PRIVACY POLICY

INTRODUCTION

Isla Simpson is committed to respecting your privacy and complying with applicable laws and regulations to ensure that the personal information you give us is kept appropriately secure and processed fairly and lawfully.

Your personal information will be held and managed by Isla Simpson. By visiting and using Isla Simpson’s website or mobile site (www.islasimpson.co.uk) (the "SITE") that we make available from time to time or for interacting with our content and/or services or by contacting our Customer Services Team, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy. You must be at least 16 years old to use the Site and Applications. If you are under 16, please ask your parent or legal guardian to provide their information for you.

This Privacy Policy covers all personal information about you that we collect, use and otherwise process in connection with your relationship with Isla Simpson as a customer or potential customer. We will collect and use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable laws, including in circumstances where: (i) it is necessary to provide or fulfil a service requested by or for you; (ii) you have given us your express consent; or (iii) it is necessary for one or more of the following legitimate interests pursued by Isla Simpson:

To analyse, profile and monitor customer patterns and better understand the interests and preferences of our key customer audiences so we can consistently improve our products and services.

To offer an enhanced customer experience and service, including by ensuring we personalise the Site and Application and (if applicable) Isla Simpson updates relating to products, services and events to make them more relevant to our customers’ specific preferences.

To ensure the proper functioning and security of our services, Site and Application, for example by preventing fraudulent transactions.

To ensure we continue to comply with applicable laws, for example in maintaining the accuracy of our records.

WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you register for an account with us, place an order, interact with our digital content on your computer or mobile device or send us an enquiry, we will collect certain information from you. We will indicate whether this collection involves personal information and, if it does, whether providing your personal information is voluntary or mandatory for the service. Please be aware that where collection is mandatory, we may not be able to provide the relevant products or services to you if you do not provide that information to us. Please select from the different sections of this Privacy Policy to learn more about what personal information we collect and how we use it.

ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT AND CUSTOMER PROFILE INFORMATION

We may collect the following information: your name, postal address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, credit card numbers and other payment information. You acknowledge that we may also obtain information about you as a result of authentication or identity checks (for example in connection with our standard fraud checks when you make a purchase on our Site or Application). We use this information to identify you as a customer, to process your order, to deliver products and services, to process payments, to update our records and to generally manage your account with us under our terms with you. Providing us with personal information is voluntary but we may not be able to process your order and send you the required order acknowledgement and shipping confirmation e-mails if you do not provide us with certain requested information.

Where permitted under applicable laws or with your consent (if so required by applicable laws), we may use information about how you use our Site to personalise our communications to you, tailor the content appearing on our Site and how these appear to you and to personalise our service to you, so as to make the Site and communications more relevant to you and to enable your use of any interactive features of our services.

If you have a customer account, you acknowledge that we may also collect information about the products you browse online or purchase, where you purchased the products from and other information related to your purchases or which is otherwise relevant to your customer relationship with Isla Simpson. We may also ask for your birthday and gender or you may provide us with information about yourself or lifestyle interests on our. We use your customer account and profile information to offer you an enhanced service according to your preferences, including by identifying relevant products, services and events which may be of interest to you, personalising your experience with Isla Simpson and to share with you information about your past purchases.

We may also use your personal information to contact you in relation to service-related matters, including, on occasion, to request and respond to feedback on your experience on our Site, and to assist you in relation to prospective purchases on our Site, where permitted to do so in accordance with applicable laws or if we have your consent to do so if required by applicable laws.

We may also use your personal information for our internal marketing analysis and demographic studies, together with non-personal information, to analyse, profile and monitor customer patterns so we can consistently improve our products and services and understand what may be of interest to you and other customers. This means that we can offer more personalised and integrated shopping and interactive experiences to our customers.

We may supplement information we collect about you with marketing and demographic information which we receive from affiliated third-party companies, in addition to other information which is available in the public domain or which we are otherwise lawfully permitted to be provided with, in order to ensure the accuracy of our records, better understand the interests and preferences of our key customer audiences and improve our service to our customers. If you don’t want us to use your personal information in this way then you can contact us at any time to ask us to stop (see “Contacting Isla Simpson” below).

DEVICE AND LOCATION INFORMATION

We collect information about the device you are using to connect to the services on our Site. This includes the type of device you use, your internet browser, your location based on the unique identifier for your device such as an Internet Protocol address or a code for an Application running on your device.

