At Montessori Edited, we respect your privacy. We only use the information we collect about you carefully, lawfully and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You have right to access any personal information you have supplied to us. In accordance with Data Protection Act 1998, for your protection, we may ask for proof of your identity before allowing access to your personal information
Information we hold for legitimate interests
- If you have shopped with us we will retain your name, delivery address, telephone number and email address. We also retain a record of your purchase history.
- We do not retain or hold credit/debit card processing details and only process card payments directly with our bank through encrypted methods.
- Our website, www.montessoriedited.com includes an SSL Certificate and is PCI Compliant to ensure security of customers’ personal information.
- We will hold your data indefinitely unless you contact us specifically and request your data is deleted. For further details please see our Customer Deletion policy at the bottom of this page.
Information we use for legitimate interests
- We use the information we hold on your records for order fulfilment or other operational purposes, for example processing your order, dealing with queries, tracking deliveries, reviewing past purchases, fraud checks & processing payments.
- Your order history enables us to validate your purchase guarantee.
- To assist fulfilling your order we may share your name, address, phone number, email address with our suppliers, such as our couriers. Data supplied will be shared using the latest secure server technology to ensure this information is protected to the highest standard.
Your rights
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information is corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfil contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.
Please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
Data retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Use of Cookies
A cookie is a small file that’s stored on your computer by a website to remember certain information. Cookies can be used for many purposes, some of which are essential to the way our website works.
Cookies cannot read information stored on the hard drive of your computer. They cannot be used to spread viruses, cannot access your email address and will only transfer data which you have disclosed to the website.
To be able to place an order on this website you will need to have cookies enabled – which, because it is the standard setting in most web browsers, should require no action on your part. If you have disabled cookies then our website will work perfectly well for browsing and choosing products but you will not be able to order from us online. We are always happy to take orders over the ‘phone if you prefer.
Our website uses cookies for the following reasons:
- To allow you to log in, add products to your basket and check out.
- To allow you to log in and access your account information (including order history).
- To allow you to display your previously viewed products, so you can easily find them again.
- To help with fraud detection & prevention.
- To track customer behaviour on the site, such as the pages you visited and where you left our site. This helps us to improve our website and your browsing experience. This information isn’t linked to any of your personal details and doesn’t let us identify you. It may help us create personal product recommendations on our website and in marketing emails.
Customer deletion
You have the right to request your account and associated data be Deleted completely by Montessori Edited and associated third parties. If you do decide to exercise this right please be aware that all purchase history will be deleted and therefore it may invalidate guarantees for any products purchased.
If you wish for your account to be deleted please email us at montessori.edited@gmail.com