Cookies
What are cookies?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your experience.
Some cookies help us improve our website, by telling us how visitors find and use it. These cookies in no way give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than what you choose to share with us (for example, by registering on the Trade Area or signing up for our newsletter).
The following websites contain useful information about cookies, including how to allow, block, delete and manage them: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.aboutcookies.org. You may also find the ICC UK Cookie Guide useful.
Cookies we use
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Remarketing
Blooming Artificial uses third party remarketing cookies. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet, specifically on the Google Content Network. This cookie does not collect any identifiable information, but will monitor the pages you visit. This allows us to make special offers and ads more relevant to you.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page. You may also opt out of interest-based advertising entirely using your cookie settings.
Privacy policy
What information do we collect from you?
Blooming Artificial will only collect personal information that is relevant to your order – i.e. names, addresses, telephone number and email addresses. We may ask for additional information such as birthdays, gender etc. though this is voluntary and will only be used to produce relevant, personalised offers for you.
Use of your information
The primary use of your personal information is to despatch and keep you informed of the progress of your orders.
We request additional voluntary information in order to provide a personalised service. We also aggregate this information to improve our website and marketing.
Sharing of personal information
We will only share personal information with our partner warehouses and our parent company Signwaves Limited. This will only include information on packing slips and despatch notes to enable them to ship orders to you on our behalf.
Protection of your personal information and retention
The internet is not a secure medium and Blooming Artificial cannot absolutely guarantee the security of your personal information provided to us via our website. However we have put in place the following security measures.
Blooming Artificial’s website and CRM system is hosted behind a protected firewall which should prevent unauthorised access. Our website is also protected by a security certificate which encrypts all data entered onto our site.
We will retain your personal information, securely, for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires.
Accessing or updating
You are entitled to see the personal information held about you and you may ask us to make necessary changes to ensure your information is accurate and up to date. If you wish to do this please contact us. We are entitled by law to charge a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with this information.
Changes to our privacy policy
From time to time, it may be necessary to change this policy, so we suggest that you check here periodically.
Links
This website may contain links to other websites. Please note that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such websites and we advise you to read the privacy policies of each website you visit which collects personal data.
Questions or complaints
We reiterate that by submitting your personal information to us, you consent to the use of that personal information as set out in this privacy policy. If you have any questions, concerns, comments or complaints about this privacy policy and/ or our collection or use of personal information, or if you wish us to stop processing your personal information for any particular purpose or purposes, then please contact us.