We use this information to ensure the proper functioning and security of our Site, to optimise our services to you and to better understand how our content and services are used and their effectiveness.

COOKIES

Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your device when you visit a website or some applications and which store and sometimes track information about your use of the website or application. When you enter our Site our web server sends a cookie to your device which allows us to recognise your device. By associating the identification numbers in the cookies with other customer information that you provide when for example you log-in to the Site, then we know that the cookie information relates to you.

We use cookies, local storage and other similar technologies which may place codes on or access information from and/or about your device to elevate your user experience and the quality of our Site and service. This includes keeping track of what you have in your shopping bag, remembering you when you return to our Site, identifying how you navigate around the internet, including where you click, and which website you arrived from. We may also use cookies and other technologies to understand how parts of our Site are used. We may also partner with third party advertising networks who may use cookies in helping us display advertising that is relevant to you on other websites that you visit and to enable us to assess the effectiveness of that advertising.

Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however, certain features of our Site may not work if you delete or disable cookies. Some of our Service Partners (discussed below) may use their own cookies, anonymous identifiers, or other tracking technology in connection with the services they perform on our behalf.

We use Google Analytics on our Site to collect usage data, to analyse how users use the Site, and to provide advertisements to you on other websites. For more information about how to opt out of having your information used by Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

We inform you, where relevant, of our use of cookies and other device identifiers on arriving at our Site. You acknowledge and agree that by continuing to use our Site or services without managing your cookie and device choices and preferences, that you consent to our cookie and device identifier settings and agree that you understand our Cookies Policy. Please be aware that restricting certain cookies or other device identifiers will impact on your user experience and may prevent you from using part of our Site.

Please see the Cookies Policy for more information about cookies and other technologies which are used on our Site, including information on how you can manage your cookie choices and preferences.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

You must be at least 16 years old to use our Site and Applications. If you are under 16 or a minor in your country or state of residence, your parent or legal guardian must provide their information and agree to this Privacy Policy on your behalf and you may only access and use our Site with permission from your parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16 or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction. If we become aware that we have inadvertently received personal information from a child under the age of 16 or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, we will delete such information from our records.

ADVERTISING AND ONLINE TRACKING

We may allow third-party companies to serve ads and collect certain anonymous information when you visit our Site. These companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g. click stream information, web browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie to collect this information. Our systems do not recognise browser “Do Not Track” signals, but several of our Service Partners who utilise these cookies on our Site enable you to opt out of targeted advertising practices. To learn more about these advertising practices or to opt out of this type of advertising, you can visit www.networkadvertising.org or www.aboutads.info/choices/. We also provide you with additional tools to opt out of marketing from us (see "Unsubscribe from Isla Simpson updates" below).

ISLA SIMPSON NEWS

We can only send you Isla Simpson updates about our products, services and events with your consent. If you have provided your consent, you can withdraw it at any time (see "Unsubscribe from Isla Simpson updates" below).

If you have consented, we will send you Isla Simpson updates through the preferred communication method you selected (e.g. by e-mail, post, phone or messaging services).

We may also obtain personal information where you “like” us, create posts or otherwise interact with our pages on social media platforms and may in response, use this information to communicate with you or provide relevant content via those social media platforms about our products, events and promotions where permitted to do so in accordance with applicable laws. Please refer to the privacy policies of the social media platforms for information about how they collect and use your personal information.

UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ISLA SIMPSON UPDATES

If you have registered to receive Isla Simpson updates relating to our products, services and events, and you no longer wish to receive these, you can request that we amend your preferences. You can do that either as indicated in the particular communication, e.g.by using the unsubscribe link which is included on all email updates, or by amending your preferences online (see ‘Your rights in relation to your personal information’ below). We will stop sending updates in respect of which you withdraw your consent within a reasonable period and in any event within 28 days of receiving your request, in order to allow sufficient time for the change to be administered. You may opt out of receiving push notifications on your phone by changing through the settings on your mobile device or in the ‘Account Settings’ on the Application.

