Privacy Policy for The Shed Zone
1. Introduction Welcome to The Shed Zone. Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy provides you with details on how your data is collected, used, and protected when you visit or make a purchase from theshedzone.co.uk (the "Site").
2. Personal Information We Collect
Information You Provide: This includes information you provide when you register, make a purchase, or interact with our services. It typically includes your name, email address, shipping address, payment information, and any communications you send or contribute to.
Automated Information: Automatically collected information about your device and browsing actions includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, device identifiers, and actions taken on the site.
3. Legal Basis for Processing We process your personal information under the following legal bases:
Consent: We may process your data if you have given us explicit consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
Contract: Your information is processed to fulfill a contractual arrangement.
Legal Obligations: Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation.
Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
4. How Do We Use Your Personal Information? We use your information to:
Provide, operate, and maintain our website
Improve, personalize, and expand our website
Understand and analyze how you use our website
Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
Communicate with you, including customer service and updates about the website
For marketing and promotional purposes, if you have agreed to such communications
Ensure security, prevent fraud, and enforce our legal agreements
5. Sharing Your Personal Information We only share information with third parties who help us provide our services to you. These include:
Payment processors for secure credit card payment transaction.
Hosting services for managing our data storage.
Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement of our site.
Legal obligations: We may disclose your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to protect our rights or property, or to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
6. Your Rights You have the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information. You can object to processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict processing of your personal data, or request portability of your personal data. If we have collected and process your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time.
7. Data Retention We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to comply with applicable legal, tax, or accounting requirements).
8. Data Protection We take the security of your data seriously and use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal information against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
9. International Transfers Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.
10. Changes to This Policy We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
11. Contact Us For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at info@theshedzone.co.uk
12. Complaints You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
This privacy policy is effective as of [Date].
