🔐 Your Privacy Choices
Last updated: 15 August 2026
🛡️ Your Privacy, Your Choices
At BooksChor, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information.
BooksChor is a trading name and publishing operation of Global Translators UK Ltd, a UK company established in August 2006.
Global Translators UK Ltd is registered in England and Wales under company number 05918745.
This page explains the choices and rights you may have regarding your personal information and how you can manage your privacy preferences when using BooksChor.
👤 1. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on applicable UK data-protection law and your circumstances, you may have rights including the right to:
- 👁️ Request access to personal information we hold about you
- ✏️ Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information
- 🗑️ Request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances
- ⏸️ Request restriction of certain processing
- 🚫 Object to certain uses of your personal information
- 📤 Request your information in a portable format where applicable
- ✅ Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- 📣 Object to or opt out of certain direct marketing
- ⚖️ Raise a concern about how your information is being handled
These rights are subject to applicable legal conditions and exemptions.
To exercise a privacy right, please contact us using the details below.
📧 2. Marketing Preferences
You can choose whether you wish to receive marketing communications from BooksChor.
You may:
- Unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe link provided
- Contact us to opt out of promotional communications
- Update your marketing preferences where suitable controls are available
- Withdraw marketing consent at any time where consent is the relevant legal basis
Opting out of marketing will not prevent us from sending essential communications about:
- 🛒 Your order
- 💳 Payment
- 🚚 Delivery
- ↩️ Returns or refunds
- 🔐 Security
- 💬 Customer-service enquiries
🍪 3. Cookies & Similar Technologies
BooksChor may use cookies and similar technologies to:
- 🛒 Operate shopping and checkout functions
- 🔐 Maintain website security
- ⚙️ Remember website preferences
- 📊 Understand website performance
- 📈 Improve our website
- 📣 Support advertising and marketing where permitted
Some cookies and similar technologies are necessary for the website to operate.
Other technologies may require your consent or another appropriate legal basis depending on their purpose and applicable law.
You may manage your preferences through:
- Our cookie consent controls
- Available Shopify privacy settings
- Your browser settings
The ICO currently regulates the use of cookies and similar storage and access technologies under PECR alongside UK data-protection law.
🎯 4. Advertising & Personalisation
Where permitted, BooksChor may use advertising or analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with our website and to help improve or promote our products and services.
Depending on the technology involved, this may include information such as:
- 🌐 Browser or device information
- 📊 Website interactions
- 🍪 Cookie identifiers
- 🛍️ Product pages viewed
- 📣 Advertising interactions
Where consent is required for advertising or tracking technologies, we will use available consent and privacy controls.
You may change your preferences using the privacy or cookie controls available on our website.
🚫 5. Sale, Sharing & Targeted Advertising Choices
Certain privacy laws outside the United Kingdom may use specific terms such as:
- "Sale" of personal information
- "Sharing" of personal information
- Targeted advertising
These terms can have specific legal meanings and do not necessarily mean that personal information has been sold for money.
Where applicable to you, Shopify or other website privacy controls may allow you to opt out of certain activities covered by these laws.
BooksChor does not knowingly sell personal information in the ordinary meaning of selling customer details for monetary payment.
🌍 6. International Visitors
BooksChor is a UK-based business, but customers may visit our website from other countries.
Depending on where you live, additional privacy rights may apply.
Where our website provides additional privacy-choice controls for your region, you may use those controls in addition to contacting us directly.
📝 7. Accessing Your Personal Information
You may ask us for access to personal information we hold about you.
A request of this type is commonly known as a Subject Access Request.
We may ask for reasonable information to confirm your identity before releasing personal information.
Under current ICO guidance, organisations normally need to respond to a subject access request without undue delay and within one month, subject to applicable extensions or pauses permitted by law.
✏️ 8. Correcting Your Information
If information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you may ask us to correct it.
Please provide enough information for us to identify:
- The information concerned
- What you believe is incorrect
- The correct information
🗑️ 9. Requesting Deletion
You may have the right to request deletion of personal information in certain circumstances.
This right is not absolute.
We may need to retain some information where necessary for reasons including:
- ⚖️ Legal obligations
- 🧾 Accounting and tax requirements
- 🛒 Contractual records
- 🛡️ Fraud prevention
- 💳 Payment disputes
- ⚠️ Legal claims
⏸️ 10. Restricting or Objecting to Processing
Depending on the circumstances, you may have the right to:
- Ask us to restrict certain processing
- Object to certain processing based on legitimate interests
- Object to direct marketing
Where a valid objection applies, we will act in accordance with applicable law.
📤 11. Data Portability
In certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive personal information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
You may also have the right to ask us to transfer qualifying information to another organisation where technically feasible and legally applicable.
✅ 12. Withdrawing Consent
Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time.
Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
🔐 13. How We Protect Your Information
We use reasonable technical and organisational safeguards designed to protect personal information.
These may include:
- 🔒 Secure encrypted connections
- 🛡️ Access controls
- 👤 Restricted access to customer information
- 💻 Secure technology and service providers
- 📊 System monitoring
- 🔐 Fraud-prevention measures
No internet-based system can guarantee complete security, but we take reasonable steps to protect the information entrusted to us.
🤝 14. Service Providers
BooksChor may use trusted service providers to support activities such as:
- 🛍️ Ecommerce
- 💳 Payments
- 🚚 Delivery
- 📧 Communications
- 📊 Analytics
- 🔐 Security
- 📣 Marketing
- 💻 Website hosting and technology
These organisations may process personal information as necessary to provide their services.
For more detail, please read our full Privacy Policy.
📋 15. Privacy Complaints
If you have a concern about how BooksChor has handled your personal information, please contact us first.
We will review legitimate privacy complaints and respond in accordance with applicable data-protection requirements.
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 introduced changes to aspects of UK data-protection law, including how organisations handle certain data-protection complaints and requests.
You may also have the right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).
📖 16. Read Our Full Privacy Policy
This page provides a convenient overview of your privacy choices.
For complete information about:
- What personal information we collect
- Why we process it
- Our lawful bases
- Service providers
- International transfers
- Retention
- Security
- Your rights
please read our full Privacy Policy.
💬 17. Contact Us About Your Privacy
To exercise a privacy right or ask us a privacy question, contact:
BooksChor
c/o Global Translators UK Ltd
📍 Registered Office:
33 Cloisterham Road
Rochester
Kent
ME1 2BW
United Kingdom
📧 Email:
info@globaltranslators.co.uk
📞 Telephone:
+44 7883 024604
🕘 Business Hours:
Monday to Friday
9:00am to 5:00pm UK time
We aim to handle privacy requests promptly and within the time required by applicable law.
🏆 18. Backed by 20 Years of Business Experience
BooksChor operates under Global Translators UK Ltd, established in August 2006.
For 20 years, our wider company has operated as a UK business in professional language, translation and related services.
BooksChor builds on that established business background through bookselling, publishing, book printing and multilingual publishing.
📚 BooksChor - part of Global Translators UK Ltd, established 2006.