Privacy Policy.
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and customers; in this updated privacy policy in compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), we explain how we will treat your personal information.
By using our website, you are agreeing to this policy.
Our Details
This website is owned and operated by Josh Fano, registered as Seal Trade Links LTD. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 09164354, and our registered office is at Josh Fano, The Moseley Exchange, 149-153 Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8JP.
We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner's Office.
Our data protection registration number is ZA197627.
Information We Collect
To fulfill your order, you must provide us with certain information such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, medical data (prescription eye-test information) and the details of the product that you are ordering.
You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information (for a custom order such as reglazing) if you contact us directly on hello@joshfano.co.uk.
Collecting Personal Information
We may collect, store, and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths;
(b) Information that you provide to us when registering with our website including your email address;
(c) Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters including your name and email address;
(d) Information relating to any purchases you make of our goods including your name, delivery address, payment address, telephone numbers, email address and card details;
(e) Information that you post on our website for publication on the internet including your username, profile pictures, and reviews;
(f) The information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication;
(g) Any other personal information that you choose to send to us
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy
How We Use Your Information
We rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
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As needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfill your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
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When you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for our mailing list;
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If necessary, to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law;
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As necessary for the purpose of our legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as providing and improving our services.
We use your information to provide the services you requested and in our legitimate interest to improve our services, and in compliance with our Terms of Use. We use your information as necessary to comply with our obligations under our Terms of Use.
Using Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
We may use your personal information to:
(a) Administer our website and business;
(b) Personalise our website for you;
(c) Enable your use of the services available on our website;
(d) Send you goods purchased through our website;
(e) Send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
(f) Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(g) Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(h) Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(i) Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications;
(j) Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information;
(k) Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
(l) Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
(m) Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website
If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.
We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.
All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Stripe. You can review the provider's privacy policy at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy.
We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Information about our customers is important to us. We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, professional advisers, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, example as follows:
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Lens suppliers: We share information with trusted lenses suppliers as necessary to provide you with our services to fulfill prescription orders.
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Service providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to our shop, such as delivery companies Eg. royal mail. We will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
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Business transfers: If we sell or merge our business, we may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
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Compliance with laws: We may collect, use, retain, and share your information if we have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce our agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with our services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. We generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
We may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, We may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction.
If we are deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
Your Rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. We describe these rights below:
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Access: You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
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Change, restrict, delete: You may also have rights to change, restrict our use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where we are required to store data for legal reasons), We will generally delete your personal information upon request.
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Object: You can object to (i) our processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from us after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, We will delete your personal information unless we have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
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Complain: If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
Security of Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.
All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology or third-party providers.
You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Updating Information
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
About Cookies
We are currently not using any cookies on our website. But, we will notify you once we do intend to use it to improve our services.
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
We may notify you of changes to this policy by email or through the private messaging system on our website.
Contact Us
For purposes of EU data protection law, Josh Fano (registered as Seal Trade Links LTD) is the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at hello@joshfano.co.uk.
You may also send a letter to us at Josh Fano, The Moseley Exchange, 149-153 Alcester Road, Moseley, Birmingham, B13 8JP.