Privacy Policy

The purpose of this statement is to set out how we use personal information we may obtain about you. By registering as a user of the services provided by City to Cottage's and by using the City to Cottage's web site generally you agree to this use.

1. DATA CONTROLLER REGISTRATION

When you register and use this site you will be asked to provide certain information such as your contact details. This information will be collected and processed by City to Cottage Limited. We are the Data Controller with the following details:

City to Cottage Limited
71-75 Shelton Street 
London 
WC2H 9JQ

2. DATA WE COLLECT

We only collect data which is necessary for its purpose for example the information you provide when making an order. Data we collect includes:

·       Personal details like name and delivery address when you register an account or place an order;

·       Payment information when you place an order (payment information will not be stored. See section 8 for further information on payment security);

·       Contact information and preferences when you register your interest in our marketing communication;

·       Information about your browser, device and the path you take through our website when you visit.

Some of this data is collected by us, and some is collected through a third-party pixel placed on our site by one of our marketing partners- see our cookie policy for more information. We may also supplement the information you give to us with information supplied by third parties, including public databases and social media platforms to ensure we’re keeping your records up to date.

 

3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We only ever use your personal information for the reason it was collected, either with your consent, to perform a contract with you, or where we have a legitimate interest (where our interests do not override yours) to do so. For example:

·       To register you with an account on our website;

·       To fulfil an order and to deliver your goods;

·       For assessment and analysis (e.g. market, customer and product analysis) to enable us to review, develop and improve the services we offer and to provide you and other customers with relevant information through our marketing programme;

·       For the prevention and detection of fraud;

·       Where you allow us to do so, we will inform you by email and/or postal mail about products and services that we consider may be of interest to;

·       To administer any prize draws or competitions you may enter.

 

4. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING

Where we’ve collected your data in relation to an account sign up, the information we process will be based on the legitimate interest we have in administering that account to enable you to safely access your order history and the personal details you’ve provided us with.

Where data has been collected in relation to an order, it will be processed by necessity of entering into a contract whereby the payment you provide requires us to fulfil your order request, in which case we will only collect data which is necessary to fulfil and deliver your order.

Where data has been collected in relation to marketing, we rely on your consent. See section 5 for a more detailed explanation of how we process data for marketing.

5. MARKETING

If you have indicated that you’d like to be contacted for direct marketing purposes we rely solely on your consent. We review consent frequently and seek to refresh consent periodically as we see appropriate. At the time of sign up, you can choose which methods of direct marketing you would like to receive, from either email, and/or postal mail. We will never use other methods of direct marketing without your consent.

Data collected in line with your marketing preferences, like name and address will only be used to personalise your communications, including sending you content which we think is relevant to your location.

We will hold this data for five years following your last interaction with our marketing programme, including opening an email or logging a visit to our website. After this point, we will send you a notification detailing that your information will be removed from our marketing database. The data record will be purged of all personal identifiers apart from email address which must be used to completely suppress the record. The minimised record will be held with associated engagement data for statistical purposes thereafter.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to receive direct mail communications at any time. This may be done by using the unsubscribe link provided in electronic communications, visiting your account preference centre, by sending an email to info@citytocottage.co.uk or by contacting Customer Services.

 

6. WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

We will never sell your personal data. We may share information about you to the following, who may use it for the same purposes as set in section 3 of this policy:

·       Employees and agents of City to Cottage's to administer any accounts, products and services provided to you by City to Cottage's now or in the future;

·       Anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under our agreement with you, in particular order fulfilment, and payment service providers;

·       Data processors, such as our Customer Relationship Management platform, data analytics tools and marketing partners.

We may also share your information if we have a duty to do so or if the law allows us to do so.

7. PROFILING

We use some aspects of the personal data we collect in an automated decision-making process called ‘profiling’. We use this type of processing to help us understand our customers and to provide them with a better experience within the City to Cottage's environment.

We analyse sets of data to determine common patterns in behaviour which allows us to provide you with a more personalised, individual experience on our website, in our digital advertising and in our electronic marketing communications. For example, if we recognise that you browse several products with a common feature over a period of time, we are able to recommend similar products that you may also be interested in.

You have a right to object to this kind of processing. Further details of your rights can be found in section 10 of this policy.

We do not use automated decision-making techniques that produce a significant or legal effect on you, unless we have a lawful basis for doing so. If this changes in the future, we will not carry out this kind of profiling without first obtaining your consent.

8. SECURITY

Data security is very important to us and is at the centre of our business culture and practices. We take all reasonable steps to protect your personal details against abuse both in the setup of our technology systems and in our staff procedures.

We process and store data digitally within secured databases and limit which staff have access to the data. Those who have the privilege of handling personal data receive regular data protection training and must abide by a strict code of conduct for data-management.

