PRIVACY POLICY

For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act) and from 25th May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulations 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) the data controller is Casas Lifestyle having its registered office at 13 Market Place Bingham NG13 8AP.

Casas Lifestyle (“Casas Lifestyle”, “we” or “us”) are committed to protecting your privacy. Please read through this policy carefully so that you know how and why we collect information about you, how you can contact us to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port or object to your data being processed and what procedures we have in place to keep your personal data safe.

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time and if we do so we will update these changes on this page so that you’re up-to-date with our current policy.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy which is part of this Privacy Policy.

Why do we collect your information?

Your privacy is important to us, therefore any information you give is confidential and will only be used as set out in this Privacy Policy, to process your order and to give you the best possible service.

Knowing more about you helps us to focus on what is most likely to interest and appeal to you.

The information we collect allows us to provide you with the most relevant offers such as money-off vouchers and rewards, for items you buy from us and for things you might be interested in buying in the future. We can also draw your attention to special offers linked to where you live, or promotions in stores near you by sending you relevant news, product information, special offers and details of events and competitions. However, you’ll be given the option to opt-out of such communications at the point that your data is collected and subsequently through clicking the “unsubscribe” option on any of our marketing emails or by updating your marketing preferences if you have an online account with us.

What information we collect

1) Information you give us.

This is information that you share with us in a variety of ways:

a) This could be through our Website forms, placing an order, completing part of the checkout process online, creating a wish list, searching for a product, signing up for offers and news, submitting customer reviews, entering a competition or prize draw, booking an appointment with one of our consultants or creating or updating your account, requesting swatches or a brochure or by corresponding with us by phone, email, social media or otherwise. This information may include personal details such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number, personal description, your relevant passwords and preferred user names, contact details, account details, financial and credit card information, your preferences, interests and details of any complaints you may have and any other information provided by you.

b) Details of products and services purchased. This is detailed information about what products you have purchased whilst using our Website and the fulfilment of your orders, for example the time and date of purchase, the products you purchase from us, delivery addresses you use and if paying by debit or credit cards your card details and card expiry date to complete your payment.

c) Correspondence. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence or call.

2) Information we collect about you.

When you visit our Website we will automatically collect information from you:-

a) Website visit details. This includes but is not limited to when and how you access our Website, products you searched or viewed, HTTP protocol elements, search terms, length of visits of pages, page interaction, your customer journey, device type and ID, HTTPs cookies, traffic data, location data, referring website, weblogs and other communication data. Much of this data is collected by cookies and analytical software tracking tags used on our Website, details of which are noted under our Cookie Policy. 

b) Technical information. We may collect your IP address, which is assigned to your computer when it’s connected to the Internet and operating system browser. We may collect other technical information such as your login information (where you set up an account with us), your browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug in types and versions, and the operating systems you use. 

3) Information we receive from other sources.

This is information that we receive about you if you use another website we operate or the other services we provide. We are working with third parties (including for example; payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, customer review providers, live chat providers). This may include Cookies, refer to our Cookie Policy for more information. 

How we use the information we collect

Personal data submitted to us will be used for the purposes stated in this Policy or as stated on our website or may be notified to you. We use your personal data to:

Develop our website:

1. To help you to use the Casas Lifestyle website to browse and shop, to provide a more seamless shopping journey, to improve your experience of using the Website, to administer and monitor our Website and to improve our Website;

2.To personalise our Website to you and the things you may like, dislike or be interested in;

3. To ensure that we present and evaluate the content on the Website in the most effective manner for you and other users;

4. To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. To personalise these communications to you and your likes and dislikes;

5. To meet our service obligations:

6. To meet our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between yourself and us, including for example delivery of products

7. To notify you promptly about changes to our products

8. To process your payments for products to enable you to shop with us online; please note we use Squarespace payment system and all payments are subject to the payment providers privacy policies;

9. to check that you have (or are likely to have) the means to pay us for any products you order from us online

10. To keep accurate records of purchases, to ensure that the requisite payments and deliveries are made, in respect of these transactions, (Casas Lifestyle does not hold or take payment details, this is all undertaken by a 3rd party payment gateway);

11. To provide you with after-sales services

12. If you fail to provide personal data which we need to provide the product to you then we may not be able to perform our contract with you. Please ensure that the personal data you give us is accurate and up to date.

Marketing

13. To allow us to send you direct marketing. We may do this by contacting you via telephone, post, SMS or email about special offers and current, or new products that you may be interested in, and to monitor the success of campaigns and promotions. You have the right to object to your data being processed for marketing purposes. This is explained in more detail in the Your Rights section.

