Privacy Policy

Who we are

We at Petal Cottage respect your privacy and are always committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy.

This privacy policy outlines and describes the different types of personal information we collect at https://petalcottage.com. It also includes how we collect, use, maintain, protect and disclose your information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our privacy policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you disagree with our policies and procedures, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using the Petal Cottage website, you agree to this privacy policy. We may change our privacy policy from time to time. You are responsible for visiting our privacy policy page periodically. We will view your continued use of the site as accepting any updates.

Our Privacy Policy applies only to your use of the Petal Cottage website. We do include links to other sites on our Website and within our content. How other websites collect, store or use your data is out of our control. We advise you to thoroughly read through such websites’ privacy policies before providing data to them.

 

What personal data do we collect, and why do we collect it?

We collect personal data from you, such as your email address or name. We can gather this data when completing a contact form or signing up for the Petal Cottage newsletter. We collect numerous types of information from and about the users of our Website. These include the following:

• Names;
• IP Addresses;
• Web browsers used;
• Operating systems;
• URLs from sites that referred you;
• URLs from your activity on our site;
• URLs of the websites you exit to;
• Email addresses;

This information is collected from you by one of the following methods: 

• Directly when you provide us with it;
• Automatically as you visit and navigate the Website (this includes information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies, usage details, and IP addresses);
•  Or from third parties (for example, business partners).

Information You Provide Us

We may collect the following information as you navigate throughout our site:

• Your search queries that you carry out on our site;
• Information gathered from forms that you have filled in on our Website. It includes information you provide us when requesting further services, entering a competition or promotion by us, and also if you report a problem with our site.
• Correspondence records if you contact us (this includes email addresses)

In some cases, we may allow you to provide information to be published or displayed on public areas of the Website or communicated to other site users or third parties. User Contributions get posted and viewed by others. In doing so, the responsibility and risk of these contributions are yours. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect. We cannot guarantee that unauthorised persons will not view your contributions as we cannot control the actions of other users on our Website.

 

Information We Collect From Automatic Data Tracking

We may use automatic data collection technologies as you navigate through the site. We collect certain information about your browsing actions, operating software, hardware, amongst others, including:

• Information about your visit to our site. It can include traffic data, locations, where you navigate to on the website as well as the resources you use;
• IP addresses, your operating systems, browser types, your computer or hardware and internet connection

There may be personal data within the statistical data that is collected automatically. We use this information to help improve our website experience, so we may keep the data to incorporate with personal information we collect in other ways. We achieve this by allowing us to:

• Calculate our estimated audience size along with their usage patterns;
• Increase the performance of your searches;
• We can customise our website to better suit your preferences from your information;
• When you return to our website, we will be able to recognise you

The ways we automatically collect this data may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies) – A cookie is a small file placed on your computer’s hard drive. You can adjust the relevant settings in your browser to block browser Cookies. You may be unable to access certain portions of our Website if you choose this option. Unless you’ve altered your browser’s settings to reject cookies, our system will send cookies to your computer when you visit our Website.
• Flash Cookies – Certain parts of our website may use cookies to store your preferences and navigation information to, from and on our website. Your browser settings for browser cookies will not manage Flash cookies.
• Web Beacons – Our web pages and emails may contain small files known as web beacons. They allow the company to calculate users who have visited those pages or opened an email and other related website statistics.

 

3rd Party Use Of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some of our content or apps on the Website, including ads and other features, are provided by third parties. When you use our Website, these third parties may use cookies alone or with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you. They may connect the data they gather with your personal information or include information about your online activity over time and across other websites and online services. Your information may be used to present you with interest-based (behavioural) advertising or other tailored content.

We do not control the third-party tracking technologies we use. Queries about advertisements and other targeted content should be directed to the responsible providers directly.

How We Use Your Information

Under the GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for using personal data. It might be that the data is required for us to execute a contract with you, that you have consented to our use of your personal data, or that it is in our legitimate business interests. Information that we collect from you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, may be used for the following purposes:

• To provide and manage your access to our site;
• To provide you customised products, experiences and services;
• To fulfil and meet the criteria of any other purpose for which you provide your information;
• To communicate with you;
• To provide you with information you have opted for by email;
• To analyse your use of our site and gathering feedback to enable us to improve the site and your user experience continually;
• When we make changes to our Website or any of our products, we will be able to notify you of these changes;
• To provide and manage your access to the site;
• In any additional ways, we may explain to you when you provide the personal information;
• For any other purpose with your consent;

Where permitted by law and with your permission, we may also use your data for marketing uses. These uses may include emails with news services and information. We will never send you unlawful marketing or spam, and you will always have the opportunity to opt out. We may use the information we collect from you to display targeted ads to our advertisers’ target audiences. Although we do not disclose your data for these purposes without your consent, if you interact with an advert, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria. 

