Who we are
Our website address is: https://vapebud.co.uk.
When you use or interact with our website, www.VapeBud.co.uk, we will collect and use the personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
The start date for this privacy statement is November 1st, 2022.
This privacy statement should be carefully read. We advise you to print a copy of this privacy policy as well as any updated versions that may be in effect from time to time for your keeping.
How we collect data
We only obtain personal information about you when you voluntarily give it to us. Examples include when you use our website and its features, when you get in touch with us by phone, email, social media, or other direct contact method, when you fill out a form on our website, or when you make a purchase using our website. Such User Information will only be used in line with this Privacy Policy and for the reasons for which it was acquired, in addition to any additional uses that may have been specified at the time of collection.
You are not required to give us any personal information to view our website. However, to utilise our services, such as making a purchase from us, you must supply personal information so that we can complete the sale.
Information like; may be among the different types of data we gather about you:
- – Your email address
- – Your address
- – Telephone number
- – List of your computer’s specifications (i.e., your IP address)
- – Details about your usage of our website
- – Details relating to your mobile device (such as your geographical location)
- – Based on the items you have already purchased, information about your chosen products
Users enter details such as their name, email, phone number, address, and other pertinent information during registration and afterwards if they use extra features of our website. To identify the user, offer them support services, and complete e-commerce orders, VapeBud uses the information.
VapeBud.co.uk is not appropriate for those under the age of 18. We ask you to verify your age before gaining admission to our website since we do not knowingly collect personal information from visitors under the age of 18.
How we could be using your data
1) Individually Identifying Information
We recognise how crucial privacy is. Unless we have your permission or are obliged to do so by law, we do not disclose your Personal Information in any way other than what is stated in this privacy policy. In general, we may share the data we gather, including Personal Information, with businesses operating in markets other than the vaping industry to facilitate our provision of the Services or communications with customers, to run our business, to advertise or promote our Services, to support changes to or transfers of our business, as required by law, or with your consent.
2) Unidentified Personal Information
We may openly disclose and share non-personally identifying data with third parties, including publishers, advertisers, and associated websites. For instance, we may make information available to the public to demonstrate patterns in the general use of our services, sales of our goods, or trends in what consumers are purchasing.
Marketing
If you have given us permission to reach out to you via email for marketing purposes, we may do so. You give us permission to use your email address for email marketing and ad targeting if you subscribe to VapeBud emails or opt into email contact from VapeBud.
In these communications, we may include material from other organisations (such as promoting deals from manufacturers whose products we stock). You can decide whether you wish to learn more about our work. Please click the appropriate box on the form where we gather your data during the checkout process if you do not want us to use your personal information in this manner.
By clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our marketing emails, you can always choose not to receive any more communications from us. By using the contact us page on our website, you can also change any of your contact settings, such as not wanting us to contact you by phone or mail for marketing purposes.
If you have said that you do not want to be contacted for marketing purposes, we won’t use your information for that. To assist ensure that we do not keep contacting you, we will keep your information on a suppression list.
Cookies
To deliver, enhance, safeguard, and advertise our services, we use technology like cookies and pixel tags. For instance, cookies enable us to remember your username for your subsequent visits, analyse how you use our website, and personalise your experience based on that data.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Cookies cannot harm your files or attach to your system. Most browsers include a straightforward process that lets you refuse or accept the Cookie function if you do not want information collected through Cookies. However, take note that if the cookie option is removed, “personalised” services can be impacted.
Updates
When you log in to the website and browse the menu options for your personal account, where information can be altered or deleted from areas of your account, you can also view and update your personal information. From this section of the website, you may easily adjust your contact preference options.
By sending an email to [email protected] you can let us know about any changes, modifications, and corrections to previously obtained User Information.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Contact
If you would want to get in touch with us, you can send an email to [email protected]
You can get in touch with us at any time if you have any more inquiries about the way we gather and store data.