Avidstitch do not disclose buyers' information to third parties other than to the payment service provider (SagePay and/or PayPal) to process your payment, and to the carrier (Royal Mail, UKMail or DHL) to deliver your goods and notify you regarding this. In all these cases, the third party will not disclose any of the details to any other party, other than to your bank for fraud checks.

Cookies are used on this shopping site where they are strictly necessary for the site functionality. They are used to aid navigation, and to keep track of the contents of your shopping cart. If you select the 'Remember Me' Option in the checkout, a cookie will be used to remember your details. You can turn off cookies by blocking them in your browser Privacy settings. If you turn off cookies, you will be unable to place orders or benefit from the other features that use them.

Data collected by this site is used to:

a. Process, despatch and deliver your orders.
b. Provide legally required documents for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.

Personal details required when ordering are your name and address, the name and address for delivery if different, your telephone number and your email address. This information is needed for the processing of your payment by the payment provider, the despatch and delivery of your goods, and for us and the carrier to notify you about delivery and to contact you regarding any problem. We do not request from you, or handle, access or store, any other personal details.

Details are only kept for as long as required to fulfil and deliver orders, meet legal requirements.

You can at any time request your personal details to be deleted. These cannot be deleted from invoices legally required for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). The corresponding orders in our offline bookkeeping software can be deleted.

All customers have invoices and their linked customer files stored offline in our bookkeeping software. These have to be kept for at least 5 years for HMRC, but can be deleted after that. Your orders are stored securely offline in our book-keeping software and securely in our shopping cart software online and offline. These can be deleted by request at any time. The orders are deleted routinely after a couple of years.

Your personal details online are entered only on secure pages on our website, with ssl encryption, identified with https and a padlock in the address in your browser. These pages are in the Checkout. The payment service providers are totally secure. Offline, our computers are protected by firewalls, separate logins for each computer, and separate logins for each relevant item of software, including the shopping cart software and book-keeping software. Anti-virus, malware and intruder detection sofware is continuously running and updated.