Privacy Policy

Taking your business and its details seriously

As a responsible B2B provider, we take the privacy of your business and your teams seriously. The privacy policy below reflects our approach. We are always open to suggestions which may help us to further refine and improve. Times change, circumstances change and this policy has been adjusted to reflect changes related to more home-working across our client base.

Updated on the 9th of September 2022

The Privacy Policy

This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how its.fashion, which is the technology division of Conceptable Ltd, with its visitors office location at Conceptable Ltd, its.fashion Division, 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, England W1W 5PF (“Company,” “we,” and “our”) processes, collects, uses and shares personal data when using this website www.its.fashion and its associated service pages/URL’s (the “Site”). Please read the following information carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will process data.


  1. Purposes of Processing

What is personal data? Through your voluntary interaction we may collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal data. As used in this Policy, “personal data” is as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation, this includes any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including for example, your name, company, postal address, email address and telephone number.

Why do we need your personal data? We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data in order to provide you with access to advanced parts of the Site or to enable us to contact you at your request. If you registered with us, you will have been asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our services, request information, request to be contacted, purchase our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal data respectfully and in line with this Policy, please do not use our Site or services.


  1. Collecting Your Personal Data

We collect information about you in the following ways:

Information You Give Us. This includes:

  • the personal data you provide when you choose to register to use our Site. This may include your‎ name, postal address, email address, telephone number, chosen username, chosen password and demographic information;
  • the personal data that may be contained in any video, comment or other submission you upload or post to the Site or associated pages;
  • the personal data you provide in connection with any rewards program, surveys and other promotions we run on the Site;
  • the personal data you provide when you report a problem with our Site or when we provide you with customer support;
  • the personal data you provide when you make a purchase thorough our Site; and
  • the personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone, email or otherwise.

Information from Social Networking Sites. Our Site include interfaces that allow you to connect with social networking sites (each a “SNS”). If you connect to a SNS through our Site, you authorize us to access, use and store the information that you agreed the SNS could provide to us based on your personal settings on that SNS. We may access, use and store that information in accordance with this Policy. You can revoke our access to the information you provide in this way at any time by amending the appropriate settings from within your account settings on the applicable SNS.

Information Automatically Collected. We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our Site. For example, when visiting our Site, we log your computer or mobile device operating system name and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, how long you spent on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our Site We collect this information about you using cookies and may use analytics tools or non-evasive scripts provided by third parties to interpret our site visitor trends.

Automated Decision Making and Profiling. We do not use your personal data for the purposes of automated decision-making. However, we may do so in order to fulfil obligations imposed by law, in which case we will inform you of any such processing and provide you with an opportunity to object.


  1. Cookies

What are cookies?

We may collect information using “cookies.” Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site.

We use two broad categories of cookies: (1) first party cookies, served directly by our website software to your computer or mobile device, which are used only by us to recognize your computer or mobile device when it revisits our Site; and (2) third party cookies, which are served by service providers on our Site, which in addition to providing us with insight can possibly be used by such service providers to recognize your computer or mobile device when it visits other websites.

Cookies we use

Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:


Type of cookie Purpose
Essential Cookies These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our Site and to enable you to use some of its features. For example, they allow you to log in to secure areas of our Site and help the content of the pages you request load quickly. Without these cookies, the services that you attempt to access cannot be provided at the same level of functionality.We only use these cookies to provide you with the services our website provides.

Functionality Cookies These cookies allow our Site to remember choices you make when you use our Site, such as remembering your language preferences, remembering your login details and remembering the changes you make to other parts of our Site which you can customize. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you visit our Site.

Analytics and Performance Cookies These cookies are used to collect information about traffic to our Site and how users use our Site. The information gathered does not identify any individual visitor. It includes the number of visitors to our Site, the websites that referred them to our Site, the pages they visited on our Site, what time of day they visited our Site, whether they have visited our Site before, and other similar information. We use this information to help operate our Site more efficiently, to gather broad demographic information and to monitor the level of activity on our Site.

When using third party services for these purposes we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses its own cookies which are only used to improve how our Site works and is recognized by Google services. You can find out more information about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies

You can find out more about how Google protects your data here: www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html.

You can prevent the use of Google Analytics relating to your use of our Site by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB

Social Media
Cookies
These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our Site or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social networking website such as Facebook, Twitter or Google+. The social network will record that you have done this.

Disabling cookies

You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser (usually located within the “settings,” “help” “tools” or “edit” facility). Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings.

