At LIMA, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.
This policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect your data — clearly, carefully and with your trust at heart.
Information We May Collect About You
When you visit the LIMA website, create an account, make a purchase, enquire about our collections, use our bespoke or made-to-measure services, subscribe to our communications, participate in a promotion or contact our Customer Care team, we may collect personal information about you.
Depending on how you interact with LIMA, this may include:
- Your name
- Billing and delivery address
- Email address
- Telephone number
- Account and login information
- Order and transaction history
- Payment-related information
- Products you have purchased, viewed or added to your basket
- Your communications and correspondence with LIMA
- Marketing and communication preferences
- Information you voluntarily provide when making an enquiry
- Information relevant to bespoke or made-to-measure services
- Technical information relating to your use of our website
Where payments are processed by a third-party payment provider, your full payment-card information may be handled directly by that provider rather than stored by LIMA.
Information Collected When You Use Our Website
When you browse the LIMA website, certain technical and usage information may be collected automatically.
Depending on your device, browser and cookie preferences, this may include:
- Your IP address
- Approximate location
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Language preferences
- How you arrived at our website
- Pages and products you visit
- Time spent on particular pages
- Products added to your basket
- Website interactions
- Referring and exit pages
- Information collected through cookies and similar technologies
Information collected through cookies and similar technologies helps us understand how our website is being used, improve its performance and provide a more refined and personalised online experience.
Where required by law, non-essential cookies and tracking technologies will only be used with your consent.
Bespoke & Made-to-Measure Information
When you enquire about or purchase a LIMA bespoke or made-to-measure service, we may need to collect additional information necessary to provide that service.
This could include measurements, sizing information, fit preferences, design selections, alteration requirements and other information you choose to provide in connection with your garment.
We will use this information for the purpose of managing your enquiry, creating or altering your garment and providing the service you have requested.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We may use your personal information to:
- Process and fulfil your orders
- Take and administer payments
- Arrange delivery of your purchases
- Manage returns, exchanges and refunds
- Provide our bespoke and made-to-measure services
- Create and administer your LIMA customer account
- Respond to enquiries and provide Customer Care
- Communicate important information about your order
- Maintain and improve our website
- Understand how customers interact with LIMA
- Improve our products, collections and customer experience
- Prevent and detect fraudulent or suspicious transactions
- Protect the security of our website and systems
- Comply with our legal, accounting and regulatory obligations
- Manage promotions or competitions where applicable
- Provide personalised content or recommendations where appropriate
- Send marketing communications where we have a lawful basis to do so
We will not use your personal information in a manner that is incompatible with the purposes for which it was collected unless permitted or required by law.
Our Lawful Basis for Using Your Information
Under UK data protection law, we must have an appropriate lawful basis for processing personal data.
Depending on the circumstances, we may process your information because:
- It is necessary to perform a contract with you — for example, when processing an order, arranging delivery or administering a return
- You have given us your consent — for example, when you choose to receive certain marketing communications or consent to non-essential cookies
- We have a legitimate interest — for example, in operating and improving our business, protecting our website, preventing fraud and understanding how our customers use our services, provided those interests do not override your rights
- We are required to comply with a legal obligation — including certain financial, tax, regulatory and consumer-protection requirements
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
Your data is yours. We only use it to serve you better.
Marketing Communications
Where permitted, we may contact you about LIMA collections, new arrivals, private releases, events, editorial stories, services and other brand news that we believe may be of interest to you.
You can change your marketing preferences or unsubscribe at any time by using the unsubscribe option provided within our marketing communications or by contacting us.
Unsubscribing from marketing will not prevent us from sending essential service communications relating to an order, return, account or other transaction with LIMA.
Who We May Share Your Information With
We do not sell your personal information.
We may need to share limited personal information with carefully selected third parties where necessary to operate our business and provide our services.
- Payment-processing providers
- Website and e-commerce providers
- Customer-service platforms
- Professional advisers
- Marketing, analytics and advertising providers, subject to applicable consent requirements
- Government bodies, regulators, courts or law-enforcement authorities where legally required
We expect service providers processing personal information on our behalf to handle that information appropriately and securely.
