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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 August 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how World Stationery Shop collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit our website, place an order, contact us or otherwise interact with our store.

Who Is Responsible for Your Data?

Before publishing, replace this text with:

Legal business name
Registered business address
Registration or VAT number, where applicable
Email: orders@worldstationeryshop.com

This business is the data controller for personal information processed through the store, except where another provider acts as an independent controller.

Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the store, we may collect:

  • Identity and contact information, including name, email address, telephone number, billing address and delivery address
  • Order and transaction information, including products purchased, payment status, refunds and delivery details
  • Personalisation information, including names, text, logos, images, design files, colour choices and font preferences
  • Messages and customer-service communications
  • Technical information, including IP address, browser, device, cookie identifiers and website activity
  • Marketing preferences and consent records

How We Collect Information

We collect information directly from you when you place an order, submit a form, create an account, email personalisation files, subscribe to marketing or contact customer service.

Some technical information is collected automatically through Shopify, cookies and similar technologies. We may also receive information from payment processors, delivery providers, analytics services and other service providers used to operate the store.

How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

  • Process, personalise, produce, deliver and manage orders
  • Take payment and prevent fraudulent transactions
  • Communicate about proofs, order details, delivery and customer support
  • Maintain business, accounting and tax records
  • Operate, secure, troubleshoot and improve the website
  • Comply with legal obligations and enforce agreements
  • Send marketing where permitted and manage marketing preferences

Legal Bases for Processing

Where the GDPR or similar law applies, processing may rely on:

  • Contract: processing necessary to take steps at your request or fulfil an order
  • Legal obligation: processing required for tax, accounting, consumer-protection or other legal duties
  • Legitimate interests: operating and securing the business, preventing fraud, improving services and handling claims, where those interests are not overridden by your rights
  • Consent: where you have freely agreed, including certain marketing or non-essential cookies

Shopify and Service Providers

Our store is hosted by Shopify. Shopify processes information needed to provide ecommerce, checkout, hosting, security and related services.

We may also share necessary information with payment processors, delivery companies, email providers, accountants, IT providers, fraud-prevention services, analytics providers and professional advisers.

Each provider receives only information reasonably needed to perform its services, subject to applicable contractual and legal safeguards.

Payment Information

Payments are processed by Shopify Payments or another payment provider available at checkout. We do not normally receive complete payment-card details. Payment providers process payment information under their own privacy terms and legal obligations.

Personalisation Files

Names, logos, photographs, design files and other materials supplied for personalisation are used to communicate with you, prepare proofs, manufacture the order, resolve quality issues and maintain necessary transaction records.

Do not send unnecessary personal information or material that you do not have authority to use.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

The store may use cookies and similar technologies for essential website functions, shopping-cart operation, checkout, security, preferences, analytics and marketing.

Where required, non-essential cookies are used only after appropriate consent. Cookie choices can be managed through the store's privacy or cookie-preference controls and through browser settings.

Before publishing, confirm which Shopify features, pixels, analytics tools and advertising services are active and describe them accurately in a separate Cookie Policy where appropriate.

Marketing Communications

We may send promotional emails only where permitted by applicable law. You can unsubscribe using the link in a marketing email or by contacting us.

Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent transactional communications about an order, payment, proof, delivery or customer-service request.

International Transfers

Shopify and other service providers may process information outside your country or the European Economic Area.

Where required, international transfers should use recognised legal safeguards, such as an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or another lawful transfer mechanism.

Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including fulfilment, customer service, fraud prevention, accounting, tax, warranty, dispute-resolution and legal requirements.

Before publishing, set practical retention periods for order records, emails, abandoned checkouts, personalisation files, marketing records and analytics data.

Data Security

We use reasonable organisational and technical measures intended to protect personal information. However, no internet transmission or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

Customers should protect account passwords and contact us promptly if they suspect unauthorised activity.

Children's Privacy

The store is not intended for children who cannot legally enter into a purchase contract. We do not knowingly seek to collect personal information directly from children for marketing purposes.

A parent or guardian should contact us if they believe a child has provided personal information improperly.

Complaints

Please contact us first if you have a privacy concern so we can investigate it.

You may also have the right to complain to the data-protection authority in the EU or EEA country where you live, work or believe an infringement occurred.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, providers, technology or legal obligations change. The current version will be posted on this page with an updated date.

Your Data-Protection Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information held about you
  • Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete information
  • Request deletion of information in certain circumstances
  • Request restriction of processing
  • Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests
  • Withdraw consent where processing relies on consent
  • Receive certain information in a portable format
  • Complain to the data-protection authority in your country

These rights may be subject to legal conditions and exceptions. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Privacy Questions or Requests

Contact us to ask a privacy question or exercise an applicable data-protection right. Please provide enough information for us to understand and verify your request.