Privacy and Cookie Policy
Welcome to Metal Plate Pictures's Privacy and Cookie Policy. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring transparency in how we handle your information. This policy outlines the types of information we collect, how we use it, and the measures we take to protect your data. Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices.
About Metal Plate Pictures
Metal Plate Pictures is your destination for exquisite wall art, offering a wide range of products including metal posters, canvas prints, dibonds, framed and unframed posters, wallpaper, and more.
What We Collect
We may collect the following types of information:
- Name: Your name is collected to personalize your experience with us.
- Contact Information: This includes your email address, which we use for communication and order-related updates.
- Demographic Information: We may request postcode, preferences, and interests to enhance our services and tailor them to your needs.
- Other Information: Occasionally, we may gather additional data for customer surveys and special offers.
For a detailed list of cookies we collect, please refer to the List of Cookies We Collect section below.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
- Internal Record Keeping: Your data helps us manage your account and provide you with a better shopping experience.
- Improving Products and Services: We analyze the information to enhance our products and services.
- Promotional Communications: We may send you promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other relevant information based on your provided email address.
- Market Research: Periodically, we may contact you for market research purposes to customize our website according to your preferences.
Security
Your privacy and data security are paramount to us. We have implemented physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure of your information. These measures ensure the safe handling of data collected online.
How We Use Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyze data about web page traffic and improve our website to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes, and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, please note that we have no control over these external websites. Consequently, this Privacy and Cookie Policy applies solely to Metal Plate Pictures. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any linked websites for their data handling practices.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You have control over your personal information:
- Opt-Out: Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
- Change Preferences: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by letting us know using our Contact Us information.
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you, please email us this request using our Contact Us information.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible, at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.
List of Cookies We Collect
The table below lists the cookies we collect and the information they store:
Cookie Name | Cookie Description |
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FORM_KEY | Stores randomly generated key used to prevent forged requests. |
PHPSESSID | Your session ID on the server. |
GUEST-VIEW | Allows guests to view and edit their orders. |
PERSISTENT_SHOPPING_CART | A link to information about your cart and viewing history, if you have asked for this. |
STF | Information on products you have emailed to friends. |
STORE | The store view or language you have selected. |
USER_ALLOWED_SAVE_COOKIE | Indicates whether a customer allowed using cookies. |
MAGE-CACHE-SESSID | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-STORAGE-SECTION-INVALIDATION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-CACHE-TIMEOUT | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
SECTION-DATA-IDS | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
PRIVATE_CONTENT_VERSION | Facilitates caching of content on the browser to make pages load faster. |
X-MAGENTO-VARY | Facilitates caching of content on the server to make pages load faster. |
MAGE-TRANSLATION-FILE-VERSION | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
MAGE-TRANSLATION-STORAGE | Facilitates translation of content to other languages. |
Thank you for trusting Metal Plate Pictures with your privacy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Cookie Policy, please don't hesitate to Contact Us.
Last Updated: September 2023