1. Introduction
Your privacy on fougett.com is important to us and we want you to be confident that your personal data is kept safely and securely and never misused. This privacy policy sets out what information we collect about you, how we use it and how we protect your privacy.
By accessing this website, you confirm to have understood and agreed to this policy.
2. Who is responsible for the processing of your personal data?
Fougett Limited, reg. no. 120990 (“Fougett” "We" "Us"), is the data controller of your personal data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation and Data Protection Act 2018. Selected suppliers may process your personal data on Fougett’s behalf and in accordance with Fougett’s instructions as stated below and are thereby processors of your personal data.
You may contact Fougett at any time, please find our contact details below.
Phone: +44 (0) 203 302 7212
Email: info@fougett.com
3. What information do we collect?
When you purchase something from our online store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, email, phone number, shipping address and billing address (including street name, zip code, city, and country) to process your order. The data is also processed so that Fougett can process any returns, exchanges, and complaints as well as communicating with you regarding any questions or comments you may have regarding the product(s). The legal basis for the processing is that it is necessary in order for Fougett to fulfil its contractual obligations towards you. If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at info@fougett.com.
Your purchase history is also stored so that Fougett can process any returns, exchanges, and complaints as well as communicating with you regarding any questions or comments you may have regarding the product(s). The legal basis for the processing is a balancing of interests where Fougett’s legitimate interest is to facilitate the administration of returns, exchanges, and complaints.
Your email may also be processed for direct marketing purposes. The legal basis for the processing is a balance of interests where our legitimate interest is to market our products to existing customers. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletters or other emails, you can unsubscribe as indicated in the particular communication, i.e. by using the unsubscribe link which is included on all newsletters and other emails. You may also contact us at info@fougett.com.
Payments made for purchases on Fougett’s website are processed by a third-party payment service and such a third party is the controller of the credit card information and other information relating to the payment. Fougett does not collect or store any payment information.
When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system. The legal basis for the processing is a balance of interests where our legitimate interest is to improve our services through the use of statistics over visitors of the website.
4. Shopify
Our store is hosted on Shopify International Ltd. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.
Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment: If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted. All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).
5. Does Fougett share customer information with others?
Fougett does not sell or rent our customers’ personal data to any other entity.
We may share your data with selected suppliers who perform functions on our behalf such as packing and delivery of orders, processing payments, carrying out promotional services or data management, to maintain our website, to distribute emails, to send out our newsletter, to provide client communications and to manage our customer database. As necessary, the personal data you provide to us may be processed by these third parties, solely on Fougett’s behalf and in accordance with Fougett’s instructions as the data processor. We do not authorize any of our suppliers to make any other use of your personal data.
If Fougett is subject to an actual or potential merger or acquisition or similar transaction, we may share your data with potential and actual buyer(s) and their financial and legal advisers, subject to such third parties undertaking appropriate confidentiality.
Fougett may also disclose your personal data to a public authority where Fougett is obligated to do so by law. In the event all or part of Fougett’s operations are sold, Fougett may transfer your personal data to a potential purchaser of the business.
6. How long do we keep your data?
Fougett reserves the right to keep and process your personal data in accordance with this policy to the extent necessary to perform our contractual obligations to you, and to the extent we are required to process your data by law or to defend ourselves in a dispute, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to enforce our Terms and Conditions.
Your email may be saved for up to 12 months from the last purchase for direct marketing purposes, subject to your ongoing right to opt-out. Thereafter it shall be deleted.
Purchase history (i.e., name, contact information and purchase data) will be stored during the return and exchange period for the purpose of administering returns and exchanges.
If you make a complaint Fougett may save your data to the extent necessary to handle the complaint.
The information regarding returns shall for accounting purposes be stored as long as legally required by applicable law.
7. Your data subject rights
Your data subject rights include to request access, portability, rectification, erasure of your personal data, to restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to processing, and your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
If you want to exercise your rights, please send us an email to info@fougett.com.
Please note however that if you want to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, you need to contact the authority directly.
8. Children's privacy and legal purchase age
Fougett does not wish to collect personal information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16). If you are under eighteen (18), we require that you inform and get your parents’ or guardians’ consent before purchasing anything or provide any personal data to us at www.fougett.com.
9. Cookies
As already mentioned, we use cookies on our website.
Here is a list of cookies that we use. We have listed them here so that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
Datadome, sessional.
__kla_id, sessional.
_ga_BDHQSPSXP9, sessional.
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_session_id, sessional, allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
_shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits.
_shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
Please see our separate policy about the placement of cookieswhich you can find on our website.
10. Modifications
Fougett reserves the right to occasionally make changes to our privacy policy or practices. We will post the updated policy on our website, and thus we encourage you to review this page from time to time.
Version 1, last date for modification: 24 March 2022