Terms and Conditions

1. Supplier identification

https://www.handmadehippo.co.uk/ is a site operated by The Handmade Hippo. Company details are as follows:

Company address: The Bristol Office, 2nd Floor, 5 High Street, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol, BS9 3BY. England
Please note, the above company address is not our return address. Please do not return products to the above address (further details below).
Email address: handmadehippocrafts@gmail.com

2. Privacy Policy & Cookies
Our Privacy Policy can be found here

Contract execution
Your personal data will be used to provide the information, goods and services offered through our website to you, for billing and order fulfillment.

Email newsletter
If you sign up to our newsletter we may use your email address to send you information about products or services.

You can opt out of these at any point and you can ask for personal data to stop being recorded at any time.

Cookies & monitoring
This website uses “Cookies” which are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. Cookies also provide us with information about how this website is used so we can keep it as up-to-date, relevant and error-free as possible.

  • Strictly necessary cookies – These are cookies that are essential to the operation of our website.
  • Analytical/performance cookie – These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our website.
  • Functionality cookies – These cookies recognise you when you return to our website.
  • Targeting Cookies – These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed.

We may monitor traffic to our site and collect the following information:

  • The IP address of your computer.
  • The referring website from which you have got to our website from.

The reasons for this are:

  • To make ongoing improvements to our website based on this data.
  • To see our most popular sources of business.

We also use Google Analytics to help understand how customers use the Site – how Google uses Personal Information can be found here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.

Disclosure of personal data
We may disclose your personal data in cases where we are required by law to pass on information or if we believe action is necessary for fraud, cyber crime or to protect the website, rights, personal safety of person/s.

We may also disclose aggregate statistics about visitors to our website (customers and sales) in order to describe our services to prospective partners (advertisers, sponsors) and other reputable third parties and for other lawful purposes, but these statistics will include no personally identifiable information.

If you are concerned about your data, you have the right, subject to the payment of a small fee to request access to personal data which may hold or process about you.

3. Product Information
Describe any conditions specific to your product such as the restriction of sale for age-restricted products and services.

4. Right to cancel
All customers have the right to cancel their orders under The Distance Selling Regulations which gives consumers extra protection when buying online. Specific legislation here that applies is regulation of The Distance Selling Regulations.

You have the right to cancel the purchase of goods for up to 14 days after your order is delivered without giving a reason.

If you are in possession of the goods, you are under the duty to retain them and take reasonable care of them. You must email us at handmadehippocrafts@gmail.com if you wish to arrange returning your goods which will be at your own cost (unless we delivered the item to you in error or the item is damaged or defective). You must do this as soon as possible once you have canceled the contract.

The return address can be found on the packaging that arrives with your product (please do not return products to the company address displayed at the top of this page). If you cannot find the return address, please email handmadehippocrafts@gmail.com for further details.

We reserve the right to make a charge not exceeding our direct costs of recovering the goods if you do not return the goods or return them at our expense.

Once you have notified us that you wish to cancel the contract, any sum debited to us will be refunded to you as soon as possible and in any event within 30 days of your cancellation.

Products under £42 or bespoke made-to-order products are exempt from these cancellation rules.

5. Notices
All notices you send us must be sent to the contact details on this site (https://www.handmadehippo.co.uk/). We may give notice to you at either the email or postal address you provide to us when making a purchase. (Notice will be deemed received and properly served 24 hours after an email is sent or three days after the date of posting of any letter.) In providing the service of any notice, it will be sufficient to prove, in the case of a letter, that the letter was properly addressed, stamped and placed in the post and, in the case of an email that the email was sent to the specified email address of the addressees.

6. Conclusion
These terms are governed by English law. Any contract for the purchase of goods from this site and any dispute or claim arising out of or in connection with any such contract will be governed by English law. You and we both agree that the courts of England and Wales will have non-exclusive jurisdiction. However, if you are a resident in Northern Ireland you may also bring proceedings in Northern Ireland, and if you are a resident in Scotland you may also bring proceedings in Scotland.