privacy policy

PRIVACY STATEMENT

We are committed to protecting your privacy and to the security of your personal information. Please read this statement in full before submitting any personal data. Teapigs collects, uses and discloses personal information provided by users of this website in accordance with its privacy statement set out below. Your voluntary provision of personal information constitutes consent to its collection, use and disclosure for the purposes specified in the website. We collect, use and disclose personal information in the course of providing goods and services to you. The type of information we will collect about you includes:

* your name

* address

* age

* phone number

* email address

We collect, use and disclose information about you in order to provide you with the best possible service when:

  1. Supplying you with any information or offers shown on our website that you specifically 'opt into'
  2. Determining what kinds of goods or services may be of interest to visitors of this website. Information shall be retained as long is necessary to fulfill the purposes defined immediately above, or as required by law. We will not email or mail you in the future without your prior consent. Your consent may be withdrawn at any time. We maintain a mailing list of those customers who wish to be informed of new products, offers and events that may be of interest to our customers. If you would like to be added to our mailing list, please sign up at our members section. If you wish to be removed from our mailing list, please email using our modify profile form. At Teapigs, we're discriminating about the companies we partner with. We do not sell, rent or otherwise make available any information submitted by visitors to our site to any third parties with the exception of our fulfillment partner, On Route Distribution Inc., and may provide access to our partners if given voluntary. On Route Distribution will only collect the detail for the fields the customer must complete to close out the transaction. They will not do anything with information after the transaction.

However, Teapigs will disclose information if required by law or valid judicial order without further notice to you. Teapigs does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. Children and young people under 13 must get permission from their parent or guardian before they submit personal data to the Teapigs website. Links from this site may take you to sites not covered by our Privacy Policy. Teapigs has not reviewed these websites. We recommend you check their privacy policies yourself before submitting any personal information. We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which would be stored on your browser. A cookie is a very small piece of information that a website stores to save and collect basic information. Many cookies are essential to the operation of our website, for example to allow you to make a purchase or create an account with us. Cookies on our site are also used to customise certain areas of content just for you, and to make your browsing experience more efficient and faster.

You can usually modify your browser to prevent tracking patterns of your behavior. "Cookies" are not used to identify individuals for marketing purposes, or to retrieve information from a visitor's computer other than certain non-personal information including: * the date and time the visitor accesses the site; * the pages visited; * the browser and operating system being used. Non-personal information collected using "cookies" is used solely in aggregate form to perform analyses of the characteristics and behaviours of users in order to make improvements to this site. This information is not used to identify individuals.

If you have any questions/comments about our Privacy Statement, you should email using our general inquiries form; if you have any complaints about teapigs' compliance with this statement please email us.