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Whickham Cards and Gifts customer privacy notice

 

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information. It explains who we are, what personal data we will collect and why we collect it, how we process personal data, how we store your personal data. 

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It also explains how to get in touch with us if you need to. 

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Who we are

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WHICKHAM CARDS AND GIFTS LTD

Our contact details are:

6 St Marys Green

Whickham

Newcastle upon Tyne

NE16 4DN

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Telephone:

0191 488 8496

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What information we collect, use, and why

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We may collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

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  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Date of birth

  • Purchase or account history

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)

 

We may collect or use the following information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:

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  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

  • Purchase history

  • Marketing preferences
     

We may collect or use the following information for service updates or marketing purposes:
 

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Marketing preferences

  • Location data

  • Purchase or viewing history

  • IP addresses

  • Website and app user journey information

  • As you browse this website, we may collect information on your visit and how you move around different sections of the site for analytics purposes.

  • We may also keep a record of the content on our website that you’ve clicked on, and this may involve the use of cookies.

  • Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to your hard drive to store and sometimes track information about you.  Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can change your browser to prevent that and your help screen or manual will tell you how to do this. 

  • Cookies are specific to the server that created them and cannot be accessed by other servers, which means they cannot be used to track your movements around the web. Although they do identify a user’s computer, cookies do not personally identify users and passwords and credit card information are not stored in cookies.

  • If we wish to send you advertising, marketing or promotional materials, we may collect your individual contact details to send you direct marketing material to market our services (either to you.
     

Lawful bases and data protection rights
 

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.
 

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:
 

 

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

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To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

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Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data
 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you

  • From the use of cookies on our website, which you will consent to
     

How long we keep information

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us keeping your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us.

 

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

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How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

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If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

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The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

 

Last updated June 2025

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