We respect our customers’ privacy. We will not give or sell your personal information to any other company; nor will we send you any unsolicited e-mail. Users who sign up to our e-mailing list may unsubscribe at any time. If you do not wish to receive printed catalogues from us, just let us know.
Gilgamesh Archaeology Bookshop (Gilgamesh) take your privacy very seriously and we promise that any personal information that you share with us will be protected and respected. This Privacy Policy explains how we use any personal information we collect about you when you use this website.
What information do we collect about you?
We collect your information when you register with us or place an order for our products or services. We also collect your information when you sign up for newsletters or information from us. This might include your name, email, address and phone number for shipping purposes.
Some of the information you will give us, like your email address when you sign up to a Newsletter, and some we will collect via Cookies.
How do we use the information we collect?
We collect information about you, so we can manage your account, process your orders and, if you have requested, to email you with information like our Newsletters.
This website is built using WordPress and Woocommerce. We use Stripe as a card processing agent and Paypal. Books are sent out via Royal Mail / Parcel Force or DPD.
We use Google Analytics to analyse the use of this website. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store this information. Google’s privacy policy is available here.
You have the ability 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. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience any of the interactive features of this website or other websites you visit.
We tell you all about what cookies we use in our cookie policy.
Who can access your information?
We take your personal data security very seriously. Only Gilgamesh can access your stored account information.
Is your information secure?
We protect your personal information in a range of ways including secure servers, firewalls and SSL encryption.
The servers that make this website available may be located outside the country from which you have accessed this website. We make sure that the hosting organisations we work with have verified that their data processing standards comply with the GDPR data regulations which sets out clear safeguards and transparency responsibilities for non-EU based organisations processing personal information from EU citizens.
How do you stop emails from us?
We would like to send you information about products and services of ours which may be of interest to you but if you changed your mind about hearing from us then just tell us by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of the email we sent or books@archaeologybookshop.uk. We won’t take it personally and if you change your mind later, you can always subscribe again.
What if you want to see the information we have from you?
You have the right to see a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of your personal information, please email books@archaeologybookshop.uk
And if you want us to delete all the data we have about you, then we are happy to do that for you just contact us at books@archaeologybookshop.uk. Please be aware that we do have an obligation to keep certain personal data for a specific amount of time to meet business and legal requirements.
Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites from here you should read their privacy policy too.
Changes to our privacy policy may happen sometimes so please review this page for updates. We last updated our Privacy Policy in February 2021.
Information sharing
We use one or more outside credit card processing companies to bill you for our goods and services. To the best of our knowledge, these companies do not retain, share, store, nor use personally identifiable information for any other purpose.
We also share personal information with certain companies that perform services on our behalf, such as courier companies. We only share the personal information which is necessary for them to perform those services. We require any company with which we may share personal information to protect that data in a manner consistent with this policy and to limit the use of such personal information to the performance of services for us.
We do not sell or otherwise provide personal information to other companies for the marketing of their own products or services.
Data retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active, your information is needed to provide you services, or as required to fulfil our legal obligations. If you wish to delete your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us. We will respond to your request within 30 days. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Choice / opt out
We will contact you when there are changes to the Terms of Service or privacy policy, as applicable. In addition, we will still send you service-related announcements including, but not limited to, a registration email, benefit notification emails, emails automatically triggered by actions you took on the site and bill related notices. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you wish not to receive them, you have the option of deactivating your account.
How to contact us
We hope that we’ve given you all the information about how we collect and use your data simply and clearly but please if you have questions email us at books@archaeologybookshop.uk