Privacy Policy
SECTION 1 – WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?
When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.
When you first enter our website you will confirm your age (as by law you have to be over 18 to purchase alcohol) you have the option to opt in to remember your age by clicking the remember me button.
When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address, telephone number. This information will only be used to contact you with regards to your order, unless you opt in to email marketing
.Email marketing (if applicable): With your explicit permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.
While you visit our site, we’ll track:
- Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
- Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate delivery before you place an order, and send you the order!
We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.
When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, delivery address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:
- Send you information about your account and order
- Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
- Process payments and prevent fraud
- Set up your account for our store
- Comply with any legal obligations we have.
- Improve our store offerings
- Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them
If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.
We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it.
We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.
How we protect your data
We use a hosting company 1and1. We have a SSL Certificate in place. We consistently update our website with the relevant updates. We use additional security measures such as two-factor authentication.
SECTION 2 – 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.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will ask you directly for your expressed consent, or we accept your consent is given when you sign up to our newsletter and further authorise this through an email.
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 anytime, by contacting us at or mailing us at:
Staffordshire Brewery
Unit 2 Harrison Way,
Cheddleton, Staffordshire. ST13 7EF. Or email us at info@staffordshirebrewery.co.uk
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age 18 and you have entered this site truthfully. We also use a 3rd party plugin which collects your date of birth to ensure you are over 18. You have the option to allow this to remember who you are by opting in to remember me.
SECTION 3 – Payment
Our website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) provided by our website host 1and1. SSL secures the browser connection between visitors and our website with a 256 bit encryption. All transmitted data is therefore neither visible nor available to third parties. (This shows next to our URL – HTTPS) We use a secure payment gateway – PayPal to collect payments made from purchases on this website. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to Paypal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. They guard transactions behind their advanced encryption and have procedures in place to monitor all transactions, to prevent fraud and identity theft. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.
SECTION 4 DISCLOSURE
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.
SECTION 5 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
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 a payment gateway have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions. We use PAYPAL as our payment gateway. We use MailChimp for our marketing communications. We use Google Analytics to analyse website traffic. Information shared with any third party to allow them to provide us with their services can include:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- Unique payment identifier – payment gateway
- Payment provider identifier – payment gateway
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.
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.
SECTION 6 – SECURITY
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. As advised previously our website uses Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) we also follow industry best practices.
SECTION 7 – COOKIES
What is a cookie?
A cookie is small bits of data stored on devices to collect information, used to make a visit to a site more beneficial for the user, such as recognising if you have visited the site before and generating relevant marketing for you.
What cookies do we use?
We use both 1st party cookies(set by the website) and 3rd party cookies (set by 3rd parties)
Why do we use cookies?
To make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- You can learn more about all the cookies we use below
Website Function Cookies
Our own cookies
- We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our shopping basket and checkout work
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- Allowing you to add comments to our site
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites uses third party cookies.
Google Analytics
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics, such as how many people have visited our what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if , on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.
Social Website Cookies
You can “Like” or share our content social media sites by using the share buttons we have included on our site.
They have set their own cookies. Please read their privacy policies to learn more.
Google Maps
We have google maps in use on our website. Please see googles privacy policy for more information.
Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties
Consent to use cookies
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
Switch off cookies
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.
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