Last Updated: 17/01/2026
At Rare Souvenirs, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This policy explains how we look after your data when you visit our website and tells you about your privacy rights under UK law.
1. Important Information and Who We Are
Rare Souvenirs is the controller and responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us.
2. The Data We Collect About You
We may collect, use, and store different kinds of personal data about you, including:
- Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier.
- Contact Data: Billing address, delivery address, email address, and telephone numbers.
- Financial Data: Payment card details (processed securely via our payment providers; we do not store full card details on our servers).
- Transaction Data: Details about payments to and from you and other details of products you have purchased from us.
- Technical Data: IP address, login data, browser type, and location (used to ensure we are serving our UK-only market correctly).
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your data:
- To register you as a new customer.
- To process and deliver your order (Contractual necessity).
- To manage our relationship with you (e.g., notifying you about changes to our terms).
- To improve our website and product offerings (Legitimate interests).
4. International Transfers
As we are currently focused on the UK market, your data is primarily processed within the UK. If we use third-party tools (like hosting or email marketing) that store data outside the UK, we ensure they have the equivalent “Rare Souvenirs” standard of protection.
5. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal data to those employees or partners (like local artists or couriers) who have a business need to know.
6. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements (usually 6 years for UK tax purposes).
7. Your Legal Rights
Under UK data protection laws, you have rights including:
- Access: Request a copy of your personal data.
- Correction: Request that we fix any mistakes in your data.
- Erasure: Request that we delete your data.
- Object/Restrict: Object to us processing your data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and keep track of your shopping basket. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, but some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.