14. To allow us to contact you in relation to competitions and prize draws, to process your entries to our competitions/prize draws and to fulfil our obligation under our competition/ prize draw terms and conditions. This may require you disclosing your data with Furniture Village agents or subcontractors who are collecting the data on our behalf;

15. For the purpose of advertising or marketing our products and services, our business itself and for public relations promotions in connection with our business, products and services including digital advertising. We do not sell or pass your data on to third parties for their marketing purposes. Additionally, this may involve tailoring our digital advertising based on what you view on our Website and your interests on third party websites, so that this is more relevant to you. This advertising is delivered across third party websites including social media;

16. To allow us to contact you via email if you have added products to your Basket whilst shopping on our Website. Email address and name is provided to a third party who managed our shopping basket to enable this;

17. To analyse the effectiveness of digital advertising based on your interactivity and in accordance with our Cookies Policy;

18. To analyse sales processed through our Website and specific products which have been frequently viewed on the Website for marketing and business development purposes;

19. To allow us to send you personalised email communications based on your browse behaviour whilst visiting our website. 

20. To collect feedback from our customers on our products through reviews and surveys. Review information may be shared on our website and other marketing materials.

For Customer Services

21. To respond to any questions, suggestions or complaints you have raised with us directly, via any social media posts, or any comments you make directly to us or in the public domain; and

22. To carry out administrative tasks and research and statistical analysis for customer surveys and research;

23. To improve our Products and Services made Available to You

24. To forecast demand for our products and services and logistics planning

25. To ensure that the Casas Lifestyle adverts you see on different websites are more relevant to you, we’ll now provide some anonymous information about you and your shopping habits to the organisations who place our online advertising. We gather this information from your Email activity, website cookies and other similar technologies. It is then combined with data from other internet users to create audience profiles consisting of particular interests and characteristics. These audience profiles are used by our online advertisers including social media to serve you adverts relevant to you and your interests. This may include social media websites including Facebook, Instagram & Twitter along with third party websites. 

26. To gather statistics about how you and other people use our website and what you think of our special offers, product information, social media and other content and services. We then analyse all this data to see if what we do is interesting to people and meets their needs, or if they should be improved, and if so, what changes would be most beneficial both for our customers and for us. For this purpose we use third party providers including Google Analytics and Facebook Analytics to help us collect and analyse visitor and customer behaviour on our Website. 

For Compliance

27. To monitor how people use our website to see if they are being abused or threatened, for example, by internet trolls posting inappropriate comments in review areas or by would-be hackers looking to undermine our security

28. To protect you and our business from any other potentially criminal behaviour, including identity theft and fraud

29. To help us maintain administrative and statutory records about our business so we can better understand what we’ve sold, and how, when, where and at what price

30. To help us maintain administrative and statutory records about our business so we can satisfy our legal and contractual obligations for example, accident reporting:

Legitimate Interest of the Company

31. To enable us (and our third-party service providers) to plan and manage our day-to-day business as effectively as possible, for example, to predict the possible sales volumes of a particular product so we can make doubly sure that we have sufficient stocks to meet the likely demand

32. To help us conduct focused market research based on trends and common factors, so we can further improve the products we offer to all our customers;

33. To see if the money we spend on advertising across all media represents good value for us 

34. For legitimate business purposes such as process improvement 

Email newsletter

Every so often, we like to send you an email newsletter informing you about new products and offers. You can withdraw your consent as detailed in the footer of each email.

We can’t guarantee or verify the contents of any external linked website despite our best efforts. However, if you do click on external links, we won’t be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links.

Social media platforms

Any communication, engagement and action on social media are subject to the terms and conditions and privacy policies held from each social media platform. In order to protect your own privacy and personal details, we advise that you use social media sites wisely. We will never ask for your private personal information via social media platforms. 

We may use social sharing buttons to share content directly from web pages to social media platforms. Please note, that you are using social sharing buttons at your own discretion and these social media platforms may be tracked to save requests and to share a web page through your social media account. 

If you have any views or queries about our website and privacy policy, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Who does my information go to?

We may use any relevant information to contact you, to process and fulfil your order, confirm your identity, validate and authorise transactions made by your debit or credit card.

We may pass on your personal data to help us fulfil contractual obligations, for example to arrange delivery of your product.

Where we store your personal data

Any personal details we have collected about you are kept securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and GDPR. Therefore, we will never sell or disclose your information to third parties, shared companies for any other purposes than described in this policy or for legal reasons (e.g. to comply with a legal process).

Your data is kept secure using the high security server technology ensuring your data is protected. Where you have chosen a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website you are responsible for keeping the password confidential. You must not share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

How Long Do We Keep Your Information For?

Casas Lifestyle will not keep your personal data for longer than is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless there is a further legal reason for us to do so. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure the personal data is erased from our systems, or securely destroyed when it is no longer required. We will keep your data for as long as you continue to shop with us and for a period time afterwards when we may contact you if there is a legitimate interest to do so. 

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose information about you to law enforcement officials in the investigation of any alleged unlawful activities by you. We may also be required to disclose information to a court or regulatory body when required to do so by law.

We may also share your information with our service providers (to help manage the Website and provide services, including, marketing and market research, processing online purchases and delivery companies) and with any person or organisation (and their advisers) who might take over the services provided by the Website to allow them to prepare for taking over (after that, we may also allow that person or organisation to use and share your information on the same basis as us).

