Privacy Policy : The Gift Book Company

The Gift Book Company is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold about you. In order for you to buy books online, and to provide you with a personalised shopping experience, we collect certain information from you. We share this information with Squarespace, our hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. This Privacy Notice provides a brief explanation of what we collect and why. It also explains how we look after your data and keep it safe.

We have kept this short but if you have any questions at all, please do drop us a line at thegiftbookcompany@gmail.com. If you would like to unsubscribe from our list, either email us and we can take you off or you can click here to remove yourself. If required we can also delete ALL information about you from our systems.

What personal data we collect, how we use it and why

When you place an order on our website, we collect your name, delivery name and address, billing address, email address and phone number if provided. This is only used to fulfil your order. If we don't collect this personal data, we won't be able to process and deliver your order and comply with our legal obligations.

Marketing communications

We aim to communicate with you in ways that you find relevant, timely and respectful. Only if you have actively chosen to be subscribed to our mailing list will you receive emails about new books, offers and events. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from our list, click here.

Protection of your personal data

We store your personal data on password-protected systems and will never share this information with third parties unless we have to for the fulfilment of orders. When you make a payment online, we do not store your card details ourselves. The payment is processed independently with your bank provider or PayPal.

Sensitive personal data

Data Protection law recognises that certain categories of personal information are more sensitive such as health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions. We do not collect this type of information. We only connect information that is necessary to process your order.