Privacy policy
This Privacy Policy describes how www.bonkandco.com (the “Site” or “we”) collects, uses, and discloses your Personal Information when you visit or make a purchase from the Site.
Collecting Personal Information
When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support. In this Privacy Policy, we refer to any information that can uniquely identify an individual (including the information below) as “Personal Information”. See the list below for more information about what Personal Information we collect and why.
Device information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.
- Purpose of collection: to load the Site accurately for you, and to perform analytics on Site usage to optimize our Site.
- Source of collection: Collected automatically when you access our Site using cookies, log files, web beacons, tags, or pixels.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify, Google Analytics and Facebook.
Order information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including payment card numbers) email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide products or services to you to fulfill our contract, to process your payment information, arrange for shipping, and provide you with invoices and/or order confirmations, communicate with you, screen our orders for potential risk or fraud, and when in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Shopify, Cin7 and Parcelforce.
Customer support information
- Examples of Personal Information collected: name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including payment card numbers) email address, and phone number.
- Purpose of collection: to provide customer support.
- Source of collection: collected from you.
- Disclosure for a business purpose: shared with our processor Microsoft Office 365
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not intentionally collect Personal Information from children. If you are the parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at the address below to request deletion.
Sharing Personal Information
We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:
- We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.
- We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
- Our IT service providers when it is necessary for them to support our internal IT issues.
- Parcelforce to help deliver our products to you.
- Any external contractors required to undertake services coordinated through ourselves.
Mailchimp: Mailchimp automatically place single pixel gifs, also known as web beacons, in every email sent to our mailing list. These are tiny graphic files that contain unique identifiers that enable us to recognise when our subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. We use this data to create reports for our users about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took. You can unsubscribe from these emails at any time through the link at the bottom of the messages or by contacting us.
Using Personal Information
We use your personal Information to provide our services to you, which includes: offering products for sale, processing payments, shipping and fulfillment of your order, and keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers.
Lawful basis
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), if you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), we process your personal information under the following lawful bases:
- Your consent;
- The performance of the contract between you and the Site;
- Compliance with our legal obligations;
- For our legitimate interests, which do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Retention
When you place an order through the Site, we will retain your Personal Information for our records unless and until you ask us to erase this information. For more information on your right of erasure, please see the ‘Your rights’ section below.
Automatic decision-making
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to object to processing based solely on automated decision-making (which includes profiling), when that decision-making has a legal effect on you or otherwise significantly affects you.
We DO NOT engage in fully automated decision-making that has a legal or otherwise significant effect using customer data.
Our processor Shopify uses limited automated decision-making to prevent fraud that does not have a legal or otherwise significant effect on you.
Services that include elements of automated decision-making include:
- Temporary denylist of IP addresses associated with repeated failed transactions. This denylist persists for a small number of hours.
- Temporary denylist of credit cards associated with denylisted IP addresses. This denylist persists for a small number of days.
Your rights
GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information
Your Personal Information will be initially processed in Ireland and then will be transferred outside of Europe for storage and further processing, including to Canada and the United States. For more information on how data transfers comply with the GDPR, see Shopify’s GDPR Whitepaper: https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/your-account/privacy/GDPR.
Cookies
A cookie is a small amount of information that’s downloaded to your computer or device when you visit our Site. We use a number of different cookies, including functional, performance, advertising, and social media or content cookies. Cookies make your browsing experience better by allowing the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login and region selection). This means you don’t have to re-enter this information each time you return to the site or browse from one page to another. Cookies also provide information on how people use the website, for instance whether it’s their first time visiting or if they are a frequent visitor.
We use the following cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our services.