International Data Transfers
Some of the service providers or technology platforms used by LIMA may process information outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps, where required, to ensure that suitable safeguards are in place for the protection of your information.
How Long We Keep Your Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, including to meet legal, accounting, tax, contractual and regulatory requirements.
The appropriate retention period will depend on the nature of the information and why we hold it.
For example, we may retain:
- Order and transaction records for the period required by applicable law
- Customer account information while an account remains active and for an appropriate period afterwards
- Customer Care correspondence for as long as reasonably necessary to resolve an enquiry and maintain appropriate records
- Bespoke and made-to-measure information where reasonably necessary to administer the service
- Marketing information until you withdraw your consent, unsubscribe or otherwise object where applicable
- Information where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims, prevent fraud, resolve disputes or comply with legal obligations
Keeping Your Information Secure
We take reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal information against accidental loss, unauthorised access, misuse, alteration or disclosure.
However, no internet-based service can guarantee absolute security. We therefore encourage customers to use strong passwords and to keep account and login information confidential.
Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on the circumstances and subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Access personal information we hold about you
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- Request deletion of your personal information in certain circumstances
- Restrict processing of your information in certain circumstances
- Withdraw consent where processing is based upon consent
- Object to direct marketing at any time
These rights are subject to certain legal limitations and exemptions.
If you wish to exercise any of your data protection rights, please contact LIMA using the contact details provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests in order to protect your information.
You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK's independent data protection regulator.
Third-Party Websites
The LIMA website may contain links to third-party websites, social-media platforms or services.
If you follow a link to another website, that organisation may collect and process your information under its own privacy policy.
LIMA is not responsible for the privacy practices, security or content of third-party websites. We recommend reviewing the relevant privacy policy before providing personal information to another organisation.
Transparency is part of the LIMA promise.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files stored on your computer, smartphone, tablet or other device when you visit a website.
Cookies and similar technologies help websites operate effectively and can be used to remember preferences, maintain shopping baskets, understand website performance and, where you consent, personalise content or advertising.
Cookies do not necessarily identify you directly, although some information collected through cookies may constitute personal data when combined with other information.
How LIMA Uses Cookies
LIMA may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- Keep our website functioning correctly
- Enable you to navigate our website
- Maintain your shopping basket
- Enable account and checkout functionality
- Remember your preferences
Essential Cookies
Some cookies are necessary for the LIMA website to operate.
These may support functionality such as website security, shopping baskets, checkout, payment processing and account access.
Because these cookies are required to provide the website or a service you have requested, they may not require consent in the same way as non-essential cookies.
Functional Cookies
Functional cookies may allow our website to remember choices you make, such as language or other preferences, to provide a more personalised experience.
Where consent is required, these cookies will only be activated after you have provided it.
Analytics & Performance Cookies
Analytics cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the LIMA website.
They may provide information about which pages are visited, how customers navigate through the website and how effectively the website performs.
We use this information to improve our digital experience.
Advertising & Targeting Cookies
With your consent, we may use advertising or targeting technologies to understand the effectiveness of our campaigns and present advertising that may be more relevant to your interests.
These technologies may be provided by third-party advertising or social-media platforms.
Information collected through these technologies may also be processed by these third parties in accordance with their own privacy policy.
Managing Your Cookie Preferences
When you first visit the LIMA website, you may be presented with a cookie-management tool allowing you to accept, reject or customise non-essential cookies.
You can change your preferences where the website's cookie-management functionality allows you to do so.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. Please be aware that disabling certain essential cookies may affect the functionality of the website, including features such as your shopping basket, account or checkout.
Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy & Cookies Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our business, website, technology, services or legal obligations.
The latest version will be published on this page.
We recommend reviewing this policy periodically to remain informed about how LIMA handles your personal information.
Contact LIMA
If you have questions about this Privacy & Cookies Policy, wish to exercise your data protection rights or have concerns about how your information is being handled, please contact us:
Lima International
43 - 45 Church St
Wednesbury
West Midlands
WS10 9DU
United Kingdom
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