If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. For example, we may not be able to recognize your computer or mobile device and you may need to log in every time you visit our Site or you may not see the information and pages in the same way as other visitors.


  1. Advertising

We may occasionally and for varying reasons use other companies to serve our own and third-party advertisements when you visit and use the Site. These companies may collect and use click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over during your visits to the Site and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. These companies typically use tracking technologies to collect this information. Other companies’ use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies.


  1. Using Your Personal Data

We may use your personal data as follows:

  • to operate, maintain, and improve our Site, products, and services;
  • to manage your account, including to communicate with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our Site;
  • to operate and administer our rewards program and other promotions you participate in on our Site;
  • to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service;
  • to send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
  • to respond to your requests made via our site, telephone, email, social networks or other electronic or physical communication means;
  • with your consent, to send you marketing e-mails about upcoming promotions, and other news, including information about products and services offered by us and our affiliates. You may opt-out of receiving such information at any time: such marketing emails tell you how to “opt-out.” Please note, even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your account with us (if you have one) and our business dealings with you;
  • to process payments you make via our Site;
  • as we believe necessary or appropriate (a) to comply with applicable laws; (b) to comply with lawful requests and legal process, including to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (c) to enforce our Policy; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others;
  • for analysis and study services; and
  • as described in the “Sharing of your Personal Data” section below.

  1. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data as follows:


  • Third Parties Designated by You. We may share your personal data with third parties where you have provided your consent to do so.

  1. Our Third Party Service Providers. We may share your personal data with our third party service providers who provide services such as data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing and other similar services. We do NOT share your contact details (email, telephone, postal address) with any parties that are not working for our company (either as employees or assigned service providers

  2. Third Party Sites. Our Site may contain links to third party websites and features. This Policy does not cover the privacy practices of such third parties. These third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for their websites, features or policies. Please read their privacy policies before you submit any data to them.
  1. User Generated Content. You may share personal data with us when you submit user generated content to our Site, including via our rewards program, forums, message boards and blogs on our Sites. Please note that any information you post or disclose on our Site in the form of submitted content of any kind will become public information, and will be available to other users of our Site and to the general public. This excludes the contact forms or customer service chat functions, which are direct interactions between you and our teams. The information in these is not considered User Generated Content and will be private. We urge you to be very careful when deciding to disclose your personal data, or any other information, on our Site. Such personal data and other information will not be private or confidential once it is published on our Site.

If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback on our Site. We may post your first and/or last name along with your feedback on our Site. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the personal data in it in accordance with this Policy.


  1. International Data Transfer. Your information, including personal data that we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not offer the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. By accepting this Policy, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. An example of this may be that the actual server hosting and serving our website and its associated functions may not be within the same country in which our offices are based. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
  1. Security. We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect personal data within our organization. Unfortunately, no transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us.
  1. Retention. We will only retain your personal contact data submitted to us via our site, telephone, email, social networks or other electronic or physical communication means for 24 months unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes or record keeping in line with UK HMRC / Company House requirements).

We will only retain your site user data as long reasonably required for you to use the Site until you close your account/cancel your subscription unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (for example for regulatory purposes).


  1. Our Policy on Children. Our Site is not directed to children under 16. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
  1. Your Rights
  • Opt-out. You may contact us anytime to opt-out of: (i) direct marketing communications; (ii) automated decision-making and/or profiling; (iii) our collection of sensitive personal data; (iv) any new processing of your personal data that we may carry out beyond the original purpose; or (v) the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. Please note that your use of some of the Site may be ineffective upon opt-out.

  • You may access the information we hold about you at any time via your profile/account or by contacting us directly.
  • You can also contact us to update or correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.
  • Your personal data is portable – i.e. you to have the flexibility to move your data to other service providers as you wish.

  • Erase and forget. In certain situations, for example when the information we hold about you is no longer relevant or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request on our contact form, please make clear: (i) what personal data is concerned; and (ii) which of the above rights you would like to enforce. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.


  1. Complaints We are committed to resolve any complaints about our collection or use of your personal data. If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Policy or our practices in relation to your personal data, please contact us at via our contact form here or via our general postage address below. We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can and in any event, within 30 days. We hope to resolve any complaint brought to our attention, however if you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, you reserve the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority
  1. Contact Information We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us in writing at via this form or via post to our administrative address at Conceptable Ltd, its.fashion, 167-169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London, England W1W 5PF.

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