Privacy Policy

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PRIVACY STATEMENT – COOKIE POLICY

Cotswold Blank Canvas

Introduction

Cotswold Blank Canvas is committed to protecting your information and respecting your privacy.

This policy outlines the basis on which we process any personal data collected from you or provided by you. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.  Our products are intended for individuals aged 16 or older.

The Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data

We only use your personal data for the purposes we communicate to you. This may be to send you information, process an order, show you relevant content, or improve how our site works.

The Categories of Personal Data Concerned

The personal data we collect and process may contain the following:

1. When  you visit our site, we may collect information about your browser and details of your visit. This will be strictly in accordance with our Cookie  Policy.
2. If you register on our site, we will collect login and contact details such as email address, password, name, and home or business address.
3. If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will collect your email address to send the newsletter to you.
4. If you purchase products from us, we will collect your contact details and billing information to complete the order.

Sharing Your Personal Data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will be shared only with third parties we use to complete our business operations, such as for processing payments or managing your account.  We may be required to disclose your information to comply with a legal obligation. If permitted, we will take reasonable measures to inform you in advance of this happening.

Data Security

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. Additionally, we limit access to your personal data to employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a legitimate business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instruction, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Your data collected via our website is securely stored on our website database.

Your data, collected via other means, is securely stored at our office premises.

We have established procedures to address any suspected personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where required by law.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including to satisfy any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your Rights and Your Personal Data

Under data protection law, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:

• The right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you (access);
• The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date (rectification);
• The right to request your personal data is erased in certain circumstances (erasure);
• The right to request that we transfer your data to you or directly to another organisation in certain circumstances (portability);
• The right to request that we restrict further processing of your data where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data (restriction);
• The right to object to the processing of personal data in certain circumstances (objection).

Further Processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose not covered by this Data Privacy Notice, we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use before commencing the processing, setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where applicable, notified to you via email. Please check back frequently for updates or changes to our privacy policy.

How to Make a Complaint

To exercise all relevant rights, queries, or complaints, please email us at cotswoldsblankcanvas@outlook.co.uk or use the contact form on our site in the first instance.

If this does not resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office at 03031231113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, England.

Cotswolds Blank Canvas Cookie Policy

This Cookie Policy was updated on April 3, 2025, and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.

1. Introduction

Our website, http://cotswoldsblankcanvas.co.uk (hereinafter: “the website”), uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience, all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below, we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.

2. What are cookies?

A cookie is a small, simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.

3. What are scripts?

A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.

4. What is a web beacon?

A web beacon (also known as a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of code on a website that is used to track website traffic. To do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.

5. Cookies

5.1 Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies are essential for ensuring that certain parts of the website function correctly and that your user preferences are remembered. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you don't need to enter the same information repeatedly when visiting our website, and items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.

5.2 Statistics cookies

We use statistics cookies to optimize the website experience for our users. With these statistics cookies, we gain insights into the usage of our website. We ask your permission to place statistics cookies.

5.3 Marketing/Tracking cookies

Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage used to create user profiles for displaying advertising or tracking users on this website or across multiple websites for similar marketing purposes.

5.4 Social media buttons

Our website may include buttons for Facebook to promote webpages (e.g., “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g., “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons can also store and process certain information so that a personalised advertisement can be shown to you.

Please read the privacy statements of these social networks (which can change regularly) to understand what they do with your personal data, which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymised as much as possible. Facebook is located in the United States.

6. Placed cookies

Automattic

Statistics

WordPress

Purpose pending investigation

WooCommerce

Functional

Google Analytics

Statistics (anonymous)

Google Fonts

Marketing/Tracking

Google reCAPTCHA

Marketing/Tracking

Google Maps

Marketing/Tracking

Facebook

Marketing/Tracking, Functional

Miscellaneous

Purpose pending investigation

7. Consent

When you visit our website for the first time, you will see a pop-up asking if you decline or accept our use of cookies, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.

8. Your rights with respect to personal data

You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

• You have the right to know why your personal data is being collected, what will be done with it, and how long it will be retained.
• Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is know to us.
• Right to rectification: You have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted, or have blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
• If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
• Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
• Right to object: You have the right to object to the processing of your data. We      comply with this unless there are justified grounds for processing.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you. However, you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies

You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.

Please note that our website may not work correctly if all cookies are disabled. If you delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after you give your consent when you revisit our websites.

10. Contact details

For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:

Website: https://cotswoldsblankcanvas.co.uk
Email: cotswoldblankcanvas@outlook.com

This Cookie Policy was updated on 3 April 2025

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