Re-Focus Associates Ltd trading as Paw & More respects the privacy of its Users and is fully committed to protecting their personal data and using it in accordance with our legal obligations. This Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy describes how Re-Focus Associates Ltd trading as Paw & More (“we”, “Company” or “us”) may collect and use personal data and the rights granted to our visitors, users, customers, and merchants regarding their respective data.
By accessing or using this website or any of our Services, you signify your approval of the terms set out in this Privacy Policy, Terms & Conditions, and other terms and policies posted on our websites. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you must leave this website and discontinue all use of any of our Services.
1. Information we collect
1.1. Information collected from our Users
If you use our Services to place personal orders without processing the data of third parties, you are to be considered as the User, where data are processed as follows.
We collect the following data to confirm your identity, contact you, invoice you, and otherwise provide our Services:
- Name, surname, company name
- Shipping and billing address
- Email address and phone number
- Payment details
- IP address and device data
- Other information that you share with us while using our Services or during checkout
We collect the above-mentioned personal data when a User uses or accesses our Services, places an order, or signs-up for an account on our websites or apps.
Upon starting to use our Services or when you subscribe to our blog or newsletters, we may process your email address to send you informative materials. At any point in time you can unsubscribe from receiving the above-mentioned information in our email footers and through your notification settings.
1.2. Information collected from our websites
To ensure a smooth customer support experience, we process information that you provide on our website (eg. in chat or on the comment section of our blog), in emails, or through other means of communication you have used. For this purpose, we may process the following information to provide and enhance our Services and answer your questions:
- Your name
- Email address
- Website address
- Any information that you share
- IP address
Upon visiting our website, requesting customer support, or subscribing to our blog, we may collect and process the following information related to you to provide you with a better customer experience and to improve our Services:
- Your device and browser
- Your IP address
- Other information that is collected from cookies.
1.2.1. What are cookies?
Our site uses cookies (very small files that are sent by us to your computer or other access device) which we can access when you visit our site in future.
There are four types of cookie:
- Website functionality cookies: These cookies enable you to browse the website and use our features such as shopping baskets and wish lists.
- Website analytics cookies: We use these cookies to measure and analyse how our customers use the website. This allows us to continuously improve our website and your shopping experience.
- Customer preference cookies: When browsing or shopping online, the website will remember preferences you make (for example your user name, language or location). This makes your browsing experience simpler, easier and more personal to you.
- Targeting cookies or advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver adverts relevant to you. In addition, they limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as helping us measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns.
By using our website you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device and access them when you visit the site in the future.
If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies.
Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.
2. Sharing personal data with third parties
In order for Paw & More to provide you with our Services, we work with third parties with whom we may share personal data to support these Services. Your personal data may be shared with third parties who provide hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks, data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, email distribution and monitoring services, session recording services, marketing services, our legal and financial advisors, among others (together – “Third Party Service Providers”). The Third Party Service Providers may only receive the minimum amount of personal data necessary, depending on their particular roles and purposes in facilitating and enhancing our Services and business, and may only use it for such purposes. We will only share personal data to Third Party Service Providers that have undertaken to comply with obligations set out in applicable data protection laws.
Note that while our Service may contain links to other websites or services, we are not responsible for each respective website’s or service’s privacy practices, and encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit. This Privacy & Cookie Policy does not apply to third-party websites and services.
Re-Focus Associates Ltd remains responsible for the processing of personal data carried out by Third Party Service Providers that it has engaged with for respective data processing in accordance with applicable laws.
In certain circumstances, we may also be required to share information with third parties to conform to legal requirements or to respond to lawful requests by public authorities as well as to protect our, or a third party’s, lawful interests.
3. Retention periods
We may retain your personal data, as well as your Customers' information, for as long as your relationship with us is active by having a Paw & More account, or as otherwise needed to provide you our Services.
After terminating your relationship with us by deleting your Paw & More account or otherwise ceasing to use our Services, we may continue to store copies of your and your Customers’ personal data as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes between you and us or you and your Customers, to prevent fraud and abuse, to enforce our agreements, and/or to protect our legitimate interests.
4. Data subject's rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area, in accordance with European Union data protection regulations, you have certain rights with respect to your personal data.
You have the right to request access to your personal data and to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your personal data by logging into your Paw & More account or by contacting our Data Protection Office via email at info@pawandmore.co.uk. Furthermore, if you believe that we have unlawfully processed your personal data, you have the right to submit a complaint to the contact information provided below, or to your respective data protection supervisory authority.
5. Information security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of personal data.
We take reasonable steps to maintain appropriate safeguards to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of the information you have provided us with. When you place an order or access your account information, we use a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption which encrypts your information before it is sent to us, to protect it from unauthorised use. In addition, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that third party business partners' to whom we transfer any data will provide sufficient protection of that personal information.
Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system is guaranteed to be 100% secure, therefore we cannot guarantee absolute security of information. We encourage you to take care of the personal data in your possession that you process online and set strong passwords for your Paw & More account, limit access of your computer and browser by signing off after you have finished your session, and avoid providing us with any sensitive information whose disclosure you believe could cause you substantial harm.
All of Paw & More's authorized personnel involved in the processing of your and your Customer’s personal data have committed themselves to confidentiality obligations and shall not access or otherwise process your personal data without your authorization if it's not for the purposes of providing you our Services.
In the event that we experience a personal data breach, we will notify you (as a User) in compliance with the obligations set out in applicable laws.
6. International transfers of data
All the information you provide may be transferred or accessed by Paw & More, its affiliated companies and subsidiaries around the world for the provision of our Services as described in this Privacy Policy. When we transfer your information globally we will take necessary measures to ensure adequate protection of your information.
7. Privacy Policy changes
We may occasionally amend this Privacy Policy, for example in cases when we introduce new services or new features. The amendments to this Privacy Policy enter into force and are applied from the moment they have been uploaded to this page.
Therefore, we encourage you to check this page from time to time. By continuing to use our Services or otherwise providing personal data to us, after the amendments to this policy have been implemented, you agree to the updated terms of Privacy Policy.
Contact
All comments, queries and other requests relating to our use of your information or this Privacy Policy should be addressed our Data Protection Officer on info@pawandmore.co.uk or by post to: Data Protection, Paw & More, c/o Re-Focus Associates Ltd, Swallow Barn, Wymondham Road, East Carleton, Norfolk NR14 8JB.
This Privacy Policy is effective from 23 March 2020.