We ask that you read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
Who we are Greetings World (UK) Limited, a company branch registered in England & Wales with company number 12614802 whose registered establishment office is at 31 Jansel Square, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP21 7ET collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom), and we are responsible as 'controller ' of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
In the course of dealing with your enquiries or fulfilling our contract with you, we collect the following personal information from you or your employees when you provide it to us: •Name and contact details• Delivery address • Information about your order such as reference numbers, account numbers, or other unique identifiers • Details of your payment method and where necessary your bank account details to fulfil any refunds • Other information that may be reasonably required so that we can assist you depending on the reason for you contacting us.
We may also obtain personal information from other sources such as credit reference agencies.
We need to collect personal information from you so that we can: • Deal with your product enquiry and provide you more information about related products or services, or • fulfil the contract between us.
We may share your personal information with our distributors and retailers to fulfil our contract with you if necessary.
We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.
We will hold your personal information only for as long as we need it to fulfil our obligations to you, and for a reasonable amount of time afterwards to assist us in dealing with your enquiry in case you contact us again in the future. This will vary depending on the reasons for collecting it in the first place.
We collect and use your personal information so that we can comply with our contractual obligations to you and deal with any enquiries you place with us.
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have several important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
• fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you • object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affecting you • object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances • claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner 's Office (ICO) on individual 's rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
• email, call or write to us marked for the attention of our Data Protection Officer • let us have enough information to identify you • let us have proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driving licence or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill), and • let us know the information to which your request relates
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We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.
We may change this privacy notice from time to time, when we do, we will inform you via our website. How to contact us Please contact us if you have any questions about this privacy notice or the information, we hold about you. If you wish to contact us, please send an email to orders@greetingsworld.uk or write to 31 Jansel Square, Aylesbury, Bucks HP21 7ET.