Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and individual customers.
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.
1.3 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can opt out of receiving direct marketing communications and limit the collection of your data.
1.4 We use cookies on our website. We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website. The cookies on our website provide no function towards the goods and services provided by this website, they allow us to understand more about your anonymous website session and set browser preferences giving you a better user experience.
1.5 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Panna Parmar (Quartz London Limited).
2. The personal data that we collect
2.1 In this Section 2, we have set out the general categories of personal data that we process and any data that you have consented to providing us.
2.2 We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you ("contact data"). The contact data will be anything that you’ve supplied to us via the contact form, by telephone or email. This data may include your name, your email address, your postal address, your telephone number and any other information that you’ve consented to sharing with us via social media.
2.3 We may process your website user account information ("account data") when you make a purchase on the website. The account data may include your account identifier, name, email address, business name, account creation and modification dates, website settings and marketing preferences. You are the primary source of the account data. If you log into our website using a social media account, we will obtain elements of the account data from the relevant social media account provider.
2.4 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and/or services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may include your name, your contact details, your payment card details (or other payment details) and the transaction details. You are the source of the transaction data.
2.5 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include [your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is Google Analytics and Wix.com
3. Purposes of processing and legal bases
3.1 In this Section 3, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 Operations - We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website, the processing and fulfilment of orders, providing our services, supplying our goods, generating invoices, bills and other payment-related documentation, and credit control. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website, services and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.3 Relationships and communications - We may process your contact data, account data, transaction data and/or communication data for the purposes of managing our relationships, and communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email, SMS, post, fax and/or telephone, providing support services and complaint handling. The legal basis for this processing is communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.
3.4 Direct marketing - We may process your contact data, account data and/or transaction data for the purposes of creating, targeting and sending direct marketing communications by email, SMS, post and/or fax and making contact by telephone for marketing-related purposes. The legal basis for this processing is for promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.
3.5 Research and analysis - We may process your usage data and/or transaction data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is for monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business.
3.6 Record keeping - We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.
3.7 Security - We may process your personal data for security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.
3.8 Legal compliance and vital interests - We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
4. Providing your personal data to others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice.
4.2 Your personal data will be held in our website database.
4.3 Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices at [URLs].
4.4 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International transfers of your personal data
5.1 In this Section 6, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA).
5.2 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in Israel. The competent data protection authorities have made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of each of these countries. For more information, go to https://support.wix.com/en/article/about-the-wix-servers
5.3 You acknowledge that any personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and deleting personal data
6.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.
6.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Your contact data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 years following the date of the most recent contact between you and us, and for a maximum period of 5 years following that date;
(b) Your account data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 years following the date of closure of the relevant account, and for a maximum period of 5 years following that date;
(c) Your transaction data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 year following the date of the transaction, and for a maximum period of 5 years following that date;
(d) Your communication data will be retained for a minimum period of 2 years following the date of the communication in question, and for a maximum period of 5 years following that date;
(e) Your usage data will be retained for 10 years following the date of collection;
6.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Your rights
7.1 In this Section 7, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.
7.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;
(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;
(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;
(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;
(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;
(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.
7.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.
7.4 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact form on our Contact us page.
8. About cookies
8.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
8.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
8.3 Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
9. Cookies that we use
9.1 We use cookies for the following purposes:
(a) authentication and status - we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website, and to help us determine if you are logged into our website. (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]);
(b) shopping cart - we use cookies to maintain the state of your shopping cart as you navigate our website. (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies])]];
(c) personalisation - we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise our website for you. (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]);
(d) security - we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally. (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]);
(e) advertising - we use cookies to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]);
(f) analysis - we use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]); and
(g) cookie consent - we use cookies to store your preferences in relation to the use of cookies more generally (cookies used for this purpose are: [identify cookies]).
10. Cookies used by our service providers
10.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
10.2 We use Google Analytics. Google Analytics gathers information about the use of our website by means of cookies. The information gathered is used to create reports about the use of our website. You can find out more about Google's use of information by visiting https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ and you can review Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.[ The relevant cookies are: [identify cookies].
11. Managing cookies
11.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version.
11.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
11.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
12. Amendments
12.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
12.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
12.3 We may not notify you of all changes or we identify significant changes and notify you to this policy by email.
13. Our details
13.1 This website is owned and operated by [Panna Parmar, Quartz London Limited].
13.2 We are registered in [England and Wales] under registration number 08618759, and our registered office is at Bridge House, Orchard Lane, Great Glen, Leicester, Leicestershire, England, LE8 9GJ
13.3 You can contact us:
(a) [using our website contact form];
14. Data protection officer
14.1 Our data protection officer's contact details are: Name: Panna Parmar, contactable via the online form.