Privacy Policy / The Old School Yard Co

This privacy policy is between you, the User of this Website, and The Old School Yard Company, the owner and provider of this Website. The Old School Yard Company values the privacy of your information profoundly. This privacy policy governs our use of any and all data collected by us or provided by you in relation to your use of the Website.

Please review this privacy policy thoroughly.

Definitions and Interpretation

The following definitions apply in this privacy policy:
- Data: collectively all information submitted to The Old School Yard Company via the Website. This definition incorporates the definitions provided in the GDPR.
- Cookies: a small text file placed on your computer by this Website during your visit to certain parts of the Website and/or when you use certain features of the Website. Details of the cookies used by this Website are outlined later in this policy.
- The Old School Yard Company ("we" or "us"): The Old School Yard Company, a company incorporated in [Country] with registered company number [Company Number], located at [Company Address].
- UK and EU Cookie Law: the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, as amended.
- User or you: any third party that accesses the Website and is not either employed by The Old School Yard Company and acting in the course of their employment or engaged as a consultant or otherwise providing services to The Old School Yard Company and accessing the Website in connection with the provision of such services.
- Website: the website you are currently using, and any sub-domains of this site unless expressly excluded by their own terms and conditions.
This privacy policy, unless the context requires a different interpretation:
- The singular includes the plural and vice versa;
- References to clauses and sub-clauses are to those of this privacy policy;
- The term "including" is understood to mean "including without limitation";
- Reference to any statutory provision includes any modification or amendment of it.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This policy applies only to the actions of The Old School Yard Company and Users with respect to this Website. It does not extend to any websites that can be accessed from this Website including, but not limited to, any links we may provide to social media websites.

Using Personal Information

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information to:

Administer our website and business;
Personalise our website for you;
Enable your use of the services available on our website;
Send you goods purchased through our website;
Supply to you services purchased through our website;
Send statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collect payments from you;
Send you non-marketing commercial communications;
Send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
Send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
Send you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
Provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
Keep our website secure and prevent fraud;
Verify compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and
Other uses.

Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Security of Personal Information

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers. All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

Amendments

We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

Your Rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to:

The payment of a fee (currently fixed at GBP 10); and
The supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by using an opt-out link in emails or providing your preferences at the point of entry of your details. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

Third Party Websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites.

Updating Information

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.