Privacy policy
The below Privacy Policy describes how the-churches-conservation-trust.myshopify.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.*
(* the Privacy Policy relating to all other parts of the Church Conservation Trust's website can be found here).
About Churches Conservation Trust Enterprises Limited
Your personal data (i.e. any information which identifies you, or which can be identified as relating to you personally) will be collected, used and jointly controlled by Churches Conservation Trust Enterprises Limited (CCTEL), a private limited company with registration number 8125965 and data controller number ZB555390, and The Churches Conservation Trust (charity number 258612, with data controller number Z6207323. Both CCT and CCTEL are based at Unit G14 Vulcan Works, 34-38 Guildhall Road, Northampton, NN1 1EW.
Contact
After reviewing this policy, if you have additional questions, want more information about our privacy practices, or would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at consent@thecct.org.uk or by mail using the details provided below:
Churches Conservation Trust Enterprises Limited, Vulcan Works, 34-38 Guildhall Road, Northampton NN1 1EW
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information about an identifiable individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
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Device information
- Purpose of collection:to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimise our Site.
- Source of collection:Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- Disclosure for a business purpose:shared with our processor Shopify.
- Personal Information collected:version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
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Order information
- Purpose of collection:to provide products or services to you to fulfil our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection:collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose:shared with our processor Shopify
- Personal Information collected:name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number.
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Customer support information
- Purpose of collection:To provide support and advice to you around purchases.
- Source of collection: Collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: Shared with our processor Shopify.
- Personal Information collected:name, email address, contact number.
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address above to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfil our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
- We share your Personal Information with the Churches Conservation Trust who provide administrative services for us, and are joint data controllers. We have a contract in place with them that sets out the our expectations and requirements, especially regarding how they store and process the personal data provided by us.
- We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
- We sometimes use external companies to process personal data on our behalf, for example to produce direct marketing materials or analyse web or commercial performance data. In these circumstances, we and The Churches Conservation Trust are joint Data Controllers and these suppliers are Data Processors. The security practices of supplier companies are checked before we appoint them and then on a regular basis. We put contracts in place that set out the organisation’s expectations and requirements, especially regarding how suppliers store and process the personal data provided by us.
Behavioural Advertising
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For example:
- We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
- We use Shopify Audiences to help us show ads on other websites with our advertising partners to buyers who made purchases with other Shopify merchants and who may also be interested in what we have to offer. We also share information about your use of the Site, your purchases, and the email address associated with your purchases with Shopify Audiences, through which other Shopify merchants may make offers you may be interested in.
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
- Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google - https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Bing - https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads]
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: https://optout.aboutads.info/.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfilment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
Lawful basis
Pursuant to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United Kingdom, we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
- Compliance with our legal obligations;
- To protect your vital interests;
- To perform a task carried out in the public interest;
- For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA or the United Kingdom, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We do not engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
- Temporary blacklist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This blacklist persists for a small number of hours.
- Temporary blacklist of credit cards associated with blacklisted IP addresses. This blacklist persists for a small number of days.
Your rights
UK GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA or the United Kingdom, you can contact us at any time and ask :
What information we have stored about you
You have the right to request, at any time, the information we hold about you. Depending on the nature of the request, we may seek a form of identification to verify the identity of the person making the request. The information will be supplied within 30 calendar days of the request or the verification, whichever is the later.
To change or update your details
If you believe the information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to ask us to correct it. We must respond within one month of the request being received. You also have the right to ask us to stop processing your personal data. In this situation, we can continue to store the data to ensure the request can be respected in the future, but all processing will cease, unless there is a legal purpose.
To delete your details from our records
You have a right to have your personal data erased and for processing by us to stop:
- Where the personal data is no longer necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was originally collected/processed
- When you withdraw consent
- When you object to the processing and there is no overriding legitimate interest for continuing the processing
- The personal data was unlawfully processed (i.e. in breach of the UK GDPR/ EU GDPR)
- The personal data has to be erased in order to comply with a legal obligation
We can refuse to comply with a request for erasure where the personal data is processed for legal reasons or other scenarios that may be in the public interest as specified by the Information Commissioner’s Office (whose contact details are below).
Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
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Name |
Function |
Duration |
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_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin. |
2y |
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_secure_session_id |
Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. |
24h |
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_shopify_country |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
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_shopify_m |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
1y |
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_shopify_tm |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
30min |
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_shopify_tw |
Used for managing customer privacy settings. |
2w |
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_storefront_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
1min |
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_tracking_consent |
Tracking preferences. |
1y |
|
c |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
|
cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
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cart_currency |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
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cart_sig |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
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cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
2w |
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cart_ver |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
2w |
|
checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
4w |
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checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30min |
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hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
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keep_alive |
Used in connection with buyer localization. |
2w |
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master_device_id |
Used in connection with merchant login. |
2y |
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previous_step |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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remember_me |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
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secure_customer_sig |
Used in connection with customer login. |
20y |
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shopify_pay |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
|
shopify_pay_redirect |
Used in connection with checkout. |
30 minutes, 3w or 1y depending on value |
|
storefront_digest |
Used in connection with customer login. |
2y |
|
tracked_start_checkout |
Used in connection with checkout. |
1y |
|
checkout_one_experiment |
Used in connection with checkout. |
session |
Reporting and Analytics
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Name |
Function |
Duration |
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_landing_page |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
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_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages. |
2w |
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_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
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_shopify_d |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
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_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics. |
30min |
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_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
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_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
30min |
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_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
|
_y |
Shopify analytics. |
1y |
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_shopify_evids |
Shopify analytics. |
session |
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_shopify_ga |
Shopify and Google Analytics. |
session |
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as: www.allaboutcookies.org.
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Complaints
As noted above, if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail or by mail using the details provided under “Contact” above.
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Last updated: August 2023