Privacy Policy

Cookie Policy 
Millikin-Ceramics uses Cookies.

Controlling cookies 
You can use your web browser’s cookie settings to determine how our website uses cookies. If you do not want our website to store cookies on your computer or device, you should set your web browser to refuse cookies.

However, please note that doing this may affect how our website functions. Some pages and services may become unavailable to you.

Unless you have changed your browser to refuse cookies, our website will issue cookies when you visit it.

To learn more about cookies and how they are used, visit All About Cookies.

Controlling information about you 
When you fill in a form or provide your details on our website, you will see one or more tick boxes allowing you to:

Opt-in to receive marketing communications from us by email, telephone, text message or post. 
Opt-in to receive marketing communications from our third-party partners by email, telephone, text message or post. 
If you have agreed that we can use your information for marketing purposes, you can change your mind easily, via one of these methods:

Sign in to our website and change your opt-in settings. 
Send an email to MillikinCeramics@gmail.com
We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or the law requires us to.

Any personal information we hold about you is stored and processed under our data protection policy, in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Security 
We will always hold your information securely.

To prevent unauthorised disclosure or access to your information, we have implemented strong physical and electronic security safeguards.

We also follow stringent procedures to ensure we work with all personal data in line with the Data Protection Act 1998.

Links from our site 
Our website may contain links to other websites.

Please note that we have no control of websites outside the www.Millikin-Ceramics.co.uk domain. If you provide information to a website to which we link, we are not responsible for its protection and privacy.

Always be wary when submitting data to websites. Read the site’s data protection and privacy policies fully.

This website privacy policy describes how Millikin Ceramics protects and makes use of the information you give the company when you use this website.

If you are asked to provide information when using this website, it will only be used in the ways described in this privacy policy.

This policy is updated from time to time. The latest version is published on this page.

This website privacy policy was updated on: 14.04.23

If you have any questions about this policy, please email MillikinCeramics@gmail.com.

Introduction 
We gather and use certain information about individuals in order to provide products and services and to enable certain functions on this website.

We also collect information to better understand how visitors use this website and to present timely, relevant information to them.

What data we gather 
We may collect the following information:

Name and job title 
Contact information including email address 
Demographic information, such as postcode, preferences and interests 
Website usage data 
Other information relevant to client enquiries 
Other information pertaining to special offers and surveys 
How we use this data 
Collecting this data helps us understand what you are looking from the company, enabling us to deliver improved products and services.

Specifically, we may use data:

For our own internal records. 
To improve the products and services we provide. 
To contact you in response to a specific enquiry. 
To customise the website for you. 
To send you promotional emails about products, services, offers and other things we think might be relevant to you. 
To send you promotional mailings or to call you about products, services, offers and other things we think might be relevant to you. 
To contact you via email, telephone or mail for market research reasons. 
To show you adverts on third party websites about products, services, offers and other things we think might be relevant to you. 
Privacy Policy 
This website collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Types of Data collected 
Among the types of Personal Data that this website collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: first name, last name, phone number, address, email address, Cookies and Usage Data.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection. The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using this website. 
All Data requested by this website is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for this website to provide its services. In cases where this website specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or the functioning of the service. 
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner. 
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by this website or by the owners of third-party services used by this website serves the purpose of providing the service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through this website and confirm that they have the third party’s consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data 
Methods of processing 
The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. 
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place 
The Data is processed at the Data Controller’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time 
The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data 
The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Contacting the User, Interaction with external social networks and platforms and Content commenting.

The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data 
Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Contacting the User 
Contact form (this website) 
By filling in the contact form with their Data, the User authorizes this website to use these details to reply to requests for information, quotes or any other kind of request as indicated by the form’s header.

Personal Data collected: address, email address, first name, last name and phone number.

Content commenting 
Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this website. 
Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments. 
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when Users do not use the content commenting service.

Facebook Comments (Facebook, Inc.) 
Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Facebook, Inc. enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Interaction with external social networks and platforms 
This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this website. 
The interaction and information obtained through this website are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network. 
This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.) 
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Access to third-party accounts 
This type of service allows this Application to access Data from your account on a third-party service and perform actions with it. 
These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User.

Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Analytics 
The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyse web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behaviour.

Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilises the Data collected to track and examine the use of MILLIKIN CERAMICS to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. 
Google may use the Data collected to contextualise and personalise the ads of its own advertising network.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Google AdWords conversion tracking (Google Inc.)

Google AdWords conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. that connects data from the Google AdWords advertising network with actions performed on Millikin Ceramics Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

 

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook, Inc.)

Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this website.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Analytics collected directly (Millikin-Ceramics.co.uk)

This website uses an internal analytics system that does not involve third parties.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Managing contacts and sending messages 
This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User. 
These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

Mailing list or newsletter (this Application) 
By registering on the mailing list or for the newsletter, the User’s email address will be added to the contact list of those who may receive email messages containing information of commercial or promotional nature concerning this Application. Your email address might also be added to this list as a result of signing up to this Application or after making a purchase.

Personal Data collected: address, date of birth, email address, first name, gender and last name.

Displaying content from external platforms

This type of services allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this website and interact with them. 
This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Google Fonts (Google Inc.)

Google Fonts is a typeface visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages.

Personal Data collected: Usage data and various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Handling payments 
Payment processing services enable MILLIKIN CERAMICS to process payments by credit card, bank transfer or any other means. To ensure the greatest security, we share only the information necessary to execute the transaction with the financial intermediaries handling the transaction. Some of these services may also enable the sending of timed messages to the User, such as emails containing order confirmation, invoices or order shipment confirmation.

PayPal (PayPal Inc.)

PayPal is a payment service provided by PayPal Inc., which allows Users to make online payments using their PayPal credentials.

Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Privacy Policy

Stripe (Stripe Inc)

Stripe is a payment service provided by Stripe Inc.

Personal Data collected: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy

Remarketing and behavioural targeting 
This type of service allows MILLIKIN CERAMICS and to inform, optimise and serve advertising based on past use of MILLIKIN CERAMICS by the User. 
This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioural targeting activity. 
In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)

AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity of this website with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)

Facebook Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioural Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of MILLIKIN CERAMICS with the Facebook advertising network.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage data.

Place of processing: UK – Privacy Policy – Opt Out

 

 

Additional information about Data collection and processing 
Legal action 
The User’s Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this website or the related services. 
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User’s Personal Data 
In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this website may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance 
For operation and maintenance purposes, this website and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with this website (System logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

Information not contained in this policy 
More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users 
Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.

This website does not support “Do Not Track” requests. 
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy 
The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this website and can request that the Data Controller remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.

Information about this privacy policy 
The Data Controller is responsible for this privacy policy, prepared starting from the modules provided by Iubenda and hosted on Iubenda’s servers.

Definitions and legal references 
Personal Data (or Data) 
Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.

Usage Data 
Information collected automatically from this website (or third-party services employed in this website), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this website, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the website) and the details about the path followed within the website with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.

User 
The individual using this website, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Subject 
The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor) 
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner) 
The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this website. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this website.

This Website 
The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.

Cookies 
Small piece of data stored in the User’s device.

Legal information 
Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.