Mark Smith Ceramics

Privacy Policy

To fulfil your order, you must provide me with certain information such as your name, email address, postal address, payment information through my 3rd party payment processing systems, PayPal or Square and the details of the product that you’re ordering. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information, if you contact me directly.

I rely on a number of legal bases to collect, use, and share your information, including:

          As needed to provide my services, such as when I use your information to fulfil your order, to settle disputes, or to provide customer support;


          When you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for my mailing list;


          If necessary to comply with a legal obligation or court order or in connection with a legal claim, such as retaining information about your purchases if required by tax law; and


          As necessary for the purpose of my legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests, such as 1) providing and improving my services. I use your information to provide the services you requested and in my legitimate interest to improve my services

Information about my customers is important to my business. I share your personal information for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:

          Service providers. I engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to my shop, such as delivery companies. I will share your personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services.


          Business transfers. If I sell or merge my business, I may disclose your information as part of that transaction, only to the extent permitted by law.


          Compliance with laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that it is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) enforce my agreements, terms and policies; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.

          I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce my agreements. I generally keep your data for 7 years.

          If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. I describe these rights below:

          Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information I hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.


          Change, restrict, delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Except exceptional circumstances (like where I am required to store data for legal reasons) I will generally delete your personal information upon request.


          Object. You can object to (i) my processing of some of your information based on my legitimate interests and (ii) receiving marketing messages from me after providing your express consent to receive them. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue using that information or if it is needed for legal reasons.


          Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about my use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.


          Your use of the Mark Smith Ceramics website shop signifies your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not accept the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Mark Smith Ceramics website shop. This Privacy Policy may be changed from time-to-time without notice. Any such changes will be posted to this web site as soon as practicable. Any continued use of this website after a change has occurred will constitute your acceptance of such change.


          I, Mark Smith, am the data controller of your personal information. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact me by

          email: marksmithceramics@gmail.com

          telephone: + 44 (0)1889 591311 or

          post: 61 High Street, Rocester, Staffordshire ST14 5JU, UK.