Privacy Policy

Blossom Boutique Cakes is committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR ) in order to protect the privacy of its customers. All information that we collect from you will only ever be used lawfully ( In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR)

We collect information about you to process your order and to provide you with the best possible service. 

Promotional emails will only be sent with your prior consent and we do not pass on any of your information to third parties without gaining your explicit consent.  Blossom Boutique Cakes will never ask you for information that is not relevant or in relation to any order/products or services that you have made or enquired about. 

WHO IS COLLECTING YOUR INFORMATION?

The data is collected by Blossom Boutique Cakes and will not be shared with any third parties without your explicit consent. 

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION COLLECTED? 

Blossom Boutique Cakes collects and obtains  information from you when you interact with us in the following ways:

- Via an email sent to us from you

- Via text message or WhatsApp

- When you order from us via our website order form/ EGift voucher form

- Via our contact form

- Via social media - Instagram or Facebook

- Via Google message  

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We will collect and obtain information from you when you interact with us:

-First name and surname
- Email address
- Contact phone number
- Purchase information 

-Order details i.e date of collection

WHY IS YOUR INFORMATION BEING COLLECTED?

Information is collected should we need to contact you regarding your order.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

Information such as your email address and telephone number will be used to contact you regarding your order or collection date/time.If needs be. 

HOW WILL MY INFORMATION BE SHARED?

No information will be shared with any third party without your consent.

HOW IS YOUR INFORMATION STORED?

Blossom Boutique Cakes will use all reasonable efforts to safeguard your personal data with the use of encryption, limited access, passwords ad firewalls. Please note that the internet is not entirely secure therefore we cannot guarantee the security and integrity of any personal information which is transferred to and from you via the internet.

Digital online records of your order are  kept for six years .

Information obtained from enquiries that  do not result in an order will be deleted within 3 months from the date  of your enquiry. 

ACCESS TO YOUR INFORMATION

Please contact blossomboutiquecakes@gmail.com to request any data we have stored for you. 

YOUR RIGHTS

If you would like us to delete any data that we hold on you, please emai blossomboutiquecakes@gmail.com. We can only delete your data if you do not have a current order placed with us. You can unsubscribe from our marketing list at anytime by contacting us and we will delete any data  ad remove you from our list.

USE OF SERVICES BY BLOSSOM BOUTIQUE CAKES

Blossom Boutique Cakes website is hosted on the GoDaddy.com platform. GoDaddy.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to be of service to you. Your data may be stored through their storage, databases ano general GoDaddy.com applications.

Blossom Boutique Cakes uses Google Analytics to monitor Website performance.

Blossom Boutique Cakes  may also use MailChimp for our promotional emails – if you have ticked the consent box on our order forms or signed up via our website you will have given us permission to contact you. If you no longer want to receive these updates, contact us, or unsubscribe from the last email.
 

EXTERNAL LINKS
Although this website only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites.)
The owner of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should, therefore, note they click on external links at their own risk and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.
 

COOKIE POLICY
Blossom Boutique Cakes  may send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of  our websites service. The term “cookies” refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing blossomboutiquecakes.co.uk This may be both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of our website may not work properly or at all.

In order to provide website visitors with more choice on how data is collected by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. The add-on communicates with the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js) to stop data being sent to Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on does not affect usage of the website in any other way. A link to further information on the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is provided below for your convenience.

Social Media Platforms
Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution in regard to their own privacy and personal details. This website nor its owners will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact them through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.
 

Shortened Links in Social Media
This website and its owners through their social media platform accounts may share web links to relevant web pages. By default, some social media platforms shorten lengthy urls [web addresses]. Users are advised to take caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms by this website and its owners. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and therefore this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any shortened links.

Last Updated: 5 January 2023