Privacy Policy
1. INTRODUCTION
Wedding Presents Direct ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms and conditions and any other documents referred to on it)
sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be
processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding
your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the DPA"), the data controller is Wedding
Presents Direct of Unit 2 Standen Manor Farm, Hungerford, Berkshire RG17 0RB.
2. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect and process the following data about you:
2.1.1 information that you provide by completing forms at our showroom, on our Website, or by telephone.
This includes information provided at the time you register with us or when purchasing goods from us.
We may also ask for information when you report a problem with our Website.
2.1.2 if you contact us we will keep a record of that correspondence;
2.1.3 details of transactions you carry out through our Website or by telephone and of the fulfilment
of your orders;
2.1.4 details of your visits to our Website.
3. IP ADDRESSES AND COOKIES
We may collect information about your computer including where available your IP address, operating
system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’
browsing actions and patterns and does not identify an individual.
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For the same reason we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie
file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is
transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us improve our Website and to deliver a
better and more personalised service.
4. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in
accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will
be encrypted using 128 byte encryption technology certified by Thawte. Where we have given you
(or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Website,
you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security
of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have
received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent
unauthorised access.
5. USE MADE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We use information held about you in the following ways:
5.1.1 to ensure that content from our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and
for your computer;
5.1.2 to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel
may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
5.1.3 to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any agreements entered into
between you and us;
5.1.4 to allow you to use our online showroom, when you choose to do so;
5.1.5 to notify you about changes to our service.
We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of
interest to you and we may contact you about these by email or post.
If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail or SMS)
with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.
6. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your information to third parties:
6.1.1 if we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the
prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
6.1.2 if Wedding Presents Direct or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in
which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
6.1.3 if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal
obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions and other agreements;
or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Wedding Presents Direct, our customers, or others.
This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud
protection and credit risk reduction.
7. YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes.
You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at james@weddingpresentsdirect.co.uk.
We do not intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.
Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks,
advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these
websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability
for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
8. ACCESS TO INFORMATION
The DPA gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be
exercised in accordance with the DPA. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet
our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email.
10. CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to
james@weddingpresentsdirect.co.uk.