Privacy Policy

• Your privacy is important to us, as is complying fully with GDPR. This Privacy Notice is the latest version available and a copy can be requested by contacting info@sumas.shop.
• This Privacy Notice applies to the use and processing of personal information collected and used by Deals Topics Ltd. The phrases “SUMAS”, “us” or “we” shall, when used herein, mean those members of the Deals Topics Ltd. 
• This Privacy Notice is applicable to customers and suppliers. There is a separate Privacy Notice for Staff.

 

• We collect personal information about you from a variety of sources. This includes information we collect directly from you; when you email us or contact us via any other electronic format; information we collect when you place an order directly with us or on one of our websites; information you give us if you subscribe to our newsletter via the website.

 

• Consent – if you give us your specific consent to contact you, for example when you tick a box to receive email newsletters. You can revoke this consent at any time.
• Contract – to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, for example, if you place an order with us and you specify a private delivery address, or you give us your name and mobile number for contact purposes.

Legal compliance – if the law requires us to collect and process your data, for example, if we need to pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity affecting SUMAS to law enforcement agencies.
Legitimate interest – where it might reasonably be expected we can use your data as part of running our business, for example, we may use your purchase history to send you our newsletter, or information about offers of products we think may be of interest to you. 

 

 

• For orders placed with us directly via our website, we will collect your name and title; email address; postal address, telephone number; and payment information.
• If you register an account with us on one of our websites we will collect your name, title, email address and delivery address. If you subsequently place an order on one of our websites we will also collect information about your purchase and we may use this to analyse trends and to tailor future communications with you. If you subscribe to our newsletter via the website we will collect your email address.
• We collect details of any comments or complaints you make and this may include notes on conversations we have with you.
• We use cookies on our websites to enhance your customer experience, see later section called How we use Cookies.

 

• We might use this information to send you information on related products/services that we think may be of interest to you, subject to your consent. You can opt-out of this service at any time.
• From time to time we are required by law to contact you and update you on legal matters, for example, changes to our service or updates to our Privacy Notice or product recalls.
• These service messages will not include any promotional content and we do not require your prior consent because in contacting you we are fulfilling our legal obligations to you (see the section on legal bases above).
• For Suppliers, we use this information to send you Purchase Orders, quotation requests, enquiries etc for goods we may wish to purchase from you.
• We also use this information to contact you generally for business purposes, e.g. catalogue requests, product information, and customer service queries.

 

How We Use Cookies
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites.

We use cookies to help identify your computer so we can tailor your user
experience, track shopping basket contents and remember where you are in the order process. You can disable cookies already stored on your computer, but these may stop our website from functioning properly.

The following is strictly necessary for the operation of our website:

The website will remember:
– what is in your shopping basket;
– where you are in the order process
– that you are logged in and that your session is secure; you need to be logged in to complete an order.
The following are not strictly necessary, but are required to provide you with the best user experience and also to tell us which pages you find most interesting
(anonymously):

Functional Cookies:

The website will offer live chat support (if available) and track the pages you visit via
Google Analytics
Targeting Cookies
The website will allow you to share pages with social networks such as Facebook (if available) and allow you to share pages via Add This (if available)
To view the “Add This” Privacy Policy or to opt-out of any online behavioural advertising, please visit Add This and click on the “Opt out” button.

 

This website will not:

• Share any personal information with third parties
• Information Sharing. We do not sell your personal information to anyone outside of Deals Topics Ltd.
• We may share your information with third parties who perform services on our behalf.
• For instance, to fulfil our contractual obligation to you or to help us to deliver marketing to you.
• We may share your information with a successor to all or part of our business. For instance, if the business, or a part of the business, is sold, we may share your personal information with the successor as part of the hand-over.
• We will share your information if we think we have to in order to comply with any laws or protect ourselves. For instance, if this is required during by a government body or investigatory body, or if we are investigating potential fraud.

 

Third-Party Service Providers :

• We engage third-party providers to perform a variety of business operations on our behalf. In so doing, we may share your personal information with them. We provide our
• service providers with only the personal information they need in order to perform the services we request, and we require them to protect this information appropriately and not use it for any other purpose.

 

Examples of third-party service providers are:

Operational companies such as delivery couriers who deliver your orders and/or collect goods from you. IT companies who support our business systems and website(s).
Marketing automation platforms that send out newsletters etc. on our behalf via email.

 

Other Situations:

We may transfer or otherwise process your personal information:
As part of the sale of SUMAS to another company.