Privacy Policy
When you shop with House of Blue you will be submitting your information to Sand Dollar Limited (C21179029) trading as House of Blue (‘House of Blue’, ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’). We are committed to protecting and respecting your personal data privacy and complying with data protection principles and applicable law.
We may collect, process, use and disclose your information when you use this website www.blue.mu (‘Website’) as described in this privacy policy (‘Privacy Policy’). ‘You’ and ‘your’ includes any person who accesses this website and/or uses the services we provide including making purchases (‘Service/s’).
This Privacy Policy sets out the basis and terms on which House of Blue collects, processes, uses and/or discloses information provided by you when you access this Website and/or use the Services. Such information may include personal information relating to or linked to a specific individual such as name, residential address, telephone number and email address or any such information we have requested and you have provided through this Website (‘Personal Information’).
Terms
House of Blue reserves the right to amend the Privacy Policy in accordance with applicable law without prior notice, and your continued access of this Website or use of the Services will constitute your acceptance of the amended Privacy Policy, except where such change reduces your rights; in which case we will ask for your express consent. If you don’t agree with this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time, you must cease accessing this Website and the Services and also opt out/unsubscribe from any mailing list as per the opt out/unsubscribe option listed any email we send to you. Visit this page to review the current version of this Privacy Policy.
Collection of Information
We may collect Personal Information about you that you provide to us while using this Website and information about how you use this Website including when you open your user account (‘User Account’), visit this Website or access the Services.
- Opening Your User Account
When you open your User Account or amend information in your User Account, we may collect your Personal Information, e.g. your name, email address, username, password and telephone number.
- Making Purchases:
When you visit the Website and/or make purchases or otherwise use the Services, we may collect and process certain information (which may contain your Personal Information or may contain de-identified information linked to your Personal Information) including but not limited to
- Copies of correspondence (whether by e-mail, instant or personal messaging or otherwise) between you and us
- Feedback on and responses to surveys conducted by us relating to the Services and newsletters which may be published, circulated or distributed by us by email or otherwise;
- Information automatically collected and stored on our servers or those of our third party services provider by using or accessing to this Website (including the log-in name and password for your User Account, your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser information, pages visited, previous or subsequent sites visited).
Storage of Information
The Personal Information and other data we collect from you may be transferred to, processed, and stored in our servers or the servers of our third party services providers. Your Personal Information will be stored as long as is necessary to fulfil any of the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, or to comply with applicable law.
We will use reasonable endeavours to maintain appropriate physical, electronic and organisational procedures to ensure that your Personal Information and other data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law, and to protect your data against unauthorized use access and/or alteration, disclosure or destruction.
Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security protocols to try to prevent unauthorized access. We do not give represent, warrant or undertake that the Personal Information you provide to us will be secure at all times, and to the extent we have fulfilled our legal obligations to protect your data, under no circumstances shall we be responsible for any losses, damages, costs and expenses which you may suffer or incur arising from unauthorised access to or use of your Personal Information.
All payment transactions carried out by us or our chosen third-party provider of payment processing services will be encrypted using online encryption technology. You are responsible for keeping your chosen password confidential and not to share your password with any third party.
Usage of Information
We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties.
We will use Personal Information and other data collected through the Website or when making purchases to create your User Account, to provide you with the Services, to continually improve this Website and the Services, and to contact you in relation to the Services (subject to your rights to opt out). Improving this Website and the Service implies that we may use your Personal Information to streamline purchase requests, provide better customer support and to provide you with notice of new products, Services and special offers, subject to your rights to opt out.
From time to time, we may also make use of your Personal Information to contact you for feedback on your use of this Website, to assist us in improving this Website, or to offer special savings or promotions to you, where you have indicated your consent to receiving such communications. If you would prefer not to receive notices of special savings or promotions, you may simply opt-out from receiving them by replying to us through the hyperlink provided in these notices.
Disclosure of Information
We may from time to time share and disclose your Personal Information and other data to third parties. The circumstances under which such sharing and disclosure will take place may include without limitation, the following:
-To our third party service providers (including Google Analytics), which we may engage for the performance of certain services on our behalf, such as web hosting services, data analysis, marketing, market research, and to otherwise provide you with customer service.
-If and to the extent required by applicable law, order of court or requests by any governmental authority to make such disclosure.
-In the event of a corporate transaction, in connection with the sale, merger, acquisition, or other corporate restructuring of our business, your Personal Information may be disclosed, shared or transferred to the new controlling entity or its authorised third party for carrying on our business.
-To our advisors, agencies or other parties concerned in order to protect our rights and property.
In all such instances appropriate confidentiality undertakings will be entered into.
There may be links present on this Website which could result in you leaving this Website and being taken to other third party websites e.g. YouTube. You should note that any Personal Information that you provide to these third party websites are not subject to this Privacy Policy, and we are not liable for any losses, damages, costs or expenses which you may suffer or incur in connection with you providing or making available Personal Information or other data to such third party websites.
Cookies
When you visit this Website, information may be stored on your computer in the form of a cookie. Enabling cookies on this Website will allow this Website to function properly. Conversely, if you disable cookies on this Website, you may not be able to experience the full functionality of this Website. By visiting this Website without changing your settings, you agree to receive all cookies and other data collection tools; however, if you do not accept the use of these cookies, you can change your cookie settings at any time.
You may at all times access, correct or erase your Personal Information through this Website via the user portal, under “My Account”. Alternatively, you may make your data access, correction or deletion request by sending your request by email at info@blue.mu.
Where required by applicable law, you may also request restriction of processing of your Personal Information or object to processing by sending your request or objection by email at info@blue.mu. You may also request a copy of the information that we hold about you by sending your request by email to info@blue.mu.
When handling a data access or correction request, we have the right to check the identity of the requester to ensure that he/she is the person entitled to make the data access or correction request.
Enquiries
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at info@blue.mu