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Cookie & Privacy Policy

Clearance Furniture are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.  This policy, together with our Terms and Conditions, sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. It tells you exactly what data we collect and for what purpose we collect it and what your rights are regarding this personal data under the Data Protection Act 1998 (the Act) and EU Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR).

For the purpose of GDPA and the Act, the data controller is Clearance Furniture, 923 Finchley Road, London, England, NW11 7PE.

In this policy, you will find:

- Information we may collect from you

- Where we store this information

- What we do with this information

- How long this information is kept

- Your rights regarding this information

- How to contact us

- Detailed overview of our website cookies

We want to make sure that you are fully informed about and understand our data collection and management processes and ask that you read the following carefully.

Any questions you might have. Please contact us.

  1. Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • any information that you provide by filling in forms on our website https://www.clearancefurniture.co.uk. This includes information provided at the time of registering or ordering on our sites or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our website;
  • if you contact us; we may keep a record of that correspondence;
  • details of any transactions or possible transactions or information requests that you carry out via our website; and
  • details of your visits to our website including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access.
  1. Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (EEA). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

  1. Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

Reason for use:

Legal basis for use:

to ensure that content from our website is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

Legitimate interest. To ensure we offer you the best quality experience

to develop and improve the services which we offer;

Legitimate interest. To ensure we offer you the best quality service

to provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;

Legitimate interest and only applicable once you’ve given us your permission to do so. To create a personalised and relevant experience when you shop with us online

to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us;

Necessity by contract. To meet our obligations, we will use your personal information e.g. for the completion of an online or click & collect order

to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;

Legitimate interest. To create a personalised and relevant experience when you shop with us online

to notify you about changes to our service; and

Legitimate interest. To make you proactively aware of any changes that may affect you

to protect against illegal activity.

Legitimate interest. To protect against unlawful activities. E.g. when a court requires us to do so

 

We may also use your data, or permit selected third parties to use your data, to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post or telephone.

Where we permit selected third parties to use your data, we (or they) will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this specifically. We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 women aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1).

We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.

3.1 Data usage for fraud prevention

 

To protect our customers and us from fraud and theft, we may pass on information that we obtain from making identity checks and other information in our customer records, including how you conduct your account, to other group companies, other retailers and to financial and other organisations (including law enforcement agencies) involved in fraud prevention and detection, to use the same way.

3.2 Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in sections 736 and 736A of the UK Companies Act 1985 (as amended).

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
  • if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets; and
  • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions [insert as link to Terms and Conditions] and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety, our customers or others (including exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction).
  1. Time data is kept

We have to keep your information for as long as it is necessary to complete our obligations under any contract made. This includes, but is not limited to, order fulfilment and the anticipation of returns according to your returns right.

We keep the information for anyone who still has outstanding obligations under any contract made. This includes, but is not limited to, outstanding invoices and investigating fraud cases.

We delete all cookies related to our website and your browser experience every 30 days.

We keep your personal information in our back-end system for a max of 38 months. After this, all data is automatically anonymised.

  1. Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data or request full access to any information we might hold about you. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at marketing@clearancefurniture.co.uk .

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

You also have the right to change your mind about how/what data we process from you at any time, however, please note that once data is erased from our systems at your request or after the data collection time period has expired, it cannot be retrieved.

  1. Contact us

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to: marketing@clearancefurniture.co.uk.

 Additionally, feel free to write us at [this is NOT a visiting address]:

 Clearance Furniture Data Team

1st Floor

Autogem House
Abbey Road
London
NW10 7GJ

 The Information Commissioner Office (ICO) can be contacted at: casework@ico.co.uk. Phone: 0303 123 1113 (local rate). More information on the ICO can be found at www.ico.org.uk

 Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

  1. IP addresses and cookies overview

We may collect information about your computer, including, where available, your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. They help us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service. They enable us:

  • to estimate our audience size and usage pattern;
  • to store information about your preferences, and so allow us to customise our website according to your individual interests;
  • to speed up your searches; and
  • to recognise you when you return to our website.

You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our website.

7.1.    Cookies necessary for the functioning of the store

 

Name

Function

Duration

_ab

Used in connection with access to admin.

2y

_customer_account_shop_sessions

Used in combination with the _secure_account_session_id cookie to track a user's session for new customer accounts

30d

_secure_account_session_id

Used to track a user's session for new customer accounts

30d

_secure_session_id

Used to track a user's session through the multi-step checkout process and keep their order, payment and shipping details connected.

24h

_shopify_country

For shops where pricing currency/country set from GeoIP, that cookie stores the country we've detected. This cookie helps avoid doing GeoIP lookups after the first request.

session

_shopify_m

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

1y

_shopify_tm

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

30min

_shopify_tw

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

2w

_storefront_u

Used to facilitate updating customer account information.

