Privacy Policy

Bags of Plenty is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting www.bagsofplenty.co.uk, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Bags of Plenty, Kineton, Cheltenham, GL54 5UG, United Kingdom.

We may collect and process the following data about you:

-      Information you give us. 

o      You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our site www.bagsofplenty.co.uk (our site) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to use our site, place an order on our site, and when you report a problem with our site. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number [or financial and credit card information]. Registration is free with no obligation to purchase goods and entitles you to receive information and selected benefits.

-      Information we collect about you.  With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:

o      technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform; 

o      information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.

-      Information we receive from other sources. 

o      We are working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers) and may receive information about you from them.

Our website uses Cookies that contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. They help us to improve our site and to deliver a better and more personalised service and also allow us to improve our site. 

Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it refuses cookies, our system will issue them when you log on to our site. If you refuse to accept cookies by adjusting your browser you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. 

Where a password enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and you should not share this password with anyone.

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site and hence any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures to try to prevent unauthorised access.

We use information held about you in the following ways:

-      Information you give to us. We will use this information:

o      To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and where necessary, to contact you to verify details prior to shipping goods to you;

o      To send you our product information or provide you with information regarding special offers and new ranges that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes If you are an existing customer, we will only contact you by electronic means with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you. If you are a new customer, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this. We do not sell or disclose information to any third parties, whether in the UK or overseas, for marketing purposes;

o      To notify you about changes to our service; and

o      To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

-      Information we collect about you. We will use this information:

o      To store information about your preferences, and allow us to develop our site according to your individual interests;

o      To speed up your searches;

o      To recognise you when you return to our site;

o      As part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure; and

o      To improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer.

-      Information we receive from other sources. 

o      We may combine this information with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above (depending on the types of information we receive).

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you before collecting your data if we intend to use your data for such purposes. You can exercise the right at any time by contacting bagsofplenty@btinternet.com

Our site may contain links to and from the websites of our partners, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that they have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.