Privacy Policy

Who we are

Connoisseur Dry Cleaners
3-5 Fairhazel Gardens,
Swiss Cottage,
London,
NW6 3QE

Our website address is: https://connoisseurdrycleaners.co.uk.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Connoisseur Dry Cleaners offer various services to the public. We have to hold the details of people who have requested the service in order to provide it.

We collect information about you when you:

  • Visit our store
  • Register an account on our website
  • connoisseurdrycleaners.co.uk
  • Purchase services on our website
  • Take part in competitions
  • Contact our store in any way

You will be asked to provide information such as your contact details. We will store this data and hold it on our epos system. We will use this data to fulfil our service with you. We may use information to contact you by e-mail, telephone ,electronic messages, post or otherwise.

We may give information about you to the following, who may use it for the same purposes as set out above:

  • To employees of Connoisseur Dry Cleaners to reconcile accounts, products and services provided to you by us now or in the future;
  • To other organisations for services we outsource such as large rugs.
  • If we have a duty to do so or if the law allows us to do so.
  • To any successors to our business.

When people do subscribe to our services, they can cancel their subscription at any time and are given an easy way of doing this.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you use a contact form to contact us it will be stored indefinitely. It will not be shared with any other organisations.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

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. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognises that cookie. We use cookies to improve the service that we provide to you. For example we use cookies:

  • to personalise your visit and to enable you to use some of the features of the site.
  • to improve the way in which the site works by allowing us to understand how you use the site. These cookies collect mostly anonymous data that is aggregated across all visitors to the site.
  • to measure the effectiveness of the emails we send you and our online advertising.

For example we use cookies to tell us if you have opened emails that we have sent you or if you have seen a specific advert.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

When someone visits www.connoisseurdrycleaners.uk we use a third party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be up front about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Who we share your data with

The only data that is shared is the data obtained by Google Analytics, Word Press and Woo Commerce and passed to us.
Connoisseurs does not share this data with any other organisation.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

When clients provide their contact details Connoisseur Dry Cleaners will use this information for it’s own purposes such as arranging a collection, validating a payment or discussing a previous / on-going service that we are providing.

Additional information

How we protect your data

When using our website Word Press and it’s relative plugins such as Woo Commerce helps maintain the security and performance of our website. For more information on how word press processes data please see Automattic’s privacy notice.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Should we be made aware of a data breach it will be reported within 72 hours to the local authority who will guide us through the next steps.

What third parties we receive data from

Google Anaylitics and Word Press.