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Privacy and cookie policy

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. If you provide information by which you can be identified when using our site, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

 

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the user's experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user's computer’s hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website. This website uses cookies for the following:

  • To provide a great experience for visitors and customers.

  • To identify registered members (users who are registered to the site).

  • To monitor and analyze the performance, operation and effectiveness of the website and host platform.

  • To ensure the website and host platform is secure and safe to use. 

 

Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer/device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer/device.

 

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

You can read more about Cookies at All About Cookies.

The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

 

Analytics

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information.

 

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/ or The Company do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in EU General Data Protection Regulation. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their own risk.

 

What data do we collect?

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products / services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.

 

This includes using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you the consumer have previously purchased from or inquired about purchasing from the company a product or service that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights regarding receiving email marketing material, and your details are not passed on to any third parties.

 

In sending the company or the website your personal information you are consenting to allow the company to contact you subject to the above conditions. Any data held by the company relating to individuals will be stored and destroyed once a period of 12 months of no communication has occurred between The User and The Company.

 

The company will never knowingly or willingly pass information it holds on Users (For clarity this includes: clients, prospects, or website users) onto a third party without the consent of the said user. 

 

Why we collect this data

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

  • Internal record-keeping which allows us to provide and operate services;

  • To provider users with customer assistance and technical support;

  • To periodically contact users with information about services, news, updates, special offers or other information we think you might find interesting;

  • To gather information about how you use the website and our services in order to customise the service we provide;

  • To comply with any applicable laws or regulations.

 

We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce any agreement with have with you or applicable national laws. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.

 

How we store, use, share and disclose information

Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

 

All direct payment gateways offered by Wix.com and used by our company adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Controlling your information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you are invited to contact us at ben@ben-french.com

 

You may request details of all the personal information that we hold about you under the UK General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR) or any subsequent or successor legislation.

 

External Links

While ever effort has been made to include quality, safe and relevant external links within this website, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites)

The owners of this website and the company cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

 

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website, the company, and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

 

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

 

Privacy policy updates

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. 

Contact us

To contact us, please email ben@ben-french.com

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Company Number 10381347 | 99 Canterbury Road, Whitstable, Kent, UK CT5 4HG

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