Privacy policy

Our Privacy Policy describes how john-bloor-printmaker.myshopify.com (the "Site" or "we" or "shop") collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.

 

What information do we collect?

When you purchase something from John Bloor Printmaker, we collect the personal information you give us, such as your name, address, and email address, as part of the buying and selling process.

When you visit our Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and the information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as "Personal Information". 

See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.

Device information

• Examples of Personal Information collected: the version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
• Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you and perform analytics on Site usage to optimise our Site.
• Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify.

Order information

• Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
• Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfil our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
• Source of collection: collected from you.
• Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify 

Customer support information

• Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
• Source of collection: collected from you.

We use your Personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.

 

Do we share this information?

As described above, we share your Personal Information with service providers to provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you. 

For example:

• We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
• We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

 

Your information and your rights

We would never sell your information to third parties; however, if you would like your personal data removed from our Site, please contact us at shopify@johnbloor.co.uk.

Under current data protection legislation in the UK, you have rights as an individual to exercise concerning the data we store and process about you. You can find more information about your rights on the Information Commissioner's website: https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/

If you want to make a complaint about how we are processing your data, you can contact us at shopify@johnbloor.co.uk. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

 

More about Shopify

Our Site is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with an online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products to you.

Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your information on a secure server behind a firewall.

If you would like to find out more about Shopify and the services they provide, please visit https://www.shopify.co.uk/

 

Cookies and not the yummy sort

A cookie on a site is a small amount of information downloaded to your computer or device when you visit certain websites. Cookies can improve your browsing experience by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as your login). This means you don't have to re-enter this information each time you return to the Site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide us with information on how people use our website, whether it's your first time visiting or if you're a returning visitor. We use this information to improve the browsing experience for all of our users.

Here is a list of the specific cookies that we use. We've listed them here so that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not:

• _session_id, unique token, sessional; this allows Shopify (our e-commerce platform) to store information about your session (your referrer, landing page, etc.).
• _shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit; this is used by our website provider's internal stats tracker to record the number of visits.
• _shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day; this counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
• Cart, unique token, persistent for two weeks; this stores information about the contents of your cart.
• _secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
• storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite; if the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

Some cookies are necessary to allow you to browse the shop, use its features, and secure access areas. The use of these cookies is essential for our website to work, and we do not use these cookies to collect personal information about you. 

We also use functional cookies to remember your choices with your provided information, such as your username or options you've made on the Site. By doing this, it allows us to tailor your website experience specifically to your preferences. 

The functional cookies we use include:

• User-centric security cookies to detect authentication abuse for a limited persistent duration, like repeated failed login attempts. These cookies are set for the specific task of increasing the security of the service.
• User interface customisation persistent cookies are used to store a user's preference regarding a service across web pages.

Shopify is dedicated to user experience, and we use many tools to help us improve our website. To this end, we use performance cookies to collect information about how you use our website and how often. These cookies only gather information for statistical purposes and do not gather any information to identify you personally. However, because these cookies are not strictly necessary for the use of our website, we require your consent to use them. The performance cookies we use include:

• First party analytics cookies - We use these cookies to estimate the number of unique visitors, to improve our website and to detect the most searched for words in search engines that lead to a webpage. These cookies are not used to target you with online marketing. We use these cookies to learn how our website performs and make relevant improvements to improve your browsing experience.
• We also use Google Analytics and other third-party analytics providers to measure how users interact with our website content. These cookies "remember" what our users have done on previous pages and how they've interacted with the website. For more information on Google Analytics, visit Google's information page. For instructions on how opt-out of Google Analytics, see below.

We use Social Buttons for third-party social media sites to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. We cannot prevent these sites from collecting information about you. To understand how third-party social media sites use information about your activities on our website and the internet, please read their respective Terms of Use and Privacy Policies.

How to control cookies

You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience, and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser's "Tools" or "Preferences" menu. More information on how to modify your browser settings or, for example, how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser's help file or through such sites as www.allaboutcookies.org.

To opt-out of Google Analytics:

• Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on

If you use our website without opting out in the above ways, you understand and agree to data collection for marketing ads to you.

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We've listed them here so that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

_session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc.).

_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider's internal stats tracker to record the number of visits

_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.

cart, unique token, persistent for two weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.

_secure_session_id, unique token, sessional

storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We may change or update these privacy policy elements from time to time or as required by law. 

If our business is acquired or merges with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

 

Do you have unspecified more questions?

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at shopify@johnbloor.co.uk or by mail to: 

John Bloor Printmaker, 12b Laverstoke Lane, Laverstoke, Whitchurch Hampshire RG28 7NY