Privacy
Policy.

SHOPCIENTY LIMITED ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Last updated: October 2026

The data controller is SHOPCIENTY LIMITED, 7 Bell Yard, London WC2A 2JR (company no. 14960765). Contact: admin@shopcienty.com.

We collect only what we need to sell to you and answer your messages:

• Identity data: name, billing/delivery address
• Contact data: email address
• Transaction data: details of products purchased (payment is taken by our processor — we do not receive your full card number)
• Technical data: your IP address is processed by our website host and content providers as a technical necessity of delivering the page

• Fulfilling your order — lawful basis: performance of a contract
• Replying to enquiries — lawful basis: legitimate interests
• Accounting & tax records — lawful basis: legal obligation
• Marketing emails (only if you opt in) — lawful basis: consent, withdrawable at any time

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with providers needed to run the shop:

• Payment processor (Stripe) — to take payment securely
• Delivery partners (e.g. Royal Mail) — to deliver your order
• Website hosting & content delivery (GitHub Pages; Google Fonts for typography) — these receive your IP address when the page loads
• Advertising measurement (Google Ads; Pinterest) — only if you accept cookies: they receive your IP address and the fact that a page or an order happened, so we can tell which advert worked. Not loaded at all if you decline

We set no cookies at all unless you accept them. When you first visit, a small bar at the bottom of the page asks you to choose, and nothing is written to your device until you do.

• If you accept: two advertising measurement tags load. Google Ads sets _gcl_au (up to 90 days) and the Pinterest Tag sets _pin_unauth and _epik (up to a year), so we can tell whether an advert we paid for led to an order. We use them for that and nothing else — we do not build profiles and we do not sell data.
• If you decline: the Google tag stays in a cookieless mode — it can still count an anonymous page view, but nothing is stored on your device and you are not identified — and the Pinterest Tag is not loaded at all.
• Always on, no consent needed: your design choices are kept in your browser's own local storage on your device (strictly necessary to remember your selection) and are never sent to us until you check out. Our visitor counter (Cloudflare Web Analytics) is cookieless by design and never was.
• Where your visit came from: when you check out, a short label for the kind of link that brought you — for example a Google advert, Pinterest, a search, or typing our address — goes with your order, worked out from the page address and the site you arrived from. It contains no identifier and, unless you accept cookies, nothing is stored on your device for it; if you accept, it is kept only for this visit (session storage) so that moving between our pages doesn't lose it.

To change your mind later, clear this site's data in your browser — the choice bar will appear again on your next visit.

Under UK GDPR you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time. To exercise any of these, email admin@shopcienty.com.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk.

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary, including to satisfy legal, accounting or reporting requirements. Order data is typically retained for 6 years in accordance with UK tax and accounting regulations.