We are Toons Ltd, a family-owned retail and gallery business established in 2004. The details of the Privacy Policy which follows relates to our website GenerationGallery.com.
At GenerationGallery we are committed to protecting your privacy and to gaining and maintaining the confidence and trust of all visitors to our website. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In this Privacy Policy we’ve provided detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information. We explain how we use it, what third-party service providers we might share your information with and under what circumstances, and how we keep it secure.
If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact us using the information below:
Generation Gallery,
E3 New York Street,
Manchester,
M1 4HN,
Email info@generationgallery.com
Phone: 0161 247 7870 (10.00am - 6.00pm, Monday - Sunday)
If for any reason you are unsure about any of the personal and account information we are holding in your name, please contact us using the contact details listed above. We will update your private records if required.
It’s likely that we’ll need to review this Privacy Notice from time to time. We’ll notify you of any significant changes.
We collect information about you for the following reasons:
When you place an order with us, the information we will collect includes:
This information is necessary for us to process your payment and deliver your order to you.
When you create an account with us, we will collect the following information:
You don’t have to have an account with us to place orders on our websites, but many returning customers find it helpful to have one.
Having an account with us will allow you to place an order quickly, without the need to re-enter all your details every time you checkout with us.
You can quickly and easily log into your account and change or edit any of your personal data by clicking on “My Account” either in the header or the footer of our website.
If you’d like to delete your account please contact our Customer Service who will remove your account together with all personal information it contains.
The legal basis for collecting your data when you set up an account is based on your consent.
When you visit our website, we also might collect the following information:
We gather this information to analyse our site’s performance and look for areas for improvement. This data also allows us to give you customised product recommendations based on best-sellers and product views.
If you wish to sign-up to our mailing list, we will collect the following information:
We will never send you marketing emails without your consent.
If you contact our Customer Service Team:
If you contact our customer service team in relation to your order, we will:
If you contact our customer service team with a query unrelated to a previous order, we might ask for your name and contact details to be able to get in touch with you and we will keep this data until no longer than necessary to help with your query.
We will never collect any sensitive information about you without your explicit consent.
Press inquiries
If you contact us at our Press Enquiries email (info@generationgallery.com), your email will be forwarded to the relevant department and you might be contacted back using contact details you provided us with.
Supplier Enquires
If you contact us at our Customer Service email with supplier queries, your email will be forwarded to the relevant department and you might be contacted back using contact details you provided us with.
Recruitment
Occasionally we advertise jobs in our shops or other departments on our Careers page. When you send your CV to an email address indicated in the advert, your personal data will be processed by our HR team and your contact details will be used to contact you.
The legal bases we rely on to collect information
Data Protection laws set out several different reasons for which a company may collect and process your personal data. These are:
Consent
In certain circumstances, we will only process your personal data with your clear consent.
For example, we will add you to our mailing list only if you sign up though a pop-up box or tick a relevant box at the checkout. You can create an account on our website only if you wish to do so. Not having an account doesn’t prevent you from placing an order with us.
Contract
When placing an order with us, we will require certain personal data like your name and address to be able to deliver your order so that we comply with our obligations under the sale contract. These details will be then passed on to our carrier company to deliver the goods to you.
We will use your e-mail address to provide you with updates regarding your order, such as order confirmation, despatch & tracking information.
We will also collect your phone number to be able to contact you in case of any problems with your order.
Depending on which delivery option you choose, your phone number and/or e-mail address might be passed on to our carrier so that they can keep you updated when your goods will be delivered (whenever applicable).
Legal compliance
If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data if fraud or other financial crime is suspected.
Legitimate interest
In certain situations, we will use your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running an e-commerce business. We will process personal data for the following legitimate interests:
For example:
We will use your purchase history to tailor our products recommendations to best suit your interests both on our website and occasionally in our newsletters (but only if you’ve signed up to our mailing list).
We will combine your browsing and purchasing data with all other customers’ data to analyse and identify shopping trends and areas for our improvement.
