functional Cookies

This Website Will:

  • Track the pages you visit via Google Analytics and Wordfence

Targeting Cookies

This Website Will:

  • Allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook (If available)