This privacy policy is for this website (www.)decaliber.com and served by Decaliber. It 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.
This website uses cookies to improve your experience, serve personalised content, and analyse our traffic. You can manage your cookie settings and find more detailed information at our Cookie Policy page.
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 with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
In general terms, we collect information about you so that we can:
- Estimate taxes and shipping before you place an order
- Fulfil any product orders that you may make which may be delivered to your home or work
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
- Send you news and/or marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
- Make this site work as you would expect and provide a personalised web experience
Collecting information from you
The information that we collect from our customers is known as “personal data”. This may include customers’ names, home and/or work addresses, email addresses, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information stored in cookies. We collect this in a number of different ways. For example, customers may provide this data to us directly when filling in forms on this website, or when corresponding with us by, email, social media or letter.
Shop/Store
While you visit our site and use the store, we’ll track products you’ve viewed, products you’ve added to the wishlist, your location, IP address, browser type and shipping address. We’ll also use cookies to keep track of the wishlist & basket contents while you’re browsing our site.
We accept payments through payment gateways like Stripe and PayPal, some of our customers’ data will be passed to the respective third party, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and customer’s billing information. Please see the Stripe Pivacy Policy & PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
When shopping, MailerLite keeps a record of your email and the basket contents for up to 30 days on their server. This record is kept to repopulate the contents of your basket if you switch devices or needed to come back another day. Read their privacy policy here.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password.
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 6 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
Please also be advised that when you visit this website, cookies will be used to collect information about you such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address which connects your computer or mobile device to the internet. These are used to improve your experience, serve personalised content, and analyse our traffic. You can manage your cookie settings and find more detailed information at our Cookie Policy page.
If you visit our login page, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We may collect information automatically from you for Analytical purposes. This information is collected anonymously and is not linked to information that identifies you as an individual.
We use Google Analytics to track this information. Find out how Google uses your data here.
Who on our team has access
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email which is visible to both Administrators and Shop Managers.
Administrators and Shop Managers also have access to the following:
Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.
Wishlist details, such as products added, date of addition, name and privacy settings of your wishlists.
Our team members have access to this information to help fulfil orders, process refunds, offer you better deals for the products you love and provide customer support to you.
Who we share your data with
We do not rent, sell or share personal information about you with non-affiliated companies or people. We do share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you such as Stripe and PayPal who manage our payments. Google Analytics to track analytical information about users of this site. MailerLite to repopulate the contents of your basket if you switch devices or needed to come back another day.
We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities unless required by law or other regulations.
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 site; 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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
External Links
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to 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 email.
This website may use social sharing buttons that 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 [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/example).
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.
Privacy Policy last updated May 2022
