Privacy Policy
This privacy policy sets out how Laughing Hedgehog uses and protects any data that you provide to us when using this website.
Laughing Hedgehog is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and we will only use any personal identifiable information that you provide to us for the purpose for which it was given and we will not share this with any third parties.
Laughing Hedgehog may update this policy to reflect any changes or updates to the legislation in force at any given time. This policy is effective from 14th September 2019.
What we may collect:
We may collect:
- Your name.
- Your contact information, including your e-mail address and a telephone number.
- Certain demographic information such as your fabric preferences and interests.
- Information pertaining to customer surveys and/or promotions or special offers (Laughing Hedgehog’s only).
Why do we collect this information?
- Internal record keeping so that we may improve our products and services.
- To facilitate the sending of promotional emails about new products, new services or special offers, using the e-mail address you have provided to us.
- We may contact you by e-mail or telephone and may use the information to customise our website according to our customer base interests.
- If you do not click to ‘Subscribe’ to our website, your information will only be used to reply to a contact message, fulfil a purchase order or to provide information following a product/service enquiry.
Security
Laughing Hedgehog is committed to ensuring that your information is kept secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place physical, electronic and processing procedures to safeguard your personal, identifiable information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. If you agree, the file is added and then helps to analyse web traffic or records when you visit a particular website.
Cookies allow web applications to respond to your individual interests or preferences and can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, dislikes etc by gathering and storing information about your preferences.
Laughing Hedgehog may use traffic logging cookies to identify which pages are being viewed to help us analyse data and improve our website. This information will only be used for data analysis purposes.
Cookies may help us to provide you with a better website experience by allowing us to monitor which pages you find useful but does not, in any way, provide us with access to your computer or any other information about you, apart from that which you choose to share with us.
Links
Our website may contain links to other websites that we feel might be of interest to our client base. Once you use any of these links, you should be aware, that Laughing Hedgehog has no control over that website nor the information that they may collect about you. Therefore, Laughing Hedgehog cannot be held responsible for protecting the privacy of any information which you may provide whilst visiting such sites as they are not governed by Laughing Hedgehogs’ Privacy Policy. Subscribers should, therefore, exercise caution and review the Privacy Policy of any other websites that they may visit.
Controlling your personal information
You have the right to choose to restrict the collection, or use, of your personal information, as follows:
- Any time you are asked to fill in a form on the website, there should also be a box that you can click on to indicate that you do not want the information used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
- If you have given your permission, in the past, for Laughing Hedgehog to use your personal information for direct marketing, you may change your mind at any time by writing to us at 9 Etal Walk, Skelton-in-Cleveland, Salburn-by-the-Sea, Cleveland TS12 2GG or emailing us at laughinghedgehogsales.com
- Laughing Hedgehog will not sell, distribute, lease or share your personal information with third parties unless we have your specific consent or are required to do so, by law. We may use your personal information to send you promotional material about third parties that we think might interest you but only if you indicate that you are happy for us to do so.
- Under the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) you have the right to request full details of any and all personal information that we may hold about you. A small fee will be payable for providing this information and Freedom of Information requests can be made by writing or emailing laughinghedgehogsales@gmail.com Please allow 28 working days for the information to be provided.
- If you believe that any of the information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us as soon as possible to advise. We will correct any information promptly and contact you to advise when this has been completed.