Last Updated: 22/04/26

1. Introduction

Welcome to Fireworks Magazine (https://fireworks-mag.org). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, store, and share your personal information when you visit our website, interact with our community, or make purchases through our web store.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal data to provide and improve our services, process your orders, and ensure a secure environment for our users.

A. Store Purchases and Account Information
When you purchase items or subscriptions, we collect data necessary to fulfill your order. This includes your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, payment details, and account credentials (username and password).

B. Comments and Product Reviews
When you leave comments or product reviews, we collect the data shown in the submission form, alongside your IP address and browser user agent string to assist in spam detection. An anonymized string (hash) created from your email address.

D. Cookies and Tracking Data
We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and manage session data:

  • Store Functionality: WooCommerce uses cookies to track cart data, detect cart changes, and uniquely identify your session. No personal information is stored within these specific cookies.
  • Accounts & Logins: Temporary cookies are used to verify if your browser accepts cookies. Upon logging in, we set cookies to save your login credentials and screen preferences. Login cookies last for two days (or two weeks if "Remember Me" is selected), and screen options cookies last for one year.
  • Comments: You may opt-in to saving your name, email, and website in cookies for your convenience.

E. Embedded Content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images). Embedded content from third-party websites behaves identically to as if you had visited the other website directly. These external sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with their content.

3. How We Share Your Data

We do not sell your personal data. We only share essential information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our store and website:

  • Payment Processing: Secure payments are processed via WooPayments. We share necessary transaction data with WooPayments to process your purchases, handle refunds, and prevent fraud.
  • Shipping Providers: We share your name and shipping address with our designated delivery partners to fulfill your magazine and merchandise orders.
  • Security & System Services: Visitor comments and reviews are checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, if you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email for security verification.

4. Data Retention Schedule

We retain personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this policy, or as required by legal and tax obligations. Our retention schedule is as follows:

  • Store Orders & Accounts:
    • Inactive Accounts: Retained for 12 months.
    • Pending, Failed, and Cancelled Orders: Retained for 30 days.
    • Completed Orders: Retained for 24 months.
    • Refunded Orders: Retained for 60 months (for tax and accounting compliance).
  • Comments & Reviews: Retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments without holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered User Profiles: Personal information provided during registration is stored continuously. Users can view, edit, or delete their profile information at any time (with the exception of their username). Administrators can also access and edit this data.

5. Your Data Protection Rights

If you hold an account on this site, have purchased from our store, or have left comments, you are entitled to certain rights regarding your personal data:

  • Right to Access: You may request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Erasure: You may request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. Please note that this does not include data we are legally obliged to retain for administrative, tax, legal, or security purposes.

6. Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your data rights, or have any privacy-specific concerns, please contact the Editor and Publisher:

Fireworks Magazine
Unit 29, Dawley Trading Estate
Stallings Lane
Kingswinford, West Midlands
DY6 7AP