PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy sets out how Felicity's Flower uses and protects any information that you give the company when you use this website. ​This Privacy Policy contains an explanation of what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you whilst you visit this site.
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Felicity's Flowers is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
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Felicity's Flowers may change this policy at any time updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 1 June 2023.
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​WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
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We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
Internal record keeping.
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
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​HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR
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We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity.
If you ask us to stop sending you marketing materials that we have been sending you on the basis of consent, that you have given us, we will keep a record of your contact details and appropriate information to enable us to comply with your request not to be contacted by us.
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​GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION
Under the General Data Protection Regulation, which became law in the UK on the 25 May 2018, you are also granted a number of additional rights. These include:
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to data portability
The right to object
Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling
For more information on these rights please read the relevant guidance issued by the ICO.
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SECURITY
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We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
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HOW WE USE COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
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​We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
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​Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
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​There are two types of cookies:
Session (Transient) cookies: These cookies are erased when you close your browser, and do not collect information from your computer. They typically store information in the form of a session identification that does not personally identify the user.
Persistent (Permanent or Stored) cookies: These cookies are stored on your hard drive until they expire (i.e. the are based on a set expiration date) or until you delete them. These cookies are used to collect identifying information about the user, such as Web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific site.
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Take a look below to view which cookies are on our site:
svSession. Lifespan:Persistent. Purpose: Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor’s sessions on a site
hs. Lifespan: Session. Purpose: Security
XSRF-TOKEN. Lifespan: Persistent. Purpose: Security
smSession. Lifespan: Persistent (Two weeks). Purpose: Identifies logged in site members
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​CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
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You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at felicity/pochin@btinternet.com
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​We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
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​You have the ‘right to be forgotten’ if we are processing your data on the basis of consent, unless there are other legal grounds and obligations that require us to keep your personal data. In this case any personal data we hold would be erased and we would be unable to fulfil any requests about the information we had held retrospectively.
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You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the General Data Protection Regulation “GDPR”. A “reasonable fee” may be charged for excessive or repetitive requests. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please email us at felicity.pochin@btinternet.com
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If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
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​GOOGLE ANALYTICS AND REMARKETING
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Our websites use Google analytics and Google’s re-marketing technology.
This technology enables users who have already visited our online services and shown interest in our services to see targeted advertising on Google partner network websites. Likewise, users that are similar to the visitors of our websites can be addressed. The advertising will be displayed through the use of web cookies. Using cookies, the user behaviour on a website can be analysed and subsequently utilised to provide targeted product recommendations and advertising based on the user’s interests.
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​If you would prefer to not receive any targeted advertising, you can deactivate the use of cookies for these purposes through Google. Alternatively, users can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s deactivation website.
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​Please note that Google has its own data protection policy, which is independent of our own. We assume no responsibility or liability for their policies and procedures. Please read Google’s privacy policy before using our websites. How Google uses data.
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​For any other information please contact us felicity.pochin@btinternet.com