Privacy Policy

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GDPR

The Wholesale Stationery Company is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This privacy policy sets out how The Wholesale Stationery Company uses and protects any information that you give us when you use our website.

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

The Wholesale Stationery Company may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. 

You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy has been amended as of date in line with General Data Protection Regulation. The data controller is The Wholesale Stationery Company.
 

WHAT WE COLLECT
 

We may collect and process the following data about you:

We may keep a record of your name, email address, the nation in which you are located, how you have accessed our site – i.e. from a search engine or call to action from social media, details of your visits to our website, which may include your IP address, where available, although this does not identify any individual. This allows us to better tailor our marketing to improve our review service to a more concentrated and relevant demographic.
 

WHAT WE DO WITH THE INFORMATION WE GATHER
 

We require this information to understand your needs, and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

- Internal record keeping, to provide you with a better tailored service.
- We may use the information to improve our service. For instance, knowing that far more site visitors prefer products from a certain category.

Collecting the aforementioned information allows us to better tailor our product selection to improve our service to a more concentrated and relevant demographic.

We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests. This will enable you to participate in any interactive features on our services, should you wish.
 

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure we have put in place robust physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect from you.

The Wholesale Stationery Company will never disclose your information to third parties, unless permission is granted in full. 

The Wholesale Stationery Company does not require the user to ‘opt in’ for any service. Should we choose to create new services in future, this privacy policy shall be amended. 

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic, or lets you know when you visit a particular site.

Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes, by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful, and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
 

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, if you decline this may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.

SUBJECT ACCESS REQUEST

If you would like to make a Subject Access Request in order to view the data we currently hold on you, please contact us at shop@thewholesalestationerycompany.co.uk.

You have to right to know what information is being held by us about you. We will respond to your request within thirty days.

RIGHT TO ERASURE

If you would like to exercise your right to be forgotten and subsequently have all data we hold on you erased, please contact us at email We will respond to your request within one month.
 

EXTERNAL LINKS

Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy. You should therefore exercise caution, and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.