This privacy policy explains how Tom Trimmins Woodwork collects, uses, communicates, discloses and otherwise makes use of your personal information.

Contact & Communication

We collect and store the different types of personal information you provide in the following circumstances: when you join a course, order furniture, sign up to our newsletter, purchase gift vouchers, purchase tools, receive a refund or post reviews. This data will only be directly provided by you but might also include the details of another individual eg. someone who you have purchased one of our products for. Tom Trimmins Woodwork will use your data to enable us to deliver our services to you as you have requested.Personal information covers any information which relates to you as an identifiable person.

Below are examples of the type of data that we might collect from you and what we might use it for: 

1. Identity Data: Including forenames, last name, date of birth-for example to check an individual is  old enough to attend our courses.
   
2. Contact Data: may include invoicing; purchase order; home or work address, email address and telephone numbers, personal or job title and position. If you provide us with a postal address so that we can send you items via post or courier services we will only use the details you give us for this reason.
   
3. Financial Data: which includes bank account and payment card details. If we need to refund you for a cancelled course place or other reason then you will need to provide us with bank details in order to receive it.
   
4. Special Category Data: for example health or medical data that you have shared with us to ensure your safety and the safety of others in a woodworking class
   

We keep your personal information until it is no longer required or has no use, as detailed in the Data Protection Act 1998.

Email Newsletter:
Our email newsletter informs subscribers about our courses and services. When signing up you can choose how you wish to receive marketing information from us. The only option is via emailNewsletter emails and subscriptions are managed by or use of Mailchimp which is a third party company. The information you provide will be transferred to them for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.

If you no longer wish to receive our email newsletter, you can use the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any newsletter or contact tom@tomtrimmins.co.uk at any time. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely.

Emails sent by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Tracked activity may include the opening and forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email, and the times, dates and frequency of activity; note that this is not a comprehensive list. This information is used to refine future email campaigns and provide subscribers with more relevant content based around their activity. 

Requesting your information:

You may request a copy of personal information held about you by this website's email newsletter program. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please write to the business address on the contact page of this website.

Use of Website: 

Our website is secured using SSL encryption. You can tell you are on a secure site by checking the padlock symbol in the address bar in your browser which will also show you the SSL certificate.

This website uses tracking facilities to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer’s hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information [ http:// www.google.com/privacy.html ].
If you wish to deny the use and saving of cookies onto your computer, use your web browser’s security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.Where possible, cookie data is stored, encrypted and sent over an encrypted connection.

Social Media:

We  integrate the social media platform Instagram within the site, which use cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer's hard drive in order to track and monitor your use of the website.

This website nor its owner will ever ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms; if you wish to discuss sensitive details, contact us by telephone or email.

Communication, engagement and actions on external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate on are subject to the terms and conditions and the privacy policies of each social media platform respectively.

External Links:

The owners 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.

Payments:
Some details are shared with our payment services Sum-up if paying in person by card and through the payment integration Stripe when purchasing gift vouchers, tools, furniture or courses through the website. Payment details are transferred securely (encrypted) and not stored on our systems.