General privacy overview, data protection and cookies policy. Our Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from https://www.yourexamplewebsite.co.uk/ (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Site’ or ‘Website’ or ‘Platform’ or ‘Yew Marketplace’). Your continued use of the site confirms your agreement to these policy points shown on this page.
Your Example Website is operated by 123 Simples, a UK based web design and hosting provider. This page explains how we handle your privacy, what information we may collect about you, and how 123 Simples safeguards this information. Your privacy is very important to us, and we respect your right to privacy. However there are some aspects of this site where we will need to collect data about you, and we only ever use this information to help safeguard sellers and buyers on this platform.
This Policy governs the information we collect about you and your use of information we provide to you. By accepting this Policy and the User Terms & Conditions Agreement, you expressly consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in a manner prescribed in this Policy.
Children (persons under the age of 18 years) are not eligible to use our services on this site, and we ask that children not submit any personal information to us. If you are under the age of 18 years, you can browse the website only in conjunction with and under the supervision of your parents or guardians. If you are under 18 years of age you cannot use the Membership Section of the website.
It is the responsibility of parents to monitor their children’s use of the website.
For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), 123 Simples (Located in the United Kingdom) is the ‘data controller’ of your personal information.
When you visit our site some personal information may be collected to provide you with a range of services on this website. Our primary purpose in collecting personal information is to provide you with a safe buying and selling experience between buyers and sellers. We only collect personal information about you that we consider necessary for this purpose and to achieve this goal.
You are under no obligation to provide us with this information and can access many aspects of the website without providing us any personal information. However, when you visit this website, we may record certain information in relation to your browsing. This may include, but is not limited to:
This information is only used for statistical and website development purposes. Various pages on this website invite you to provide us your name and contact details, for example, to go onto our mailing list for our newsletter enter competitions, or to enable us to provide you with website related services such as notifications.
If you use our website’s feedback and support forms, you are asked to provide your name, organisation, title, address, email address and telephone number. We will only ask you for the information needed to ensure you get the best possible service from us and our members.
By voluntarily providing information to us when using the website, you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal information by us.
The website uses session cookies, which are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser. Upon closing your browser, the session cookie set by this website is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our Site at a later date.
If you choose to buy or sell on our website, we collect information about your buying and selling behaviour. This information is only used for statistical and website development purposes.
Please take note that when you voluntarily disclose information on the comments, feedback and/or forum sections that this information may be viewable by anyone visiting the site. We encourage you not to leave any personal information on these sections, because this type of communication shall become public information and can be collected and used by other parties. We have no control which third parties view the website, and therefore accept no responsibility about your disclosure of personal information.
When you register as either a buyer (also known as a ‘customer’, ‘client’) or a seller (also known as ‘authors’, ‘sellers’, ‘business users’) then your information may also be used in the following ways:
If you choose to buy or sell on our website we collect information about your buying and selling behaviour. When using our payment processing facilitators on the website, we collect additional necessary information, including but not limited to billing address, credit card number and credit card expiry date.
Depending on your choice of payment method this information can be shared with the following parties:
We only use your information provided to facilitate the following:
We do not share, give, sell, trade or otherwise disclose any personal information that we may hold about you to any third party unless:
Occasionally, we may use third party advertising companies to serve ads based on prior visits to the website. These advertising companies use cookies to anonymously collect data. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information in your Membership account.
You may find links to third party websites on our website. These websites should have their own privacy policies which you should check. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for their policies whatsoever as we have no control over them.
Equally for demo websites (demo websites, scripts, coding pages offered to view by sellers) we have no control over how those websites work, collect information or safe they may be. We advise people to use their common-sense and have proactive internet security on their own systems.
Our website uses two tracking systems which monitor how pages are viewed, how they may be found, and may record data about how long a particular user is viewing our web pages. The information collected does not include personal identifying information, or any sensitive personal data. Non personal data collected by either of these tracking systems is for our internal use only. The information collected is used to improve our website usability and is stored and used for aggregated and statistical reporting.
This ‘tracking software’ is provided by Google and StatCounter, neither of which will store any personal identifying information about YOU. However, because we have no control over either of these professional bodies, you may wish to view their own independent privacy and cookie policies.
View Google's Privacy Policy or View StatCounter Privacy Policy.
You may request access to your personal information and can ask us to correct or remove your personal information. To request such action, please contact support
This website has security measures in place to protect the loss or misuse of, or alteration or unauthorised access to, information under our control. However, if you send information from this website, it will not be encrypted unless we expressly tell you it is.
We keep this Policy under regular review. This Policy was last updated May 2023.