It is A Handmade Cottage's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.

This privacy policy informs you how A Handmade Cottage uses and protects information you give us when using our website www.ahandmadecottage.com. This privacy policy has been created in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose and otherwise make use of personal information.

We use your personal information only for providing and improving the site. By using the site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

We have outlined our privacy policy below…

We may collect the following information:

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyse this.

Data you send to us via this website:

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This website may collect the following information via its contact and enquiry form features (use of these features is at your own discretion):

- Your name
- Your contact information including email address

How we use this data:

- For our own internal records
- To improve our products and services
- To contact you in response to a specific enquiry
- To customise the website for you
- To contact you via email to send you newsletters and promotional emails about products, services,      offers and other things we think might be relevant to you.

We will always respect your data:

- We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the        knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.
- Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
- We will collect and use personal information solely for fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other ancillary purposes, unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
- Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.
- We will protect personal information by using reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
- We will make readily available to customers information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
- We will only retain personal information for as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes.

Sharing your data:

We will not share your personal information with or sell it to third-party marketers unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

We may use the following third-party service providers named below to process and store your data:

Mailchimp, which we use to manage email marketing subscriber lists and send emails to our subscribers. Read their privacy policy here.

Cookies policy:

We may use cookies to:
- Record website usage data
- Identify whether you are signed into our website
- Test content on our website
- Store information about your preferences
- Recognise when you return to our website

Cookies do not provide us with access to your computer. You can use your web browser’s settings to refuse cookies if you wish. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 2018. ahandmadecottage reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time at our sole discretion. The latest version will always be published on this page.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at ahandmadecottae{at} icloud.com