Oak By Design Privacy Policy

Our contact details

Name: Oak By Design

Address: Locksley Park, Blind Lane, Tockwith, York YO26 7QJ

Phone Number: 01423 593794

E-mail: contact@oakbydesign.co.uk

What is this Privacy Policy for?

This privacy policy is for this website [www.oakbydesign.co.uk] and served by Penny Bricks and Timber Limited

Trading As Oak By Design and governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it.

The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of

the users, the website and website owners. Furthermore the way this website processes, stores and protects user

data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

The Website

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to

protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience. This website complies with all UK national laws

and requirements for user privacy.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website

uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies

on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent

from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user's computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the

user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a

tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard

drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this

website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is

provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your

computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save

or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information

http://www.google.com/privacy.html

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by

external vendors when this website uses referral programs,

sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30

days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Contact & Communication

Users contacting this website and/or its owners do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details

requested at their own risk. Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer

required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and

secure form to email submission process but advise users using such form to email processes that they do so at their

own risk.

This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products /

services they offer or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted. This includes

using your details to subscribe you to any email newsletter program the website operates but only if this was made

clear to you and your express permission was granted when submitting any form to email process. Or whereby you

the consumer have previously purchased from or enquired about purchasing from the company a product or service

that the email newsletter relates to. This is by no means an entire list of your user rights in regard to receiving emailmarketing

material. Your details are not passed on to any third parties.

Email Newsletter

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied

by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their

own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications

Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data

Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of

the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal

information held about you by this website's email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a

copy of the information held on you please write to the business address at the bottom of this policy.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual

email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity

may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links, times, dates and frequency of activity.

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based

around their activity.

In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are

given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer

of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to unsubscribe

will by detailed instead.

External Links

Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of

caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. External links are clickable text /

banner / image links to other websites.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best

efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners

cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Adverts and Sponsored Links

This website may contain sponsored links and adverts. These will typically be served through our advertising partners,

to whom may have detailed privacy policies relating directly to the adverts they serve.

Clicking on any such adverts will send you to the advertisers website through a referral program which may use

cookies and will track the number of referrals sent from this website. This may include the use of cookies which may in

turn be saved on your computers hard drive. Users should therefore note they click on sponsored external links at

their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting

any external links mentioned.

Social Media Platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its

owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social

media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and

caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or

sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to

contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social

media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own

discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively

through your social media platform account.

Shortened Links in Social Media

This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages.

By default some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses] (this is an example: http://bit.ly/zyVUBo).

Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media

platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many

social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable

for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

You can complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk