Privacy Policy
(Updated January 2024)
Our contact details
Name: Fold the Corner Books
Address: 31 Milford House, Portsmouth Road, Milford, Surrey, GU8 5HJ
Phone Number: 07984338983
E-mail: books@foldthecornerbooks.co.uk
The type of personal information we collect
When you buy something from this website, we collect personal information in order to fulfil the order. We may collect information such as:
Billing and shipping address
Details relating to items you have purchased
Email address
Name
Phone number
We share this information with Squarespace, our online store provider, so that they can provide website services to us.
Our payment processor Stripe will also collect payment information from you. You can read their privacy policy at https://stripe.com/privacy.
As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.
How we get the personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
Processing your orders, transactions and payment
Communicating with you, including about our books, or items and information we think may be of interest to you
Communicating with you to let you know of catalogues, items, events or offers we think may be of interest to you
We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:
Squarespace analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful basis we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting books@foldthecornerbooks.co.uk
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored.
We keep the personal details you have provided to us until your consent is withdrawn, or for data for which we have a statutory requirement, which we will keep as long as is legally required. We will then dispose of your information by deleting it from our database.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at books@foldthecornerbooks.co.uk if you wish to make a request.
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at books@foldthecornerbooks.co.uk.
You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk