Privacy Policy and Cookies

Rusty Pencil is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are required by law to obtain your consent to our collection, processing, sharing and holding of your personal data. Please ensure you have read this policy fully and accept all that it contains. If you have any queries, please contact us directly.

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By using this website you consent to the collection, use and transfer of your information under this policy.

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This policy outlines how Rusty Pencil collects, uses and shares information when you purchase anything from us, contact us, or otherwise use our services directly or via any third-party sites or companies and their related sites and services.

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This policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, such as Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel. Please refer to their privacy policies to learn more.

 

Information we collect about you

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To fulfil your order, we ask you to give us the following information:

• Your name

• Your email address

• Your postal address

• Payment information

 

How we collect data

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You directly provide most of the data we collect. This is done when:

• You register or place an order online

• You use or view this website via your browser’s cookies

 

How do we use your data?

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We use your data to process and manage you order, and to email you with special offers and products that you might like.

 

How do we store your data?

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Rusty Pencil is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your personal data will be stored securely on the servers of Wix.com. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

 

Your data protection rights

 

You may request to have your personal data removed at any time by contacting us. You can request access to your data at any time. We will provide you with a full copy within one month of your request.

 

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you can contact us at patrick@rustypencil.com 

 

We use Cookies

 

Your acceptance of our Cookie policy is deemed to occur when you press the 'Continue' button on our Cookie banner pop up. If you do not agree to our Cookie Policy, please stop using this site.  

 

Cookies are very small pieces of data stored on a visitor’s browser. They serve a variety of functions, such as:

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• providing a better experience for our visitors

• identifying registered members and visitors

• monitoring and analysing the performance, operation and effectiveness of the site

• ensuring the site is safe and secure

 

Types of cookies

 

There are many types of cookies. Examples used by Wix.com include:

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• Strictly necessary cookies: these are cookies that let visitors browse through the site. They are also necessary for security reasons

• Functional Cookies: these cookies ‘remember’ registered visitors and customers in order to improve their user experience

• Session cookies: these are erased when a site visitor closes their browser and are not used to collect information from their computers

• Persistent cookies: these are stored on a site visitor’s hard drive until they expire (at a set expiration date) or until they are deleted

 

You can block all or some cookies by activating the setting on your browser. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies you may not be able to access all or parts of this website.

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For Chrome users visit: Chrome cookies

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For Safari users visit: Safari cookies

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For more information about cookies visit: allaboutcookies.org

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Third party cookies

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This website also uses third party tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it.

 

Third party tracking software providers are:

 

• Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. Read Google's privacy policy for further information here.

 

    You can opt-out via the Google analytics opt-out browser here.

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• Facebook Pixel that uses cookies to track visitor usage. You can read Facebook’s privacy policy here. Or Facebook's cookie policy here.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy law is under constant review. This policy may need to be updated from time to time.

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How contact us

 

If you have any queries, please email patrick@rustypencil.com