If you opt out of receiving Isla Simpson updates relating to our products, services and events, we may still send you non-marketing communications such as emails about your account or purchases you have made from the Site.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

In certain circumstances, we may share your personal information with selected service providers who perform other functions on our behalf such as fulfilling orders, processing payments, and carrying out promotional services or data management as permitted by applicable laws or with your consent (if so required by applicable laws) as further described below (“SERVICE PROVIDERS”). We may also share aggregated or anonymised information that does not directly identify you. Please select from different sections of this Privacy Policy below to learn more about who we may share your information with and when.

SERVICE PARTNERS

We may share information about you with companies we have chosen to handle our order dispatch service, any delivery company that we may use from time to time and with other companies that provide support services to us, including website hosting companies. In addition, we may also share certain limited information with companies who assist Isla Simpson with other services, for example, in analysing our customer data in order to better understand, profile and monitor customer patterns so we can consistently improve our products and services and understand what may be of interest to you and other customers. In each case, we will only provide these companies with the information which they need to carry out their services and they will not be permitted to use the information for other purposes. They will only be allowed to use your information in the way in which we instruct them and as permitted by applicable laws.

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PAYMENT PROCESSING PARTNERS

Payments using our Site are made through our payment solutions providers. You will be providing credit or debit card information direct to our providers who process payment details further.

LEGAL DISCLOSURES

In certain circumstances (where required or permitted under applicable laws or with your consent (if so required by applicable laws), we may disclose personal information relating to you to third parties in other jurisdictions in order to conform to any requirements of law, to comply with any legal or regulatory process, for the purposes of obtaining legal advice, for the purposes of credit risk reduction, to prevent and detect fraud and/or to protect and defend the rights and property of Isla Simpson. At all times where we disclose your information for the purposes of credit risk reduction and fraud prevention we will take all steps reasonably necessary to help ensure that it remains secure.

BUSINESS OR PROCESS CHANGE PARTNERS

In the event that we or a part of our business undergo re-organisation or are sold or licensed to a third party, any personal information we hold about you may be transferred to that re-organised entity, licensee or third party.

OVERSEAS TRANSFERS OF DATA

The personal information that you provide through the Site is processed and stored on servers in the United Kingdom.

YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

You may have the right under applicable laws to ask for details of the personal information we hold about you, to amend, limit or delete your personal information, or ask for a copy of the personal information you gave us. You can also withdraw any consent you give to us at any time and object to us using your personal information for Isla Simpson’s legitimate purposes (as described in ‘ISLA SIMPSON AND THIS PRIVACY POLICY’).

If you would like to exercise any of these rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you or wish to change your preferences at any time, please contact enquries@islasimpson.co.uk.

Please note that we may require you to verify your identity before allowing you to access your personal information.

If you remain unhappy with a response you receive from us you can also refer the matter to your data protection supervisory authority (see http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm).

RETENTION AND DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will only keep your information as long as you remain an active customer and for 10 years afterwards or otherwise as required for our business operations or by applicable laws. We may need to retain certain personal information even once a customer account has been closed or deleted to enforce our terms, for fraud prevention, to identify, issue or resolve legal claims and/or for proper record keeping purposes. We may also retain a record of any stated objection by you to receiving Isla Simpson updates for the purpose of ensuring we can continue to respect your wishes and not contact you further. Your personal information will be deleted or destroyed in a manner that cannot be restored or reproduced.

SECURITY AND THIRD PARTY LINKS

We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorised or accidental access, processing, erasure, loss or use. Unfortunately, transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information submitted to us and any transmission is at your own risk.

We do however use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access wherever possible. Personal information may be accessed by persons within our organisation, or our third-party service partners, who require such access to carry out the purposes indicated above, or such other purposes as may be permitted or required by the applicable law.

The Site may from time to time contain links to other websites not controlled by us. We do not accept responsibility or liability for the privacy practices, data collected or the content of such other websites. The operators of these linked websites are not under a duty to abide by this Privacy Policy. If there are terms and conditions, other privacy statements or policies appearing on those websites, you should also review them carefully as your use of those sites may be subject to them.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The amended Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site. Please check this page regularly for changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you before they take effect either through the Site or Application or by sending you a notification. Any such material changes will only apply to personal information collected after the revised Privacy Policy took effect.

CONTACTING ISLA SIMPSON

You can contact us if you have any questions about the way in which your personal information is being collected or used which are not answered by this Privacy Policy. Please contact us at enquiries@islasimpson.co.uk