Data protection
This web site makes use of data protection by design and default. That means it’s designed to gather as little information from you as feasibly possible. There are no adverts that track your every move and cookie use is limited to the bare essentials needed to make the web site function.
What is this web site?
The address of this web site is https://www.SoberThinking.com – it should be shown in your browser bar, i.e. in the box you typed this domain name in to or the bookmark you accessed it through. The web site is owned and operated by MacLellan Creative Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 12667542. Use of this web site indicates acceptance of our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.
What personal data is collected and why?
Comments
Comments aren’t used on this site.
Media
You can’t upload your own media to this site.
Contact forms
When you submit personal information using any method via this site, the information you type in to the form, intended for us to see, will be sent to us. So, for example, if you type your name in a ‘Name’ box, your name will be sent to us. Same applies for all the other boxes on the various forms used on this site. Sorry, we know this is kind of obvious but we’re obliged to tell you. If you type personal information in a box and click ‘submit’ then that personal information will be sent to us. If you would rather we didn’t receive personal information about you then a) don’t type it in a the box and b) don’t click submit. Same rules apply if you send us an e-mail.
Cookies
Cookies are small files stored on your computer to make websites work. Pretty much all websites make use of them. On this site cookies are used for statistical, analytical and functional purposes only. We don’t knowingly use tracking cookies – if you find one of these or any other cookies you don’t think we should be using please let us know! To work out where visitors are coming from, anonymised IP addresses are used by Google Analytics. These can’t be traced back to individual users or computers.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Your login cookie should remain in place for 2 days. If you log out of your account, the login cookies should be removed.
How long is your data retained?
If you send us a personal comment via a contact form it will be retained indefinitely for historical reference. Personal information sent to us via our shop for order processing is retained for the following time periods:
What rights you have over your data
You can request to have a copy of information we hold about you. You can also request for this information to be deleted. This does not include any data we’re obliged to keep for administrative, legal, tax, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
We won’t knowingly share or sell your data outside this business. In the event of sale or transfer of ownership of this business as a whole, all data associated with the business sale would be transferred to the new business owners in whole or in part. This may include but is not limited to all customer information, customer databases and historic order information. This data would become the property and responsibility of the new business owners.
Contact information
You can get in touch via the contact form on this web site. Contact forms are discussed above. If you send a message asking for no personal information to be stored then you will have to send some identifying personal information. Such as, your name and e-mail address so we know who you are.
Right to variation
We expressly reserve the right to vary our Privacy Policy at any time without notice. The version published at the time you submitted personal information to us applies.
April 2020 – Version 1.0