Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy – 1.04.21

Information I Collect

To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain information, such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information, and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information if you contact me directly.

Furthermore to further improve the security of this website and the data held we log certain user actions (such as 404 requests and user login’s) which happen on the website in an Website log, this includes the user account names, IP address, date and time and other relevant information about the particular request which was made such as the location of the file which was accessed and the user agent of the clients browser.

Why I Need Your Information and How I Use It

I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

  • As needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil and deliver your order, to notify you of the status of your order, to maintain your account, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
  • When you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;
  • If necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
  • As necessary for the purpose of my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest to improve my services.
  • Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. I use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.

The third parties with whom I may share your personal information

  • PAYPAL: Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers, PayPal. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. We do not have access to or store your card details. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
  • STRIPE: Financial transactions relating to our website and services are also handled by our payment services providers, Stripe. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. We do not have access to or store your card details. If you choose save your Card Details on our site, This information is Stored and Processed by Stripe and can not be accessed by us. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
  • iZETTLE: Financial transactions relating to our trading at shows are handled by our payment services providers, iZETTLE. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. We do not have access too or store your card details. You can find information about the payment services providers’ privacy policies and practices at https://www.izettle.com/gb/privacy-policy.
  • MAILCHIMP: Marketing Emails sent from us are provided by our Marketing Provider MAILCHIMP, We will share your First Name, Surname and your Email Address when you sign up to the mailing list through the forms or options on our website. You can find out more Information about MAILCHIMP’S privacy policy and practices at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
  • GOOGLE RECAPTCHA: To improve our security on our website we use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. (Google) to protect your submissions via internet submission forms on this site. This plugin checks if you are a person in order to prevent certain website functions from being (ab)used by spam bots (particularly comments and logins). This plugin query includes the sending of the IP address and possibly other data required by Google for the Google reCAPTCHA service. For this purpose your input will be communicated to and used by Google. However, your IP address is previously truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states which are party to the agreement on the European Economic Area and is, as such, anonymised. Only in exceptional cases is a full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of this service. The IP address provided by reCaptcha from your browser shall not be merged with any other data from Google.This data collection is subject to the data protection regulations of Google (Google Inc.). For more information about Google’s privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
  • IBM Cloud. Our IOS Application utilises IBM CLOUD as our push notification provider, when you register for push notification a unique Device Identifier is created to enable the deliver of the notification for your device. IBM CLOUD will store this unique identifier to enable notifications to be delivered to your device. For more information about IBM’s Privacy Policy please visit: https://www.ibm.com/privacy/us/en/
  • SERVICE PROVIDERS. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
  • BUSINESS TRANSFERS. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
  • COMPLIANCE WITH LAW. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce my agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.

The length of time I keep your personal information

Data Retention – I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 5 years.

Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU

In this Section, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).

  • The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United States of America. The European Commission has made an “adequacy decision” with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries. Transfers to the United States of America will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission.
  • You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.

Your Rights

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:

  • Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
  • Change, Restrict, Delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.
  • Object. You can object to (i) my processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
  • Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

About cookies

A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

Cookies that we use

We use cookies for the following purposes:

  • Authentication – We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website;
  • Status – We use cookies to help us to determine if you are logged into our website.
  • Personalisation – We use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you.
  • Security – We use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials and to protect our website and services generally.
  • Advertising – We use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you.
  • Analysis – We use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services.
  • Cookie Consent – We use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally.

Cookies used by our service providers

  • Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
  • We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Managing cookies

  • Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. You can alter your cookie and JavaScript settings in your browser’s preferences, which is usually found in the Edit menu.
  • Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
  • If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.

Our details

Maven Patterns is a trading name of The Coram Group Limited.

Registered Office – 85 Priory Road, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 1LQ

Registered in England & Wales – Company No. 13229589 – VAT No. 373931967

Our principal place of business is at 85 Priory Road, Kenilworth, United Kingdom, CV8 1LQ.

You can contact us:

(a) Using our website contact form.

(b) By email using [email protected].