Privacy policy
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Here is the full-length, professional Privacy Policy for Calviro:
Privacy Policy
1. Introduction This Privacy Policy describes how Calviro (the "Site", "we", "us", or "our") collects, uses, and discloses your personal information when you visit or make a purchase from calviro.co.uk. Operated by Bruce Donald Carmichael, we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and that we comply with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR).
2. Personal Information We Collect When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device.
Additionally, when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect specific information from you, including:
- Identity Data: Name, surname, and business name (if applicable).
- Contact Data: Billing address, shipping address, email address, and phone number.
- Payment Data: We use PayPal as our payment processor. Please note that Calviro does not store your credit card numbers or bank details. This data is processed securely by PayPal.
- Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
3. How We Use Your Personal Information We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfil any orders placed through the Site. This includes:
- Processing your payment information and arranging for shipping (via Free Standard Delivery or Express Delivery).
- Providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations.
- Communicating with you regarding your order status or support queries.
- Screening our orders for potential risk or fraud.
- Providing you with information or advertising relating to our products or services, where you have given us explicit consent to do so.
4. Sharing Your Personal Information We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example:
- Service Providers: We share data with our e-commerce platform and shipping carriers to ensure your order reaches 18 Hawthorn Ave or wherever you are located in the UK.
- Payment Processors: We share transaction data with PayPal to complete your purchase.
- Legal Compliance: We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful requests for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
- 5. Data Retention When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records for a period required by UK tax law (usually 6 years), unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
6. Your Rights (UK GDPR) As a UK resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe we are not handling your data correctly, though we would appreciate the chance to resolve your concerns first.
7. Security To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. All data transmitted through the site is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
8. Changes We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
9. 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:
- Email: contact@calviro.co.uk
- Phone: +44 7538 299681
- Post: 18 Hawthorn Ave, Swindon, SN2 1RW, United Kingdom
- Business Owner: Bruce Donald Carmichael