Karen Harbour

~ Surface Pattern Designer ~



Privacy Policy

I am totally committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data I collect from you, or that you provide to me, will be processed by me.

Please read the following carefully to understand my views and practices regarding your personal data and how I will treat it.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act), the data controller is Karen Harbour of 7 Station Road, Hibaldstow, North Lincs, DN20 9EB.

This policy only applies to this site. If you leave my site via a link or otherwise, you will be subject to the policy of that website provider. I have no control over that policy or the terms of the website and you should check their policy before continuing to access the site.

Information I may collect from you

I may collect and process the following data about you:

Information that you provide to place an order on my site karenharbour.co.uk.

I may also ask you for information when you report a problem with my site.

If you contact me, I may keep a record of that correspondence.

Details of your visits to my site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, operating system, browser usage and other communication data, whether this is required for my own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.

IP addresses and cookies 

I may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about the users browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual and I will not collect personal information in this way. I may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computers hard drive. They help me to improve my site and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable me to estimate my audience size and usage pattern, to store information about your preferences, to allow me to customise my site according to your individual interests and to recognise you when you return to my site. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of my site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, my system will issue cookies when you log on to my site.

Uses made of the information

 I use information held about you in the following ways:

To ensure that content from my site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

To provide you with information, products or services that you request from me or which I feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

To carry out my obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and I.

To allow you to participate in interactive features of my service, when you choose to do so.

To notify you about changes to my service.

I may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and I may contact you about these by [email or telephone]. If you do not want me to use your data in this way for marketing purposes, please let me know.

Disclosure of your information

I may disclose your personal information to third parties: If I am under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, my customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Your rights 

You have the right to ask me not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. I will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if I intend to use your data for such purposes or if I intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing at any time by contacting Karen Harbour at 7 Station Road, Hibaldstow, North Lincs, DN20 9EB or e-mailing info@karenharbour.co.uk. My site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of my partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that I do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Access to information 

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 my costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes I may make to my privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. However, I advise that you check this page regularly to keep up to date with any necessary changes.

Contact 

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Karen Harbour at 7 Station Road, Hibaldstow, North Lincs, DN20 9EB.