Privacy Policy
At Typhoon Studios’ we value our customers and are committed to protecting your privacy. Any information we collect about you is held with the utmost care and security.
You will be asked to register your name, address, telephone number and email address to submit your order.
The information you provide is used to fulfill your orders, ensuring it will be delivered correctly and to maintain your account.
We ask for your contact details, such as your email address and telephone number, to enable us to answer any questions you have.
To keep you up to date with our latest products, news, promotional offers and events we will contact you by email or post – you do have an option to inform us if you do not wish to receive such information.
You will not be sent any unsolicited materials unless you indicate that you want to receive details about products, offers and events etc. when you register. We do not provide your personal details to other companies or individuals for their marketing purposes.
Cookies are used on this shopping site, but only to keep track of the contents of your shopping cart once you have selected an item. Data collected by this site is used to:
- Take and fulfill customer orders
- Administer and enhance the site and service
- Only disclose information to third-parties for goods delivery purposes
RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN
You have the right to be forgotten at any time.
This can be achieved either by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ button on an email from Typhoon Studios (this button is always present at the end of every email from us) or by contacting our team directly: studio@typhoonstudios.co.uk / 01748 833 378.
We also abide by data portability, meaning that you can request a copy of your personal data in a format usable by you and which is also electronically transmissible to another processing system. The Right To Be Forgotten is completely free of charge.
DATA BREACH PROCEDURE
We take protecting your data very seriously and abide by the Working Party Article 29. The definition of a data breach is: “a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed”.
Should this breach ever occur we will abide by Article 33 and inform the supervisory authority (European Data Protection Supervisor) of the data breach within 72 hours of becoming aware of it. The supervisor will then inform individuals if there is a risk, what the risk is and how to protect themselves from this risk.
COOKIES
WHAT IS A COOKIE?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognise a user’s device.
Persistent cookies – these cookies remain on a user’s device for the period of time specified in the cookie. They are activated each time that the user visits the website that created that particular cookie.
Session cookies – these cookies allow website operators to link the actions of a user during a browser session. A browser session starts when a user opens the browser window and finishes when they close the browser window. Session cookies are created temporarily. Once you close the browser, all session cookies are deleted.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience.
You can find more information about cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org.
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. The tool uses “cookies,” which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Typhoon Studios.
We will never (and will not allow any third party to) use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any Personally Identifiable Information of visitors to our site. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither we nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any Personally Identifiable Information from any source, unless you explicitly submit that information via a fill-in form on our website.
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For more information about Google Analytics, view their terms of service here:http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/analytics/tos.html
USING WEB BROWSER SETTINGS TO MANAGE COOKIES
The Help menu on the menu bar of most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on’s settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer.
However, because cookies allow you to take advantage of some of the Website’s essential features, we recommend you leave them turned on. For example, if you block or otherwise reject cookies you will not be able to add items to your Shopping Basket, proceed to Checkout, or use any of our products and services that require you to Sign in. If you leave cookies turned on, remember to sign off when you finish using a shared computer.