Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy & Cookies

Contract execution

Your personal data will be used to provide the information, goods and services offered through our website to you, for billing and order fulfillment.

We will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail. Any emails sent by thingsbyus.co.uk will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.

The only time we may share your data is in cases where we are required by law to pass on information or if we believe action is necessary for fraud, cyber crime or to protect the website, rights, personal safety of person/s.

Cookies & monitoring

A cookie is a small text file that we store on your device. Our website uses cookies to distinguish from other users of our website. Cookies also provide us with information about how this website is used so we can keep it is as up to date, relevant and error-free as possible. Further information about the types of cookies that may be used on this website is set out below.

To keep track of cart/basket data, our ecommerce software makes use of 3 cookies:

  • woocommerce_cart_hash
  • woocommerce_items_in_cart
  • wp_woocommerce_session_

The first two cookies contain information about the cart as a whole and helps the system know when the cart data changes. The final cookie (wp_woocommerce_session_) contains a unique code for each customer so that it knows where to find the cart data in the database for each customer. No personal information is stored within these cookies.

When visitors comment on out blog, they too get cookies stored on their computer. This is purely a convenience, so that the visitor won’t need to re-type all their information again when they want to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:

  • comment_author
  • comment_author_email
  • comment_author_url

The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.

We also use Google Analytics to monitor traffic to our site and collect the following information:

  • The IP address of your computer
  • The referring website from which you have got to our website from

The reasons for this are:

  • To make ongoing improvements to our website based on this data
  • To see our most popular sources of business

If you would like to find out more about the cookies Google Analytics uses, please read their help guide.

Customer privacy rights

If you are concerned about your data, you have the right, subject to the payment of a small fee to request access to personal data which may hold or process about you.