If you make a post on the Website, we may share your username, and any information you include in your post with other users of the Website or in our marketing materials, for example this would include any posts or comments which you make via on Website's blog or any similar post or comment.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have certain rights. In particular you have the right to 

1. Where we are relying on your consent to process your personal data, you can withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal data at any time. If you have signed up for an online account with us, you can do this by updating your preferences with us. Alternatively, you can use the “unsubscribe” or “stop” option on our emails and texts. In certain circumstances, we can process your personal data without your consent in line with the lawful processing requirements in GDPR. These include (amongst other reasons) where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, or to protect your vital interests. 

2. Ask us to rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal data. We would seek to rectify the data as soon as possible and usually within one month unless the request is complex. 

3. Ask us to erase your personal data. This is commonly referred to as the right to be forgotten. This right is only applicable where there is no compelling reason for the continued processing of your personal data. There are some circumstances where this right to erasure does not apply and in such cases we would notify you of the reason(s) why we need to retain your personal data (unless prevented to do so by law).   

4. Restrict processing of your personal data where, for example, the data is inaccurate, being processed unlawfully or where the data is no longer relevant to the specific purpose for processing. In such cases, we would retain the data but we would not process it further without your consent, or if processing your data is for establishing, exercising or defending a legal claim, or for the protection of rights of other individuals, or for public interest reasons. In such circumstances, we would let you know that we intend to lift the restriction on processing your personal data. 

5. Request access to your personal data via a subject access request. Your request should be made to us in writing and we may ask you for proof of your identity before providing you with the data. There is usually no fee for making such a request however, in limited circumstances, we can charge an administrative fee (which will be based on the administrative cost of providing the information). 

6. You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes (including profiling). We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data or by unsubscribing using the ‘unsubscribe’ function in a marketing email or by choosing not to accept or block certain cookies. In respect of SMS marketing, should you wish us to stop sending you mobile SMS correspondence, please see the STOP details in each text message.

To opt out of marketing communications via email, post or SMS please contact EMAIL ADDRESS

7. Obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services (right to data portability). This right is only applicable to data that you have provided to us, where we are processing the data based on your consent or for the performance of a contract and when the processing is carried out by automated means. Where this right applies, the data will be provided to you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. 

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy.

If you have any complaints regarding our handling of your personal data, we would appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns in the first instance. However, if you wish, you may make a complaint directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues, use the link below for more information.

COOKIE POLICY

To make full use of the online shopping and personalised features of the Casas Lifestyle website on your laptop, computer, tablet or mobile phone you will be asked to accept cookies. 

The purpose of our cookie policy is to outline how we use cookies and how our website processes and protects user data and information and how you can manage your use of certain cookies.

For more information on how Casas Lifestyle processes and protects your data please also refer to our Privacy Policy

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files which track, save and store information. When you visit some web pages and there are interactions, information on these is saved on your personal computer or mobile or handheld device (this could be a smart phone or tablet). Cookies do not store personal information and do not harm your computer, mobile phone or device.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website and tailor your browsing experience.

However, you will be given the option to allow or disallow the use of selected cookies when you visit our Website.

We collect information we feel is helpful for you to use our Website efficiently and to improve services for you, for example:

1. For technical purposes necessary for the operation of the Website; 

2. To allow a service to recognise your device – this means you don’t have to repeatedly provide the same information during a task; 

3. To measure the number of people using our Website, to make sure there enough capacity for the Website to operate at speed; 

4. To complete and support of current activity being undertaken by the user, for example previously viewed pages or products; 

5. To monitor marketing success; 

6. To support website and system administration, for example, tracking the number of website users for marketing purposes; 

7. To remember pages viewed; 

8. To monitor your journey around the website so that we can improve navigation and ease of access to popular pages; and 

9. To remember items saved to your basket on a previous visit to the Website, including where the browser has been closed and a new session has begun. 

10. 10.To remarket to you in the form of digital advertising to show you different products and services based on what you have expressed an interest in. Additionally, this information is combined with data from other internet users to create audience profiles consisting of particular interests and characteristics. These audience profiles are used by our online advertisers including social media to serve you adverts relevant to you and our interests.

Managing cookies

If you’re not keen on using cookies you can opt-out of using cookies in the following ways:

1. Cookie Preference Management - you can manage your consent for all except essential cookies in the Cookie Management tool available on our website. However, not consenting to some types of cookies may impact your experience of the site and the services we are able to offer.

2. Browser Settings – in addition, if you don’t want cookies, you can turn off all cookies through your browser (e.g., Internet Explorer, Chrome). Check your browser HELP menu to learn the correct way to change or update your cookies.

Types of cookies used

Our Website uses the following types of cookie (each cookie is unique with its own specific lifetime):

1 . First Party Session cookies – these short lifetime cookies are set directly by us and may only last until you close your browser. They allow our Website to link your actions during a browser session so we can store certain information while you are browsing the website.

2 . First Party Persistent cookies – these cookies have a longer lifetime. They are set directly by us and enable our Website to recognise you when you return to us. They are stored on your device in between browser sessions and allow your preferences or actions across our site (or in some cases across different websites) to be remembered.

3. Third Party cookies – Third party cookies are not set by Casas Lifestyle but are instead set by a third party. Online advertising is a common example where third party cookies are used.