Privacy and Cookie Statement
The following information outlines BeadSmith’s privacy policy and legal disclaimer.
Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to information collected on our website.
We regard the privacy of those who use of our website as very important. This Privacy Policy explains what personal information is collected about you and how we may use it. BeadSmith processes personal information in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.
This policy may change from time to time, so please check this page periodically.
Contents:
- What personally identifiable information is collected from you
- How your information is used
- Who has access to your information
- How you can access, update or delete your information
- Security precautions in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information
- Use of 'cookies' on the website
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you
When you visit the website, we collect your IP address and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. An IP address is a number that can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on the internet.
From time to time, we link to, or embed, external content from third-party websites (e.g. Facebook, YouTube) within our website. These websites may utilise cookies and the Privacy Policy that applies to such third-party content will be published on the website of that third-party content provider. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the privacy practices of these third party websites and your use of them is at your own risk.
2. How your information is used
As well as using it so we can send you communications that you have requested or information about activities that may be of interest to you, we may use your personal information to help us understand more about how our site is used so that we can improve it, along with the quality of our services.
3. Who has access to your information
BeadSmith is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We do not sell, share, or rent this information to third parties.
4. Use of 'cookies' on the website
Like many other websites, our website utilizes cookies. 'Cookies' are small text files created by your web browser and saved on your computer. Most cookies are session cookies, lasting only for the duration of your visit and are deleted when you close your browser. No data is collected from cookies from which you can be personally identified.
What are cookies used for
Cookies are used to help us to improve services for you through, for example:
- measuring page usage of the site and duration on the site so that we can try to improve the quality of our website;
- A unique ID to track your session from page to page, which is vitally important should you sign into the site.
- The use of Google Analytics to allow us to track how popular our site is and to record visitor trends over time. Google Analytics uses a cookie to help track which pages are accessed. The cookie contains no personally-identifiable information, but it does use your computer’s IP address to determine where in the world you are accessing the site from, and to track your page visits within the site.