Privacy Policy

We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors this policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1. What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal data:

  1. Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views).
  2. Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our goods or services
  3. Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters
  4. Any other information that you choose to send to us

2. Cookies

A cookie consists of information sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The information is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may use &ldquosession&rdquo cookies on the website. We will use the session cookies to: keep track of you whilst you navigate the website and when transactions are carried out.

Session cookies will be deleted from your computer when you close your browser.

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users' computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies. For example, in Internet Explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking &ldquoTools&rdquo, &ldquoInternet Options&rdquo, &ldquoPrivacy&rdquo, and selecting &ldquoBlock all cookies&rdquo using the sliding selector. Blocking all cookies will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including this one.

3. Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

  1. Administer the website
  2. Improve your browsing experience by personalising the website
  3. Enable your use of the services available on the website
  4. Send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website
  5. Send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you
  6. send you general (non-marketing) commercial communications
  7. Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested
  8. Send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications.
  9. Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website

Where you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant to us.

We will not without your express consent provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment services provider, Sagepay. You should only provide your personal information to Sagepay after reviewing the Sagepay privacy policy available at www.sagepay.com. We will share information with Sagepay only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via our website.

4. Disclosures

We may disclose information about you to any of our employees insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes as set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose information about you:

  1. To the extent that we are required to do so by law
  2. In connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings
  3. In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk
  4. To the purchaser or prospective purchaser of any business or asset which we are or are contemplating selling.

Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

5. International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Information which you provide may be transferred to countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Areas (EEA).

You expressly agree to such transfers of personal information.

6. Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure password and firewall protected servers. All electronic transactions you make to or receive from us will be encrypted.

Of course, data transmission over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

7. Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time-to-time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes.

8. Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes by email at any time. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt-out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

9. Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

10. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

11. Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email to elaine@spgreen.com or by post to S.P. Green & Co Ltd, 11 Warstone Mews, Warstone Lane, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham B18 6JB.

12. Data controller

The data controller responsible for our website is S.P. Green & Co Ltd.

This privacy policy is courtesy of Employment Law Contracts and Website Law

Cookies Policy

In accordance with the EU law on Cookies we are committed to cookie compliance and provide the following advice to enable you to manage the use of cookies.

This website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can. Cookies are small text files that contain information sent from a web server, and then stored by your web browser on your computer's hard drive or mobile device and used when you browse our website or access our free blog content. They enable our site to identify your web browser but do not contain personal information such as your name or other personal details.

They help us to improve our site and deliver a better experience for our users. Some of the cookies that we use are essential for the site to operate.

We Do Not Use Cookies To:

  1. Collect any personal identifiable information (without your express permission)
  2. Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
  3. Pass data to advertising networks
  4. Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
  5. Pay sales commissions

Our Cookies Help:

  1. Effectively administer our website
  2. Improve the user experience
  3. Remember your settings during and between visits
  4. Improve the security/speed of the site
  5. Aggregate information about the usage and effectiveness of our site
  6. Allow you to share pages with social networks

You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Allowing Us to Use Cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, as your consent to accept our use of cookies. Should you not consent then we provide information on how to remove cookies below, however doing so will likely mean that you may not be able to access all, or parts of our site.

We use traffic log cookies on our website and blog to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website to be more user friendly. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Our Own Cookies

We use cookies to make our website work in the following ways, and all are used to improve the user experience:

  1. Allowing you to add comments to our site
  2. Contact form validation to prevent spam emails being sent
  3. Tracking anonymous visits to website for statistical purposes

Social Website Cookies

These are used to help you 'share' or 'like' content on our website on various social media websites, as we have added sharing buttons on our site.

Cookies set by:

  1. AddThis - provides us with lots of sharing buttons in one package http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

The privacy implications on this will vary from social network to social network and will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen on these networks. Sharing buttons only use cookies if you are signed in on those networks at the time of being on our website.

Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies

We use cookies to compile anonymous visitor statistics for example: how many people have visited our website, what operating system they are using (e.g Mac or Windows that helps to identify when our site isn't working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These analytic programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine).

To disable Google Analytics, visit this tool - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Turning Cookies Off

Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings. You can disable them completely by editing your browser settings, however in doing this you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website and also a large population of websites on the Internet that use cookies to serve their content.

To learn how to disable cookies on browsers please click here. http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=61416

If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet then you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal information about you. There are many antispyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening. Learn more about antispyware software - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware

Cookie Check

Our website uses a cookie to display our "Cookie Notice" at the top of the page. In order for us to remember that a user has agreed and wishes to close that notice we store an anonymous cookie that removes that notice for a period of 7 days. If you do not wish this cookie to be stored then you can choose not to close the notice.

Contact Forms (Captcha)

Our website uses a session cookie to provide users with a contact form validation service known as captcha. This cookie does not store any personal information about you and is only used to check the captcha form field to verify that a human being has entered the information.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics uses cookies to generate anonymous statistical and other information about website use. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google's privacy policy is available at: http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

Google Maps

We use Google Maps to give users the opportunity of visiting our business location. Google Maps only uses cookies to enable you to use the functionality of their map software. No personal information is stored on our website through the use of Google Maps.

Owner Cookie Cookie Name Cookie Description
Google Analytics _utma A Google Analytics cookie, which keeps track of the number of times, a visitor has been to the site, when their first visit was, and when their last visit occurred.
Google Analytics _utmb A Google Analytics cookie, which creates a timestamp of the exact moment when a visitor enters a site.
Google Analytics _utmc A Google Analytics cookie, which creates a timestamp of the exact moment when a visitor leaves the site
Google Analytics _utmv Used for reporting in Google Analytics classifying the visitor.
Google Analytics _utmz A Google Analytics cookie which tracks where the visitor came from, what search engine was used, what link was clicked on, what keywords used, and where in the world the site was accessed from.
AddThis loc, uid/uit, psc, di/dt, atuvc/bt/ssc/ssh/sshs/xtc Allows users to share content via Social Networking websites and email

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