Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last reviewed and updated in April 2019 and is fully compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (also known as the GDPR) which came into effect in May 2018. We are committed to protecting your privacy and we comply with the GDPR and the UK data protection rules (together with associated guidance) ("Data Protection Laws").

This policy (the “privacy policy”) tells you how ASKAY Style Ltd collects information from you, how we protect it and how we use it, and covers all personal information which you provide when you use our Website – www.myaskay.com (the “site”).

This privacy policy also covers any other personal information which you may provide when dealing with ASKAY Style Ltd (whether or not you are registered), including data when you make a purchase, registering for our mailing list, or use any other ASKAY Style Ltd service. We refer to this type of information as transactional data.

This privacy policy explains how ASKAY Style Ltd collects, records and uses information about you and the choices you can make about how the information is collected and used. Please read the following to learn more about our data collection policies and practices. 

What type of information do we collect about you? 

We will collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways including when you register on any of our sites or use any other ASKAY Style Ltd services, enter competitions or prize draws, subscribe to our mailing list, participate in market research, navigate around our sites and respond to communications from us.

Personal details such as name, telephone number, address, email address, occupation, birth date, etc are only held when it is provided by an individual via an email link, email enquiry form, client information form, newsletter sign up or product purchase form, etc. Images and forms, etc are held in emails hosted by Google mail, within our own secure website, and for subscribed members, payment details are held in Stripe Inc.

What do we do with personally identifiable information? 

This information may be used for marketing (where you have agreed to this) and for market research purposes, including internal demographic studies, to provide, optimise and personalise our services, to inform you if you have won a prize, and to send you newsletters and information (where you have agreed to this) about related products and services. 

We may use information about you to create a picture of your interests. This will allow us to understand our customers better, so we can make our services and marketing more relevant. Information that we use in this way may include: (i) information about your use of the site; (ii) household classification data, (iii) your responses to communications from us; (iv) your interaction with other parts of ASKAY Style Ltd; (v) information you provide when you register on a site; (vi) customer surveys; (vii) information provided by other companies, where you gave them permission to share this information and (viii) transactional data. We may use a variety of technical methods such as cookies to collate this information.

Use of information for marketing

In line with any permissions you give us, we may send you direct marketing about our own products and services.

How do we protect your data? 

We use industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your data. All the data collected by us is stored on a secure server.

Who else has access to the information? 

We will not pass your information onto any third parties.

Our registration policy – how to remove or amend your information

Our subscriber mailing list is run by MailChimp. You can ask us to remove your personal information from any or all of our mailing lists at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link which we provide you on all email marketing campaigns we distribute, which will unsubscribe you immediately from future campaigns. You may also request to unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected]. We will remove your name from the related mailing list within 2 working days of your request.

Automated emails are also set directly from within our Website which is built using a platform provided by Kajabi.

You can also amend the information you give us by writing to us at:

ASKAY Style, Le Scevalet, Hougue Anthan, Torteval, Guernsey, GY8 0PA specifying the changes you would like to be made.

Links to other sites 

You should be aware that when you are on our site you could be directed to other sites where the personal information collected is outside of our control. For example, if you click on a banner advertisement the click may take you to a third-party site. The privacy policy of the new site will govern the information obtained from you on that site.

Cookies

By using this website, you are confirming that you accept our cookie policy and to the use of the cookies described below. We use a tracking cookie which allows us to improve our website and only collects data for statistical analysis. None of the data we collect can be used to identify a user and will never be sold to third parties.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping baskets, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics.

As a rule, cookies will make your browsing experience better. However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.

Website Visitor Tracking

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

Type of cookies used on this website

We use Google Analytics tracking on this website. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time your current visit occurred, whether you have been to the site before, and what site referred you to the web page.

These cookies contain no personally identifiable information, but they will use your computer’s IP address. To ensure user anonymity we have set our Google Analytics Cookie to anonymise each visitors IP address by removing the last set of digits from the users IP address meaning users cannot be identified.

Google’s use of data

Google stores the information collected by these cookies on servers in the United States. Google may transfer this information to third-parties where required to do so by law, or where such third-parties process the information on Google’s behalf.

Opting out of Cookies

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect the usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=None

For more information on the usage of cookies by Google Analytics please see the Google website. A link to the privacy advice for this product is provided below for your convenience.

http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

Disabling Cookies

If you would like to restrict the use of cookies you can control this in your Internet browser. Links to advice on how to do this for the most popular Internet browsers are provided below for convenience and will be available for the Internet browser of your choice either online or via the software help (normally available via key F1).

Internet Explorer
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Block-enable-or-allow-cookies

Google Chrome
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en-GB&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies

Mozilla Firefox
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Blocking%20cookies

Apple Safari
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=32467

For further information regarding your own personal data, you can contact the Information Commissioner via their website at https://ico.org.uk/