Privacy Policy

Your privacy is of vital importance to us. Accordingly, Roekate Ltd (referred to as “ourselves”, “we”, “us”, and “our”) have developed this Privacy Statement for our website (www.roekate.co.uk). It governs the privacy of our visitors (referred to as “user”, “visitor”, “you”, and “your”) who choose to use it. For purposes of the General Data Protection Regulations, Roekate Ltd is a controller. This policy outlines the procedures we follow to collect, process, store, and protect our user’s personal information. We provide guidance for the requirements and obligations of the user, website and website owners. Users are requested to read this Privacy Statement carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how we may use your personal data. This Privacy Statement is applicable to all visitors to our website and should be read in conjunction with our website Terms and Conditions available on our terms and conditions page. By visiting or using our website or services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Statement.

Your Personal Information

Roekate Ltd collects some of your personal information when you use our website. We collect your personal information when you make a purchase, sign up to our newsletter, create an account and when you contact us. We ask you to provide your personal information such as your first name, delivery address, email address and location (country). You provide this information on a voluntary basis and we only use this to provide our products and services.

We may collect further information about you during your visit to our website and the completion of your transaction with us. We will notify you on our website if we need to collect further information about you. We automatically collect your log information i.e. IP address, browsing data and device information. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information”.

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

  • ‘ Cookies’ - Our website uses cookies to identify your computer and recognise you from other users. You can find out cookie policy here. Roekate Ltd uses cookies to improve your experience. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
  • “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
  • “Web beacons”, “tags”, and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Use of Your Data

Roekate Ltd will use your information to enhance your experience, complete your purchase/delivery and provide communication if you have signed up to our newsletters. We will also use your information to provide you with our products and services, monitor trends, process transactions, identify you and authenticate your details, to improve and personalise our services, provide customer service, research and to manage your account.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimise our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

When in line with the preferences ie.signing up to our newsletter or browsing the website you have shared with us, we may provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. However, when you sign up to our newsletters, we rely on your consent to process your personal information. If we ask for any personal information for secondary purposes e.g. marketing, we will ask you directly for consent or provide you with an opportunity to decline or opt out. If you decide to withdraw your consent for the processing of your personal information (after accepting or opting in), simply contact us on olivia@roekate.co.uk at any time.

Storage of your Information

We have security measures in place when we store your personal information. We will store the personal information you provide to us in order to fulfil your order. We may keep your personal information for purposes of complying with legal obligations such as tax laws. If we no longer require the personal information to provide the services to you, we will delete that personal information.

Sharing of your Information

We may share your information with third-party suppliers who are working on our behalf and require access to your information to carry out billing and payment processing, order fulfilment and customer service.

For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Our providers are carefully selected and we enter into applicable data processing agreements with such third-party suppliers to use your personal information only as necessary to provide services to Roekate Ltd.

All third-party suppliers associated with us have their own privacy terms and terms of service covering the personal information you provide to complete your transaction. As soon as you leave our website, our policies no longer apply. We highly recommend that you read the third-party company’s policies to understand their processes and treatment of your information.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

Behavioural Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Email Newsletter

Our website operates an email newsletter program which is used to inform our subscribers about the products and services we offer. You can subscribe using our online automated process at your own discretion. We may manually process some subscriptions although we will always obtain your consent prior to doing so.

Subscriptions are taken and held securely in compliance with the relevant laws, legislation and regulations. We do not pass any of your personal details to third parties. Email newsletters published by our website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. The activities we track can include when you open our emails, forward the emails, click links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity and purchasing. We use this data to enhance future email newsletters and supply you with more relevant content based on your activity.

When in line with the preferences ie.signing up to our newsletter you have shared with us, we may provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

Our subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time through our automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email newsletter. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable, we will provide clear instructions to follow so you can successfully unsubscribe from our email newsletters.

Do Not Track

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

Your Right to Data

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted.

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. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Please contact us at olivia@roekate.co.uk if you wish to exercise any of these rights.

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.

External Links

Our website may contain links both to and from other websites. We take all the necessary steps to include safe, quality and relevant links, however we cannot guarantee or verify the contents of the external websites. You use all external links at your own risk and we recommend that you use appropriate caution. We do not accept responsibility or liability for any damages or implications caused by visiting linked websites.

Security

The security of your personal and sensitive information is of utmost importance to us. We protect your information by taking appropriate precautions and using accepted industry standards; both during transmission and once we receive your data. We encrypt all of your sensitive information e.g. card details entered on our registration form, using secure socket layer technology (TLS). We follow accepted industry standards to prevent any loss, disclosure, access, alteration, destruction or misuse of your personal information. Please note that no method of transmission of information over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, however we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you have any questions regarding the security of our website, email us on olivia@roekate.co.uk and we will be happy to help you

Disclosure

We reserve the right to disclose your personal information to third parties in order to comply with legal obligations or to address violation of our terms and conditions.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Roekate Ltd reserves the right to make changes to our Privacy Statement at any time and will post updated terms on its website. In the event of material changes, we will provide notification here or on our homepage so you are fully aware of our policies. Any amendments take effect as soon as it is posted on this page. Please read this Privacy Statement on a regular basis to ensure you have full understanding of our procedures.

Contact Us

We are always here to help you. If you have any questions about the practices outlined within this policy statement, please contact us via email at olivia@roekate.co.uk