Parish & Shires Privacy Policy
Who are we?
Why we have a Privacy Policy
The personal information we collect from you
- By submitting forms, for example when you send a request via our website.
- By sending us emails and text messages (Mobile text SMS or Multimedia Messaging Service, MMS).
- By interacting with us on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter etc.
- By submitting photograph to us or by uploading a photograph and tagging us on social media.
- By talking to us on site or over the telephone. For example, when making a purchase or complaint.
- Full details of the purchases you make on our websites. These include the time, date and location of purchase, the products you buy from us, any vouchers or alternative means of payment you may use, as well as relevant payment cards such as a credit, debit card or PayPal.
- Information on what you view, click on and access by way of our marketing emails and text messages (SMS or MMS), websites. We make cookie policies available on our website to give you more detailed information on how we use them. The cookie policy for this website is set out below.
Cookie policy
We use the following cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.
- Analytical or performance cookies: These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Functionality cookies: These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
- Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Types of cookies
- Session cookies are temporary cookies which only exist during the time you use the website (or more strictly, until you close the browser after using the website). Session cookies help our website remember what you chose on the previous page, avoiding the need to re-enter information and improve your experience whilst using the website.
- Persistent cookies stay on your device after you’ve visited our website. For example, the location you chose, a persistent cookie will be used so that the website remembers it the next time you use it. Persistent cookies help us identify you as a unique visitor.
- Google Analytics
- Bing Advertising
- Applicable Social Media platforms
- Technical information about the devices you use to access our websites and mobile apps. We also collect this detail when you use our in-store WIFI networks to access the internet. We specifically save each device's unique identifying codes (MAC address or IMEI number) device model, device name, relevant IP address, operating system and version, web browser and version, and geographic location.
- Your social media content where this is in the public domain, and any messages you send direct to us via social media. This information can include posts and comments, pictures and video footage on sites such as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. You should always review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the social media that you use to make sure you understand what kind of information relating to you may be out there in the public domain and how you can stop or limit it from happening.
- Profile information and insight from organisations that already hold information on you, such as credit reference agencies and 'customer insight companies'. They give us their views on your household, your status, as well as your possible preferences and behaviours.
How we use it
- To respond to an enquiry made by you
- To improve your online experience and to personalise your visits by storing information about your preferences
- To improve our products and services and those of our suppliers.
- To process your online bowling bookings and any other transactions you make via our website.
- To contact you from time to time regarding things you've told us you want to hear about, new products, for example, or special offers. If you stop using our services, we may try and introduce ourselves back to you.
- To get feedback from you about our products, websites, and other services and activities. For example, occasionally we may invite you to review a product or service you've bought or used from us. If we do, it's possible that we'll use independent research and feedback providers to act on our behalf.
- To respond to any social media posts or other public comments you might make, whether they are directly to us or about us, our products, websites, services or other activities.
- To advertise products or services to you for example on your favourite social media sites (e.g. Facebook). Please note that these may be in the form of a link to a website.
- To ensure Parish and Shires Commercial Limited 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 purchase history, website cookies and other similar technologies. It is then combined with data from other internet users to create audience profiles consisting of interests and characteristics. These audience profiles are used by our online advertisers to serve you adverts that are relevant to you and your interests.
- To monitor how people use our websites 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.
Who do we share information with?
Generally, we will only use your information within Parish and Shires Commercial Limited. However, sometimes we use third parties to process your information on our behalf. Parish and Shires Commercial Limited requires these third parties to comply strictly with our instructions and when we share your information, we want you to know that we only do so in accordance with our legal data protection and privacy obligations.
Your information may be disclosed to:
- People who help us provide our websites, WIFI networks, email services and related services to you. They include information technology experts who design and host our websites, and payment services, companies that make it easy for you to use your credit or payment cards with us. Other examples include market research companies, marketing, advertising, design and PR organisations and general service companies such as printers, mailing houses and form-scanning service providers.
- Partners or companies to arrange the supply or delivery of materials.
- Social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, and our advertising partners to enable us to run targeted promotions for you on their platforms.
- Any new business partners we may have over time, for example, in the event of a joint venture, reorganisation, business merger or sale that affects us.
We may also share the information we collect where we are legally obliged to do so, e.g. to comply with a court order.
Social media, blogs, reviews, etc
Any social media posts or comments you send to us (on the Parish and Shires Commercial Limited Facebook pages, for instance) will be shared under the terms of the relevant social media platform (e.g. Facebook or Twitter) on which they're written and could be made public. Other people, not us, control these platforms. We are not responsible for this kind of sharing. So, before you make any remarks or observations about anything, you should review the terms and conditions and privacy policies of the social media platforms you use. That way, you'll understand how they will use your information, what information relating to you they will place in the public domain, and how you can stop them from doing so if you're unhappy about it. We use a Facebook pixel for marketing purposes. You can find out more information about this in the cookie policy section.
It's worth remembering too, that any blog, review or other posts or comments you make about us, our products and services on any review or user community services will be shared with all other members of that service and the public at large.
You should take extra care to ensure that any comments you make on these services, and on social media in general are fit to be read by the public, and are not offensive, insulting or defamatory. At the end of the day, you are responsible for ensuring that any comments you make comply with any relevant policy on acceptable use of those services.
Cookies
- Session cookies - these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our website. These allow you to carry information across pages of our website and avoid you having to re-enter information.
- Persistent cookies - these cookies remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie). These help us to recognise you as a unique visitor (just a number) when you return to our website and allow us to tailor content, advertisements and the presentation of our website to match your preferences.
- Third party cookies - third parties serve persistent cookies via our website site. These are used to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics to serve advertisements on our website and track whether these advertisements are clicked on by users, to control how often you are shown a particular advertisement, to count the number of anonymous users of the website and to provide security within transactions.
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If you believe that any information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you should write to us without delay. Any information that is found to be incorrect will be promptly corrected.