Privacy Policy

Bizzy Balloons LLP T/A Balloon Monkey is committed to safeguarding your personal data. Whenever you provide personal data, we are legally obliged to use it in line with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal data.

Please read this policy, it explains how we collect, use, disclose, transfer and store your data.

Who we are:

We are Bizzy Balloons LLP T/A Balloon Monkey registered in England with partnership number OC402110.

We are registered at: High Cross Mews, CV35 7BG and we operate from Bizzy Balloons, Unit 9b Budbrooke Road, Warwick, CV34 5XH and you can write to us at this address.

Our website address is www.balloonmonkey.co.uk

You can also contact us by email on help@balloonmonkey.co.uk and by telephone on +44 (0) 1926 400631

We are committed to:

protecting your privacy when you visit our site;
protecting the confidentiality of any information that you provide to us; and
being transparent about our collection and use of your personal data.

"Personal data" is any information that identifies you or can be used to help identify you; for example, your name, email address, IP address or location data.

We do our very best to keep your personal data secure by the implementation of appropriate technical and organisational security measures. 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 site; any transmission is at your own risk.

This policy explains what we do with your personal data, specifically:

What personal data we collect from you and how we collect it.
Why we collect it and our legal basis for doing so.
How we use it.
Who we share it with.
Where we store it.
How long we keep it.

It also explains what your rights are with regard to your personal data.

References to the “GDPR” are to the General Data Protection Regulation.

What personal data do we collect and how do we collect it?

We only ever collect the personal data that we need from you and keep to a minimum the personal data we hold on an ongoing basis.

We collect and process your personal data when you use our website and services. This may be personal data you provide to us, that we collect about you and/or information we receive from other sources.

Information you give us

The personal data you give to us may include:

your name, postal and email addresses and telephone numbers
gift recipients name, postal and email addresses and telephone numbers
payment card information

We ask you to ensure that the personal data you provide to us is kept up-to-date and therefore please contact us if you need to amend any records we hold of your personal data.

Information we collect about you. Each time you visit our website we may automatically collect the following information:
the details of the device you use to access our site;
your user activity details and preferences on our website;
your electronic identification data including IP address and information collected through cookies;

Information we receive from other sources

We use approved third parties to provide services to us (for example, sub-contractors in payment and delivery services) and may receive information about you from them.

We sometimes combine information that we receive from other sources with information you give to us and information that we collect about you. We may use this information and the combined information for the purposes set out below.

Why do we collect your personal data and what is our legal basis for doing so?

The GDPR requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. The legal basis that we rely on in each case is one of the following:

you have given us your consent to process your personal data (consent);
processing your personal data is necessary for us to fulfil a contract entered into with you, or is necessary for us to do things (at your request) prior to us entering into a contract (contract); or
we have a legitimate organisational interest where we use your personal data in a way that you would reasonably expect, and which has a minimal impact on your privacy (legitimate interests).

The purposes for which we collect and use your personal data are as follows. In each case we have confirmed which legal basis we rely on:

to provide you with information about our products in response to your enquiry (contract);
to provide you with the products you have ordered and to invoice you (contract);
to provide you with information about our other products that are similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about (legitimate interests);
to provide you with a more personalised service when you visit our website (legitimate interests);
for assessment and analysis; for example, customer and product analysis purposes. These enable us to review, develop and to improve our service to you as well as notifying you of any changes (legitimate interests);
for direct marketing by email (consent);
to administer our website and for internal operations; including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes (legitimate interests);
as part of our efforts to ensure that our website is kept safe and secure (legitimate interests); or
to enable us to use cookies as detailed in the section below (consent).

Cookies

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Please note that if you do not agree to the use of strictly necessary cookies then you may not be able to access all or part of our site.

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookiesThese are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site, use the shopping basket or make use of e-billing services.
Analytical/performance cookiesThey allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies.These are used to recognise you when you return to our site. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies.These record your visit to our site, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We also share this information with third parties for this purpose, such as Google and Facebook.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Name	Type	Description	Expiry
csrf, static_csrf	Necessary	Used to mitigate Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks	until browser restart
basket, basket_key	Necessary	Used to store details about the checkout process	until browser restart
balloon-session	Necessary	Used to keep track of any balloons you have created	until browser restart
cookie-policy-notice	Necessary	Used to determine if cookie policy banner has been closed	until browser restart
_ga	Performance	Used to distinguish (track) users across pages	2 years
_gid	Performance	Used to distinguish (track) users across pages	24 hours
_gat	Performance	Used to ensure the browser doesn't send too many requests	1 minute
__utma	Performance	Used to distinguish (track) users across pages	2 years
__utmt	Performance	Used to ensure the browser doesn't send too many requests	10 minutes
__utmb	Performance	Used to determine if this is a new session	30 mins
__utmz	Performance	Stores information about how you reached the site. For example, from social media or a google search	6 months
1P_JAR	Performance	Collects website statistics and tracked conversion rates	1 month
_gcl_au	Performance	Used to store and track conversions	3 months
_fbp	Performance	Used to distinguish (track) users across pages	3 months

Please note that third parties, such as Google and Facebook may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies. You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.

Sharing your information

We share your information with the following third parties to enable us to provide our services to you.

Web-based email newsletter service provider - To deliver marketing and promotional materials

Courier and postal services - To deliver your orders

Web developers - To maintain our website

Payment Gateway Provider - To process customer orders on our website

We also share your information with the organisations detailed in the Cookies section.

Our selected third parties are required by us to treat your personal data as carefully as we would and can only act on our instructions with regard to their use of your personal data.

We may disclose your personal information to third parties:

in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, we will be obliged to disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
if Bizzy Balloons LLP or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case our customers’ personal data will be one of the transferred assets;
if we are under a duty to comply with any legal obligation;
to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements or to protect the rights, property and/or safety of our customers or of others (this includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction).

We will never sell your personal data and will never share it with a company for marketing purposes.

The data that we collect from you will be stored within the European Economic Area (EEA). Your personal data will sometimes be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for our third-party web developers. However, your personal data does not leave the EEA and we have put in place adequate contractual safeguards to protect your personal data in this situation.

Keeping your personal data

We keep personal data for no longer than the following time periods:

Enquiries to our site - Duration of enquiry + 1 year
Customer personal data (excluding email address) 3 months
Customer email address – Duration of relationship + 6 years
Suppliers personal data - Duration of relationship + 6 years

When we no longer need to keep your personal data, we undertake to delete it and dispose of it securely.

You have the following rights in connection with your personal data:

To withdraw your consent at any time.
To object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
To obtain a copy of your personal data which we hold about you.

The right in certain circumstances to:

have your personal data erased
restrict processing of your personal data
object to the processing of your personal data
have your personal data transferred to a third party

If you wish to withdraw your consent, then please follow the steps as outlined in the box above.

If you wish to exercise any of your other rights listed in this policy, or that you have in law, then please contact us by emailing help@balloonmonkey.co.uk or by telephone +44 (0) 1926 400631

If you have an issue or complaint arising under this Policy, then please contact us by emailing help@balloonmonkey.co.uk or by telephone +44 (0) 1926 400631

Our website may 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.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and notified by an alert on our website for 30 days following the update.

Governing law and jurisdiction

If you are a consumer, please note that this privacy policy, its subject matter and its formation, are governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident of Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are resident of Scotland, you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.

If you are a business, this privacy policy, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. We both agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of England.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed. Please contact us via e-mail at help@balloonmonkey.co.uk or alternatively on +44 (0) 1926 400631