This privacy policy sets out how Spot of Tea Designs uses and protects any information that you give Spot of Tea Designs when you purchase an item using Etsy.com or its related sites and services.

Spot of Tea Designs is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website platform, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Spot of Tea Designs may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from May 24th 2018.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that Spot of Tea Designs do not own or control, including Etsy or any third party services you access through Etsy. You can reference the Etsy Privacy Policy to learn more about its privacy practices.

What we collect:

To fulfil your order, you must provide us with certain information (which you authorised Etsy to provide to Spot of Tea Designs),
-Name
-Email address
-Postal address
-Payment information
-Details of the product that you’re ordering
You may also choose to provide us with additional personal information, if you contact us directly.

What we do with the information we gather:

Spot of Tea Designs rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

-Providing our services, such as when I we use your information to fulfill your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support.
-If necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and
-as necessary for the purpose of Spot of Tea Designs' legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. Spot of Tea Designs use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest to improve our services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. Spot of Tea Designs use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.

Information Sharing and Disclosure:

Information about our customers is important to our business. We share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

-Etsy. Spot of Tea Designs share information with Etsy as necessary to provide you my services and comply with my obligations under both the Etsy Seller Policy and Etsy Terms of Use.
-Compliance with laws. Spot of Tea Designs may collect, use, retain, and share your information if Spot of Tea Designs have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce Spot of Tea Designs's agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of our customers, or others.

Data Retention:

Etsy retain your personal information only for as long as necessary. Spot of Tea Designs only retain your personal information for a very short period. Spot of Tea Designs also may be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: 6 months.

Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU:

Spot of Tea Designs do not store or process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions.

Your Rights

If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:

Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting Spot of Tea Designs using the contact information below.
Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict Spot of Tea Designs's use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where Spot of Tea Designs required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.
Object. You can object to (i) Spot of Tea Designs's processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about Spot of Tea Designs's use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.

How to Contact Spot of Tea Designs:

For purposes of EU data protection law, Spot of Tea Designs, are the data controllers of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact Spot of Tea Designs at spotofteadesigns@yahoo.com