Privacy policy

Who we are

This website is run by Unusual Vintage, 3 North Ln, Headingley, Leeds, LS6 3HG. You can email us at info@unusualvintage.com. Our current details are always on our Visit us page.

What we collect and why

When you send us a message

If you use the form on our Visit us page, we receive your name, your email address, your phone number if you give it, and your message. It is stored on this website and emailed to us so that we can reply to you. We keep it until we delete it.

When you join our mailing list

If you join our mailing list, we receive your name, your email address and your tick to say you would like our emails. It is stored on this website and emailed to us, and we use it only to send you news from the shop, such as when new stock lands. Ask us to take you off the list at any time by emailing info@unusualvintage.com, and we will.

When you send either form, we also send you an email to say it has arrived.

Who looks after the website

This website is hosted for us in the United Kingdom by British Web Design, who process this information on our behalf. They also deliver the website's email, and they receive reports of errors on the website so that they can fix faults. An error report can include your IP address and what you typed into a form.

Spam protection

Our forms are checked by Google reCAPTCHA to stop spam. It loads with the page, before you make any choice about cookies, and lets Google see your IP address and details of your browser.

Maps

Our Visit us page shows a Google map of where we are. The map is shown by Google, which sees your IP address and may set cookies of its own.

Cookies

The website sets a session cookie and a security cookie, which every visitor needs for the site and its forms to work.

The website keeps no visitor statistics of its own. If we switch on Google Analytics or advertising tags (such as Google Ads or the Meta Pixel), a banner will ask you first, and nothing is set until you accept. Your answer is remembered in your browser.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law (UK GDPR) you can ask us for a copy of the information we hold about you, ask us to correct it or delete it, and object to us using it. Email info@unusualvintage.com and we will help. If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it last changed.