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This Privacy Policy explains how BigTed Teddies (‘We/Us/Our’) collect, store and use your personal data when you browse and use big-ted.co.uk (the ‘Website’), and when you provide us with your personal data. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
By accessing, browsing or otherwise using the Website you confirm that you have read, understood and agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, you must not use the Website. Acqua Retail Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales (company registration number 12872017) with registered office at Unit 44, Gravelly Industrial Park, Birmingham, B24 8TG and is a registered data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We respect your right to privacy and are committed to maintaining it. We only collect, store and process your personal data in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2011.
Information that you have provided to BigTed Teddies including, but are not limited to when you:
- - purchase products through the Website or through store kiosk
- - enter competitions, prize draws or promotions which we are promoting
- - sign up to marketing/newsletters including by email and SMS
- - Information you provide our partners and when you report a problem with the website.
- - Information you provide to us when applying through the Website for registration, subscribing to any of our services or requesting further services.
- - If you contact us for any reason, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- - We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- - Information we collect using cookies stored on your device. Please see the section on cookies for more information and how to manage them.
Your IP address
Details of your visits to the website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data and other communication data and the resources, advertisements and linked sites that you access.
Information provided to us by other companies who have obtained your permission to share information about you.
Information we request and hold includes but is not limited to the following:
- - Your name, age, date of birth, gender
- - Billing and delivery postal addresses
- - Phone and fax numbers
- - Email addresses
- - Usernames and passwords
- - Payment card details
- - Browsing and shopping activities
- - Your customer queries
We, or third party data processors who act on our behalf, may use the personal data you provide us in the following manner:
To provide you with the requested goods and/or services including but not limited to processing and fulfilling your order and administering promotions such as competitions and prize draws.
To monitor and improve the services and the Website
To manage your marketing preferences.
To contact you if there is a query regarding your order.
In the event that you purchase goods on the BigTed Teddies’ website, you may be sent an email requesting whether you would like to review your product.
To verify your identity.
In certain circumstances in order to process your order and to verify your identity, we may call your provided telephone number you have provided to perform security checks and to request that you verify certain information.
Market research purposes
To enable us to comply with any legal or regulatory requirements;
In the detection and prevention of fraud or other crimes.
To assist with any of your customer queries
For research, analysis, risk management, legal, accounting, administrative, testing, monitoring and for our business operations.
Unless you have not consented to, we may use your personal data in the following manner:
From time to time, to inform you by post, email, SMS or other available means, of products, services, promotions and special offers from our retail channel and BigTed Teddies.
To provide you with tailored/behavioral advertising through the use of cookies on the Website. This means that we have your agreement to store information about the products you have viewed or purchased so that we are able to make the adverts you see more relevant to you. In the event that you do not want to receive tailored advertising, or do not wish for any of your information to be processed through the use of cookies, please refer to the section on Cookies.
We may disclose personal data we collect to third parties in the following manner:
All credit/debit card holders are subject to validation checks and authorisation by the card issuer and we may share your personal information with such third parties as are necessary to enable us to do such checks. The third parties, which may include credit reference agencies, may keep a record of the information provided.
To administer your account and to disclose your details to our third party service providers for the purpose of processing and fulfilment of your order.
We may pass your personal data to other companies to support our business operations, and or audit purposes.
We may disclose your personal data where it is necessary to comply with any applicable law or an order of a governmental or law enforcement body.
We may pass on non-personal aggregated information about sales and website usage to reputable organisations for research or analysis purposes only.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of the BigTed Teddies, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries.
We do pass your details to BigTed Teddies’ approved Customer Service centres, who adhere to the UK Data Protection Acts 1998, and who will use this data solely for the purpose of answering your customer service queries.
We may pass your information to third parties in order to fulfil and/or dispatch your orders. The third party provider may send marketing material within the parcel or by post after fulfilment of your order.
We may disclose your information to any successors of our business for them to use for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and/or as part of any business or asset sale carried out.