These policy notices are served by:
Business:
Mad Sam Designs Limited
We are responsible for your personal data (referred to as "I", "our", "us", or "we" in these policies)
Address:
Mad Sam Designs Limited, 47 Castle Street, Dover, Kent. CT16 1PT
This Website:
MadSamDesigns.co.uk
Contact:
For any policy questions or requests, please use the contact details on our website.
You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using this website and agreeing to this policy, you represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years of age.
You cannot make, transmit or store electronic copies of this website's content without the permission of us. All content included on this website, is our property - and as such, is protected by copyright.
These Terms Of Use, Privacy and Cookie Policies, shall be governed by English Law and subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.
The following explains how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information through the business and while you view / use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy, you should cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.
Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.
Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we control and / or process any personal information about you electronically using the following lawful bases:
Lawful basis:
Consent
Where our purpose for processing is:
For the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defence of legal claims.
Which is necessary because:
We need to act on communications sent to us from a range of channels including the contact form on the website, a request to join our newsletter mailing list, email, social media, text or any other form of communication with us.
We process your information in the following ways:
To reply to communications, send you a newsletter (if you have joined the mailing list), keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.
Data retention period:
We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent, or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information:
We do not share your information with third parties, unless either required by UK law or you explicitly request the information is shared.
Lawful basis:
Contract
Where our purpose for processing is:
For the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps at your request to enter into such a contract.
Which is necessary because:
We need to supply the goods and/or services you have purchased and to keep records of such transactions.
We process your information in the following ways:
For the purpose of recording data relating to any purchases of goods and/or services such as your name, title, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, contact details, purchase details and your card details.
Data retention period:
We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent, or it is determined your consent no longer exists. Under UK Law, we are required to keep your details for six years for tax accounting purposes.
Sharing your information:
We do not share your information with third parties, unless either required by UK law, or you explicitly request the information is shared.
Lawful basis:
Legitimate interests
Where our purpose for processing is:
Legitimate interests which in this case are to enable us to properly administer our website and our business and to inform the growth of our business and marketing strategy.
Which is necessary because:
We need to process this data to analyse your use of our website and other online services, to administer and protect our business and website, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and to understand the effectiveness of our advertising.
We process your information in the following ways:
Analyse data about your use of our website and online services such as your IP address, your login data, details about your browser, length of visit to pages on our website, page views and navigation paths, details about the number of times you use our website, time zone settings and other technology on the devices you use to access our website. The source of this data is from an analytics system.
Data retention period:
We will continue to process your information under this basis until you withdraw consent, or it is determined your consent no longer exists.
Sharing your information:
We do not share your personal information with third parties, unless required by UK law. However, anonymous website analytical data is collected and held by third parties - see "Internet Cookie Policy" below.
If, as determined by us, the lawful basis upon which we process your personal information changes, we will notify you about the change and any new lawful basis to be used if required. We shall stop processing your personal information if the lawful basis used is no longer relevant.
We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you or data that falls into the Special Categories. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.
We ensure the security of any personal information we hold by using secure data storage technologies and precise procedures in how we store, access and manage that information.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications (E.g. Facebook, Twitter etc). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are neither responsible for their privacy statements nor their content. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
Under the GDPR your rights are as follows:
You can read more about your rights in detail here. You also have the right to complain to the ICO [https://ico.org.uk] if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data. We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.
We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content etc.
Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Our cookies fall into two categories:
Strictly Necessary
These cookies are essential for the site to function as intended, they do not gather information about you for marketing nor track where you go on the internet.
Analytics
These cookies store anonymous information about you, where you go on our site and how you arrived to the site. They enable us to monitor the site's performance and how people interact with it. We can then use this information to make changes which we hope will improve the site.
Our site uses cookies from: Google Analytics
You can manage and delete your cookies through your browser at any time. For further details, we recommend this article, which is published by the UK information commissioners office. To block cookies used by Google Analytics, Google has published the following tool.