1.1     We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1.2     We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy when you first visit our website.  By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.

2.1     We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:

(a)     information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths);

(b)     information that you provide to us when registering with our website (including your email address);

 (c)    information relating to any purchases you make of our goods and/or services or any other transactions that you enter through our website (including your name, address, telephone number, and email address);

(d)     information that you post via our website for publication on the internet (including your user name, your profile pictures, and the content of your posts);

(e)     information contained in or relating to any communications that you send to us or send through our website (including the communication content and metadata associated with the communication);

(f)      any other personal information that you choose to send to us.

2.2     Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person's consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

3.1     Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.

3.2     We may use your personal information to:

(a)     administer our website and business;

(b)     send you goods purchased through our website;

(c)     send order acknowledgments and dispatch notifications to you;

(d)     provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);

(e)     deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;

(f)      keep our website secure and prevent fraud;

(g)     verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website's private messaging service).

3.3     We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party's direct marketing.

3.4     All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, PayPal. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any 3rd parties. We will share information with our payment services provider only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds.

4.1     We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.2     We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company, and all its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

4.3     We may disclose your personal information:

(a)     to the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(b)     in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(c)      in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(d)     to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

4.4     Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

5.1     Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.

5.2     You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this Section 5.

6.1     This Section 6 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal information.

6.2     Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

7.1     We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

7.2     All electronic financial transactions entered through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

7.3     You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

8.1     We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

8.2     You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

9.1     You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

(a)     the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

9.2     We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

9.3     You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

9.4     In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

10.1    Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites.

10.2    We have no control over and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

11.1    Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

12.1    Our website uses cookies.

12.2    A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

12.3    Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

12.4    Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

12.5    We use both session and persistent cookies on our website.

12.6    Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies; for example:

(a)      in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking "Tools", "Internet Options", "Privacy" and then "Advanced";

(b)      in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking "Tools", "Options", "Privacy", selecting "Use custom settings for history" from the drop-down menu, and unticking "Accept cookies from sites"; and

(c)      in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the "Customise and control" menu and clicking "Settings", "Show advanced settings" and "Content settings", and then selecting "Block sites from setting any data" under the "Cookies" heading.

12.7    Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of many websites.

13.1    This website is owned and operated by Harbour News & Gifts.

13.2    We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 12073631, and our registered address is 11 Westbay, Bridport, Dorset, DT6 4EN .

13.3    You can contact us by writing to the business address given above, by using our website contact form, by email to attrill@harbournewsandgifts.co.uk or by telephone on 01308 423828.