Privacy Policy:

Data Protection and Privacy

At www.thehawthorngallery.co.uk we want you to enjoy your shopping experience in the safe knowledge that any information that you provide us with, whether it is credit card or personal information is secure. In order for us to provide you with the best possible service, we need to gather certain information about you. This information will assist us in tailoring our services, specifically for you.

Unlike other sites, we do not make use of 'cookies' to identify you to our systems. All personal information, is held on servers that are not actually "live" on the internet, but "hidden" behind secure firewalls and protected by pass words. Additionally, our internal procedure helps to protect your privacy by limiting employee access to, and use of, this information.

Primarily, we will use your data to process your order and send your goods to you. This may include passing your details to delivery companies so that we can deliver your parcel. Basic checks are made against your data, to ensure that the details are genuine - these checks are necessary, particularly to help prevent the fraudulent use of credit cards.

To keep you informed of our special offers, if you purchase from www.thehawthorngallery.co.uk, we will send you a regular newsletter. Details of how to control your newsletter, including how to remove yourself completely from the mailing list will ALWAYS be included in the newsletter.

Your information (such as name, address, purchase details etc) will not be given or sold to any outside organisation for its use in marketing without your consent.

Credit Card Security

The purchase area of our site is secure: this means that we ultilise industry-standard Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) technology to allow for the encryption of potentially sensitive information such as your name, address and other critically sensitive information, including your credit card details. Information passed between your computer and our Web site cannot be read if it is intercepted by someone else.

Did you know? The risk of credit card fraud is 100 times greater when you hand you card to the waiter in a restaurant than when you shop on the internet! Modern day encryption technology, used by many internet stores similar to us, virtually eliminates credit card fraud on the internet.

Copyrights

All web-site design, text, graphics, their selection and arrangement thereof, and all software compilations, underlying source code, software and all other material on this Site are the copyright of www.thehawthorngallery.co.uk. Images used are reproduced with the consent of WashingtonGreen, DeMontfort Fine Art, Aurora Fine Art, Alpha 1 Marketing, Cheshire Art Agencies and Buckingham Fine Art. Permission is granted to electronically copy and to print in hard copy sections of this Site for the sole purpose placing an order with us, or using this Site as a shopping resource. Any other use of materials on this Site, including reproduction for purposes other than those noted above, modifications, distributions or reproduction, without or prior written permission is strictly prohibited.