SubSpace Leathers Privacy notice.

Introduction

SubSpace Leathers , are a company specialising in bespoke, handmade leather. We are Guild of Master Craftsman registered; in recognition of the high-quality items we produce.  Our services are business centric and as such our collection and processing of your personal data is in regard to the fulfilment of our business aims.

We understand that you are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This Privacy Notice describes Sub Space Leather policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognise that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and so we will from time to time update this Privacy Notice as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.

Data Protection Officer

SubSpace Leathers is headquartered in Stanford Le Hope in the United Kingdom. SubSpace Leathers have not appointed an internal data protection officer as our processing is not of a type or scale that requires one. However, should you have any questions or concerns about SubSpace Leathers personal data policies or practices, you can reach out to us at the following address:

subspaceleathers@yahoo.co.uk

How we collect and use (process) your personal information

Personal information you give to us:
Customers - When you become a customer of SubSpace Leathers Etsy Store we collect information about you including (but not limited to) your name, your address, your email address, and phone number.

We process your personal information in order to provide you with the product/s you have purchased, undertake standard business functions such as billing, and to inform you of relevant events, and products. Sub Space Leather may also use this information to help us understand our customers’ needs and interests, to better tailor our products and services to meet those needs. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information (for a custom bespoke order, for example), if you contact me directly.

Sub Space Leather uses Google Analytics to track how often people gain access to or read our content. We use this information in the aggregate to understand what content our customers find useful or interesting, so we can produce the most valuable content and services to meet your needs.

Your correspondence with Sub Space Leathers
If you correspond with us by Email or Etsy Messaging Service, the postal service, or other form of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained in it and use it to respond to your inquiry; to notify you of SubSpace Leathers publications, or services; or to keep a record of your complaint and the like. As always, if you wish to have SubSpace Leathers  “erase” your personal information or otherwise refrain from communicating with you, please contact us at subspaceleathers@yahoo.co.uk


Purposes for processing your data
As explained above, SubSpace Leathers processes your data to provide you with the goods you have purchased from us. We use this information to refine our goods to better tailor them to your needs and to communicate with you about other products we offer.

Personal information we get from third parties - We do not receive information about you from third parties

Why I Need Your Information and How I Use It
I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:
as needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;
when you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;
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 my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest to improve my services; and 2) Compliance with the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use. I use your information as necessary to comply with my obligations under the Etsy Seller Policy and Terms of Use.


What happens if you don’t give us your data?

Whilst you can enjoy the content of our Etsy Store without giving us your personal data. Some personal information is necessary so that SubSpace Leathers can supply you with the products you have purchased, and to authenticate you so that we know it is you and not someone else.


Information Sharing and Disclosure

Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
Etsy. I 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.
Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.
Business transfers. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.
Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce my 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 my customers, or others.


Use of the SubSpace Leathers Etsy Store

Cookies and web beacons
Cookies are pieces of data that a Web site transfers to a user's hard drive for record-keeping purposes. Web beacons are transparent pixel images that are used in collecting information about website usage, e-mail response and tracking.

The Etsy Site uses cookies to provide enhanced functionality on the site (e.g., user ID and password prompts, and conference registration) and aggregate traffic data (e.g., what pages are the most popular). These cookies may be delivered in a first-party or third-party context. SubSpace Leathers may also use cookies and web beacons in association with e-mails delivered by SubSpace Leathers. Etsy also captures limited information (user-agent, HTTP referrer, last URL requested by the user, client-side and server-side clickstream) about visits to Etsy;they may use this information to analyse general traffic patterns and to perform routine system maintenance. You have many choices with regards to the management of cookies on your computer. All major browsers allow you to block or delete cookies from your system. To learn more about your ability to manage cookies and web beacons, please consult the privacy features in your browser.

Etsy uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purposes of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using Etsy, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.




When and how we share information with others

Information about your SubSpace Leathers purchases is maintained in association with your account. The limited personal information that SubSpace Leathers/Etsy holds is stored in one or more databases hosted by third parties located in the UK and Ireland. These third parties do not use or have access to your personal information for any purpose other than cloud storage and retrieval.

We do not otherwise reveal your personal data to third-parties for their independent use unless: (1) you request or authorize it; (2) the information is provided to comply with the law (for example, to comply with a search warrant, subpoena or court order), enforce an agreement we have with you, or to protect our rights, property or safety, or the rights, property or safety of our employees or others; (3) the information is provided to our agents, vendors or service providers who perform functions on our behalf; (4) to address emergencies or acts of God; or (5) to address disputes, claims, or to persons demonstrating legal authority to act on your behalf. We may also gather aggregated data about our customers and Site visitors and disclose the results of such aggregated (but not personally identifiable) information to our partners, service providers, advertisers and/or other third parties for marketing or promotional purposes.




Data subject rights

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and other countries’ privacy laws provide certain rights for data subjects. A good explanation of them (in English) is available on the website of the United Kingdom’s Information Commissioner’s Office.

This Privacy Notice is intended to provide you with information about what personal data SubSpace Leathers collects about you and how it is used. If you have any questions, please contact us subspaceleathers@yahoo.co.uk

If you wish to confirm that SubSpace Leathers is processing your personal data, or to have access to the personal data we may have about you, please contact us at subspaceleathers@yahoo.co.uk.

You may also request information about: the purpose of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; who else outside of SubSpace Leathers might have received the data from us; what the source of the information was (if you didn’t provide it directly to us); and how long it will be stored. You have a right to correct (rectify) the record of your personal data maintained by us if it is inaccurate. You may request that we erase that data or cease processing it, subject to certain exceptions. You may also request that SubSpace Leathers cease using your data for direct marketing purposes. In many countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate data protection authority if you have concerns about how SubSpace Leathers processes your personal data. When technically feasible, SubSpace Leathers will—at your request—provide your personal data to you or transmit it directly to another controller.

Reasonable access to your personal data will be provided at no cost upon request made to SubSpace Leathers at subspaceleather@yahoo.co.uk. If access cannot be provided within a reasonable time frame, we will provide you with a date when the information will be provided. If for some reason access is denied, we will provide an explanation as to why access has been denied.



Data Retention


We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in our Privacy Policy. However, we may also be required to retain this information to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. we generally keep your data for the following time period: 4 years.


Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
We may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction. If we deemed to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
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. We 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 me using the contact information below.
Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.
Object. You can object to (i) my 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 my 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.


As our business changes from time to time, this Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use is expected to change as well. We reserve the right to amend the Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use at any time, for any reason, without notice to you, other than the posting of the amended Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use at this Etsy Website. You should check our Etsy Store Privacy Policies frequently to see the current Privacy Notice and Conditions of Use that is in effect and any changes that may have been made to it. The provisions contained herein supersede all previous notices or statements regarding our privacy practices and the terms and conditions that govern the use of this Site.


Any questions, concerns or complaints

Please contact our privacy officer at the email below:

subspaceleathers@yahoo.co.uk or Via the Etsy Messaging Service