Effective Date: 15.03.2019
We encourage you to take a moment to read Historic Newspapers Limited’s privacy policy for its Historic Newspapers website, which explains what we do with your personal information. Personal information is information which can be used to identify you, for example, your name and address or your email address.
Promotional Codes
- All discount codes must be entered at checkout to receive the offer.
- Please ensure the discount has been applied before completing your order.
- Offers and discounts cannot be added retrospectively to an order.
- We reserve the right to end offers and promotions early at our discretion.
- We reserve the right to extend offers and promotions at our discretion.
- We reserve the right to exclude products from specific promotions offers and discounts at our discretion.
- More than one offer cannot be added to the basket at checkout unless specified.
- Refunds of products included in an offer will reflect the price originally paid for the product
NEWS25 ONLY APPLIES TO NEWSPAPERS, this coupon can not be redeemed on any other product.
Change
We regularly review our privacy policy to ensure it is up to date and accurately describes our privacy practices and services. Any update to this privacy policy will be notified to you via our newsletter and can be identified by you by referring to the privacy notice the effective date at the top of this page.
Placing and Receiving an Order
When you buy something from us whether this is via our website or by telephone via our customer service team, we need to collect and process your name, email address, billing and delivery address and phone number to process and deliver your order and send your order confirmation receipt and notification of despatch.
If you choose to personalize the order for a third party (such as a friend) and/or deliver it to that third party we will collect and process their name and address (and photograph for personalized photograph gifts), again to process and deliver your order.
If you are unable for any reason to provide us with the personal information we need to process and deliver your order, then we will not be able to complete your order.
PayPayl
In order to be able to offer you Paypal’s payment options, we will pass to Paypal certain aspects of your personal information, such as contact and order details, in order for Paypal to assess whether you qualify for their payment options and to tailor the payment options for you.
General information on Paypal you can find here. Your personal data is handled in accordance with applicable data protection law and in accordance with the information in PayPal’s privacy policy.
Following your Order
We provide an online tracking service so that you can follow the progress of your order and to ensure we can efficiently process orders by minimising order queries. To provide this service we use and store your order details.
Visiting our website
When you visit our website, we place cookies on your device (e.g. computer hard drive, mobile phone). We do this to ensure you can make your purchase and so that we can improve our website’s performance.
Our cookie policy has more detail here including how to remove cookies from your browser.
Metrilo is storing, analyzing and assisting Historic Newspapers Ltd organise and run analytical reports on their own data through Metrilo’s marketing product. All data provided to Metrilo is the exclusive property of Historic Newspapers Ltd and Metrilo is only assisting Historic Newspapers Ltd in processing their data.
Order Queries
We have a dedicated customer service team available to help you. As set out above you can use this service to place an order by telephone. You can also use this service to answer any queries you may have, before, during and after you have placed an order. When you use this service to answer a query, we collect your name and contact details. If relevant we also collect your order details. This enables us to deal efficiently with your query.
Sending you our newsletter
When you place an order, unless you have chosen not to receive our newsletter on the order page prior to payment, we use your email address and order history to send you our newsletter containing updates on our products and promotions including those that may particularly interest you based on your past purchases.
If you choose to participate in our Rewards Scheme as an existing customer, we use your personal information to match you to the friends you have recommended us to and send you your money-off voucher code when your friends place an order with us. If you choose to register for our Rewards Scheme as a potentially new customer, we use your email address to send your money off voucher code to use on your first online order.
You can opt out of receiving these emails at any time by clicking onto the ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’ link in any email we send you. When we send you our newsletter, we place a cookie on your device to understand whether you have opened the email and read the newsletter. This helps us design emails and newsletters that are interesting and appealing to our customers.
Your Shopping Basket
When you have placed items in your basket, but not quite completed your order, we collect your email address and basket contents. This means that when you return to your order your basket contents, including any personalization, are still there avoiding the need to search for your items again. We prompt you by email to remind you your order isn’t quite finished because your basket contents will only remain recorded in the basket for a limited amount of time.
Rewards
From time to time we operate a Rewards Scheme offering money off vouchers on your next purchase when you recommend us to your friends and they purchase one of our gifts via our website only.
Customers
The Rewards Scheme is presented to you on our order confirmation page. Participation is completely optional.
Friends
When you receive an email from a friend recommending us and offering you the chance to receive one of our money off vouchers, choosing whether to register to receive that voucher or not is completely optional. The receipt of the email including the link to the registration page from your friend does not involve any collection or processing of your personal information by us.
When you choose to register for our Rewards Scheme, we collect your name, email address, the registration page link you received from your friend and your device IP address. We use this personal information to match you to your order when you buy something from us and record that your money off voucher has been redeemed. We also use this information to check you against our list of friends to send your friend their money off voucher.
Upon making an order you become one of our customers, and we use your personal data collected at the order confirmation page to record you as an existing customer in relation to our Rewards Scheme. You will be offered the chance to recommend us to your friends as detailed in the section above headed Customers.
Sharing your personal information
To complete your order request, including dealing with any queries, we share your personal information with our product suppliers, postal delivery companies, our secure payment processing service supplier and our enquiry service support company.
To improve our product range, order processing and delivery service, we share your email address with an independent review company, Trustpilot. If you have requested that we send your order directly to a third party, the order confirmation includes the third party’s personal information.
To improve our website content, functionality, product range and future customer’s overall shopping experience, we use code embedded on our website pages to understand website journeys to continually improve our customer’s experience of our website. The code enables some of your personal information to be collected as a result of your individual website journeys. These journeys are analysed on our behalf by customer experience and analytics companies.
To find new customers with similar tastes to you, we use a service offered by social media companies. This requires us to hash your email address on our servers. Hashing is a form of one-way encryption. The social media companies also hash the email addresses of their users. We share our hashes with the social media companies, who compare our hashes with their hashes for matches. The hashes that are not matched are permanently deleted. The hashes that do match can effectively be decrypted by the social media companies. This is because they already have the matching hashed email address from their users.
To operate our Rewards Scheme, we share your personal information with our Rewards Scheme service provider.
Where we share your information with other companies, we only do so where those companies have appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security of your information and any processing they undertake is only carried out on the basis of our instructions.
What are your choices?
The law entitles you:
- to receive a copy of any of your personal information which we have collected;
- to request that we correct or complete personal information we have collected;
- to request that we delete or stop using or storing any of your personal information when we no longer need it;
- to object to the processing of your personal information where we are processing it other than to process and deliver your order or deal with a question you may have; and
- in some circumstances, have your personal information transferred to another organisation.
If you would like to exercise any of these choices, please get in touch using the Contact Us information below. Where we have shared your personal information with other companies, we will let them know if you exercise any of these choices.
How long do we keep your personal information for?
We keep your personal information so that we can do all of the things we have listed above. This includes completing your order, making our website user-friendly, dealing with any queries you may have and sending you information on new promotions. We also keep order information, including your personal information, for our own internal financial reporting purposes as required by law.
Third party personal information
At your request, all our gifts can be delivered directly to their recipient. Just make sure you provide this information when you place your order and that you have the consent of the recipient (or where it is a child, the person with parental responsibility for that child) before you share any of their personal information with us.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information then please contact us at: contact@historic-newspapers.com or write to us at:
Data Protection Compliance
Signature Gifts Inc
Unit 2d Bladnoch Bridge Industrial Estate
Wigtown
Newton Stewart
United Kingdom
DG8 9AB