Who We Are
We trade as Hobby Aids, based in the UK and our website address is: https://hobbyaids.co.uk.
Postage Policy
We currently only ship to UK addresses. On orders over £20 we offer free UK postage. For orders below £20, postage will be added at checkout.
We typically post using Royal Mail First Class. We often re-use packaging.
Our aim is to dispatch within 1-2 working days of receiving an order.
Returns Policy
Our refund and returns policy lasts 30 days. If 30 days have passed since your purchase, we can’t offer you a full refund or exchange.
To be eligible for a return, your item must be unused and in the same condition that you received it. It must also be in the original packaging. We will need proof of purchase.
We cannot accept returns of opened intimate or sanitary items or gift cards.
When we receive the returned item, we will check the item. If it’s all OK, we’ll process the refund through the method used to purchase the item (eg Paypal). We will keep you updated by email.
Please do not send your purchase back to the manufacturer.
Late or missing refunds
If you haven’t received a refund yet, please first check your bank account again. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. Next contact your bank. There is often some processing time before a refund is posted. If you’ve done all of this and you still have not received your refund yet, please contact us at info@hobbyaids.co.uk.
Sale items
Only regular priced items may be refunded. Sale items cannot be refunded.
Exchanges
We only replace items if they are defective or damaged. If you need to exchange it for the same item, send us an email at info@hobbyaids.co.uk and we will give you the returns address to send your item to.
Shipping returns
To return your product, email us at info@hobbyaids.co.uk and we will send you our address.
You will be responsible for paying for your own shipping costs for returning your item. Shipping costs are non-refundable. If you are returning more expensive items, you may consider using a trackable shipping service or purchasing shipping insurance. We don’t guarantee that we will receive your returned item.
Terms Of Our Charity Support
Most months we select a charity or charity-like organisation to support. Ideally, we use charities/organisations suggested to us.
Our support consists of sharing information, usually gleaned from the organisation’s website, through selected social media and donating 10% of profit from sales to the organisation. The donation is calculated by subtracting fees and postage from the order income and then calculating 10% to donate. We aim to make the donation within 1 year. If the donation amount is very small and/or the charity’s website does not allow donations, the amount may be allocated to another of the chosen charities.
Need Help?
Contact us at info@hobbyaids.co.uk
Privacy Policy
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Hobby Aids will never sell, rent or exchange mailing lists.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.