Privacy Policy

Welcome to the OTHER TINY THINGS privacy notice.

OTHER TINY THINGS (the “Company”, “we”, “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

1. IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

PURPOSE OF THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how the Company collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you create an account, complete an online purchase, subscribe to our mailing list, engage with us on social media and/or contact us by any means for any reason.

your details (title, surname, first name, email, telephone number, full address, etc.),
your personal information (date of birth, gender, etc.),
your delivery information (surname/first name, street, postcode, town/city, country, delivery comments, etc.),
your personal preferences, including your marketing preferences (subscriptions to our newsletters, language, etc.) and cookies (technical information: technical logs, IP address, etc.),
information about the products you have viewed,
bank payment data,
your order history,
a record of emails exchanged with customer service.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

CONTROLLER

OTHER TINY THINGS is the controller and responsible for your personal data.

We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights please contact the data privacy manager by email at info@othertinythings.com

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Cyprus Commisioner’s Office for the Protection of Personal data for data protection issues. We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Commissioner’s office so please contact us in the first instance.

CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE AND YOUR DUTY TO INFORM US OF CHANGES

This version was last updated on October 2018.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us

THIRD-PARTY LINKS

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

2. THE DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

your details (title, surname, first name, email, telephone number, full address, etc.),
your delivery information (surname/first name, street, postcode, town/city, country, delivery comments, etc.),
your personal preferences, including your marketing preferences, where you have consented to receiving marketing communications from us (subscriptions to our newsletters, language, etc.),
cookies (technical information: technical logs, IP address, etc.) in accordance with our cookies policy
information about the products you have viewed,
bank payment data,
your order history,
a record of emails exchanged with customer service.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

IF YOU FAIL TO PROVIDE PERSONAL DATA

Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with goods or services). In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

3. HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

purchase our products or services;

create an account on our website;
request marketing to be sent to you;
give us some feedback or contact us by any means for any reason.

Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties [and public sources] as set out below

Technical Data from the following parties:

(a) analytics providers [such as Google based outside the EU]

Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services;

Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources.

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you for the provision of our products and/or services;

Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;

Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation;
Where you have consented to the processing of the personal data.

MARKETING

You will receive marketing communications from us where you have subscribed to our newsletter or otherwise consented to being contacted by us for marketing purposes

OPTING OUT

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by Contacting us at any time.

Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a product/service purchase, product/service experience or other transactions.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our Cookies Policy.

CHANGE OF PURPOSE

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

5. DATA SECURITY

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

6. DATA RETENTION

HOW LONG WILL YOU USE MY PERSONAL DATA FOR?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

7. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

Request access to your personal information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request correction of the personal information that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
Request erasure of your personal information (commonly know as a ‘right to be forgotten’). This enables you to ask us to delete personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Object to processing of your personal information (commonly know as “a right to object”) where we are relying on a legitimate interest and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground.
Request the restriction of processing of your personal information. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of personal information about you, in case, inter alia, the accuracy of your personal data which we collects is disputed
Request the transfer of your personal information to another party (commonly known as “right to data portability”).

If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party or you may have any queries regarding the present notice or the way we process your personal data, please contact us by email: info@othertinythings.com

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time. We will duly inform you when we make any updates in the notice. We may also notify you in other ways from time to time about the processing of your personal information.