Privacy Policy

This privacy policy sets out how My Tiny Limited uses and protects any information that you give My Tiny Limited when you use this website and governs the privacy of its users (You) who choose to use it.

My Tiny operates a website (www.mytiny.co.uk) under the name My Tiny. My Tiny (Our, We, the Operator, Site, Service, The Company, Us) is the controller of personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Our company number is 13198891 and our registered office is at 62 Selby Road, NG2 7BL

All references in this Notice to “My Tiny“, “our“, “us” or “we” refer to My Tiny Limited and suppliers which provide services to us, as appropriate. All references in this Notice to our “Website” are to the website owned by My Tiny Limited, www,mytiny.co.uk

Who this Notice applies to?

Visitors to our Website including people who buy and sell items.

My Tiny Limited is 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, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

My Tiny Limited may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You will be notified of any changes to this privacy policy. This policy is effective from .

By registering an account with us or using and accessing the Site or Service, you consent to the use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. You should also be aware that we use cookies to store and access information whilst providing the Site and Service. You can find out more about our use of cookies below. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions:

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Company refers to My Tiny, 62, NG2 7BL.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: United Kingdom.

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a mobile phone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the Website mytiny.co.uk

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analysing how the Service is used.

Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to My Tiny, accessible from www.mytiny.co.uk

You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Name (first and surname)
email address (used to register with My Tiny)
demographic information such as address and postcode

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract: development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.

To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information

To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:</p>

With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service, to contact You.

For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.

With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Please note, We will never sell your personal information for any purpose.

The Data Protection Act

The Data Protection Act 2018 controls how your personal information is used by organisations, businesses or the government.

The Data Protection Act 2018 is the UK’s implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

My Tiny will ensure that any information stored about You is:

used fairly, lawfully and transparently
used for specified, explicit purposes
used in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to only what is necessary
accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date
kept for no longer than is necessary
handled in a way that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unlawful or unauthorised processing, access, loss, destruction or damage

There is stronger legal protection for more sensitive information, such as:

race
ethnic background
political opinions
religious beliefs
trade union membership
genetics
biometrics (where used for identification)
health
sex life or orientation

Your rights

Under the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the right to find out what information the government and other organisations store about you. These include the right to:

be informed about how your data is being used
access personal data
have incorrect data updated
have data erased
stop or restrict the processing of your data
data portability (allowing you to get and reuse your data for different services)
object to how your data is processed in certain circumstances
You also have rights when an organisation is using your personal data for:
automated decision-making processes (without human involvement)
profiling, for example to predict your behaviour or interests

Retention of Your Personal Data

My Tiny will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your area, county or country. My Tiny will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organisation or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Information available to other users through the Service:

My Tiny is designed to help you interact with other users of the Service. As a result of this some of the information generated through the Service is shared with other users of the Service as described below.

User profile
When you create an account on the Service a user profile will be generated for you that makes the following information publicly available:

Username and location, Your followers and who you are following, details about the items you are selling. If you add any of the following information to your profile this will also be made publicly available: profile picture, profile description and website address.

We will not directly reveal user email addresses to other users, however we may pass your email address to a seller where you have purchased an item.

Item listings
When you list an item for sale on the Service the information you add to the listing will be made publicly available. Other users may also share a link to an item they have bought from you via the Service on other social media channels which link to the Service, but this will not result in any information that was not already public, being made public.

Information about your activity on the Service
Some of your activities on the Services are public by default. These are:

Payment and transaction information:

We keep records of the products you buy, sell or gift though the Service and the payment method you use for the transaction. We will use payment and transaction information to assist in the payment process for any product you purchase through the Service.

We will provide your contact details to the seller of any item you purchase including your username and the name, delivery address, email address and phone number you provide at the checkout.

By using My Tiny you authorise Us to pass onto the payment gateway provider(s) any information and payment instructions you provide (which may include name, email address, unique customer identifier, order ID, bank account details, payment card details, card expiration date, CVC code, date/time/amount of transaction, merchant name/ID and location) to the extent required to complete payments via the Service. Please note that the billing details entered during the registration process will not be shared with any payment gateways until a sale is made.

My Tiny will save the billing details for the duration of the seller’s contractual relationship with the us, to make the payment process easier. The billing address will be automatically deleted 5 years after the seller’s last use of the site. Invoices will be saved for up to 10 years as it is a legal requirement in the UK.

My Tiny will save the buyer’s delivery address for the duration of your contractual relationship with us, to make the payment process easier for the buyer. The delivery address will be automatically deleted 5 years after the buyer’s last use of the site.

Social Media and Links to Other Websites

Our Service contains links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to read the Privacy Policy of each site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Marketing preferences

If you do not want us to contact you by email, you can change your email marketing preferences by contacting us. You can also unsubscribe from our marketing emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails we send to you.

Email, newsletters and communications

My Tiny operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. In compliance with UK Spam Laws and the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 subscribers are given the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign.

Subscriptions are taken in compliance with UK Spam Laws detailed in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003. All personal details relating to subscriptions are held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. No personal details are passed on to third parties nor shared with companies / people outside of the company that operates this website. Under the Data Protection Act 1998 you may request a copy of personal information held about you.

Children’s privacy

My Tiny does not address anyone under the age of 13. We request that users are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personable identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child have provided us with personal information, please contact us. If We become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13, without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers and deactivate their account.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the Last updated date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy. You can contact us by using the contact form or emailing hello@mytiny.co.uk

Cookie policy for My Tiny

By using My Tiny, you are agreeing to use our cookies (our/My Tiny/the site/we/us). The cookies we use are explained below.

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the site’s functionality.

How we will use your information

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

We have in place security measures to protect the security of your personal information and keep it confidential. We review these measures regularly to make sure they remain appropriate. We cannot guarantee the security of any third-party application you may use to transmit your data (for example, internet browsers).

We may transfer and process your data outside of the UK. Where your personal information is to be transferred outside the UK we will take reasonable steps to ensure that there are appropriate safeguards to protect your information.

We will keep your personal information for at least as long as we have a relationship with you. When deciding how long to keep your personal information after our relationship with you has ended, we take into account our legal, regulatory and professional obligations.

Managing and disabling cookies

You control and manage cookies in many ways by adjusting the settings on your browser (often found in your browsers ‘preferences’ or ‘tools’ menu. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. For more information on cookies, you can visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Strictly necessary cookies:

1a. Account related cookies

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

1b. Email newsletters related cookies

This site offers newsletter subscription service via Mailchimp and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

1.c Order processing related cookies

This site offers e-commerce payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it correctly.

Analytical/performance cookies

These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our site. They track how visitors move throughout the website when using it. In turn, this helps us to improve how our website works.

Targeting cookies

These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We may use this information to make aspects of our website and the content displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

Functionality cookies

These are used to recognise you when you return and login to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you and make using My Tiny a more enjoyable experience.

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

Several partners advertise on our behalf and affiliate tracking cookies simply allow us to see if our customers have come to the site through one of our partner sites so that we can credit them appropriately and where applicable allow our affiliate partners to provide any bonus that they may provide you for making a purchase.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin. Social media sites will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.