Privacy Policy

Obsidian Antiques & Collectables respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through this website, why we collect it and how we use it.

At present, the primary personal information we intentionally collect directly through this website is your email address when you choose to subscribe to the Obsidian newsletter.

1. Who We Are

For the purposes of applicable UK data protection legislation, the organisation responsible for your personal information is:

Obsidian Antiques & Collectables
Email: contact@obsidianantiques.com

If you have any questions about how we use your information, you can contact us using the details above.

2. What Information We Collect

When you voluntarily subscribe to the Obsidian newsletter, we collect:

• Your email address.

We do not currently ask you to provide your name, postal address, telephone number, payment details or other personal information through the newsletter subscription form.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through our website.

3. Why We Use Your Email Address

We use your email address to send you communications relating to Obsidian, which may include:

• New acquisitions
• Antiques and collectables
• Journal articles
• Collecting stories
• Events and announcements
• Updates about Obsidian
• Information about our collection and activities

We will not use your email address for unrelated purposes without an appropriate legal basis.

4. Our Lawful Basis

Where you subscribe to our newsletter, we rely on your consent as the lawful basis for processing your email address for marketing communications.

Your consent is voluntary. You do not have to subscribe to use the website.

UK rules require marketing emails to individuals to generally be sent only where the person has specifically consented, subject to limited exceptions. Consent should be a clear affirmative opt-in rather than a pre-ticked box or assumed agreement.

5. How We Obtain Consent

Our newsletter subscription makes it clear that by submitting your email address, you are asking to receive marketing communications from Obsidian Antiques & Collectables.

We will not use silence, inactivity or a pre-ticked box as consent.

We will retain appropriate records of newsletter consent so that we can demonstrate when and how consent was obtained.

6. Newsletter Provider

We use Mailchimp as our third-party email marketing service. If you subscribe to the Obsidian newsletter, your email address will be processed by Mailchimp on our behalf.

Mailchimp may process or store your information outside the UK. Where this occurs, we will take appropriate steps, including appropriate contractual safeguards, to ensure that any international transfer is handled in accordance with applicable data protection requirements.

7. How Long We Keep Your Information

We will retain your email address while you remain subscribed to the Obsidian newsletter.

If you unsubscribe, we will stop sending marketing emails to you and will remove or suppress your address from active marketing lists as appropriate.

We may retain limited information necessary to record that you previously unsubscribed or withdrew consent, so that we do not inadvertently contact you again.

8. Unsubscribing

You can unsubscribe from the Obsidian newsletter at any time.

Every marketing email we send will contain a clear and simple unsubscribe mechanism.

You may also contact us at contact@obsidianantiques.com and ask us to stop sending you marketing communications.

Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before you withdrew consent.

9. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on the circumstances, UK data protection law gives you rights including:

• The right to be informed about how your personal information is used
• The right to access personal information we hold about you
• The right to have inaccurate information corrected
• The right to request deletion of your personal information
• The right to restrict certain processing
• The right to object to certain processing
• The right to withdraw consent where we rely on consent
• Rights relating to data portability in certain circumstances

If you want to exercise a right, contact contact@obsidianantiques.com.

We may need to verify your identity before responding to a request.

10. Cookies & Website Technologies

Our website uses only the cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for its operation, security and functionality. These are functional cookies, such as those that allow the website to work correctly and remember your preferences. They do not track you across other websites.

We do not currently use advertising, tracking or analytics cookies, and we do not run advertising pixels or third-party tracking technologies on this website.

If we introduce analytics, advertising, tracking pixels, embedded services or other technologies that collect or access information about visitors, this Privacy Policy and our cookie arrangements will be updated accordingly.

Where required by law, we will ask for your consent before using any non-essential cookies or similar technologies.

11. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to websites operated by third parties, including eBay and Instagram.

We are not responsible for how those third parties collect, use or protect your information.

When you leave the Obsidian website, we recommend reviewing the privacy policy of the website you visit.

12. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration or disclosure.

However, no online transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

13. Children's Privacy

This website is not specifically directed towards children.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the newsletter subscription service.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our website, services, technology or legal requirements.

The latest version will be published on this page together with the date of the most recent update.

15. Complaints

If you have concerns about how we have handled your personal information, please contact us first at contact@obsidianantiques.com.

You also have the right to complain to the UK's data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

16. Contact

Obsidian Antiques & Collectables
Email: contact@obsidianantiques.com