Privacy Statement

1. INTRODUCTION

In this Privacy Policy you will find details of how we collect your personal data through the use of our site www,mjnsafetysigns.com including any information you may provide through our site when you make a purchase or sign up to our newsletter. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age. 

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please email us to info@mjnsafetysigns.com

It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Should any of your personal information change please let us know by emailing to info@mjnsafetysigns.com

2. WHAT DATA DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

  • Identity data - First name, surname and title.
  • Contact data - Billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Financial data - MJN Safety Signs Ltd uses 3rd party processors Stripe or PayPal who process and store details of all the transactions. (Details on their Privacy Policies can be found further down this page). 
  • Transactional data - Dates orders were placed, about payments between us and other purchases made by you. 
  • Technical data - IP address, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, time zone setting and location, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you user to access the site. We do not store usernames or passwords - this is protected by Shopify (privacy policy details further down this page).
  • Profile data - Purchases, previous orders, feedback.

Aggregated data from your personal data may also be processed but this data does not reveal your identity and therefore itself is not personal data. An example is where we review your usage data to work out the percentage of the website users using a specific feature of this site.

Where we are required to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of the contract between us and you do not provide us with that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract for example, to deliver goods or services to you. If you don't provide us with the requested data, we may have to cancel an order you have placed with us but if we do we will notify you at the time. 

3. SENSITIVE DATA

We do not collect or store any Sensitive Data about you.

4. HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Data about you is collected through a variety of different methods including:

Direct Interactions

  • Such as filling in forms on our site or by communications with us by post, phone, email or otherwise including when you:
  • Order our products
  • Create an account on our site
  • Subscribe to our newsletters
  • Provide us with feedback

Automated technologies or interactions

Whilst using our site, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and usage patterns. We collect this data by using Cookies, server logs and similar technologies. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites that use our cookies. Please see out Cookie Policy for further details.

Third parties or other publicly available sources

We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and other public sources as set out below:

  • Analytics Providers such as Google based outside the EU
  • Advertising Networks such as Google Adwords and Google Shopping
  • Search information providesr
  • Contact, Financial and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment and delivery services such as Stripe (based in the US) or PayPal (based in the US).
  • Identify and Contact Data from publicly available sources such as Companies House and the Electoral Register based inside the EU.

5. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Personal data will only be used when legally permitted. Typical uses of your personal data are:

  • Where we need to perform the contract between us.
  • 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.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com or by clicking on the 'unsubscribe' link on the bottom of the actual newsletter.

Purposes for processing your personal data

The table below explains the ways we intend to use your personal data and the legal grounds on which we will process such data. We have also explained what our legitimate interests are where relevant.

We may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground, depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com if you need details about the specific legal ground we are replying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity

Type of data

Lawful Basis for processing

To register you as a new customer

Identity

Contact 

Performance of a contract with you

To process and deliver your order including:

(a)   Manage payments, fees and charges

(b)   Collect and recover money owed to us

Identity

Contact

Financial  (3rd party providers deal with this aspect i.e Stripe and PayPal

Transaction

Marketing and communications

 

(a)    Performance of a contract with you

(b)   Necessary for our legitimate interests to recover debts owed to us

To manage our relationship with you which will include:

(a)   Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy

(b)   Asking you to leave a review or take a survey

Identity

Contact

Profile

Marketing and communications

(a)   Performance of a contract with you

(b)   Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

(c)   Necessary for our legitimate interests to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services.

 

To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data)

Identity

Contact

Technical

(a)   Necessary for our legitimate interests for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud.

(b)   Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

 

To deliver relevant content and advertisements to you and measure and understand the effectiveness of our advertising

Identity

Contact

Profile

Usage

Marketing and Communications

Technical

 

Necessary for our legitimate interests to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy.

To use data analytics to improve our website, products, services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

Technical

Usage

Necessary for our legitimate interests to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform marketing strategy

 

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

Identity

Contact

Technical

Usage

Profile

Necessary for our legitimate interests to develop our products/services and grow our business.

 

Marketing Communications

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have:

  1. Requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us
  2. You have opted into receiving our newsletter.

We do not share your personal data with any third party for marketing purposes.

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

Email marketing: With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates. We use a third-party provider Mailchimp to do this and customers can either fill in their email address on our website or opt-in at checkout when placing an order. Customers can opt out at any time by clicking the unsubscribing link on the newsletter or updates. Alternatively they can email us to info@mjnsafetysigns.com and we will happy remove them from receiving the email marketing.

There is also an option to create an account with us to make placing future orders easier for you. Should you wish to delete your account you can email us to info@mjnsafetysigns.com and we will do this for you. You can also update any of your contact details at any time should the need arise either by emailing us and we can update it for you.

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 which is compatible with the original purpose.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.

We may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent where this is required or permitted by law below for the purposes set out in the table in above:

  • HM Revenues and Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the UK and other relevant jurisdictions who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal insurance and accounting services.
  • Third parties to whom we sell, transfer or merge parts of our business – such as couriers.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposed and in accordance with our instructions.

6. CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only. Orders are placed online through our website which is hosted and run on the Shopify platform.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com

7. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

Many of our third parties service providers (Mailchimp, Shopify) are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission; or
  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts or codes of conduct or certification mechanisms approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
  • Where we use providers based in the United States, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the EU-US Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US.

If none of the above safeguards is available, we may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

Please email us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

8. DATA SECURITY

Shopify

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

Payment
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. 
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service here or Privacy Statement here.

Payments can also be made through PayPal. More information on their privacy policies can be found here.

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

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 such data. 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.

    9. DATA RETENTION

    We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil 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.

    By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax purposes.

    In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see below for further information.

    In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

    10. YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

    Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

    • Request access to your personal data.
    • Request correction of your personal data.
    • Request erasure of your personal data.
    • Object to processing of your personal data.
    • Request restriction of processing your personal data.
    • Request transfer of your personal data.
    • Right to withdraw consent.

    You can see more about these rights at:

    https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

    If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com

    You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

    We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

    We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

    11. 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.

     In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

    However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

    For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

    In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

    As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

    Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

     12. COOKIES

    You can set your browser to refuse all browser 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 Cookie Policy.

    Sign-in -  If you log in to your account the Cookies allow you to move from page to page within our website without the need to sign in again on each of the pages you are viewing. 

    Security - Cookies are used to detect fraudulent behaviour on our website

    Storing information - If you add products to cart on our website the cookies are used to store the data to remember what's in your basket without having to re-add them each time you visit the site.

    Analytics We use Google Analytics to enable us to collect performance data to help us know where to improve our website.

    Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.

    _session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
    _shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
    _shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
    cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
    _secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
    storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

    13. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

    We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

    If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

    14. QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

    If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information please contact us at info@mjnsafetysigns.com