Privacy
Data Protection and Privacy
We are committed to protecting your privacy.
We collect information given to us when you place an order. We collect this information to process your order, to contact you regarding the order if necessary, to provide you with the best possible service and to make improvements to our website. All information is stored securely, collected lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
The type of information we will collect about you includes: your name, address, phone number, e-mail address and credit/debit card details. We will maintain this information so that it is accurate and up to date and it will be held securely in accordance with the law and our security policy. To view the security policy in full please click here.
Your registration details will be stored on our SSL secure server. You will be able to access your details and amend them for future orders by logging on with your e-mail address and password, without having to create a new registration each time.
To place an order the customer must provide contact information (e.g. name, delivery address, email address, telephone number) and financial information (e.g. credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fulfil and confirm customer orders. If there should be difficulty in processing the order, the information provided will be used to contact the customer.
We may also use your details to contact you regarding future promotions and offers. You are given the opportunity to opt-out of such marketing in the order process and any e-mail marketing we may send will include an unsubscribe option.
Your information will not be passed to any 3rd party company except where necessary to fulfil your order (e.g. PayPal to process payment and Royal Mail to deliver your order). hese companies do not retain, share, store or divulge any personal information for any secondary purposes.
The personal message sent with the gift is positioned so that it cannot be read by anyone other than the person opening the box.
We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of registered and non-registered visitors to our site. This can include the use of "cookies" which would be stored on your browser and can be used to identify you. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. We also use this data to perform statistical analyses of the characteristics and behaviour of our registered users and non-registered visitors. Cookies are also used as a further means of ensuring private and secure purchase sessions are operated within the site.
Every time you connect to our website we store a log of your visit which shows the unique number your machine uses when it is connected to the internet (IP address). This tells us which pages you view; whether the page request was successful or not and which browser you use to view the pages. The use of this data is strictly for statistical purposes only. This helps us to understand which areas of the site are of particular interest and also which pages are not being requested. It also tells how many people are visiting the website
For your convenience and information shindigs.co.uk provides links to other websites. We would like to make you aware that these sites may have different security and privacy policies and that we have no control over and take no responsibility for any information submitted to these sites. Please consult the individual security and privacy policies of these sites.