The Craft Pottery Studio

Customer Privacy Policy

Registered name: The Craft Pottery Studio, Ltd.

We are the controller of your personal data. For more information on controllers and their responsibilities please see our guidance on data protection principles, definitions, and key terms.

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

Contact details

  • What information we collect, use, and why

  • Lawful bases and data protection rights

  • Where we get personal information from

  • How long we keep information

  • How to complain

Contact details

Telephone: +07585216561

Email: admin@thecraftpotterystudio.com

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Purchase or account history

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Account information

  • Information relating to compliments or complaints

We collect or use the following information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:

  • Names and contact details

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Purchase history

  • Account information, including registration details

We collect or use the following information for service updates or marketing purposes:

  • Names and contact details

  • Marketing preferences

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

  • Names and contact details

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

  • We only send out a monthly newsletter to people who have submitted their name and email to our "Subscribe Now" form. We do not send marketing information to anyone who has just purchased something from us or made a booking.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Where we get personal information from

• Directly from you

How long we keep information

We keep emails submitted to our “Subscribe Now” form as long as the person chooses to keep subscribing. They can opt out at any time. We keep all personal information until after the booking date has passed. Then we only keep the handwritten contact sheets filled out by the customer in-studio. We will contact the customer to pick up between 3-4 weeks after your session, then we allot for an 10 week time period to pick up and contact once or twice more within that time period. All physical contact sheets will be disposed of annually.

For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated:

10th Mat