Privacy Policy

SECTION 1 – WHAT DO WE DO WITH YOUR INFORMATION?

When you browse our website, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

SECTION 2 – CONSENT

How do you get my consent?

When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery, return a purchase, or complete a contact us form on our website we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only e.g. If you complete a contact form with your personal details we will contact you via email and/or telephone.

If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will ask you directly for your expressed consent, or we accept your consent is given when you sign up to our newsletter and further authorise this through an email.

How do I withdraw my consent?

You can unsubscribe at any time for any reason by clicking the unsubscribe button on any marketing emails we send.  You also have the option to contact us for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at or mailing us at: Staffordshire Brewery, Unit 2 Harrison Way, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, ST13 7EF. Or email us at info@staffordshirebrewery.co.uk

SECTION 3 DISCLOSURE

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

SECTION 4 – THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

We use MailChimp for our marketing communications. We use Google Analytics to analyse website traffic. Information shared with any third party to allow them to provide us with their services can include:

• Name
• Email
• Address
• Phone

We recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

SECTION 6 – SECURITY

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

SECTION 7 – COOKIES

What is a cookie?

A cookie is small bits of data stored on devices to collect information, used to make a visit to a site more beneficial for the user, such as recognising if you have visited the site before and generating relevant marketing for you.

What cookies do we use?

We use both 1^st  party cookies (set by the website) and 3^rd party cookies (set by 3^rd parties)

Why do we use cookies? 

• To make our website work as you’d expect
• Save you having to login every time you visit the site
• Remember your settings during and between visits
• Improve the speed/security of the site
• Allow you to share pages with social networks like Facebook
• Continuously improve our website for you
• Make our marketing more efficient (ultimately helping us to offer the service we do at the price we do)

We do not use cookies to:

• Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
• Pass data to advertising networks
• Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
• You can learn more about all the cookies we use below

Website Function Cookies

Our own cookies

• We use cookies to make our website work including:
• Determining if you are logged in or not
• Remembering your search settings
• Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
• Allowing you to add comments to our site

There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.

Third party functions

Our site, like most websites uses third party cookies.

Google Analytics

We use cookies to compile visitor statistics, such as how many people have  visited our what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us  if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before helping us to put more money into developing our services for you instead of marketing spend.

Social Website Cookies

You can “Like” or share our content social media sites by using the share buttons we have included on our site

• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest

They have set their own cookies. Please read their privacy policies to learn more.

Google Maps

We have google maps in use on our website. Please see googles privacy policy for more information.

Disabling these cookies will likely break the functions offered by these third parties

Consent to use cookies

Granting us permission to use cookies

If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site you can learn how to do this below, however doing so will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.

Switch off cookies

You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies (Learn how here). Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites.

The cookie information text on this site was derived from content provided by Attacat Internet Marketing http://www.attacat.co.uk/, a marketing agency based in Edinburgh. If you need similar information for your own website you can use their free cookie audit tool.

SECTION 8 – CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it. If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer by mail or email at:

Staffordshire Brewery, Unit 2 Harrison Way, Cheddleton, Staffordshire. ST13 7EF. info@staffordshirebrewery.co.uk