Privacy Policy
It is Stone & May Ltd’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.stoneandmay.com (hereinafter,"company", "Stone & May", "us", "we", or "www.stoneandmay.com". We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
1. Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Stone & May Ltd collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stone & May Ltd’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stone & May Ltd’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Stone & May Ltd may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Stone & May Ltd also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Stone & May Ltd only discloses logged in user IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
2. Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Stone & May websites choose to interact with Stone & May Ltd in ways that require Stone & May Ltd to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Stone & May Ltd gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, visitors that wish to create an account with us need to provide a username and email address. Every user completing an order will have to provide us with his name, surname and address needed to complete and deliver the order. This information will only be ever used to complete the user's order.
3. Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
4. Advertisements
Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Stone & May Ltd and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
www.stoneandmay.com uses Google AdWords, Facebook and Instagram for re-marketing
www.stoneandmay.com uses the re-marketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or a site in the Google Display Network. Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy and Google’s privacy policy.
You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.
5. Links To External Sites
Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
6. Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Stone & May Ltd discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Stone & May Ltd’s behalf or to provide services available at Stone & May Ltd’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Stone & May Ltd’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Stone & May Ltd will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Stone & May Ltd discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Stone & May Ltd believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Stone & May Ltd, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of www.stoneandmay.com and have supplied your email address, Stone & May Ltd may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Stone & May Ltd and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Stone & May Ltd takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
7. Aggregated Statistics
Stone & May Ltd may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website. Stone & May Ltd may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Stone & May Ltd does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
8. Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, Stone & May Ltd uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalised content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Stone & May Ltd uses cookies to help Stone & May Ltd identify and track visitors, their usage of www.stoneandmay.com and their website access preferences. Stone & May Ltd visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Stone & May Ltd’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Stone & May Ltd’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to Stone & May Ltd's use of cookies.
9. E-commerce
Those who engage in transactions with Stone & May Ltd – by purchasing Stone & May Ltd's services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Stone & May Ltd collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Stone & May Ltd. Stone & May Ltd does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
10. Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Stone & May Ltd may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Stone & May Ltd’s sole discretion. Stone & May Ltd encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.