Privacy Policy
Happy Wedding Day is committed to protecting your privacy and treats all your Personal Information as strictly confidential. We only use the information we collect about you lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 for more information on this click here! We keep such data on a secure server and adhere to all applicable UK Data Protection and consumer legislation. We do not disclose any Personal Information about our customers to any third parties.
Why do we collect data?
We collect data for two main reasons
1. To process your order
2. To provide you with the best possible service. www.happyweddingday.co.uk monitors and captures information about your visit in order to improve the quality of the service we offer you.
What data do we capture?
When you shop online with Happy Wedding Day, we will ask you to input and will collect Personal Details from you such as your name, email address, billing and delivery addresses, telephone number, products chosen and payment information.
We may collect data about where you are on the internet (e.g. the URL you came from, IP address, domain types like .co.uk and .com), your browser type, the geographical location of your computer, what pages you viewed during your visit to www.happyweddingday.co.uk what advertisements / banners you clicked on and any search terms that you entered on our website.
It is important to note that we may collect some this information even if you do not register with us or place an order.
Any Personal Information provided to us by you and any User Information acquired and used by us to identify you is held in accordance with the regulations set out by the Information Commissioners Office. (www.ico.gov.uk)
Any transaction information such as card numbers or type of payment on or in relation to www.happyweddingday.co.uk will only be used to process your order and will not be stored by us.
Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.
Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here.
How do we use the information we capture?
We use information provided by you for the following purposes:
• To process you order/sand communicate to you the status of your order;
• To obtain statistics in order for us to improve the website and its services to you;
• To serve web content and advertisements to you;
• To send you information in the form of an e-newsletter / email notification or general (non-marketing) commercial communication, in order to keep you informed of special offers and notify you of new products and/or services if you consent to such a service;
• To send you email notification and answer specific queries after contact by you
• To administer this website;
You agree that you do not object to us contacting you for any of the above purposes whether by telephone, e-mail or in writing and you confirm that you do not and will not consider any of the above as being a breach of any of your rights under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
How do you get my Consent to capture Information?
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place and order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with the opportunity to opt out.
You may withdraw your consent at any time from our mailing/contact list, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time by replying to a promotional email with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line or by emailing customerservices@happyweddingday.co.uk.
Third Parties
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
Links
When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
Competitions
If we conduct a competition, when you enter any contests or prize draws run by us, you will need to provide your name, email address and mailing address.
If you win, we will send the prize to the address entered and notify you by email.
When you enter a contest or prize draw, you are automatically included in our newsletter list to receive notice of promotions, special offers and new additions to the Website. You may unsubscribe from this news list by following the “unsubscribe” instructions in any email received.
Cookies
We use Cookies to keep track of your current shopping session to personalise your experience and so that you may retrieve your shopping basket at any time - if you do not accept Cookies you will be unable to use this Website.
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser (i.e. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome etc.). The text file is then sent back to the server each time a page is requested by the server, enabling the server to identify and track the web browser.
Happy Wedding Day may send a cookie which may be stored via your browser on your computers hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration of www.happyweddingday.co.uk and to improve the website’s usability. In addition we may use it for marketing purposes and to recognise your computer when you visit www.happyweddingday.co.uk in order to personalise our website for you.
Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.
See our full Cookie Policy here
Our Legal Responsibility
We must make you aware that if we are requested by the police or any other regulatory or government authority investigating suspected illegal activities to provide your Personal Information and /or User Information, we are entitled do so.
We may disclose information about you to the extent we are required to do so by law or in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings. We may also use your Personal Information in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes o fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
Age of Consent
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of yo
Security and Your Data
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.
If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.
Questions and Contact Information
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at customerservice@happyweddingday.co.uk
Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
Questions regarding this Policy should be directed to customerservices@happyweddingday.co.uk