We comply with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) and Data Security Standard (DSS) and will never store your card details. All credit card details relating to transactions are passed securely to our payment provider, Barclaycard Merchant Services. We employ an external IT specialist to complete regular checks on our behalf.

On our website, we use the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol to encrypt the data between your browser and our servers to ensure the security of your details.

We cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the inherent security risks of providing information and dealing online and will not hold us responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to our negligence or wilful default.

In line with our data security strategy, we have robust protocol in place which would be deployed in the unlikely event of a major security breach. The breach management plan primarily endeavours to minimise the impact on our customers. It encompasses notifying the relevant parties, including the Information Commissioner’s Office and the affected customers where necessary.

9. STORAGE

We store data digitally in the UK and EU. Some of our partners transfer personal data outside of the EEA where we have sufficient evidence that the data is adequately protected and is processed in a manor compliant with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

We store data using minimisation techniques to ensure we only keep what is necessary to process your order for the minimum amount of time it is required. How long information will be stored for depends on the purpose of processing. It will be stored in accordance with the recommended time to address breach of contract claims and accounting purposes which stands at seven years from the date your order was delivered.

Data collected for marketing purposes will be stored for 5 years from the date of the last interaction with our marketing programme. Further details can be found in section 5 of this policy.

We regularly review the data we hold and erase what is no longer needed for the original intended purpose or for legal obligations.

10. YOUR RIGHTS

The General Data Protection Regulation set out by the European Union sets out stringent policies on how companies may use your data. These are designed to give you the utmost control of your personal data. Your rights are described below:

·       The right to access all the personal data we hold on you and to receive a copy of that data without the obligation to pay a fee.

·       The right to the rectification of any inaccurate personal data we are processing, and have any incomplete set of data completed.

·       The right to have your data erased from our system in some circumstances such as it’s no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.

·       The right to restrict the processing of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer needed.

·       The right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes or profiling.

·       The right to withdraw your consent from electronic marketing.

·       The right to transmit the personal data you have provided us with to another service provider.

Where you request the erasure of your data, we retain the right to continue processing it in some cases, such as for fraud detection, for statistical purposes, or to suppress the data from being used again. Where one of these situations apply, we will only retain the absolute minimum amount of data and the record will be purged of any personal identifiers where possible.

If you would like to exercise your rights, or to find out more, please contact info@citytocottage.co.uk

We take the utmost care in handling personal data, but if you feel a high standard of security has not been met, you have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office by visiting https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

11. COOKIES

A cookie is an element of data that a website sends to your browser, which may then be stored on your system. Cookies allow us to understand who has seen our webpages and advertisements, so that we can determine how frequently particular pages are which are the most popular. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, a cookie is classed as personal data. For details on what cookies are, how we use them, and how you can control which cookies you receive, read our Cookie Policy.

 

12. CONTACT

If you have any comments or queries relating to your personal data or our Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at citytocottage.co.uk or by post: City to Cottage Limited 71-75 Shelton Street London WC2H 9JQ

 

13. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We will regularly review this Privacy Policy, updating it when necessary to reflect changes in the law or otherwise. Future changes will be posted on this page and you will be notified of any significant amendments by e-mail. The Privacy Policy was last updated in 22 May 2018.

COOKIE POLICY

A cookie is an element of data that a website can send to your browser which is then stored on your system.
Cookies allow your basket to be saved, remember your login details and browsing activity such as visiting a webpage or viewing an advertisement. Cookies inform us of how people are using our website so that we are able to make improvements to it. When you use our website, we pass a cookie over to you.

 

HOW WE USE COOKIES

We use cookies to give you the best possible experience we can offer on our website. Different types of cookies have different functionalities, like enabling personalised product recommendations, saving your preferences, and allowing us to see aggregated browsing statistics. The types of cookies we use and their functionalities are listed below.

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES

These are required for the operation of our website including those that allow you to log into your account at the checkout.

PERFORMANCE COOKIES

These cookies allow us to count the number of people on our site and see the paths that visitors are taking through the website. Measuring this helps us improve the functionality of our website and provide the best experience for our visitors.

FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES

These are used for serving adverts relevant to a visitor’s interests based on their interaction with our website. Advertising cookies are managed by our third-party marketing partners in most cases, and enable them to show personalised adverts or marketing emails with content and products reflective of a visitor’s interaction with our website. Without these cookies, our marketing will be less relevant to our customers.

TARGETING OR ADVERTISING COOKIES

These allow us to recognise visitors when they return to our website so that we can personalise our content based on which products they were interested in last time.

MANAGING YOUR COOKIES

Most web browsers automatically allow cookies but you have the choice to accept or decline them by amending your browser settings. Read the information provided by your browser software which will tell you how to set up a notification when you receive a cookie. This will give you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept it. 
If you decline the use of cookies, you will not be able to access all the features of our website, and any preferences will not be saved. You will still see our advertising but it will be less relevant to you.

For more detailed information on how we use your information see our Privacy Policy.