A short time after you’ve purchased a gift from us, we will send you a request to review your shopping experience with us as well as products you’ve purchased to help other customers make more informed choices when shopping with us.
Your personal data security is our priority. We will not sell trade or transfer your personal information to any third parties under any circumstances. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
This does not include trusted third party Service Providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you on our behalf.
For example: We use Mailchimp (https://mailchimp.com/legal/)as our email marketing platform to enable us to send out marketing emails, TNT for Shipping (https://www.tnt.com/express/en_gb/site/privacy-policy.html) and Google for our advertising.
Google will use your personal data when you give consent on our site, for more information on this you can view their policy here - Google’s Privacy & Terms site.
Such trusted parties may have access to personally identifiable information on a need-to-know basis and we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. All third party service providers are contractually obliged to keep your information confidential. All of our partners have confirmed they comply with all appropriate data protection laws.
In order to be able to fulfil your order, and provide you with the best possible service, we may need to share your personal data with third party service providers for the following reasons:
We operate our newsletter on a strict opt-in basis. We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email (or any other means) unless you have given your prior consent. You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us.
You can sign up to our newsletter either by filling out a form when you see a pop-up on our website or by ticking a box at the checkout, when you’re making a purchase.
We use a double opt-in sign-up system, which means that after signing up to our newsletter you’ll receive a confirmation email asking you to confirm subscription. This allows us to prevent unwanted or spam subscriptions.
We use a specialist email advertising company called MailChimp, to send out our newsletter. We gather statistics regarding email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter. If you require more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice.
Our third-party partner, allows us to occasionally provide you with personalised content in our newsletter, based on your previous website visits. We do this on the basis of legitimate interest to provide you with product suggestions most relevant to you.
We will not e-mail you in the future if you do not want us to do so. You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails. You can also email us with your request at info@generationgallery.com.
If during the course of browsing our website you place products in your basket and provide us with your e-mail address but for some reason leave before you completed your purchase, we might send you an email notification just to check that nothing went wrong. These emails are sent only once and are fully automated. If you receive such email from us, but don’t find them helpful and wish not to receive them in the future, simply click the “unsubscribe” button in the footer of the email or contact us by phone or e-mail.
When you shop at Generation Gallery and share some of your personal data with us, you can rest assured that we take every step to make sure we handle it securely.
Our website uses end to end “https” technology across the entire site. Access to your data is password-protected and any sensitive information is encrypted and protected with 256 Bit encryption via TLS (Transport Layer Security).
For example, all order information is encrypted and transmitted via Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) technology directly from your browser to our secure servers. It is only accessible by those who are authorized to access such systems, and only then to carry out tasks allowed in the contract, legal consent or legitimate interests as mentioned above.
Another example is, all supplied credit or debit card information is encrypted and transmitted via Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL) technology directly from your browser to our payment gateway provider’s server only to be accessible by those who are authorized to access such systems and who are required to keep the information confidential. We do not ever see this information and the information never gets transmitted, seen or stored via our servers.
'Cookies' are small pieces of information sent by a website to your computer and stored on your hard drive to allow that website to recognise you when you visit, to save your preferences & give you relevant content. Cookies do not collect personally identifiable information such as your name, address or payment details, but may be used to link your actions to your personal information, for example to link you adding a product to your basket & account so you can then check out.
By accepting, Google cookies are used for ads personalisation.
We will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary and only for the purpose for which it was obtained.
You are entitled to view, amend, or delete the personal information that we store on you. Email your request to our Customer Service department.
If you have an account on our site, you can access your personal data by clicking on “My Account” in the website’s header, where you can update your personal data. To delete your account and all data it contains, please send a request to this effect to our Customer Service team.
If you’d like to amend your e-mail newsletter preferences, simply go to “update subscription preferences” at the bottom of each of our marketing emails to update the data we hold or to unsubscribe .
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated on 24th May 2022.
