Privacy policy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. We treat it, and any information that you give to us, with as much care as possible. Please read the following policy to understand what we do with your information.

This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

We are committed to protecting your privacy and honouring the integrity of your personal information. We do not sell or pass any information collected through this Website to others except as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact us by e-mail: enquiries@maizedesign.co.uk.

PERSONAL INFORMATION
We collect personal information from you when you (i) e-mail us or (ii) post content on our social media pages. The type of personal information we collect (if applicable) includes the following: name, user name, email address, telephone number.

We use such personal information collected through this Website for the purposes of:

  • We only use the information you provide us with in accordance with our Terms.

You warrant that the information you give us is true, accurate and current and you shall inform us of any changes made to it. You shall not pretend to be any other person when providing us with this information.


DATA PROTECTION AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

If your personal information changes, or if you no longer need our service, you may correct, update, delete or deactivate it by emailing us at enquiries@maizedesign.co.uk.

We may store the personal information that you give to us in our databases. We will only keep your personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary taking into consideration our need to answer queries or resolve problems, provide improved and new services and comply with legal requirements under applicable law(s). This means that we may retain your personal information for a reasonable period after you stop using the Services.

We internally use personally identifiable information about our customers to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyse Website usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customise the content and layout of our Services. We believe these uses allow us to improve our Services for our customers. We may use a customer’s email address and mailing address or phone number, to contact a customer regarding an order or administrative matters or notices. We may use information in the file we maintain about a customer to resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.

We may use cookies, web beacons, behavioural advertising or similar technology to track your use of the website or other sites related to our business partners.

We may share aggregated, non-personally identifiable information publicly and with our partners such as business with have a relationship with, advertisers or connected sites. For example, we may share information to show trends about the general use of our services.

If for some reason you believe that you have received any SPAM e-mail from us which you have not authorised us to send you, please inform us immediately by emailing us at enquiries@maizedesign.co.uk.

Personal data collected via the Services is controlled by Maize Design. In the event that you would like to view a copy of the information that we hold on you, you may do so at any time by requesting a copy to be sent you on the following email address: enquiries@maizedesign.co.uk.


PASSING INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
We shall not sell, share, hire or otherwise deal in any of your personal information or Registration Information with third parties unless you give us specific permission to do so when you register or through a subsequent affirmative confirmation on the Services.

We will make your personally identifiable information available to other companies or people when we use third parties to provide specialised services such as delivery services; customer support; email message deployment; suppression, merge and de-duplication services; data processing; and special products or services that you have requested. These companies are only allowed to use the information in order to help us fulfil our Services to you. We do not provide your information to these companies for their own, permanent use; If you unsubscribe for a mailing that we send to you on behalf of a third party, we may share your removal instruction with the third party so that it may be added to that person’s list of people to whom they may not send emails. We may also share your information when required by law, such as when we respond to injunctions, court orders, or legal process; or we believe that your actions violate applicable laws, our Terms of Use, or any usage guidelines for specific products or services, or threaten the rights, property, or safety of our company, our users, or others. We may share aggregated demographic information (country, city) about our user base with our service development team and web hosting provider or other relevant third parties. This information does not identify you as an individual user. We do not link such aggregate user data with personally identifiable information.


SITE VISITATION TRACKING
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction.  will use this data to determine the number of people using the site, to better understand how they find and use the web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google does not grant us access to this. Maize Design considers Google to be a third party data processor.

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. The

Maize Design website uses the analytics.js implementation of GA. User and event data is held on Google servers for 38 months. You can read more about Google Analytics Data Retention here.


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LINKS TO THIRD PARTIES

This Website may link to other websites. These third party websites are outside of our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other websites using the links provided, the operators of these websites may collect your personal information. Please ensure that you are satisfied with the Privacy Policies of these third party websites before you submit any personal information. We cannot be held responsible legally or otherwise for the activities, privacy policies or levels of privacy compliance of these third parties. We encourage you to read that website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.


SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate/engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.


DATA SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

To help ensure that your personal information is safe and secure, we use state of the art security systems to encrypt your personal details, making it virtually impossible for them to be read over the internet.

Furthermore, we take reasonable care, in so far as it is in our power to do so, to keep your details of your order secure, but in the absence of negligence on our part we cannot be held liable for any loss you may suffer if a third party procures unauthorised access to any data you provide when accessing or ordering through the Services.


COOKIE POLICY

The Website places cookies, which are small data files, on your computer or handheld device. Cookies are essential for helping us deliver a high quality website and online experience for our users, and some collect information about browsing behaviour.

We may use cookies, or similar technology to track your use of the website or other sites related to our business partners.

By using and/or browsing the Website, you consent to cookies being used in accordance with our policy. If you do not consent, you must disable cookies or refrain from using the Website.


DATA BREACHES
Maize Design will report any unlawful data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) of any of our third party data processors to any and all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours of the breach if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen. 

DATA CONTROLLER
The data controller of this website is Maize Design.

DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
Ms Hodo Eid
Email: enquiries@maizedesign.co.uk

CHANGELOG
05/02/20: Privacy policy created alongside website to comply with GDPR

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