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Here at Mutherfudger.co.uk (“Mutherfudger”), we know that you care how information about you is used and shared, and we appreciate your trust that we will do so carefully and sensibly. This Privacy Policy describes how Mutherfudger protects and makes use of the information you give us and covers the information practices of our user interfaces, including our Online Store’s (“Services”) provider, Ecwid.com.

If you are asked to provide information when using this website, it will only be used in the ways described in this privacy policy. This policy is updated from time to time. The latest version was published on this page on 11 April 2018.

Why we gather information

We gather and use certain information about individuals in order to provide products and services and to enable certain functions on this website.
We also collect information to better understand how visitors use this website and to present timely relevant information to them.

Information We Collect

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, referred you to a third party website.

Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.

We use a cookie control system which allows you to accept the use of cookies, and control which cookies are saved to your device / computer. Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device, please see your web browser options.

Addresses

When you visit Mutherfudger.co.uk, we collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses to track and aggregated non-personal information. For example, we use IP addresses to monitor the regions from which users navigate to Mutherfudger.co.uk. We also collect your IP address when you log into the Services as part of our security features.

Affiliate links or adverts

Our website may contain adverts, sponsored and affiliate links on some pages. These are typically served through our advertising partners; Google Adsense. We only use trusted advertising partners who each have high standards of user privacy and security. However, we do not control the actual adverts seen / displayed by our advertising partners. This is based purely on your browsing habits and cookies that may be in your browser.

Clicking on any adverts, sponsored or affiliate links may track your actions by using a cookie saved to your device. You can read more about cookies on this website above. Your actions are usually recorded as a referral from our website by this cookie. In most cases we earn a very small commission from the advertiser or advertising partner, at no cost to you, whether you make a purchase on their website or not.

We use advertising partners in these ways to help generate an income to support the running and hosting costs of the website.

Email marketing messages & subscription

Under the GDPR we use the consent lawful basis for anyone subscribing to our mailing list. We only collect certain data about you, such as email, name and address. Any email marketing messages or notifications of new posts are done so through an EMS, email marketing service provider. An EMS is a third party service provider of software / applications that allows marketers to send out email marketing campaigns to a list of users.

Email marketing messages that we send may contain tracking beacons / tracked clickable links or similar server technologies in order to track subscriber activity within email marketing messages. Where used, such marketing messages may record a range of data such as; times, dates, I.P addresses, opens, clicks, forwards, geographic and demographic data. Such data, within its limitations will show the activity each subscriber made for that email campaign.

If you wish to unsubscribe from future mailings, you can click on the “unsubscribe from this list” link at the bottom of any email sent by us. Alternatively, you can email us at madnad@mutherfudger.co.uk, and we can remove your data for you. You can continue to update your own data, too, by clicking the “update your preferences” in any email you receive from us.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.


Our Use of Your Information

We use your personal information to:
• provide and improve our Services;
• to contact you in response to a specific query
• verify users’ identity and the information users provide;
• communicate administrative announcements when we need to provide users with information that may affect their use of the Services;
• perform other business activities as described when we collect the information.

As part of your registration on our website to use the Services, you agree that you may receive certain administrative communications from us, such as administrative announcements and customer service messages regarding Services and products during the period that we provide Services to you. You may not opt out of receiving such administrative communications.

Our website also uses automatic information obtained through cookies to operate and improve. We may also use automatic information alone or in combination with personal information about our customers to provide personalized information about Mutherfudger.co.uk.

Mutherfudger contracts with third-party advertising networks who collect IP addresses and other identifiers on our websites and emails and on third-party websites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of cookies. They use this information to provide advertisements about third-party products and services tailored to your interests. You may see these advertisements on other websites.

Accessing, Reviewing and Changing Your Personal Information

If you are registered to receive the Services, you have the right to access, review and modify your personal information at any time by logging into your Profile page located at https://www.mutherfudger.co.uk/store. If you wish to delete your personal information, you may contact Mutherfudger at the madnad@mutherfudger.co.uk, and Mutherfudger will respond to requests to delete your personal information within thirty (30) days.

If you choose to use the Services, you have the option to provide your name, email address, and other personal information as indicated on our user interfaces. Once you register on Mutherfudger, you are no longer anonymous to us.

We collect and store the following information:
• Information you give us, including, contact information, such as your name, address, email address, and similar contact data
• Access credentials such as passwords
• We do not store the following information in the regular course of our business:

Information We Share

We share your personal information with your consent or as necessary to provide the Services. In addition, we share personal information with vendors or agents to provide the Services. In such cases, these companies must abide by our Privacy Policy and security requirements and are not allowed to use personal information they receive from us for any other purpose. Finally, Mutherfudger also may be required to disclose an individual’s personal information in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We will never lease, distribute or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or the law requires us to


Security

Any personal information we hold about you is stored securely. We and the third parties we contract to provide Services follow stringent procedures to ensure we work with all personal data in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (2018).