1min

_tracking_consent

Used to store a user's preferences if a merchant has set up privacy rules in the visitor's region.

1y

_cmp_a

Used for managing customer privacy settings.

1d

c

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

cart

Used in connection with shopping cart.

2w

cart_currency

Set after a checkout is completed to ensure that new carts are in the same currency as the last checkout.

2w

cart_sig

A hash of the contents of a cart. This is used to verify the integrity of the cart and to ensure performance of some cart operations.

2w

cart_ts

Used in connection with checkout.

2w

cart_ver

Used in connection with shopping cart.

2w

checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

4w

checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

customer_account_locale

Used in connection with new customer accounts

1y

dynamic_checkout_shown_on_cart

Used in connection with checkout.

30min

hide_shopify_pay_for_checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

session

keep_alive

Used in connection with buyer localization.

2w

master_device_id

Used in connection with merchant login.

2y

previous_step

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

discount_code

Used in connection with checkout.

session

remember_me

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

secure_customer_sig

Used to identify a user after they sign into a shop as a customer so they do not need to log in again.

1y

shopify_pay

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

shopify_pay_redirect

Used in connection with checkout.

1 hour, 3w or 1y depending on value

shop_pay_accelerated

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

source_name

Used in combination with mobile apps to provide custom checkout behaviour, when viewing a store from within a compatible mobile app.

session

storefront_digest

Stores a digest of the storefront password, allowing merchants to preview their storefront while it's password protected.

2y

tracked_start_checkout

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

checkout_session_lookup

Used in connection with checkout.

3w

checkout_prefill

Used in connection with checkout.

5m

checkout_queue_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

checkout_queue_checkout_token

Used in connection with checkout.

1y

checkout_worker_session

Used in connection with checkout.

3d

checkout_session_token

Used in connection with checkout.

3w

checkout_session_token_<<token>>

Used in connection with checkout.

3w

cookietest

Used to ensure our systems are working correctly

1m

order

Used in connection with order status page.

3w

identity-state

Used in connection with customer authentication

24h

identity-state-<<token>>

Used in connection with customer authentication

24h

identity_customer_account_number

Used in connection with customer authentication

12w

card_update_verification_id

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

customer_account_new_login

Used in connection with customer authentication

20m

customer_account_preview

Used in connection with customer authentication

7d

customer_payment_method

Used in connection with checkout.

1h

customer_shop_pay_agreement

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

pay_update_intent_id

Used in connection with checkout.

20m

localization

Used in connection with checkout.

2w

profile_preview_token

Used in connection with checkout.

5m

login_with_shop_finalize

Used in connection with customer authentication

5m

preview_theme

Used in connection with the theme editor

session

shopify-editor-unconfirmed-settings

Used in connection with the theme editor

16h

wpm-test-cookie

Used to ensure our systems are working correctly.

session

 

7.2 7.1.    Cookies for analytics, performance & marketing

 

_landing_page

Tracks landing pages.

_orig_referrer

Tracks landing pages.

_s

Shopify analytics.

_session_id

Shopify analytics

_shopify_s

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_sa_t

Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals.

_shopify_uniq

Shopify analytics.

_shopify_y

Shopify analytics.

_y

Shopify analytics.

*_assignment

Shopify analytics

ab_test_*

Shopify analytics.

cart_sig

Shopify analytics.

ki_r

Shopify analytics.

ki_t

Shopify analytics.

GTM: px.png smct.co

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smct_last_ov

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smc-dv2 smct.co

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smc_v4_7906

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smc_uid

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: section_data_ids

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smc_spv

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GTM: smc_tpv

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GA: plugins/ua/ec.js

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GA: analytics.js

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GA: ua/linkid.js

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GA: /collect

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

GA:/ads/ga-audiences

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Doubleclick: doubleclick.net/r/collect

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Doubleclick: /ads/ga-audiences

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Doubleclick: pagead/viewthroughconversion

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Bing: /bat.js

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Bing: /action

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Adwords: pagead/conversion_async

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Adwords: ads/user-lists/

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

Google Shopping: boq-shopping-verified-reviews

Performance cookie. Monitoring Site Performance

 

7.3 Third Party Cookies

Additionally, we use pixels and tags from the following third parties, which may in turn place cookies.  Third-party cookies are often set by advertising networks that the Site may subscribe to. We have no control and no liability over third-party cookies, but you can go into your browser settings to block or delete or manage these.

 

Third Party

Description

Cloudflare

Shopify uses Cloudflare Network as a Service for edge routing.

Facebook Pixel

We use Facebook Pixel to help measure how users interact with our websites.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to help measure how users interact with our websites.

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager to help manage analytics vendors

Google

We use Google Ads to deliver targeted advertisements to individuals who visit our website