Privacy Policy

We take the security and privacy of your personal data extremely seriously, and our Privacy Policy contains details of how we handle that information.

You will find full details of our privacy policy on this page, but for a quick overview, we’ve put together a few of the more frequently asked questions.

FAQs

Does WoolGeek collect personal data?

Yes.

What personal data does Wool WoolGeek collect?

Primarily, we collect your name, address, email address and telephone number.

Why does WoolGeek collect personal data?

Quite simply, if we didn’t, we wouldn’t be able to process your order. We need your name and address so we know where to send your order. We need your email address and/or telephone number in order to contact you with your order confirmation, shipping confirmation, and to get in touch if there are any problems with your order.

Do you share personal data with any third parties?

Yes, as we have to do this in order to process your order. For example, we have to share your name and address with the payment processor (Stripe, PayPal or our Bank) in order to accept and verify your payment. We have to share your contact details with the delivery company (Pošta Slovenije) in order for them to be able to deliver your order. We also share your contact details with our email processors (Siol) in order to send emails.

Do you sell personal data to any third parties?

Absolutely not!

Do you send marketing emails?

Yes – but only if you’ve given us your explicit consent. You will NOT be automatically added to our marketing list if you place an order, as we’ve always found that sort of practice to be a bit presumptuous. You will only be added to our marketing list if you tick the box to opt in, and you can opt-out at any point by clicking the unsubscribe link that we include on all our marketing emails.

Do you engage in remarketing?

Remarketing is the name given to those stalker-ish ads that follow you round on different websites. We find it a bit spooky, so we don’t do it.

Can I access the personal data you hold?

Yes, you can request that we tell you what personal data we hold. You may also request that we amend any incorrect data, and you may also request that we remove the personal data concerned.

Visitors to Our Website

We may collect and process personal data about you in the following circumstances:

- When you complete forms on our website (“Site”). This includes your name, address, email and telephone number, which is provided at the time of registering to use our Site, where you ask us to contact you about our goods or services, subscribe to our mailing list, or request our goods and services;

- Whenever you provide information to us when reporting a problem with our Site, making a complaint, making an enquiry or contacting us for any other reason. If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;

- Details of your visits to our Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise, and the resources that you access (see section on Cookies below); and

- Whenever you disclose your information to us, or we collect information from you in any other way, through our Site.

We may also collect data in the following ways:

- We may collect information about your device, including where available your Internet Protocol address, for reasons of fraud protection. We may also collect information about your device’s operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

 Website Links

Our Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites, such websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal data and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. When you leave our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy notice/policy of every website you visit.

 Customers

We will collect details such as your name, address, phone number and email address when you order goods or services from us via our Site. We will use this information to process your order and comply with our contractual obligations.

In order to perform our contract with you, we may also need to share personal data with third parties such as payment providers and postal service organizations to assist in the delivery of goods or services you have ordered; this could include third party couriers or warranty providers.

 What we collect

We may collect the following information: name, postal address, email address, telephone number.

What we do with the information we collect

We collect information about you in order to provide you with the goods and services you have requested from us. This information may also be used for internal record keeping, and to improve our products and services. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.

Legal basis for processing your personal data

We will only use your personal data where the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

- for performance of a contract we enter into with you;

- where necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation we are subject to;

- for the purposes of legitimate interests

 Disclosure of personal data to third parties

We may disclose your information to third parties as follows:

- to our nominated payment service providers

- to our nominated postal service organizations

- to our staff members in order to facilitate the provision of goods or services to you;

- to our IT software providers that host our website;

- to our email service provider;

- to professional advisers including consultants, lawyers, bankers and insurers who provide us with consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services;

- to HM Revenue and Customs, regulators and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances; and

- to the police, regulatory bodies, legal advisors or similar third parties where we are under a legal duty to disclose or share personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our website terms and conditions and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers, or others.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.

Information you provide to us is shared on our secure servers. We have implemented appropriate physical, technical and organizational measures designed to secure your information against accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties that have a legitimate business need for such access.

Credit Card Security

All credit/debit card payments from our website are made through the secure Stripe or Paypal gateways using industry standard 128-bit encryption. The transaction takes place electronically, eliminating the security risks associated with old methods of writing down and then manually inputting card details. As the payment is handled by Stripe or Paypal, we do not handle or store these details on our own servers at any point.

Controlling your personal data

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if the personal data we hold about you changes.

Data protection legislation gives you the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances or withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data where this has been provided. You also have the right to access information held about you and for this to be provided in an intelligible form.

If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please write to us at info@wookgeek.com.

You can also ask us to undertake the following:

- update or amend your personal data if you feel this is inaccurate;

- remove your personal data from our database entirely;

- send you copies of your personal data in a commonly used format and transfer your information to another entity where you have supplied this to us, and we process this electronically with your consent or where necessary for the performance of a contract; or

- restrict the use of your personal data.

We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and your right to access, and to provide you with the personal data that we hold about you or make your requested changes. Data protection legislation may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal data that we hold about you or to comply with any requests made in accordance with your rights referred to above. If we cannot provide you with access to your personal data, or process any other request we receive, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions.

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us at at info@wookgeek.com.

Cookie Policy

As with all e-commerce websites, we use cookies to store the contents of your shopping basket as you browse. There is no reliable method to do this any other way, and while it is technically possible to browse this (and other) websites with cookies disabled, you will unfortunately not be able to make a purchase. We also use cookies to collect anonymous statistics on the types of software and connections that our customers use to browse our site so that we can continue to improve your customer experience and support the latest technologies as they emerge. This information is used internally by us and is not shared with outside agencies. We also set third party cookies on some pages which are used to personalize your user experience.

By using this website you consent to our using cookies in the ways outlined above. For more information on cookies please visit the ICO page on cookie law.

 Cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

 List of cookies we collect

The table below lists the cookies we collect and what information they store.

COOKIE name	COOKIE Description
CART	The association with your shopping cart.
CATEGORY_INFO	Stores the category info on the page, that allows to display pages more quickly.
COMPARE	The items that you have in the Compare Products list.
CURRENCY	Your preferred currency
CUSTOMER	An encrypted version of your customer id with the store.
CUSTOMER_AUTH	An indicator if you are currently logged into the store.
CUSTOMER_INFO	An encrypted version of the customer group you belong to.
CUSTOMER_SEGMENT_IDS	Stores the Customer Segment ID
EXTERNAL_NO_CACHE	A flag, which indicates whether caching is disabled or not.
FRONTEND	You session ID on the server.
GUEST-VIEW	Allows guests to edit their orders.
LAST_CATEGORY	The last category you visited.
LAST_PRODUCT	The most recent product you have viewed.
NEWMESSAGE	Indicates whether a new message has been received.
NO_CACHE	Indicates whether it is allowed to use cache.
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART	A link to information about your cart and viewing history if you have asked the site.
POLL	The ID of any polls you have recently voted in.
POLLN	Information on what polls you have voted on.
RECENTLYCOMPARED	The items that you have recently compared.
STF	Information on products you have emailed to friends.
STORE	The store view or language you have selected.
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE	Indicates whether a customer allowed to use cookies.
VIEWED_PRODUCT_IDS	The products that you have recently viewed.
WISHLIST	An encrypted list of products added to your Wishlist.
WISHLIST_CNT	The number of items in your Wishlist.

 

This document was last updated in November 2020.