 

Disclosure Of Your Information

If we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal requirements, a court order, or the orders of a government body, we may be legally compelled to divulge some personal data, which may include yours.

We may occasionally enter into contracts with the third parties listed below to supply certain items or services. Payment processing, distribution, and marketing are examples of such services. Such third parties may request access to any or all of your personal information that we keep on file in certain circumstances.

 

Choices About How We Use And Disclose Your Information

These are some of the ways you can control how to collect your information:

• Advertising and Tracking Technologies You may configure your browser to refuse all or certain browser cookies or to notify you when cookies are received. Flash cookie settings are manageable by visiting Adobe’s website and go to the Flash player settings page. Performance and function of the site may be impaired or unusable if you disable or block cookies;
• We do not control third-party advertisements. In some cases, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s Website and opt-out of receiving targeted ads from its members.

User Rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:

• We developed this Privacy Policy to accommodate access to your personal information as well as certain other supplemental information;
• To be informed about our collection and use of your personal data through this privacy policy;
• Require us to rectify any mistakes in your information you find which we hold if it is inaccurate;
• The right to be forgotten and to have any personal information concerning you in certain situations deleted;
• In other circumstances, you may object to our ongoing processing of your personal information;
• The right to data portability. You can request your personal information in which concerns you that you have provided to us. We will provide the data in a commonly used readable format;
• Object to automated actions that have legal consequences for you or have a comparably substantial impact on you;
• Object to direct marketing that we use from the processing of your personal information;
• To restrict our use of your personal information.

Suppose you require any more information about your rights. In that case, you can obtain this from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.

If you would like to exercise any of your rights, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us by email:

Email: [email protected]

 

Media

YouTube

Our Website uses plugins from YouTube, which Google operates. The pages’ operator is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, you will establish a connection to the YouTube servers. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you log in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behaviour directly with your profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our Website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest under Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

You can find further information about handling user data in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. Your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly when you open a page.

For this purpose, your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that you accessed our web page via your IP address. We use Google Web fonts in the interest of our plugin’s uniform and attractive presentation. This constitutes a justified interest according to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer will use a standard font.

You can find further information about handling user data at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Web Host

GoDaddy hosts this Website. Personal information will be collected when you visit this Website. Read GoDaddy Privacy Policy here.

GoDaddy also stores our backups for the site, which include all of the information on this Website.

 

Analytics

We use several website analytics tools to help improve and analyse the site. The list of tools and their policies are as follows:

• Google Analytics – https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
• GoDaddy – https://uk.godaddy.com/agreements/privacy

How Will I Store Your Data

Your data will only be stored or transferred in the UK. It means that we will fully protect it under GDPR.

 

How long do we retain your data?

We will not retain personal data any longer than is necessary for the purposes it was first collected and set out in this Privacy Policy. It means we will delete data when:

• You withdraw your consent to process your data;
• Your data is not up to date;
• If we can no longer keep to a contract/obligation that we have previously performed;
• The applicable laws no longer require us to keep personal data.

We will keep your data for the following periods:

•  The life of this Website

 

Contact information

You can contact us by emailing [email protected].

Or by filling out the contact form via this link. 

Children Under The Age Of 16

If you are a child under the age of 16, then you should not be using the Petal Cottage website. No one under the age of 16 may provide us with any personal information to or on the Website. We will not and do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are 16 or under, do not provide any information on this Website or use its features, including email. Suppose we discover that we have acquired or received personal information from a person under 16. In that case, we will delete the data immediately. If you have reason to believe we carry information from or about a child under 16, please get in touch with us at [email protected].

 

What data breach procedures do we have in place?

If we suffer a data breach, we will report it as soon as possible. However, we take every possible step to ensure that no data breaches occur.

 

Changes To Our Privacy Policy

We will keep our privacy policy up to date at all times. We will post any updates/changes we make to our policy on this page which is always accessible from the website’s footer. We will notify you through a notification on the websites home page if we make material changes to how we treat your personal information. You should periodically check this page, and you are responsible for keeping up to date with our policies. Visiting and continuing to use our Website is an approval of our policies and any changes that may occur.

 

Blog courtesy

All created layouts on this blog (petalcottage.com) are for the Petal Cottage website. Please do not use these exact designs without permission and without citing Petal Cottage. We encourage sharing our content through social media. Still, we insist that all photos and posts by Petal Cottage must also be credited and linked back to the original post/article. We will always do our best to reference the correct and authentic source of our material. We expect to be treated the same in return. If I have misspelt, misquoted, or incorrectly quoted/linked a source, please get in touch with us ([email protected]), and I will happily correct the post.

We will delete all comments that are deemed inappropriate or offensive.