Cookies Necessary for the Functioning of the Store
Name |
Function |
_ab |
Used in connection with access to admin. |
_secure_session_id |
Used in connection with navigation through a storefront. |
cart |
Used in connection with shopping cart. |
cart_sig |
Used in connection with checkout. |
cart_ts |
Used in connection with checkout. |
checkout_token |
Used in connection with checkout. |
secret |
Used in connection with checkout. |
secure_customer_sig |
Used in connection with customer login. |
storefront_digest |
Used in connection with customer login. |
_shopify_u |
Used to facilitate updating customer account information. |
Reporting and Analytics
Name |
Function |
_tracking_consent |
Tracking preferences. |
_landing_page |
Track landing pages |
_orig_referrer |
Track landing pages |
_s |
Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_fs |
Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_s |
Shopify analytics. |
_shopify_sa_p |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_sa_t |
Shopify analytics relating to marketing & referrals. |
_shopify_y |
Shopify analytics. |
_y |
Shopify analytics. |
_ga |
Google analytics |
_gat |
Google analytics |
_gid |
Google analytics |
_fbp Facebook analytics
Name |
Description |
Duration |
Data type |
_hjClosedSurveyInvites |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user interacts with an External Link Survey invitation modal. It is used to ensure that the same invite does not reappear if it has already been shown. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
_hjDonePolls |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user completes a survey using the On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the same survey does not reappear if it has already been filled in. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
_hjMinimizedPolls |
Hotjar cookie that is set once a user minimizes an On-site Survey widget. It is used to ensure that the widget stays minimized when the user navigates through your site. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
_hjShownFeedbackMessage |
Hotjar cookie that is set when a user minimizes or completes Incoming Feedback. This is done so that the Incoming Feedback will load as minimized immediately if the user navigates to another page where it is set to show. |
365 days |
Boolean true/false |
_hjSessionTooLarge |
Causes Hotjar to stop collecting data if a session becomes too large. This is determined automatically by a signal from the WebSocket server if the session size exceeds the limit. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
_hjSessionRejected |
If present, this cookie will be set to '1' for the duration of a user's session, if Hotjar rejected the session from connecting to our WebSocket due to server overload. This cookie is only applied in extremely rare situations to prevent severe performance issues. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
_hjSessionResumed |
A cookie that is set when a session/recording is reconnected to Hotjar servers after a break in connection. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
_hjid |
Hotjar cookie that is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the Hotjar User ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
365 days |
UUID |
_hjRecordingLastActivity |
This should be found in Session storage (as opposed to cookies). This gets updated when a user recording starts and when data is sent through the WebSocket (the user performs an action that Hotjar records). |
Session |
Numerical Value (Timestamp) |
_hjTLDTest |
When the Hotjar script executes we try to determine the most generic cookie path we should use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, we try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
_hjUserAttributesHash |
User Attributes sent through the Hotjar Identify API are cached for the duration of the session in order to know when an attribute has changed and needs to be updated. |
Session |
Hash |
_hjCachedUserAttributes |
This cookie stores User Attributes which are sent through the Hotjar Identify API, whenever the user is not in the sample. Collected attributes will only be saved to Hotjar servers if the user interacts with a Hotjar Feedback tool, but the cookie will be used regardless of whether a Feedback tool is present. |
Session |
JSON |
_hjLocalStorageTest |
This cookie is used to check if the Hotjar Tracking Script can use local storage. If it can, a value of 1 is set in this cookie. The data stored in_hjLocalStorageTest has no expiration time, but it is deleted almost immediately after it is created. |
Under 100ms |
Boolean true/false |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's pageview limit. |
30 minutes |
Boolean true/false |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample |
This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether that user is included in the data sampling defined by your site's daily session limit. |
30 minutes |
Boolean true/false |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress |
This cookie is used to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
30 Minutes |
Boolean true/false |
_hjFirstSeen |
This is set to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
_hjViewportId |
This stores information about the user viewport such as size and dimensions. |
Session |
UUID |
_hjRecordingEnabled |
This is added when a Recording starts and is read when the recording module is initialized to see if the user is already in a recording in a particular session. |
Session |
Boolean true/false |
Learn more about Facebook cookies here.
The length of time that a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or “session” cookie. Session cookies last until you stop browsing and persistent cookies last until they expire or are deleted. Most of the cookies we use are persistent and will expire between 30 minutes and two years from the date they are downloaded to your device.
You can control and manage cookies in various ways. Please keep in mind that removing or blocking cookies can negatively impact your user experience and parts of our website may no longer be fully accessible.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can choose whether or not to accept cookies through your browser controls, often found in your browser’s “Tools” or “Preferences” menu. For more information on how to modify your browser settings or how to block, manage or filter cookies can be found in your browser’s help file or through such sites as https://www.aboutcookies.org.uk/
Additionally, please note that blocking cookies may not completely prevent how we share information with third parties such as our advertising partners. To exercise your rights or opt-out of certain uses of your information by these parties, please follow the instructions in the “Behavioural Advertising” section above.
Do Not Track
Please note that because there is no consistent industry understanding of how to respond to “Do Not Track” signals, we do not alter our data collection and usage practices when we detect such a signal from your browser.
Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.
Contact
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@bonkandco.com or by mail using the details provided below:
Bonk & Co Ltd, 8 Harbour Road, Inverness IV1 1SY
Last updated: 01.07.21
If you are not satisfied with our response to your complaint, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection authority. You can contact your local data protection authority, or our supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/