Protecting Your Personal Details
Big Bead Little Bead complies with all aspects of the Data Protection Act 1984 and the new act of 1998.
We do not pass on, sell, give away, or leave lying around your personal details for anyone else to use. You will not receive junk mail in any form from ourselves or any third party.
This privacy policy below sets out how BigBeadLittleBead uses and safeguards any personal information that you give Big Bead Little Bead when you use our online bead shop.
Big Bead Little Bead is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this bead store, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Big Bead Little Bead may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from 22nd April 2009.
The personal information we collect
We may collect the following:
- Name and job title
- Contact information including email address
- Demographic information such as post code, preferences, as well as jewellery making interests
- Other information relevant to customer surveys or customer offers
What we do with this information:
We require this information to understand your needs, how you buy beads online, and ultimately to provide you with a better service, particularly in the following aeas:
- Internal record keeping.
- To improve our products and services.
- To periodically send promotional emails about new jewellery products, special bead offers or other information that we think you may find interesting using the email address that you provided.
- To undertake market research. We may contact you by email, phone or mail to canvas your opinions about BigBeadLittleBead.
- To customise the website according to your interests.
How do we use cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or remembers when you have visited a particular website previously. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages of our bead store are being used most frequently. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our online bead shop in order to tailor it to your customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better online bead shop, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website and others.
Links to other websites
Our website contains external links to other sites that we think may be of interest to you. In using these links you will be leaving our site, and you should note that we do not have any control over these destination websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting these sites and these sites are obviously not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
- If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us at the address below or by E-mail.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information held on file please write to Big Bead Little Bead, 6 Ransom’s Yard, Bancroft, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1NB.
If you believe that any information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or E-mail Us as soon as possible. We will promptly correct and validate any information held.