Privacy

How We Use Your Information

We use your information in a number of different ways as explained below. This illustrates what we do, and why we do it.

Your D.O.B
To ensure you’re over 18 To prevent the selling of restricted products to minors
Your Payment Details
To take payment and issue refunds We need this information in order to process your transaction
Your Contact History With Us
To provide Customer Service Support We need to do this to give you the best possible shopping experience
Purchase history and saved items
So you can buy things We need to track the items you’re adding to your basket so we can sell them to you
To provide Customer Service Support We need to do this to give you the best possible shopping experience
To establish what you like We need to do this to give you the best possible shopping experience
Information about the device you use to shop at Paper Planes & Mary Janes
To help us show you relevant content To give you the best possible shopping experience
Your responses to surveys, competitions and similar
To run surveys, competition and similar If we don’t collect this information, how would we be able to contact you to tell you you’ve won?!

Sharing Your Information

We make a point of never sharing your personal data with any third parties other than those essential to providing services to you. That includes:

  • Service Providers such as website hosts who help us run our business.
  • Companies that help fulfil your orders such as: payment providers, warehouses, delivery companies.

We may process your personal information for our legitimate business interests.

‘Legitimate Interests’ means the interests of our company in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/products and the best and most secure experience. It can and does also apply to processing which is in your interests too.

Processing for our legitimate interests may include processing for the purposes of (i) fraud prevention and compliance; (ii) certain direct marketing and promotional activities; (iii) the provision and operation of referral marketing programmes; (iv) network and information systems security; (v) data analytics; (vi) enhancing, modifying or improving our service; (vii) identifying usage trends; or (viii) determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns or advertising.

In connection with the above activities, we may share your personal information with trusted suppliers who assist us in our data processing activities.

When we process your personal information for our legitimate interests, we make sure to consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative), and your rights under data protection laws. Our legitimate business interests do not automatically override your interests – we will not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted by law).

Marketing Messages

If you’ve given us your consent we’ll send you marketing messages by email, sms and post.

How to stop these? You can stop these messages at any time by –

  • Visiting your account settings page
  • By clicking ‘unsubscribe’ in any email
  • By contacting one of our Customer Champs at [email protected]

You will be unsubscribed with 2 working days. You will not be able to stop service messages as this is how we communicate important information about your order.

Keeping Your Information

We’ll hold onto your details for as long as it’s necessary for us to use them to provide the services you need. If you’ve placed an order with us then we have a duty to hold onto your details for 7 years.

Your Rights

  • The right to know how your information is being used
  • The right to access all the personal information we hold about you
  • The right to request that this information is updated
  • The right to request we delete your data (in certain circumstances)
  • The right to stop marketing messages
  • The right to request we transfer certain bits of your information to another provider
  • The right to complain to the ICO

Cookies

We use cookies on our website, for more information on this look here

Cookies are pieces of information which a website transfers to your computers hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make a website more useful by personalizing information for visitors and by storing information about your preferences on our site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major websites use them to provide useful features for their customers. It is our policy to use cookies only for the following purposes:

  • To identify you
  • To customize our site for you
  • To help improve navigation

Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to reject cookies. However, you will not be able to take full advantage of our website if you do so.

We use tracking technology to better understand site traffic patterns and use. However, none of the information collected via tracking technology is personally identifiable information.

Website Security

To ensure that your shopping experience is safe, simple and secure Paper Planes & Mary Janes uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. This encrypts and protects the data you send to us over the internet. If SSL is enabled then you will see a padlock at the top of your browser and you can click on this to find out information about the SSL digital certificate registration.

You will also notice that when you look at the location (URL) field at the top of the browser you will see it begin with ‘https:’ instead of the normal ‘http:’. This means that you are in secure mode.