Privacy policy

Privacy Policy Last updated: January 20, 2026

Animaprints LTD ("we," "us," or "our") operates the website https://animaprints.co.uk (the "Site"), and provides custom printing services (the "Services"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy.

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit, use, or make a purchase from the Site.

1. Personal Information We Collect When you visit the Site, we collect certain information about your device, your interaction with the Site, and information necessary to process your purchases. We may also collect additional information if you contact us for customer support.

We collect the following types of personal information:

  • Device Information: Examples include version of web browser, IP address, time zone, cookie information, what sites or products you view, search terms, and how you interact with the Site.

  • Order Information: Examples include name, billing address, shipping address, payment confirmation, email address, and phone number.

  • User-Uploaded Content (Important): To fulfill your order, you upload personal images (photos) to our servers. We treat these images with the utmost confidentiality. Your uploaded photos are used solely for the purpose of printing and fulfilling your specific order. We do not sell, share, or use your uploaded photos for marketing purposes without your explicit written consent.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information We use your personal Information to provide our Services to you, which includes:

  • Offering products for sale;

  • Processing payments and shipping;

  • Fulfilling your custom orders (printing your uploaded photos);

  • Keeping you up to date on new products, services, and offers (if you have opted in).

3. Sharing Personal Information We share your Personal Information with service providers to help us provide our services and fulfill our contracts with you, as described above. For example:

  • Shopify: We use Shopify to power our online store. You can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy.

  • Payment Processors: We use secure third-party payment gateways (such as Stripe, PayPal, or Apple Pay) to process transactions. We do not store your full credit card details on our servers.

  • Compliance with Laws: We may share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant, or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

4. International Transfer Please note that your personal information may be transferred, stored, and processed outside of the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Economic Area (EEA). Specifically, our store is hosted by Shopify Inc. in Canada and the United States. We rely on recognized transfer mechanisms, such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and the UK International Data Transfer Agreement, to ensure your data is protected during these transfers.

5. Your Rights (UK & GDPR) If you are a resident of the UK or the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased.

If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

6. Cookies We use cookies to optimize your experience on our Site and to provide our Services. You can choose to disable cookies through your browser settings, though this may affect your ability to use certain features of the Site (such as the shopping cart).

7. Data Retention When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

  • Note regarding Photos: We may retain your uploaded photos for a short period after delivery solely to handle potential reprints or quality issues. After this period, source files are purged from our active production servers.

8. Changes We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons.

9. Contact For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at support@animaprints.co.uk or by mail using the details provided below:

Animaprints LTD 82A James Carter Road Mildenhall, IP28 7DE United Kingdom Company Registration: 16913930