PRIVACY POLICY

Who we are

Our website address is: https://louisecairn.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

What data breach procedures we have in place

What third parties we receive data from

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Louise Cairn respects your right to privacy. As part of the operations of the louisecairn.com website we will retain certain information including your name, address, phone numbers, e-mail address, IP address, billing address and shipping address and product selection.

This information will be retained in accordance with our obligations under the UK Data Protection Act 2018. Louise Cairn may use your personal data for the following purposes: to fulfil your order; if there are any queries on your order or if there is a problem with fulfilling your order; to advise you of any promotional offers that may be of interest to you; to facilitate ease of use of louisecairn.com website by you so that you do not have to input all your details again should you re-visit the louisecairn.com website; Louise Cairn does not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others. Louise Cairn may provide aggregate statistics about our customers, sales, traffic patterns and related site information to reputable third-party vendors, but these statistics will include no personally identifying information.

We employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mails, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analysing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments and providing customer services. Such companies and individuals will have access to personal information needed to perform these functions, but may not use it for any other purposes and are required to process the data in accordance with the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

Your information will be held by Louise Cairn (or its successors, assigns or purchasers). If you do not wish to receive information from Louise Cairn about our promotional offers from time to time please email customer-service@louisecairn.com .

By using the louisecairn.com website, you consent to the collection and use of this information by Louise Cairn if we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we disclose it.

In accordance with normal practice, every visit of this website is recorded. This information is used to enhance the operation of the service and to provide statistical data about the use of the louisecairn.com website. Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged. Louise Cairn does not attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate any technical details with any individual. You should note that these technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute “personal data” for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts, 2018. Details recorded/logged include: The date and time of every visit to an individual page on louisecairn.com; Each page visited in the louisecairn.com website on such a visit; The IP/network address used by the visitor; The type of web browser & device used by the website visitor.

Louise Cairn may make these technical details available to companies under the control and direction of Louise Cairn in order to provide analysis of advertising and website traffic. These other companies may be supplied with or have access to this information solely for the purpose of providing these services to us or on our behalf.