Privacy Policy & Data Protection Information
At StickerPrintingPress, we are committed to protecting any data and information that we collect about you. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website or use our services.
By using our services and visiting our website at Sticker Printing Press, you agree to the collection and use of your data in accordance with this policy.
Table of Contents
1. Information We Collect
1.1 Personal Information
We may collect the following types of personal information when you use our website or services:
- Identity Information: Your name, username, or similar identifier
- Contact Information: Your email address, delivery address, billing address, telephone numbers
- Transaction Information: Details about payments to and from you, and details of products and services you've purchased from us
- Technical Information: Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
- Profile Information: Your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your preferences, feedback, and survey responses
- Usage Information: Information about how you use our website, products, and services
- Marketing and Communications Information: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences
1.2 Methods of Collection
We collect information through various methods, including:
- Direct interactions: Information you provide when filling in forms on our website, placing orders, creating an account, subscribing to our service, or corresponding with us
- Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns
- Third parties or publicly available sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources
2. How We Use Your Information
StickerPrintingPress uses the information we collect for the following purposes:
2.1 To Provide Our Services
- Process and fulfill your orders for stickers and other printed products
- Manage your account and provide customer support
- Communicate with you about your orders, products, services, and promotional offers
- Customize your experience on our website
2.2 To Improve Our Services
- Analyze usage patterns and trends to improve our website functionality
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns
- Conduct research and development to enhance customer experience
2.3 For Legal and Security Purposes
- Comply with legal obligations, including tax and accounting requirements
- Detect and prevent fraud, spam, abuse, security incidents, and other harmful activities
- Enforce our Terms of Service and other legal rights
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems
3. Legal Basis for Processing
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK data protection law, we must have a valid legal basis for processing your personal data. We primarily rely on the following legal bases:
3.1 Contractual Necessity
Processing is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations to you, such as processing your order and delivering your custom stickers.
3.2 Legitimate Interests
Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party, provided these interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests include:
- Improving and developing our products and services
- Protecting our business against fraud and other illegal activities
- Marketing our products and services to existing customers
3.3 Legal Obligation
Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, such as tax laws, business regulations, and other statutory requirements.
3.4 Consent
You have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose. We will always seek your explicit consent for any processing that requires it, such as sending marketing communications to non-customers.
4. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
4.1 Retention Periods
Different types of personal data are subject to different retention periods:
- Order information: We retain order details for 7 years to comply with tax and accounting regulations
- Account information: We retain your account data for as long as you maintain an active account with us
- Marketing preferences: We retain these until you change your preferences or ask us to delete this information
- Website usage data: We typically retain this information for 26 months
4.2 Determining Retention Periods
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider:
- The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data
- The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure
- The purposes for which we process the data
- Whether we can achieve those purposes through other means
- Applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or other requirements
5. Your Rights Under GDPR
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK data protection laws, you have certain rights regarding your personal data:
5.1 Right to Access
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
5.2 Right to Rectification
You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you.
5.3 Right to Erasure
You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances.
5.4 Right to Restrict Processing
You can ask us to temporarily restrict the processing of your personal data.
5.5 Right to Data Portability
You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used format, and to transmit that data to another controller.
5.6 Right to Object
You can object to our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances, particularly for direct marketing purposes.
5.7 Rights Related to Automated Decision Making
You have rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling.
5.8 Right to Withdraw Consent
If we rely on your consent to process your data, you can withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in the "Contact Us" section below. We will respond to all legitimate requests within one month.
7. Third-Party Data Sharing
We may share your personal data with selected third parties as part of our operations. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
7.1 Categories of Recipients
- Service providers: Companies that provide services to us, such as payment processing, shipping and delivery, email service providers, and IT service providers.
- Business partners: Third parties with whom we partner to offer joint promotional offers or related products and services.
- Advertising and analytics providers: Third parties who assist us in delivering targeted advertisements and analyzing how our website is used.
- Legal authorities: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities.
- Professional advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
7.2 International Transfers
Some of our third-party service providers may be based outside the UK or European Economic Area (EEA), which means their processing of your personal data may involve a transfer of data outside these regions.
Whenever we transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing at least one of the following safeguards:
- Transferring data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK or European Commission.
- Using specific contracts approved by the UK or European Commission that give personal data the same protection it has in the UK and Europe.
- For providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of privacy frameworks that require them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between Europe, the UK, and the US.
8. Data Security Measures
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction, or damage.
8.1 Technical Measures
- Encryption of personal data where appropriate
- Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology for all transactions
- Firewalls and intrusion detection systems
- Regular security assessments and vulnerability scanning
- Regular backups to prevent data loss
8.2 Organizational Measures
- Staff training on data protection and security
- Access controls limiting staff access to personal data
- Confidentiality obligations for staff and contractors
- Clear policies and procedures for handling personal data
- Data breach response procedures
8.3 Limitations
While we implement appropriate security measures, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
9. Changes to This Policy
We may update this privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
9.1 Notification of Changes
We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the new policy on our website with a prominent notice, and where appropriate, we will send you an email notification.
9.2 Review of Policy
We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information. Your continued use of our website after we post changes to this policy will mean that you accept those changes.
9.3 Version History
We maintain a record of all previous versions of our privacy policy. If you would like to see a previous version, please contact us using the details provided below.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us using the information below:
Address:
StickerPrintingPress
5 Fairbank Ave,
Rusholme, Manchester M14 4PU, UK
Phone:
0161 8505720
Data Protection Officer:
You can contact our Data Protection Officer directly at:
Sales@StickerPrintingPress.co.uk
Supervisory Authority
If you are based in the UK and believe we have not adequately addressed your data privacy concerns, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO):
https://ico.org.uk/concerns/
Phone: 0303 123 1113
Textphone: 01625 545860
Data Subject Request Form
If you wish to exercise any of your rights under data protection law, please complete our Data Subject Request Form available on our website or contact us using the details above.
We will respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.