Privacy Policy
Maintaining your privacy is really important to us. You entrust us with your information, and we take that responsibility seriously.
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect the changes in our business and practices, and so you should review this page periodically. When we change the policy in a material manner we will let you know and update the ‘last updated’ header as below.
This Privacy Policy was last amended on 02/25/2021.
This policy was last updated on 02/25/2021 in line with GDPR requirements. It may be updated in the future and we will post the new version here on our website. We will never deviate from our overall philosophy of maintaining your privacy, though.
1. General Information
The Friends of the Redwood City Public Library take security and privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store and use personal data when you browse or otherwise provide your personal data to us. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we will treat your personal data.
2. What information we collect about you
Your personal data
When we say your "personal data", we mean any information that you provide to us that identifies any person.
Your "personal data"; may also be contained in information that we collect about you in connection with your order or otherwise interact with us for example by electronic mail.
When it comes to your personal data, we comply with our obligations under the General Data Protection Regulation and any other applicable data protection legislation from time to time.
Your personal data includes the information you provide, on The Friends of the Redwood City Public Library webstore (including any forms you complete), or during an electronic mail inquiry about you.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit any personal data from anyone under the age of sixteen or knowingly allow such persons to purchase goods from us. https://friendsofrwclibrary.onlineweb.shop/ is not directed at children under the age of sixteen. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal data from a child under age sixteen without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible.
3. How we use the information we collect
We use your personal data for legitimate business reasons, for example email you when your order has been received. It will also enable us to contact you by email, fax, post, SMS, social media or telephone where necessary concerning the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library or an order you have placed; to record your personal preferences; to personalize our services to you (such as by pre-populating fields to make it easier for you to provide information when you return to the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library). It will also enable us to produce reports you request as part of the services we provide.
Contacting you for Marketing Purposes - We may use your personal data to contact you
by email, fax, post, SMS, social media and/or telephone to let you know about our other
Friends of the Redwood City Public Library and/or third-party services, content, offers or product ranges which may be of interest to you. We will only use your data in this way where you have provided consent, we have legitimate business reasons for doing so, or where we are otherwise entitled by law to do so. If you would like us to stop providing you with such notifications, just contact us using the details in Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy. Please note, this may take up to one working day to take effect. To stop receiving emails from the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library itself, you should unsubscribe from our mailing list.
Legal Requirements – We may use your personal data to comply with any legal obligations
to which we are subject.
4. Why do we use your personal data?
We collect and use your personal data for a variety of reasons. We need some data to enter
into and perform our contract with you. The lawful basis for processing your personal data is
Consent as you have consented to provide your personal details to us to allow us to provide
a service to you. If you fail to provide such data we will be unable to provide our service to
you.
Other information we collect because we have legitimate business interests, for example, in:
- Fulfilling your order and providing updates on the order.
- Understanding how our customers use our products, services and websites;
- Understanding and responding to customer feedback;
- Researching and analysing the services our customers want;
- Improving our product and better understanding how our customers use it.
5. How we share information we collect
Except as described in this policy, the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library does not divulge any personal information gathered via its services to third parties.
We may share your personal data with third parties in certain circumstances:
- We may disclose your data to any member of our group (which means our subsidiaries or our ultimate holding company);
- in the event that we, our business, or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party (in which case personal information about customers will be one of the transferred assets);
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal in order to comply with any legal obligation; to cooperate with law enforcement officials in the investigation of unlawful activities of the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library's webstore users or relating to the Friends of the Redwood City Public Library users; or in order to enforce or apply any contract with you; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our employees, customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection or unlawful activity.
you. Examples of these functions include website creation and hosting, email, providing
marketing assistance and data analysis, data management, handling credit card transactions
and providing customer service. In choosing to work with any such third parties, we will
always ensure that the security policies and confidentiality arrangements of those third
parties adhere to the same requirements we ourselves impose and expect, as a minimum.
No ownership rights to the data will be transferred to any third party.
Sub-processors we use:
| Name | Service Provided | Link |
freewebstore |
eCommerce provider for website design, hosting and data storage. |
https://freewebstore.com/privacy.htm |
| for email (gmail) | www.gmail.com | |
| Paypal | Credit Card processing | www.paypal.com |
| Microsoft |
for email on credit card processing (hotmail) |
www.hotmail.com |
6. How long do we store your data for?
We only store your data for as long as necessary for the purposes of processing set out in
this policy.
Data Retention Policy
| Category | What personal information is kept? |
How long is it kept for? |
| Order Data | Name, email, address | 1 year |
| Newsletter subscriptions | Name, Email address | Active until user unsubscribes |
| Gmail | Name, Email address |
Active until user |
| Paypal | Name, Email address | Paypal stores transactions up to 2 years |
| Hotmail | Name, Email Address | 1 year |
7. How to access and control your information
You can ask us for a copy of your personal data that we hold. We may ask for proof of your identity before providing any information and reserve the right to refuse to provide information requested if identity is not established. Please see “Your Individual Rights” below. Generally, we will retain your personal data for a reasonable period, or for as long as the law requires.
Your individual rights
7.1. Access to your personal data: You can ask us to confirm if we are processing your personal data and you may request a copy of your personal data by contacting us.
See Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy.
7.2. Right to change or withdraw your consent: Where you have given us consent to make use of your personal data for any of the purposes outlined in this policy, you may withdraw that consent at any time by contacting us using the details located at Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy. If you wish to change your contact preferences or no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, use the Unsubscribe link in the email or get in touch. See Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy.
7.3. Right to Rectification: You may ask us to update out of date or inaccurate information we hold about you. To do so, please get in touch using the details at Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy.
7.4. Right to Erasure: In certain circumstances you may ask us to erase your Personal
Data. If you would like us to erase the personal data we hold about you, please get in
touch using the details at Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy
7.5. Make a complaint: You may make a complaint about our data processing activities,
please contact us. See Section “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy.
7.6. Getting in touch: To make inquiries and/or to exercise any of your rights in this privacy policy please contact us. See “How to Contact Us” at the end of this policy.
8. Data security
We take security and privacy seriously. We will endeavor to take all reasonable steps to keep your personal data secure once it has been transferred to our systems. We adopt appropriate, industry standard data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure or destruction. For more information how we keep our online data safe, visit https://freewebstore.com/privacy.html.
9. How to Contact Us
If you have any queries relating to this Privacy Policy or Friends of the Redwood City Public Library's use of your personal or financial data, please contact friendsofrwclibrary@gmail.com